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Music Toyz.com Forum ! Music Toyz.com Forum ! Guitars, Amps & Pedals I want a Fender Telecaster, any suggestions? Topic Closed|
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You heard right. I got a GE and I'm never lookin' back. The best Tele I've ever played. Period.
The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side. - Hunter S. Thompson |
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Hard to go wrong with the above advice. Seriously, play a boatload of them and choose one that speaks to you. My American standard "Nashville B-bender" (Parsons-Green) is, to me, an exceptional instrument. I looked around for a while, paid 850 bucks for it. Quite a bargain. As to the '52 RI. I love mine, but what I didn't love about it was the neck radius, sticky neck, and teeny frets. About fifteen years ago, I had medium jumbo frets installed, flattened the board radius, and took the neck down to the bare wood. It plays like an 80's hair band guitar and sounds like Bakersfield. What with fretwork prices commanding what they do currently, I'm not recommending this course of action by default. However, I will say that this guitar is everything I expect from a Fender Telecaster and more. In retrospect, I'd make the same decision again. ________________ Tone is in the feet. |
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What´s an G&L? |
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Ohh BTW. The Baja has med jumbo frets and a 9.5 radius, which is really cool if you're not into the vintage specs. The V shape is very subtle on this guitar, and it feels really comfortable. It just seems to fit your hand.
I've been wanting to try the G.E. Smith for a while now, but haven't been able to locate one here in Austin. I've heard great things about that model. Formerly known as dildor. |
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As you can tell by my avatar, I’m a ’52 reissue owner. It has become my main guitar. But, I did try about 3 or 4 of them before I found one that I really liked, so it’s helpful if you can try a few different examples. The one that I bought rings out loud and clear acoustically; it really is a killer guitar. I like the stock pickups too, they’re not bad. They’re certainly much better than the stock pickups in the American Standards. I just ordered a Lollar Vintage T for the bridge position though, just ‘cause I can never leave well enough alone!
 The American Deluxe models are nice for a modern Tele. You need to ask yourself if you’re going for vintage Tele tones or not though IMO. The vintage stamped steel bridge on the AV reissues imparts a lot to the sound, in the way the bridge pickup twangs. The modern bridges just don’t sound the same. Not necessarily worse, just different. G&L make awesome guitars as well; I think G&Ls are probably one of the best guitar values out there…very good workmanship for the price IMO. Good luck! |
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G&L=George and Leo. Leo Fender and George Fullerton started G&L guitars a while after Leo sold the Fender company (in the early '80s I think). Leo thought of these guitars as the next evolution of the concepts that they had developed at the original Fender company. So in that way, they really are 'Fender' guitars in a sense. Here 's the link: http://www.glguitars.com/ _________________________________________________________________________ |
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all this tele talk is making me jones a '52 RI again...and I've been so happy w/the '62, but...
...the pervy sage |
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+100 on getting a G&L ASAT. Amazing guitars and the pickups and hardware blow anything Fender away.
You owe it to yourself to at least play one if you are thinking about a Tele. |
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I disagree with that.I love G&L but they don't blow Fender away.It's a different flavor. I've found that a lot of G&L classics have extremely microphonic pickups.They squeal even on clean amp settings.Another problem is the tongue of the neck can and will in a lot of cases rise after several months causing the strings to fret out.They weren't like this several years ago but for some reason are now.I've owned 3 American made Classics, 1 older and 2 newer ones.The newer ones were a mess.I sent the p/u's back to G&L several time to only receive more microphonic pickups.I had to always adjust the necks to keep them straight.I played a couple of the American made ones at a local music store.They were extremely(Les Paul)heavy.When you get a good G&L they are great.I'm personally done with them. |
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I put a set of Kinman 62s into it a couple of years ago, and last summer I got a plekked stainless steel refret in medium jumbo and an oil finish done on the neck. I didn't intend on buying a guitar and then making some expensive alterations to it, it just sort of happened that way. Even though it was an expensive way to go about it, I would do it again. There is something nice about having your own customised version of a mass production instrument. I think it is also representative of my journey from an innocent child to a hardcore tonefiend. :-)
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Ok, the top half of my last post got lost in the posting. Anyway, my first proper guitar is/was a 52 RI. Would have to agree with the comments about the neck finish and the frets. But still a really solid basic guitar, a canvas if you will for other subsequent alterations.
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Another friend of mine got one of those and he says it´s a lot of guitar for that money. Is it made in Mexico? |
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Hey, nice story. I will check them out even if I think it´s a Fender I want. But you never know.. |
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hmmm...sad to hear the quality control has lessened. My personal dealings are with 2 mid 90's G&L ASATS. Two great guitars with great pickups. I guess I shouldnt make such blanket statements about gear but it's hard not to do sometimes. |
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When they a right G&L's are hard to beat.Killers guitars but they need to get it together these days. |
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You forgot: 52RI- BEST TONE. Does this matter? |
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Nah, who said anything about tone? ;-b |
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It is made in mexico, but...I like them a helluva lot better than American Standards/Deluxe. All the Baja's I've played were great. They have the S-1 switch, so you can get out of phase tones as well. You can get a really nice Dire Straits tone out it. It is just a well thought out piece of equipment. This guy does a pretty good review here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdEfW6pQo1o Formerly known as dildor. |
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