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08-31-2005, 05:04 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Queens, N.Y.(Near JFK Airport) | | | What Fender guitar would you buy?
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Now, one of the last things I need is another guitar, but I've wanted to get a real Fender guitar for a while, and these price cuts are tempting me.
So, what do you think would be the best Fender for Blues.
I'm mainly thinking aboute one of these three: http://www.fender.com/products/searc...tno=0118662725 http://www.fender.com/products/searc...tno=0118760795 http://www.fender.com/products/searc...tno=0137402321
As you can tell, I'm partial to Telecasters, but all suggestions are welcome.
Mike
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08-31-2005, 05:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: montreal, qc, Canada | | | That Tele HS looks great. I like the idea of HS or SSH pickup arrangements. It depends on what you're looking for. SSH sounds good for heavier styles, since it has a humbucker in the bridge position adding a bit of fatness. But the neck and middle pickups are still single coil, bright and snappy sounding. The HS seems to be the opposite, thickening the neck pickup tone and keeping the signature Tele bite in the bridge position. I love Teles, especially clean or overdriven with a bit of reverb. |
08-31-2005, 05:34 PM
|  | Special User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Saint Paul, MN | | | My MIA Telecaster is a wonderful playing and sounding guitar. However, I did spring for Kinman pickups. |
08-31-2005, 06:03 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Arkansas | | | I like the American Telecaster® HS. I have a Squire Fat tele. and I like the humbucker in the neck and the single coil at the bridge. I don't like humbuckers in a tele. I can take it in the neck but not the bridge. Chicken pick'n with a humbucker just dosn't cut it for me. |
08-31-2005, 06:05 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Poughkeepsie, NY/Boston, MA | | | The 72 thinline is what my guitarist uses and its very nice. |
08-31-2005, 06:21 PM
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Mike this Guitar is awesome , go for it 
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08-31-2005, 06:26 PM
| | | | I've always liked telecasters.
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08-31-2005, 06:26 PM
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08-31-2005, 06:36 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Poughkeepsie, NY/Boston, MA | | If you are playing bluesi would suggest Godin. www.godinguitars.com |
08-31-2005, 07:47 PM
| | | I'd go for the HS Tele... but that's mainly because Andy Summer's (one of my favorite guitarists) famous Tele had a HS (among other customizations) setup.  |
08-31-2005, 07:51 PM
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08-31-2005, 08:13 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: Montreal QC CA | | The onyl Fender I'd consider buying would be one with G&L written on the headstock 
The thinline is real purdy like though |
09-01-2005, 12:10 AM
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09-01-2005, 12:52 AM
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09-01-2005, 01:30 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Ontario | | | After I finally finish doing up my DB (got a couple strings to buy and that takes care of MY monetary woes about it...thank you birthday and christmas!) I'll be buying myself a guitar for jazz and blues. I'm having a hard time deciding between an Epi Dot or a MIM Tele.
If I were you, I'd go for the HS tele in wine red and put a pearloid guard on it. Slightly more swankified version of Joe Messina's from SITSOM. 50 bonus points if it's got a rosewood board...100 more if it's got MOP blocks (although this strikes me as a CS only feature.)
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09-01-2005, 02:24 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Stuart,Florida | | | thinline.. hands down |
09-01-2005, 03:08 AM
|  | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Ohio | | | American Strat. No humbucker. No S-1 switch. Just a classic, as it was meant to be, Strat. |
09-01-2005, 07:02 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Oak Park, MI | | | Tele's are cool, if I got one it would be the 62 reissue with the binding, but I'm with the general consensus, Blues get a strat. If your doing Fender, get one with the Texas Specials, a really cool "gritty" Pickup.
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09-01-2005, 07:10 AM
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Originally Posted by nettor Blues guitar you say. Haven't you seen the Crossroads guitar festival? Strat all the way. The Eric Johnson strat is an awesome guitar | I hear you, nettor.
I think most people associate the Strat more closely with The Blues than the Telecaster, think: Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy, Stevie Ray Vaughn and Robert Cray. I love Robert Cray.
But then we have Muddy Waters and Albert Collins on the Telecaster side along with Susan Tedeschi.
I love both Strats and Teles, but I just seem more drawn to the Tele. I think this is the guitar world's equivalent of the Precision vs Jazz debate.
Two others I was thinking about were: http://www.fender.com/products/searc...tno=0256605506
and http://www.fender.com/products/searc...tno=0135300332
And checkout this Tele from Mars: http://www.parkerguitars.com/code/mo..._p36_intro.asp I think it's $589 at MF, plus it's got piezos!
I want to sincerely thank all of you who responded. 
I honestly thought I was going to find only 3 or 4 responses.
Keep the ideas coming, and name any more famous Tele players that you know.
Nice looking Tele, Munji.
Mike 
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