Fender Telecaster

2001 mexican standard telecaster, 22 frets,1 volume 1 tone, s/s classic tele configuration, (if u dont know this go take up the tambourine as your instrument) maple neck and fretboard, thru body stringing, standard tuners with fender enscribed on each machinehead, its the simpelest electric there is therefore in my opinion the best, no needfor locking tremalo's humbuckers with coil taps or lace sensors, just a guitar

i play classic rock 'n' roll and blues this guitar suits both well, specially 4 rolling stones stuff, probably cause keef uses a tele if its good enough 4 him its most definately good enough for me, i play it through a fender frontman 15r which sounds fine, i'll soon be playing through something bigger though perhaps a laney tube fusion combo after recently forming a band. the pickups are silent enough 4 bog standard single coils, the sound as you would expect from the bridge pickup in a tele is bright and twangy, the neck pickup is quite like the neck pickup in a strat only with a bit more treble.i'll probably be upgrading to vintage noiseless pickups for more bite the stocks are a tad flat but hey 4 #299 u aint gonna get everything right. this guitar handels most styles of music well except for heavier metal stuff but who buys a tele to play metal? ( jimmy page? hehehe)

the guitar has a nice low fast action, theres a lot of fret buzz on the bass side which is actually musical, to my ears anyway, the finish is perfect, the one bad thing was the fretwork splinters of maple along the edges of the frets. the pickups where set just right

tanks would be made the same way as this guitar if wood didnt burn. should last a lifetime. i replaced the strap locks with schallers for safety. i would gig without a backup everything is solid i had a look at the electrics and everything is secure

never dealt

a great value guitar, built to last a lifetime, and should handel all styles unless u are a cannibal corpse fan, the best guitar i've ever had

mid 70's american telecaster.
finish was sanded off, but that just makes it more rockin i think. raw and dirty.
the bridge pickup has been replaced with a rio grande and it kicks ass, a lot hotter and beefier.
nice fat neck, four bolts, not 3.
everything is factory except for the bridge pickup.
25+ years has really made this guitar a beauty.

i do a solo folk/punk thing.
this guitar is wonderful for that job, i was playing a 65 melody maker before i got this and sometimes a 77 les paul double cut away with p-90s. i never thought i'd say it but the tele kicks both of their asses.
direct into the amp, fender hotrod deluxe, no distortion pedals or other effects, i get the right amopunt of distortion and tone.
nothing sounds this good that i have played.

the action is great. nice and low. no buzzes since replacing the nut
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the neck feels perfect, aged very nice.

this guitar is a workhorse.
if it's lasted this long it'll last forever.
there is no finish. so who cares. i'm more concerned with the sound rather than a pretty guitar.

hmmmmm.

i played bass for 12 years in punk and hardcore bands, two years ago i decided to go 6 string and now that's all i do.
i don't have any real brand loyalties or whatnot. i choose my guitars by the way the idividual guitar sounds and feels.

kids. used is good. ugly can be good too. listen don't just look.

2001- mexican
laminated top
3-way

active
maple
delta blue
tele-style
non-locing
thin
gig-bag

Sounds bluesy! Play with a fender 65 princetone w/footwhich pedeal, best sound really! past the volume 7 goes into overdrive.

I thougth the twang was me. But i found out it was sent to Mars music under specs. P/u also. However, I likc Gary Moore and his sound but it isn't going to happen with this rig. But G. Moore called A.Collins "The King of of the Blues". Master ot the Telecaster!!

Played the thing in front of relatives, they really didn't care. But I really wanted more toen..... Gibson LP studio in my sights

No problem yet

Love it, But since G.Moore plays a Custom, Then I have to be ahead. Blues and Rock combo make sence with a GMoore Sig. It was sooo much lighter than a regular LP. Plus the neck was Smaller,

Japanese Fender Telecaster Left-Handed made in 1996 with 50 years 1946 -1996 sticker on the Maple neck with Rosewood fetboard.
Sunburst and custom bound with white (WBW) pickguard. Normal 3 way switch with tophat knob. The body shape is somewhat odd in that at the jack plug corner the shape is somewhat flattened. The bridge is the three barrel grooved design

Pickup sound is now fair. It had a very annoying hum and when I glued a sheet of aluminum foil on the back of the pickguard there was a vast improvement - I used Rubber contact adhesive and merely stuck it on the back - cleared away from the edges and neck pickup and the noise reduction was surprising. I also invested in a more expensive and shorter lead. Intonation was a problem but I set this (bottom to top octave)as close as possible and learnt to tune slightly out (G and top E) to compensate.

