Classic Vibe - the guitar everyone is talking about

[marnold]

I've got friends here who are big Fender guys and they complain about fret sprout on everything that Fender puts out, not just Squiers. '51s had that problem in the beginning too. Mine was one of the later ones that was over zealously filed to the point of removing fretboard wood.

 

[Jimi75]

I've got friends here who are big Fender guys and they complain about fret sprout on everything that Fender puts out, not just Squiers. '51s had that problem in the beginning too. Mine was one of the later ones that was over zealously filed to the point of removing fretboard wood.

Yep, the "bad" fretwork is really a point of complaint with a bunch of Fender products recently.

 

[Commodore 64]

My CV50s tele is nice...but I'm not enamored with it at all. It was an impulse buy....

The neck is too thin for my taste. I like a nice C or D shaped thick neck, I think. I love the neck on my 2002 MiM Strat, for example. I think I might REALLY love the neck on my EPi Special II.

It's a guitar like any of my others. It's a nice player, sounds very crisp, I like the Alnico 3 PUPs. But, is it better than my MiM Strat or MiM Tele? I'm not sure. If I had to do it over, I'd take that $250+tax I spent and put it towards a Blues Jr.

Quite frankly, I'm finding at my skill level, and price points I'm getting guitars at (From a El Cheapo Epi Special 2 up to my MiM Strat), the guitars are all pretty good quality. Replacing an output jack or switch here and there isn't a big deal whatsoever. In fact, I'm feeling really guilty about liking this bottom of the barrel Epi SPecial with a baseball bat neck. It plays awesome, sounds great...I had to replace the input jack, and the tuners are asstastic. But as far as a player? I think it's just as good as every other guitar I own.

Maybe it's the pricepoint of the excessive amount of gear I've gone through in the past 8 months...or maybe I have to be a much better player for a specific guitar to speak to me so much that I blow a load in my pants or something. But even the $119 Squier Affinity at GC seems like a pretty nice little guitar.

 

[Eric]

Maybe it's the pricepoint of the excessive amount of gear I've gone through in the past 8 months...or maybe I have to be a much better player for a specific guitar to speak to me so much that I blow a load in my pants or something. But even the $119 Squier Affinity at GC seems like a pretty nice little guitar.

I think it's pretty cool that you're honest enough with yourself to say this. I'm with you, in that I have general preferences, but don't really notice the super-minute differences. I guess cheap guitars are the way to go for me for the time being.

 

[Commodore 64]

Well, it is depressing to figure out that my search for the magic guitar is probably more dependent on my skill level than it is on Craig's List. I'm hoping this realization is just a subconscious diversion in my brain to get me to spend money on fishing gear since the weather is getting nice.

Now, who wants to trade a nice GPS/Sonar unit for a CV Squier?

 

[MAXIFUNK]

I absolutely LOVE my CV ThinLine Tele. No it did not show up perfect there were some smalls scratches on the bottom edge of the pic guard and one spot where I think they did not spread the stain evenly but neither would be noticeable unless you held the axe for hours yourself.

Sounds great I really like the neck its a keeper for sure I highly recommend this Axe to anyone looking for a Tele. I have played the CV Tele Custom and like it as well I would swap out the pickup selector knob but that's just me not liking the selector on the custom as much as the one on the ThinLine.
Both are great guitars period IMHO.

 

[tjcurtin1]

Maxi - any chance you could post some clips of that thinline? Have you compared it tone-wise to the custom and the 50's CV teles?

 

[duhvoodooman]

Have you compared it tone-wise to the custom and the 50's CV teles?

+1 on that question. I'd be very interested to hear how the three CV Tele models compare tonally.

 

[MAXIFUNK]

@ TJC & DVM

I do not have a video cam or a fancy enough phone to record any music.
Sorry guys I have played all of the CV's series Tele's and Strat's I'll give my opinion on all 3 Tele's when I have a little more time.

 

[duhvoodooman]

Well, I can answer the question now for two of them....

I really liked the looks of the new CV Tele Custom model and wanted to try one out. So I e-mailed a couple of the local guitar shops (not GC!) last week and asked if they had one in stock. No luck with either, but they both said they'd let me know if they got one in.

Well, this morning I get an e-mail from one of them, saying that they just got one in, so I drove up there during lunch to try it out. I told the young fellow that was helping me that I wanted to play it side-by-side with the CV 50's model, to hear the difference. So he grabs a CV 50's off the wall, which happens to be a used one marked $230. I played 'em both through a Princeton Reverb, and while both played great, I really preferred the sound of the 50's model. The Custom was brighter & spankier sounding--must be the Alnico 5's in that model. Great country chicken pickin' tone, but that's not my cup o' tea. I thought the 50's model with the Alnico 3's had a warmer & richer tone, but still very much a Tele. Didn't go up there looking for a used instrument, but I started looking the guitar over more closely and found it was really in great shape. Couldn't see paying $100 more for a new one, so I bought it! Got it out in the car right now. Funny how things work out sometimes....

 

[Tig]

Well, I can answer the question now for two of them....

Couldn't see paying $100 more for a new one, so I bought it! Got it out in the car right now. Funny how things work out sometimes....

Thanks DVM, that answers exactly what I was wondering. I think I'll go for the CV 50's.
Now if I can only find one for $100 off!

 

[sumitomo]

Ha! But that really dosen't surprise me.Welcome to the club Vood.LOL!Sumi

 

[Tone2TheBone]

Welcome welcome welcome you're gonna love that baby I just know.

 

[tjcurtin1]

Another CV Tele inductee

Yeah, yeah, yeah! I have just received my 50's tele, and I can finally really appreciate what everyone says about this guitar. Have only begun to get to know it, but what sounds, and what a feel. It sounds just tremendous with all the tweed models on the Vox VT30!

We have seen this tele before here on the Fret - I helped Commodore64 move on to greener GAS pastures by taking it off his hands.... BTW, C64 is a great person to deal with and I would not hesitate to do business with him if he ever has any gear for sale or trade.

In addition to the sound, I have been pleased to find that I also really like the look of this guitar, though I've never been attracted to white guitars. Pictures of it had not much appealed to me, and I was lusting for the CV Custom, but in person it is quite attractive. It is hard to photograph well, so that you see that the pine grain shows through - it is not at all just stark white; it is a warm, semi transparent white.

This guitar has, like many of these tele's apparently, a quartersawn neck; tho not as spectacular as Spud's, you can see (at the right angle) some tiger-striping in it - purty! Happy to be a member of the CV Tele club :happy :AOK

 

[Commodore 64]

I want to put an ashtray bridge (toploader though) on my MiM Tele (Top Loader). That MiM is pretty much the only reason why I got rid of the CV. I like the neck on the MiM better, although I really did LOVE the PUPs in that CV. I think it looks cool too. That finish is supposed to show more woodgrain as it ages (according to the guy at GC, so take that with a grain of salt).