Product: Fender '62 Thin Skin Reissue Telecaster
Price Paid: USD 1599
Submitted
07/24/2007
at
03:12pm
by
Stringman
Features
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9
Available through a few select dealers only. Limited Edition American Vintage '62 Telecaster. Alder Body, 1-Piece Maple ???C??? Shaped Neck with "Thin Skin Nitro" Lacquer Finish, Fender/Gotoh Vintage Style Tuning Machines, 9.5" Radius Rosewood Fingerboard, 21 6105 Frets, 2 Custom Shop Tele Single-Coil Pickups, Master Volume, Master Tone, Modern Wiring, Original Vintage Style Tele Bridge with 3 Brass Saddles and "Ash Tray" Bridge Cover, 3-Position Blade Switch, Chrome Hardware, 1-Ply White Pickguard, 25.5" Scale Length, 1.650" Nut Width.
Sound
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9
The sound is fantastic. Very spanky, resonant telecaster sound. The pickups are very quiet and this thing just sings through my Carr rambler 1x12 amp. Roll of the treble on the neck pickup and you've got some very bluesy and soulful clean sounds. The bridge has all the bite you would expect from a vintage tel and both pickups are very well balanced for a punchy in-between sound. Nothing not to like.
Action, Fit, & Finish
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9
The guitar was set up a little high at the shop. I play with my fingers so i spent 2o minues dialing it in and that was that. The neck is a very comfortable C shape but with enough girth to provide plenty of woody tone. The workmanship on the telecaster is very good. The frets were finished very well and the neck was nice and straight with just the right amount of relief for my playing.
Reliability/Durability
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9
This is as basic as a guitar can get. 2 pickups, volume and tone controls. Built to last. It's a tele. What could go wrong?
Customer Support
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10
I bought this guitar at Music Machine. They are cool to deal with and very helpful. I would never try to deal with Fender directly.
Overall Rating
:
9
A very cool straight ahead spanky, punchy recreation of the vintage '62 rosewood neck telecaster. One of the better teles i've ever played. I like the slightly darker vibe the rosewood neck provides and while it's nice to have a U neck on a tele, the vinatge C shape works fine for me. Great snappy clean sounds and works well with pedals. I'm using a compulator, hotcake, analogman chorus, tremulator and maxon delay. A very queit set up, even with the single coils. A no nonsense extremely versatile guitar that has been around forever and is here to stay.
