What's your biggest Tele buying regret ? - Page 2

riolux · June 23rd, 2008, 04:10 PM

I recently bought a used Squier Tele Custom II. It's a nice enough guitar, I had just tried a brand new one out in a store and I really liked it. A couple of days later I visited the guy who had an ad out for a used one. I think I played three chords (which sounded good) and I got the price lowered with about 15%. When I came home I noticed that
* The pickguard had been modified
* The edges of the pickguard had been "modified" with a black marker - from 3-ply to 1-ply...
* The bridge had been moved by 2mm, on ONE side (it was slanted).
* The pots were a mix of solid and split shafts
* The knobs where a mix of different brands and two of them were chipped
* The nut was loose and chipped
* The neck look like it had been sanded down on the edges, probably a poor atempt to adjust the fret ends.

but most importand of all
* It didn't sound as good anymore
* I didn't like the way it felt and it made me miserable.

I'm not sorry about the price I paid, but that I could miss all the flaws above. Actually, I didn't miss some of them, but I just thougt "Hey, I've come this far, I'm going to buy it". I also bought 4 new 500k pots and 4 knobs which I never had time to install.

But anyway, I had it for about two months and then I put an ad out for it with most of the not so obvoius flaws described and a guy came and saw it, played it, liked it and bought it for the asking price.

June 23rd, 2008, 04:10 PM	#41 (permalink)
riolux Tele-Meister Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Stockholm, Sweden Age: 30 Posts: 191 6 Photos	I recently bought a used Squier Tele Custom II. It's a nice enough guitar, I had just tried a brand new one out in a store and I really liked it. A couple of days later I visited the guy who had an ad out for a used one. I think I played three chords (which sounded good) and I got the price lowered with about 15%. When I came home I noticed that * The pickguard had been modified * The edges of the pickguard had been "modified" with a black marker - from 3-ply to 1-ply... * The bridge had been moved by 2mm, on ONE side (it was slanted). * The pots were a mix of solid and split shafts * The knobs where a mix of different brands and two of them were chipped * The nut was loose and chipped * The neck look like it had been sanded down on the edges, probably a poor atempt to adjust the fret ends. but most importand of all * It didn't sound as good anymore * I didn't like the way it felt and it made me miserable. I'm not sorry about the price I paid, but that I could miss all the flaws above. Actually, I didn't miss some of them, but I just thougt "Hey, I've come this far, I'm going to buy it". I also bought 4 new 500k pots and 4 knobs which I never had time to install. But anyway, I had it for about two months and then I put an ad out for it with most of the not so obvoius flaws described and a guy came and saw it, played it, liked it and bought it for the asking price.