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Riley said:
My Baja Players Telecaster. This replaced my Muddy Waters I sold. :)

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Noyce. Looks just like my '52 AVRI.
 
Brian Krashpad said:
Just joined today, saw a link in a sig line over at H-C-- maybe yours?
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Nope wasn't me, I don't belong to that one. I am however taking a break from CJ, it's just been eatting at me some of the childish stuff that's been going on ;) So I hang out here, TGP and TDPRI. :DR
 
Riley said:
Nope wasn't me, I don't belong to that one. I am however taking a break from CJ, it's just been eatting at me some of the childish stuff that's been going on ;) So I hang out here, TGP and TDPRI. :DR
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I've missed whatev's been on @ CJ. I'm at TDPRI too.
 
What do you guys think about this one?
Fender Standard Telecaster Guitar
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- Vintage Styling,
- 2 Classic Single-coil Pickups,
- 6-Saddle String-Thru-Body Bridge
 
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guitaro said:
What do you guys think about this one?
Fender Standard Telecaster Guitar
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- Vintage Styling,
- 2 Classic Single-coil Pickups,
- 6-Saddle String-Thru-Body Bridge
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All reports are they are great bang-for-buck guitars. Kerc, who posted above, had one.

My Tex-Mex Tele Special is one of the intermediate MIM guitars, a step up in price from the Standard, and I like it fine. Though I've not owned a MIM Standard Tele, I have owned the MIM Standard Strat, and had no real complaints.

As with everything, you can get an even better deal if you pick up a used one.
 
Here are some pics of my 2 Teles.

1) Rockinger C.A.R. Tele with double binding (62 replica):

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2) Fender MIM 50s Classic, White Blonde:

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Brian Krashpad said:
All reports are they are great bang-for-buck guitars. Kerc, who posted above, had one.

My Tex-Mex Tele Special is one of the intermediate MIM guitars, a step up in price from the Standard, and I like it fine. Though I've not owned a MIM Standard Tele, I have owned the MIM Standard Strat, and had no real complaints.

As with everything, you can get an even better deal if you pick up a used one.
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Do you advise buying from ebay or craigslist? It just feels like gambling to me buying without seeing, testing and no warranty.
 
guitaro said:
Do you advise buying from ebay or craigslist? It just feels like gambling to me buying without seeing, testing and no warranty.
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It's my understanding that Craigslist is set up more for local sales than long-distance ones, so if there's a city or town near you, you could probably find a MIM that you could actually try out.

Ebay of course is somewhat riskier. I have only bought 2 guitars on ebay over the years, and though the transactions weren't without some hitches I did not get burned (in one case a minor cosmetic anomaly was not noted, in another some of the pots on the guitar did not work, but the seller gave me a refund).

If you buy from someone with a lot of transactions and who has good feedback the risk is relatively minimal for brand-name guitars, especially for Tele-types where the risk of an undisclosed neck or headstock problem (as is possible with setnecks) is minimal to non-existant. Almost everything else on a guitar can be fixed fairly easily.

I would not buy a $1000 Les Paul on ebay, but I have bought guitars in the $100-$250 range.

Btw, speaking of brand-name Tele type guitars, the Peavey Reactor, which was made in the USA at the Peavey plant in Meridian Mississippi, has a good reputation and may be available for less than a MIM Fender. I have the sister Strat-clone model called a Predator, and it compares favorably to the MIM Strat I used to have, and was cheaper.
 
Ger the man said:
Yeah just a bit, although I managed to get mine for 1,500 euro, the shop treated me like royalty!
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I bet-- isn't that over $2000 US?

Not a lot to some guitar shoppers, I know. But over one-third the cost of my whole batch!

Congrats again!
 
My "tele"

I suffered from major Tele G.A.S for a year until my wife got me this for my birthday.
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It's a Stinger STX. They were made in Korea to spec by Martin from 1985-89. The neck is UNBELIEVABLE. Thick, fast and comfy. The pickups are quite shrill, and I plan to replace the electronics this winter. I'll keep the Stratocaster bridge.