The factory set-up was not good and there was fret buzz from the middle up - .9 strings. I spent hours adjusting with paper shims in the neck (did'nt work), slight truss rod adjustments (quarter turns over a long period). I finally put on .11 strings and raised the action as I was playing more and more blues and this was the best solution.

The guitar was new and over the past 2.5 years there are a few indentations in the varnish which seems a bit soft but it has stood up to wear well otherwise.

I live at the tip of Africa so I don't know! Most supportive were the articles on the net - i.e. Shielding for Pickup noise, Neck adjustment etc.. Salesman also helped a lot as he played himself and was very knowlegable

Been playing 30+ years and also have Classical and acoustic folk guitars. I had always wanted a Fender Tele and this one was begging me to take it home. I have never owned a Fender before and cannot comment on comparison to the American or Mex version. I would hate to loose it as they don't make them anymore and being a lefty it will be impossible to replace. Compared to the other guitars within the same price range it had the correct vintage look and feel.

mexican tele 21 frets standard tele set up

neck pickup sounds great i play it distorted most of the time

action is great love the color...

played it a a gig two days after i bought it and it held up perfectly

never used it

love it

A normal tele... maple neck w/ 21 frets. 6 saddle bridge, not string- thru. i dont know how old it might be, its still in very good shape. kinda fiesta red with black pickguard. made in japan, "O" serial number. the whole bridge part is different than on a standart tele; looks kinda cheap to me... lipstick bridge p/u, "normal" tele p/u in the bridge. 3 way selector, vol & tone (plastic?) knobs.

i play all kinds of music, but i prefer blues and new rock a la radiohead & pumpkins etc. i use a boss ds-1 distortion, a boss flanger, a boss tremolo, a big muff reissue, an old mr. crybaby wah, and some old analog delay (pearl...?).
i bought it used, over the internet, and got it like a week ago. i cleaned and fixed it a little, put new 009 strings on it and, man, fell in love w/ it! even without connecting it to the amp it sounds really FULL... loud, nice. you can play that guitar without electricity and still everybody in the room hears it!
once connecting it to my super twin reverb it blew me away. the bridge p/u sounds very tele- twangy, the middle position funky, the neck position looses a bit of volume, but nice creamy bluesy tone.
but once i turn a distortion on, a whole lotta shitty FEEDBACK. the annoying kinda one... well, just keep the fuzz low. it was too good to be true... almost perfect. almost.

action was low, i think the previous owner never really played it. i think it just layed in a corner getting dusty.
y screwed the saddles and the pickups a little up, put new strings on, rubbed the dust & fingerprints away, and it looked like NEW. the finish looks and feels perfect, neck feels soft and fast. 2 & 3th frets are a little worn, but ok... who knows how old it is and what its gone thru... there is a little bruise at the nut (the nut is loose, actually, but the strings press it down...) and near the jack. but no prob. a guitar is made to use, not to hang it on a wall.. haha
the tuners work 100%, stays in tune.

ok, as i said, ive only had it for a week, but man i fell in love with it. ive used it now for about 5 or 6 hours rehearsing w/ my band, and it did stay in tune all the way, i think id definately depend on it. i think ill use it on a gig next week... well, if i find some way to elimiate the damn feedback... *sigh*

hope ill never need em... ill fix it myself.

i own a 65 jaguar, a 66 musicmaster II, a 68 gibson sg custom, a 77 sg standart and some werid 70s les paul copy with a speaker buit in it... my 70s fender super twin reverb and a fender bullet amp.
i think its so ironic, werid; this is the cheapest guitar i own, but it is the one that sounds and feels best. i bought it to, man i dont know, paint it kinda psychodelic, mistreat it, smash it... oh i dont know. i was just looking for a piece of junk that sounds and looks like a fender. ive always had some "disliking" feeling towards squiers (or epiphones). i never "respected" them as real fenders. but hey, this guitar made me change my mind...
if it was stolen id buy another one, for sure, but who knows if i get another one so cheap. or maybe ill go for a "real" fender... but ive really got to like it sooo much over these days, i hope ill never lose it, and ill "respect" it now for what it is: a REAL guitar.
the only thing i REALLY hate is the damn feedback... oh yeah, and the input jack "crackels" ("brrrxkrrrx..." haha you know what i mean!) everytime the cable moves, but we all know how to avoid this one...

id be interessted in knowing how old it is. please help me out, one of you! it is not one of the silver or affinity series. just send me a mail if you have any comments, suggestions or info.
thanks for reading...

