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$487.50
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8.0
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50's Classic Tele
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Posts: 8,347
Registered: March 2003
Location: Aberdeen, Scotland, Yewrup
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passingtime
Registered: December 2008
Location: SoCal
Posts: 187
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Review Date: Thu January 8, 2009
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: $600.00
| Rating: 8
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Pros:
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Nice neck and pickups. Solid construction quality and good factory setup.
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None.
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I compared mine to a Custom Shop mdl before buying and found equal quality of construction. Playability was pretty much the same and the '50s Classic sounded nearly as good to me.
I'm partial to the vintage frets w/ 7.25" radius and I like the "C" profile of the '50s Classic. It is fuller than the "modern c" which I find uncomfortable. Also the neck is nicely tinted for a richer look. Weight is right at 8 lbs on bathroom scale.
I've changed the steel saddles for a set of Fender brass ones which resulted in a fuller, richer tone w/out losing any Tele twang. It comes close to sounding like my AV '52 now w/ less volume/gain.
Mine is 2 clr snbrst and it plays and sounds great so mission accomplished.
So what if it doesn't have a nitro finish and it's MIM. Mine is well made, finished and set up. It's got an ash body, vintage bridge, good PU's, a nice neck and looks good. It's a player and sounds GOOD! Can't go wrong for the money.
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Methos
Registered: January 2004
Posts: 125
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Review Date: Sun October 10, 2010
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: $375.00
| Rating: 8
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Fit, finish, price, look, feel, value
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pickups
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Okay, so I did get this for a steal. But I was looking for a new Telecaster after selling off my MIM Muddy Waters because I just couldn't warm to the 9" radius neck and rosewood fretboard. I was looking for something cheap (because I suck) like a Squire or something. I saw this one on craigslist. The guy had done some upgrades to it including black bakelite pick guard and brass compensated saddles. It was pretty much mint.
Anyway, it has the look I wanted, the see through white finish, tinted 7.5" radius maple neck, round string tree. I wasn't sure about vintage frets but turns out I like them fine. The guitar plays great and sounds the bomb through my Princeton Reverb RI. What a great combo! The pickups are probably the short coming here in that they are pretty weak. They sound fine but some hotter ones might do it better. It seems to be a pretty good recreation of a '50s Telecaster in look, feel and sound with a quality far superior to the Squier Classic 50s Vibes everyone is raving about (I looked at several of those in stores and they were all just awful from a quality standpoint.).
And because it's a MIM, you can find them dirt cheap on craigslist if you take some time and look around. I love this guitar. Very highly recommended!
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Fender Princeton Reverb Reissue - the amp I've been looking for all my life. Just incredible!
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