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Mine is an '05 MIM 60's Classic with the following upgrades:

* E-D strings thru body, G-E strings top-loader style
* Glendale Twang saddles on E/A and D/G
* TUSQ saddle on B/E
* Dunlop flush mount strap locks
* Groove Tubes Fat Finger
* GFS Lil Puncher/Lil Killer set of pickups:
- Bridge 15K Ohms
- Middle 10K Ohms
- Neck 7K Ohms
- neck is not connected to the tone pot and middle pickup is connected via a mini-toggle switch, throttled with a 47K Ohm resistor and a high pass filter of 0.047uF
* Curt Mangan strings .011, .013, .016, .024, .030, .038; Ni plated steel
* Allparts 'guard in 'parchment'

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I play this and a Strat ('83 '62 RI MIJ) thru the following signal chain:

Gtr > Ross Clone compressor > mid-70's Jen Cry Baby wah > 19 Sixty 3 clean boost > Xotic AC/RC Booster (AC modified for both voices) > custom Tube Screamer clone > Xotic BB Preamp > Ibanez DL-10 delay (from ~'85) > '66 Fender Bassman > 2x12 Reverend All-Tones in a JD Newell cabinet.
 
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So I just got a Tele. Nothing fancy, just an SX STL Ash from Rondomusic. It does have some interesting features though. Like a Strat, it has a body contour on the back and one on the front for your right arm. The neck has a nice cream binding with the markers offset to one side, though I would prefer it to have the normal Tele shape headstock. The wood and chrome look nice, the neck feels nice if not a bit thick. When took it out of the box, I tuned it up, strummed a chord, and....YUCK. The intonation was so far off that the sound made me seasick. The guitar was very mal-adjusted, and I was disappointed at that moment. However, I spent quite a while adjusting the intonation with a tuner, as well as adjusting the action and the truss rod. Strangely, the low E saddle is at almost full adjustment (see photo) and yet it is still a bit sharp when played at the 12th fret. The others I was able to get right on. Does anyone have any suggestions on this? The neck pickup is a little muddy, and the volume pot a bit scratchy, so I will be replacing those down the road. The neck is a little thicker than what I am used to, but I am starting to like that. Despite the issues, I am loving this guitar. It sounds good, feels good, and I think was well worth the $119.

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gtrwrks said:
Mine is an '05 MIM 60's Classic with the following upgrades:

* E-D strings thru body, G-E strings top-loader style
* Glendale Twang saddles on E/A and D/G
* TUSQ saddle on B/E
* Dunlop flush mount strap locks
* Groove Tubes Fat Finger
* GFS Lil Killer set of pickups:
- Bridge 15K Ohms
- Middle 10K Ohms
- Neck 7K Ohms
- neck is not connected to the tone pot and middle pickup is connected via a mini-toggle switch, throttled with a 47K Ohm resistor and a high pass filter of 0.047uF
* Curt Mangan strings .011, .013, .016, .024, .030, .038; Ni plated steel
* Allparts 'guard in 'parchment'

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Did you leave out mentioning an upgrade to a 5-way switch, or are you using the original 3-way? And why topload the high strings?
 
I kept the 3-way switch, Krashpad - I like the middle setting on a regular Tele and was only really wanting the middle pickup to add to/soften the attack of the bridge pickup - I didn't want to add a blend pot, thus the mini-toggle with the resistor - I played with a pot to determine how much resistance I wanted between the middle and bridge (basically, how much of the middle pickup I wanted to hear) and then used the fixed value. It's more limited that way, but my use of it is relatively limited anyway. I was pretty happy with just the two pickups, and only recently added the middle pickup - prior to having the middle Lil Puncher in there, I did the resistor trick with the mini-toggle but adding the middle p'up to the bridge (via the resistor) and vice versa - with this setup, using the bridge pickup with the slight amount of neck p'up gave me a slightly softer/warmner tone out of the bridge unit and using the neck pickup with the slight amount of bridge pickup added lended a brightness that was akin to a Strat neck pickup - pretty nice and useful setup if you're not against adding switches to your gtr. Thanks for the comments.
 
Oh yeah - Top loading the top three strings gives them more flexability as they are effectively shorter in length, they'll stretch and give easier. With the low 3 going thru the body, they're longer and more taut giving them the maximum 'snap' and the high 3 being shorter makes them warmer sounding - giving me a more equally balanced Telecaster tonally.

My reason for doing this is more about tone than it is about the flexability of the strings.
 

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