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alright guys. this is it. this is THE guitar. the next purchase of mine will be a natural finished fender 72 telecaster thinline. i'd never played one, but i went in to sam ash as it was closing and snuck two minutes of playing onto a vibro king custom, and a super reverb.
first off. two minutes is not enough for any guitar purchase. except for two minutes with this guitar.
i threw out everything i could in such short time. lots of reverb. no reverb. bassy neck chords and a really Really trebly and WARM bridge chords. i've never gotten the vibro king to sound good except with this guitar.
on the super reverb reissue, it was my holy grail. it took me three of my most often used chords. a couple of cheesy string bends. some turning of the tone knob and volume knob on the guitar.. and also the dreaded fender neck bend all to make the decision for me.
this guitar is so light weight. so comfortable [even with a thicker 70s neck] so well balanced. so excellently setup. and so well finished [i think i took the rest of the time looking it over many times searching for flaws.] it has to be it. it is the one.
i know it's ridiculous to say this after a total of ten minutes with the thing... but i've NEVER touched a guitar that felt/played/sounded/resonated so well.
so my advice to myself. start saving. 660 wont take long...
freakwincy
08.09.03, 9:19 PM
My girlfriend bought me a 68 Thinline for our first christmas togther. Man.. That will be 10 years this christmas. Anyways.. I love that guitar. I can play it without a amp when Im sitting around the house. Its got sustain for days. And its perfect for summoning feedback. I love my tele..
I played one a couple of months ago for about 20 minutes. went back the next day and it was gone:mad:
WOAH! Check THIS (http://www.elderly.com/fmic/items/F51RTL.htm) out!!! Someone gimme 4 grand, QUICK!
The User
08.09.03, 10:24 PM
i love the wide-range humbuckers- my favourite humbuckers. I am trying to sell my soul for one but no one has one to sell.
I know how you feel too. I am a Jazzmaster addict- my favourite guitar. I was playing a 1964 sunburst model and it was so good I almost cried- perfect in tone, feel, look...every respect. And then I was told by the price tag that i could not own this dream axe. Money is so cruel...
boyecho
08.09.03, 10:58 PM
the wide range humbuckers are why i tried it. i'm iffy about a strat hardtail bridge. but i needed a guitar with humbuckers. the wide range are right inbetween. such amazing tone! i'm so excited about it. i'm surprised they're under 700 dollars
hey man, thats 72 thinline is not my thing, it won't give me the heavy sound I want but **** is it nice.... I still want one... I played it at my local shop... man it feels so lovely... thats natural finish... I wanna uy it just cause I want it... I am sure I would have a use for it, and if I had the money, I would buy it... but I don't :(
But yeh, I know what ya mean :)
Oh and the reason why they are under $700, is because they are mexican made... which doesn't bother me one bit, since I own and love my mexican stratocaster :D
i know they're mexican. i am still surprised with it. i went back today and played an american telecaster, and spent another 30 minutes with the thinline. i noticed two frets that had a little buzz, but this IS sam ash. they dont even bother setting the guitars up there. which is why i was impressed so much the first time around..
second time around, i favoured the thinline over the american. even though they're two absolutely different guitars. i just really really like the feel of the thinline. i cranked it through a super reverb again, jumped the channels for intense overdrive [i had the amp shaking a bit too much] but man. did it scream. i liked the american telecaster, so a no frills NICE telecaster may very well be a future purchase.. but the thinline comes first.
i'll play it much more in the time it takes to save up. but i'm still about as into it as i was yesterday. it's such a leight weight thing. and solid. very excellent guitar.
i have two guitars with single coils because i never liked humbuckers... until i met this guitar personally.
fender guitars are set up when they come out of the factory by fender... so they may not be exactally what you want, but they are always pretty good straight out of the box...
clifford
08.10.03, 8:20 PM
i think they might be one of those american/mexican mixes.. with the parts made in america, and just assembled in mexico. i read somewhere that my cyclone is like that... not sure, nor do i particularly care.. she feels good...
and man those thinlines ARE gorgeous... good luck!
if you find a guitar that inspires you, do whatever you can to get your hands on it.. give plasma, sell a kidney, it doesnt matter. i know how it feels too!
the set up was actually nice. and what i meant was sam ash never sets up anything, so it comes how it is.. sometimes you get some REALLY bad guitars... gibsons feel like crap at sam ash..
but yeah. i'm going for it. instant inspiration. and the bass response on my ampeg is going to be HUGE.
exit assasin
08.11.03, 8:26 AM
The mex 72 tele custom is also a great guitar, very nice to play, and a huge range of sounds as well *drools*
studentninjas
09.10.05, 4:50 PM
Originally posted by The User
i love the wide-range humbuckers- my favourite humbuckers. I am trying to sell my soul for one but no one has one to sell.
