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Fender MIM Nashville Deluxe Telecaster
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Fri April 24, 2009
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100% of reviewers
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$550.00
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9.0
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supersize
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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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Keywords:
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MIM Nashville Telecaster Tex-Mex
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Author
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Bswailes
Registered: May 2003
Location: Morgantown, PA
Posts: 624
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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
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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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Cons:
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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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