This is a 1995 Japanese Telecaster. Sunburst model with a 3-way selector switch and a maple neck and fretboard. The guitar came with a gig bag when purchased.

The guitar has a really great sound through the neck pick-up. The bridge pickup is a little too bright for me. There is a lot of hum whenever I am not touching a metallic part of the guitar. The guitar sounds great in general.

The guitar looks and plays really nice. The guitar was NOS and the factory setup is fine. I really like the neck on this guitar, it is very easy to play.

I just recently acquired this guitar. It seems like it should take abuse easily. I think that this guitar could take a lot of abuse, and still sound great.

I really like this guitar. The guitar does not weigh much, so it is easy to drag around. It sounds really great. Can't beat the quality of this guitar for the price.

Made in U.S.
It's amazing some of the crap that's out there. My local music store is my second home. Along with the Good and the Great stuff is some real SH*T. Those Mexican, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Tiawanese (the list goes on) copies are unbelievable. You watch some poor shmuck buying one of these things and you know he's gonna be playing the blues (like it or not) as soon as he gets it home. They might look the same...but they ain't the same.
Which brings me to the gift I bought for myself (finally). She's a classic blonde telecaster, the standard single coil pick-ups(2).
Volume, Tone, and 3 position switch. As basic as you can possibly get but by no means limited. I read a few comments where the user claimed they could only get 3 sounds off the instrument. Here's some advice, use the entire neck and string coverage. And play something besides doo-wacka-doo-wacka, and you'll be surprised at what this little monster is capable of. Tuners are tight, No slippage. This is a great unit.
It's interesting that you should request info. on body style. I guess something happens when you grow older. When I saw my first Tele ever, I guess it was around 1958, I thought Man...that's the ugliest body style you could ever come up with. Funny how things change. She's a beautiful axe.

I've been playing about 35 years now. Have owned a Les Paul, Hagstrom (Mark III), and an Epiphone, and now the Tele. I'm runin' her through a Fender 112 Deluxe (in conjunction with a Korg G3). The sound is clean, true, no buzz, no hum. Even just runnin' clean you can get a great variety of tonal difference, of course depaending on where you play on the neck and you tweaking capabilty.

Had her intonated upon purchase.
Pickups adjusted at the same time.
No flaws whatsoever.

It's a U.S. Fender...built like a brick shithouse.

Haven't had to deal; with Fender as of yet.

Like I said, about 35 years on guitar.
If it was ever stolen, I would hunt them down, find out what they love the most...and kill it.
Favourite feature would have to be the action.

This review is for a new 2000 Mexican Telecaster, purchased as an early Christmas gift for me by my awesome wife. It has a three-tone tobacco sunburst finish, poplar body, big fat maple neck w/satin finish, two single coils, 21 medium-size frets, six very nice chrome bridge adjusters, 1 master vol. and 1 tone. In this pricerange they come without any case, instructions, or wrenches. They even took the pricetag off at the store! But at least you get to keep the strings that are already on there!

I've been playing for 21 years now, and play lots of different styles, not a single one of them very well! Anyway, I have Gibsons and Fender Strats, and prefer Fender over Gibson. I play through Marshalls and Peavey Classic 50s. I originally went looking for a jazz guitar, but couldn't believe the expense. (Nor could I believe that even an Epiphone(gag!) jazz style Regent, without a case, was still $750., and the fret job was terrible, as usual). Anyway, I've heard about dudes getting a decent jazz tone with a Tele, so I tried out this Mexican at my wife's request. I couldn't believe how nice the tone was: it has a nice clarity and sustain, the neck pickup was real mellow and deep, but not bassy, and there's just enough top-end for clarity. Using both pickups sounds funky and a bit like my Les Pauls mid-position selection, and the bridge pickup is trebly, yet still a bit thick. The guitar fits blues very well also, and has alot of dynamics, for a cheap slab of wood. It inspires my playing, and that's what's important.

