I've Decided on My Next Guitar

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Anfontan said:
what is the advantage of flipping the control panel 180 degrees? :confused:
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I kept knocking the toggle switch cap off and then would end up scraping my hand. Never rotated it, but I wanted to for that one reason.
 
I've played several Fender guitars made in Mexico that were good. Just had to change some parts like the tuning machines and it was fine. Just because it's made in mexico doesn't make it shitty. Just some parts are made from cheaper material, but those are parts I usually replace on a guitar anyway.
 
HapiCmpur said:
Seems to me that anyone who's either pro-labor or pro-environment would see this statement as a good reason to buy the American version, not the Mexican.
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Depends on which finish is better.... :D

But seriously... isn't that what air filtration is for!?! :eek:
 
Consider a Line 6 Variax. It models the Strat, Tele, Gibsons, and a host of others well. Most who get them never pick up the other guitars they have.

Ed
 
Ed Dixon said:
Consider a Line 6 Variax. It models the Strat, Tele, Gibsons, and a host of others well. Most who get them never pick up the other guitars they have.

Ed
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Ed, I've considered a Variax and may end up with one in the future. Based on the audio samples on Line 6's web site, I think they model Fender single-coil sounds well, but the Gibson humbucker sounds were way off, to my ears.

At any rate, I'd like to have a collection of the real things. Even unplugged all these guitars have different and pleasing characteristics.

Thanks for the input! :)
 
that deluxe reissue tele rocks. It would also give you a more baritone to offset your strat.

But I'm a SG / Les Paul man, what do i know.....
 
Ill put in my vote for a good long look at G&L.
Leo Fender's last visions of the Strat and Tele.
The entire ASAT line (tele) is great IMHO.
I own a ASAT Classic with 2 soapbar single coils and its all the twang and tone a tele man could ask for.

Course - I love my Fender 73 tele deluxe as well - but its not so much a tele with the exception of the body style.

Good luck!
 
Thanks, gbondo.

Those soapbars give a thicker sound than a regular Tele pickup, don't they?
 
Zaphod B said:
Thanks, gbondo.

Those soapbars give a thicker sound than a regular Tele pickup, don't they?
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Yeah - even though they are single coils - they are supposedly somewhere between a single and a humbucker, but man mine screams. I would definatly put it in the single coil family.
It sounded the best to my ears when I was trying out tele's.
Here's a similar pic to mine (minus the gold hardware - and mine is belair green :D )

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I love the tele's too...

MIM Standard Telecaster Agave Blue Modded
MII Squier Custom II Telecaster
MIM 72RI Telecaster Custom Sunburst
CIJ 52RI Telecaster Vintage Blonde
MIK 1996 ProTone Fat Telecaster
MIC Squier Affinity Butterscotch E-Squier
MIM Standard Telecaster White Modded - in progress
 

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rothy, I think you have passed from love to obsession! :eek: :D

Nice collection.
 
Zaphod B said:
rothy, I think you have passed from love to obsession! :eek: :D

Nice collection.
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Heh - thanks - check out the TDPRI for more tele obsessives:

http://www.tdpri.com/forum/index.php

As for my recomendation:

50's classic for that classic tele vibe and twang
72 Custom RI for a bit more balls

Both made in Mexico and great - though I would try to shop around and pick out the best one...
 
Zaphod B said:
At any rate, I'd like to have a collection of the real things. Even unplugged all these guitars have different and pleasing characteristics.
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Hehe, yeah the Variax is cool for what it does but is not much to look at.
 
MadAudio said:
Hehe, yeah the Variax is cool for what it does but is not much to look at.
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I agree, they are generally ugly. However I stopped worrying about looks when my hair turned white and started falling out.

Ed
 
Zaphod B said:
Very nice, ermghoti. Beautiful guitar. That's a MIM model?
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Thanks , I like it a ton, just got back from a practice with it.

Korean. I'd liked to have seen a 50's RI, and a H1 Texas, but none were around. The H1 Texas specs out real nice, but I have difficulty imagining a much better P/U set than the Duncan APT's in the Lite Ash. I thought long and hard about a Japanese '52 RI, but the risks and delay just didn't seem worth it. You can almost get a used USA RI for the same money.

I keep having to fight back the urge to strip the body and refinish it in butterscotch blonde nitro. That would be hot, but would inevitably lead me to strip and refinish the neck in vintage amber tint, and then I'd have to hunt down a new decal.

Antonfan said:
what is the advantage of flipping the control panel 180 degrees?
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It's not externally obvious, and I didn't mention it, but I also reversed the tone and volume knob, so it's V-T-switch. Leo Fender realized that knob was in the wrong place (well, due to all the Nashville guys flipping the plate over on their guitars) so that's why the Stratocaster featured the knob in the correct location from the factory. Volume swells are now possible, all the minute changes in drive are instantly accessible, and the tone knob is not too far out of the way, either. As Outlaws says, you are probably less likely to swat off the cap, and then gash your hand on the nekkid switch, as well.
 
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