I know how you feel too. I am a Jazzmaster addict- my favourite guitar. I was playing a 1964 sunburst model and it was so good I almost cried- perfect in tone, feel, look...every respect. And then I was told by the price tag that i could not own this dream axe. Money is so cruel...
You can buy the wide range humbuckers at warmoth.com (http://www.warmoth.com/pickups/pickups.cfm?fuseaction=pickups_fender).
garyfanclub
09.10.05, 6:13 PM
My next guitar is gonna be a sunburst 72' Tele Deluxe. Such a nice feel.
Talent?!
09.10.05, 6:46 PM
Originally posted by studentninjas
You can buy the wide range humbuckers at warmoth.com (http://www.warmoth.com/pickups/pickups.cfm?fuseaction=pickups_fender).
Dude, 2 year old thread, The User hasn't posted in over a year. :)
acoustic_frippy
11.09.05, 11:25 PM
Originally posted by studentninjas
You can buy the wide range humbuckers at warmoth.com (http://www.warmoth.com/pickups/pickups.cfm?fuseaction=pickups_fender).
Does anyone know if these are MIA, MIJ, or MIM? I know Warmoth says "Fender USA" but one can never be sure ;)
I read somewhere (probably the '72 custom club website) that the specs on the MIJ and MIM p/ups are not the same as the original '70s MIA ones.
Just wondering....
Sorry about reviving a long dead thread ;)
coffeecaster72
11.10.05, 2:31 PM
Originally posted by acoustic_frippy
Does anyone know if these are MIA, MIJ, or MIM? I know Warmoth says "Fender USA" but one can never be sure ;)
I read somewhere (probably the '72 custom club website) that the specs on the MIJ and MIM p/ups are not the same as the original '70s MIA ones.
Just wondering....
Sorry about reviving a long dead thread ;)
The ones at Warmoth are almost certainly MIM, by Fender USA they probably mean it's not Fender Japan, which only sells in Japan now.
The reissues are different from the originals. The originals used individually magnetized cunife pole-pieces, while the reissues use steel pole-pieces with a more traditional bar magnet (alnico for MIM, ceramic for MIJ).
Also, the MIM has four conductor lugs exposed on the back for splitting or series/parallel. Not sure about MIJ.
acoustic_frippy
11.10.05, 4:09 PM
Originally posted by coffeecaster72
The ones at Warmoth are almost certainly MIM, by Fender USA they probably mean it's not Fender Japan, which only sells in Japan now.
The reissues are different from the originals. The originals used individually magnetized cunife pole-pieces, while the reissues use steel pole-pieces with a more traditional bar magnet (alnico for MIM, ceramic for MIJ).
Also, the MIM has four conductor lugs exposed on the back for splitting or series/parallel. Not sure about MIJ.
Thank you :)
Do you know if there's much of a difference between how the originals and MIM/MIJ reissues sound?
I know that there's a difference with the MIM '72 Custom and an original because the body is alder not ash. The MIJ '72 Custom is ash, though, but available only in black. The Fender Japan website lately has shown a "custom" '72 Custom that is finished with a natural gloss. Of course, no price is given :(
I played a MIJ '72 thinline years ago (before they were MIM) and it sounded like *****. The p/ups would cut out for no reason and the signal was very weak. Still I hadn't been a poor student at the time, I may have justified the $300 the shop wanted for it:rolleyes:
coffeecaster72
11.11.05, 4:10 AM
Originally posted by acoustic_frippy
Thank you :)
Do you know if there's much of a difference between how the originals and MIM/MIJ reissues sound?
I know that there's a difference with the MIM '72 Custom and an original because the body is alder not ash. The MIJ '72 Custom is ash, though, but available only in black. The Fender Japan website lately has shown a "custom" '72 Custom that is finished with a natural gloss. Of course, no price is given :(
I played a MIJ '72 thinline years ago (before they were MIM) and it sounded like *****. The p/ups would cut out for no reason and the signal was very weak. Still I hadn't been a poor student at the time, I may have justified the $300 the shop wanted for it:rolleyes:
I haven't had the chance to compare the original and reissue myself. I've heard some accounts that the original is supposed to sound brighter and maybe a little twangier, but also some accounts that the MIM sounds fairly similar. It would also be tricky doing a direct comparison because the original 72's had 1 Meg pots while the current reissues have 250k pots (not so good for humbuckers). I recently had some work done on my MIM Custom, and switching to higher value pots has improved the treble response a bit (500k volumes, No-Load tones). And I would guess the ceramic magnets in the MIJs makes them a bit harsher, people don't seem to like them as much.
Er, I'm not sure about the current Fender Japan models, but the older reissues used to be made with basswood bodies, so maybe more similar sounding to the MIMs. Well, MIM black finish models used to have poplar bodies before about 2001 when they switched to alder for both finishes.
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