Fender US listen up!!!!

[Andy Summers]

Originally Posted by teleamp

here's an example

hmm...interesting..mine is nothing like that..route is completely covered..thanks for calrifying, teleamp!

[sir humphrey]

Originally Posted by teleamp

Nothing more than a sloppy CNC program, like when the bridge plates were being put on crooked, once it gets bad enough to hurt sales, they will correct it.

It was a deal breaker on a new Telecaster for me... I was seriously looking at the Empress Tele. So, a few million more customer like me and the problem will get addressed. Until then, partscasters.

So, so wrong it hurts

[sir humphrey]

There should be a sticky on this with the right answer - it comes up so often.

This is what a telecaster looks like, as designed by Leo Fender

Notice anything? No butt crack due to the bleeding obvious big chrome ashtray covering it!!

If you take the ash tray off, you see the butt crack. If you take the scratch plate off you see screw holes. Leo never meant for you to take off the ash tray - that's why the routing was more about how it worked rather than how it looked when you started taking your Tele apart.

I've just spent a very nice Saturday afternoon in Vintage and Rare Guitars. They have 2 50s Teles. Both have enormous butt cracks.

No dodgy CNC machine involved there.

Where's the "face palm" pic when you need it?

[Telepi]

I thought it was a vintage thing because the bridge plate is a bit smaller than the six saddle plate, which does cover it completely.

I like that my crack shows a little.

[jmiles]

Just use the ashtray cover. Problem solved!

[Cymro14]

Oh that's ok. I though that a but crack was a crack in the wood or something. Yes I've got that little gap in my Baja....nothing at all.

[creepy guy]

jmiles...That just made my day.

[Sw0rdfish]

Originally Posted by jmiles

Just use the ashtray cover. Problem solved!

What far out teenager birthed that pottery monstrosity.

[jmiles]

Glad you enjoyed it cg!
SwOrdfish;
Stamped on the back---"CALI USA M735"

BTW; Just checked on my Tele, '91 MIJ with an early '70s neck. There is a miniscule butt crack! So small that I never ever noticed it! Ah! "The Billy Goat" is full of surprises!

[phoenixash]

Show us ya Crack....

[Rod Parsons]

The butt crack on my '91 Am. Standard is on the top,[north], of the plate. It's a replacement Fender vintage 3 barrel one. And my white blonde CV-50 doesn't have a butt crack at all.????????....... The butt crack is where the tone comes from, right?

[Deadcenter]

My VB CV50 has a buttcrack, but you can only see it if you close up the skirt.

[Tonemonkey]

Originally Posted by sir humphrey

I've just spent a very nice Saturday afternoon in Vintage and Rare Guitars. They have 2 50s Teles. Both have enormous butt cracks.

I'm in to Bath V&R for some coffees on Wednesday ......... oh yeh, and to pick up my refretted '70.

[indiobravo]

you don't go to cnc just to have some idiot mis-program it so that virtually all teles ever have a butt crack. its not a mistake.

[sir humphrey]

Originally Posted by Tonemonkey

I'm in to Bath V&R for some coffees on Wednesday ......... oh yeh, and to pick up my refretted '70.

There's a wonderful 1930s Gibson archtop in there at the moment. Give it a try - sounds incredible.

I could bankrupt myself in five minutes in that shop!

[drb1346]

To the OP, quit whining.. . . . .

[BackNtheSaddle]

I don't take the OP's comments as whining. He makes a good point. I think QC at Fender is ****ing horrible.

I just bought a new AS. It took the store ordering 3 of them, to find one that was right "enough" for me to even take home. Had that one for 4 days and couldn't shake the buzzing.

In the end, 3 frets were too high around the 13th. They wanted to adjust the neck to fix it. Well, you could have driven a truck under the strings. Bzzzt -nope. And, I was not about to have a brand new guitar fret-leveled (by GC, no less).

So, back it went. New one is on the way. If the NEW one is a POS, I may go for a 52HR (which I really want anyway) or a 60th.

IMHO - that just sucks. Fender's QC is horrible, based on my experience. There is no reason for the problems with playability on a new guitar. I could handle a few cosmetic issues, but PLAYABILITY?!?!?!? NFW.

[Blkteledog]

I remember One Sergio Leone , the good the bad and the ugly .
Aesthetically speaking .

Playin' ? As long as every thing is screwd together and plays well ,
I'm fine .

That's Fender for me .

[DrBanana]

Originally Posted by sir humphrey

I could bankrupt myself in five minutes in that shop!

I did.. Still paying 8 years later... *sigh*

[Cymro14]

Originally Posted by drb1346

To the OP, quit whining.. . . . .

He's not whining....just asking a sesnible question!!!!!