When I tried the guitar at the store, I played it and checked it out for over an hour. It looked like there might have been a shim in the neck pocket which would really piss me off, so I asked the salesguy to take it apart. Turns out it was only a bit of powdery gunk in there, otherwise the neck pocket was tight. They wouldn't do a whole setup, but the truss rod was very loose, and the action a bit high. Since it played ok, I bought it and set it up at home. The fretjob is decent, but the bass side of the neck is a tad straighter than the treble side, and the treble side of the neck sits up 1/64 higher from the body. I could cry about it, but it's not really that important. And for the price, I can't expect too much or else Fender couldn't sell their expensive guitars, right? -The 3-tone sunburst finish, by the way, is flawless.

If you hit me with it, you would probably kill me! I don't think even Les Paul's are as tough as a Tele. I'm going to play jazz with my wife who plays piano , and I hope it gets all smoked up banged-in a bit for that used look.

I like these guitars alot. They're decent for the money. I'm normally a Stratocater guy, but I'm digging the Tele for it's jazz and blues tones, and the fact that they're so tough they'll take abuse. I think I'd like to get the blond '52 reissue someday, since I'm liking the Tele vibe.

1975 Telecaster. Simple as they come. Natural finish. Maple neck. White pickguard. Two Jason Lollar rewound single coil pickups (See below). Volume and Tone controls. Three way switch. Put a tele tailpiece back on it after having a strat-type one on there because mr speedy lead guitar guy back in '79 said i'd never be able to get proper intonation out of the crappy tele one. Man, we kids sure had a lot of dumb ideas in the 70s. Like you had to have a strat or a les paul, and a 100watt amp, otherwise, you'se a wuss. I'm just so grateful i was too poor to buy any of that crap. Now i've got this beautiful, pristine '75 tele with custom rewound pickups in it that sounds just like a tele should. It's perfect. I've got a classic.

OK, telecasters are pretty simple machines. Single coil solid body sound that helped define what the blues and rock'n'roll sound was to become. It ain't your heavy metal, thrasher, speeder crunch thang you may want. Its the kinda sound that folks that have been listening to and playing music a long time grow to appreciate. A classic sound that loves a big sounding, clean, tube amplifer that loves to get simply overdriven. Mine had some Dimarzio pickups in it that weren't balanced with each other very well and were too trebly, even for a tele. I found this guy, Jason Lollar, on the web at http://lollar.hypermart.net/, found out he didn't live to far away, got in touch with him and actually went over to his shop with my tele for a visit. (he also does mail order, so check him out) For $30 each, he ripped my pickups apart and rewound them RIGHT BEFORE MY VERY EYES!!! very cool. checking things on the way to make sure they were going right. ALSO: check it out, the old school way is to do a scatter wind, which is what Jason does. Plus, you gotta make sure you've got even tension on it as you wind. That way there's no need for potting. Ah, I can tell i'm boring you. You can learn about this stuff for yourselves, it's all out there on the web someplace. Anyway, this tele ain't the jack of all trades, but i don't really think theres a decent guitar that is. Its a guitar that don't want no fancy gadgets, maybe i decent overdrive pedal, but thats it. Oh yeah, with these rewinds there's a lot more sensitvity to the guitar and to my actual playing. Basically, when i got these pickups done my tele was perfect and i no longer felt the need to go looking for a strat. Oh, and mostly i play this through a '74 Fender Super Reverb. Walla.

Its 25 years old. Looks pretty good to me.

maybe the toughest guitar on the planet. lasts forever. mine made it into another "millenium".

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I've been playing for like 24 years, and most of that time i've sucked. Now, who knows? I just know what i like. I've also got a 90s Casino, a Danelectro reissue, a Westone bass, Fender super reverb, Peavey classic 50-212 and a bunch of other music and recording stuff. I used to really want an older strat, but now, with the rewinds, that's over. If i found one, i guess i'd pick it up, but heck, seems like everyone plays one of those, don't they? Give me the road less traveled.