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Fender MIM Nashville Deluxe Telecaster
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Mon March 18, 2013
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Description:
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Candy Apple Red Made in Mexico "Nashville Deluxe" Telecaster. Has rosewood fingerboard, medium jumbo (read: giant) frets, 3 pickup model with 5 way switch.
3 pickups:
Neck: Tex-Mex Tele pickups
Middle: Tex-Mex Strat Pickup with staggered poles
Bridge: Tex Mex Tele Pickup
The neck is pretty sweet, nice Tele sound. Maybe a bit clearer even. Good.
Has no neck + bridge position, has strat tex-mex in the middle.
Bridge pickup is wimpy. Far too nice and soft. I think nearly everyone will change that one. Not very Tele-like at all.
Has positions 2 and 4 like a Strat. Sounds a little like a strat in those positions but not quite as nice and throaty. One tone knob so can't dial in the same complexity of tones as a Strat.
For strumming, the Strat pickup in the middle is best. For blues the neck pup is nice.
Overall sound is bassy/ middy and wimpy. No real great twang or spank unless you play it hard. It does like distortion though.
The finish is beautiful. Stunning.
Frets are huge, so can bend chords sharp if not careful. Neck is standard C.
Tuners are just OK. Can go out of tune if you play it hard.
Recommend: If you want a Tele, buy a Tele. If you want a Strat, buy a strat. Tele players will miss the middle position.
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Posts: 201
Registered: May 2008
Location: Brizvegas aka Brizneyland
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Bswailes
Registered: May 2003
Location: Amish Country, PA
Posts: 787
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Review Date: Fri April 24, 2009
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: $550.00
| Rating: 9
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Pros:
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Versatility, inexpensive, multi-genre capable, my favorite guitar in 44 years of playing.
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It's not a traditional Tele - it's a smoking cross between a Strat and a Tele.
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Very good neck, great fret choice, great workmanship, but limited/no playing capability in the upper 4 frets. I can bend notes forever, and only broken one string while playing in over 6 years. Good stock bridge for intonation. Not a shredder's guitar, but it will sing out traditional crunch, strong rhythm and stinging leads in capable hands. NOTE: adjust pups as per Terry Downs: two nickles stacked together between top of bass side strings and top of pickup, one nickle on high strings. Otherwise it will either be "wimpy" sounding, or generate "wolf-tones."
With three pickups and a 5-position switch, the available tones available here really blow my mind. I've changed the bridge pickup to an SD Jerry Donahue, soldered in an Electro-Socket replacement for the standard Fender jack, wax potted all the pickups, and copper foil-shielded the control cavity and pickguard underneath, and soldered them together to the star-ground on the volume pot. All save the pickups: too much tone loss. Still some noise near old CRT monitors, flourescent lights and noisy 60hZ sources. I just roll volume off between songs.
The only guitar I've played that could possibly substitute in its place is a Parker Fly, due to all the pickup combinations and that low-action Parker neck. But look at the prices!
The Nashville Deluxe is a gorgeous guitar for $500 to $700.
Mine is the sunburst color with the maple neck. I bought in 2003. It's never failed yet. I gig out with only this guitar.
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jeremypodom
Registered: November 2010
Location: Pflugerville
Posts: 1391
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Review Date: Mon November 15, 2010
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: $450.00
| Rating: 9
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Pros:
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Versatility, AMAZING feeling neck, neck pup is great
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Stock bridge and bridge pup are quite terrible, cheap tuners+plastic nut=bad tuning
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Amazing guitar. I haven't owned many, but this guitar pleases me every time I pick it up. I have some new pickups on the way, but I might just leave the stock neck pickup. it sounds so much like an acoustic, if you lower it down to the pickguard....
also have the megaswitch E model on the way, that will give back the neck+bridge combo in the middle, a good buy for just $20
the bridge.... has been a challenge. The stock bridge was cheap, and I replaced it for cheap. I think keeping the original 3 saddle has been popular for a reason, so I'm switching to that. Hopefully that will fix some buzz problems on the bridge itself
mine came with partial copper shielding, actually, so it buzzes but not a whole lot
amazing guitar over all =] the finish is pretty but thin, so don't go banging it around. I dropped something moderately heavy from about four inches and put a pretty serious dent in it =[
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Suho
Registered: June 2011
Location: Near Philadelphia, PA, USA
Posts: 97
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Review Date: Fri June 24, 2011
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: $450.00
| Rating: 8
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Pros:
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Very versatile pickup options, beautiful finish, excellent neck
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Pickups buzz (amount of buzz varies by position), tuners are acceptable but are not ideal, and the knobs (knurling on them) is very rough-almost sharp
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I bought one of these for my dad about 8 years ago, and I have been eyeing them ever since. Finally got one for myself, and I absolutely love it. I prefer my Honey Blonde finish with maple fret board to the sunburst finish with rosewood fret board I got my dad. It just spanks and twangs more clearly.
Complaints about not having a bridge/neck pickup combination are easily remedied with some fairly simple wiring mods. It wasn't a big deal for me. I love all the options the pickups give you. They do have some of that single-coil noise, but I was surprised at how really great the neck pickup sounded. [This is coming from a guy who generally has little fondness for tele neck pups.] For the money, you really can't beat this guitar. It is very solidlly built, although it wouldn't hurt to replace the tuners. I recommend it, especially with the maple fretboard.
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Twang Addict
Registered: June 2012
Location: Ft. Benning, Georgia
Posts: 2
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Review Date: Thu June 7, 2012
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 10
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Pros:
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great twang, plays great, honorable tele
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none
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I have had mine for 3 and a half years and havn't made one mod to it. It has been my favorite guitar since I got it and I just love it.
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kate903
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Registered: July 2012
Location: china
Posts: 7
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Review Date: Sat July 7, 2012
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: $50.00
| Rating: 5
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'64 Tele
Registered: March 2013
Location: NW Arkansas
Posts: 53
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Review Date: Mon March 18, 2013
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: $449.00
| Rating: 8
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Pros:
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Versatile sound pallette
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Cons:
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Bridge not like "vintage" Teles
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Picked this up in Dec 2012 after deciding to get back into playing after several years away from it.
I liked the Strat sound options (bridge-middle and neck-middle).
It actually does those two combinations better than my '57 RI Strat did.
The middle pickup by itself (for me) is NOT a usable sound.
The neck pickup is actually quite nice sound (much better than the Bill Lawrence Fat Strat that was on my previous Tele).
Bridge pickup is not bad (compared to Seymour Duncan Broadcaster that was on previous Tele) by itself.
The satin finish neck is VERY nice in shape and feel (love the satin finish).
Outside of that, it is a really nice Tele. I'd recommend it highly and my previous Tele was a vintage 1964. The 2 and 4 positions are VERY nice. 
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