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Fabius
Silver Member
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 Posted - 08/24/2008 : 20:35:02
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... that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them?
Seriously, I don't need of a guitar at the moment:
money doesn't flow too much lastely and on my companion I only sing, but months ago I've tried a 54's Tele and I can't remove from my mind (it's a kind of drug).
To be honest I would like to have a Tele with a (mini?)h.b. on neck and (before car accident) I had tour all Rome's guitars shop trying all Teles (a really balls breaker, I admit it) and the chose it's very hard.
Any suggestion?
Please, don't tell me Japan, Mexican or G&L, I talkin' 'bout american Tele and not else. |
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Laurie
Double Platinum Member
Canada
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Posted - 08/24/2008 : 20:47:34
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10..9..8..7..6..5..4... Jack should have chimed in right about "now"   |
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Fabius
Silver Member
320 Posts |
Posted - 08/24/2008 : 20:52:42
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Laurie
Double Platinum Member
Canada
4854 Posts |
Posted - 08/24/2008 : 20:55:32
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Originally posted by Fabius
Uh?
Oh.. Jack is the resident "tele-holic" |
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FRANZONI
Double Platinum Member
Ireland
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Fabius
Silver Member
320 Posts |
Posted - 08/24/2008 : 22:04:09
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No, no, I mean an original '54 (the same age of my second sister) with an original case and a sound that can't be explained.
My fever began for this Tele's guilty.
But I can please also with a modern Tele (I suppose that my home placed at few meters from Vatican's Museum it doesn't enough to buy it one of 50s), at the shop I've tried a Tele, natural, hb on neck, f holes... it has a name that I don't remember now. But I don't like the f holes anyway... I like exactly the one of your link. |
Edited by - Fabius on 08/24/2008 22:09:12 |
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Fabius
Silver Member
320 Posts |
Posted - 08/24/2008 : 22:17:51
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Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrghhhhhhh!!!!! $ 2,299,99!!!  |
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pedals 4 pv
Platinum Member
Canada
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Posted - 08/25/2008 : 00:42:35
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Originally posted by Fabius
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrghhhhhhh!!!!! $ 2,299,99!!!
That's ridiculous, You could get a nice Les Paul for THAT much |
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zentropa
Gold Member
USA
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Posted - 08/25/2008 : 01:25:42
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heh... i know you didn't want to have japan teles mentioned but...
made in japan reissue teles from the 90's are the closest things to originals besides actual originals.
the pickups that were used in them were mostly NOS parts from the 50's-70's and wound with pickup winders from the 50's-60's. the specs on them (including the pegheads) were to vintage specs rather than modern.
the original reason for the price spike amongst japanese fenders were that collectors were buying em and stripping the pickups out and replacing broken/dead pickups in their vintage instruments. this phenomenon started around '97-98 after someone famous in the collector industry visited the fender japan plant and found out about em. |
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jack
Platinum Member
USA
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Posted - 08/25/2008 : 01:33:17
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quote:
Originally posted by Fabius
... that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them?
Seriously, I don't need of a guitar at the moment:
money doesn't flow too much lastely and on my companion I only sing, but months ago I've tried a 54's Tele and I can't remove from my mind (it's a kind of drug).
To be honest I would like to have a Tele with a (mini?)h.b. on neck and (before car accident) I had tour all Rome's guitars shop trying all Teles (a really balls breaker, I admit it) and the chose it's very hard.
Any suggestion?
Please, don't tell me Japan, Mexican or G&L, I talkin' 'bout american Tele and not else.
Sorry for being late on this topic, but the new semester started last Monday, and I just spent the last few days getting caught up so I wouldn't feel turdy in class...
...Anyways, I am the wrong person to ask whether "to Tele or not to Tele", because there is only one answer...TO TELE...then once you TO TELE, you may soon find yourself with 2 Teles, then 7:
then the next thing you know, 8:
...As far as a Tele with a mini humbucker, I just made this:
 
My 9th Tele, which I based off of this:
http://www.fender.com/products/search.php?partno=0100232850
If you got the cash, by all means go that route. I just had to go with my SX Tele into a Hot Rod '52 because I can't afford the Fender right now... |
Edited by - jack on 08/25/2008 01:37:11 |
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Fabius
Silver Member
320 Posts |
Posted - 08/25/2008 : 10:10:06
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P4P: don't ask to me, ask to Fender, that high price just for the Seymour Duncan p.u. I'm sure!
Zen: I know it and in '99 I was far to buy a second hand japanese one, yellow light (almost cream, like the first one on Jack's photo), with white pickguard and maple neck, but the shopper wanted too much and I don't like the maple, I've had a Strato of 1984 with maple neck and the trasparent paint get down piece by piece like an old mosaic. Also, I want only american 'cause (like we say in Italy) "has more market" than japs or mex: we're americanophilist!
Jack: as above so below I want american Fender, not others, sure your custom guitars are better for the quality and sound, but it's more hard to sell. I had a custom guitar in 86: a Douglas with Bill Lawrence p.u., Kahler trem, etc., very good sound (I played thrash) but when I've sold it I've almost gifted.
Between other the blue light one in the second photo seems the twin of my Strato.  |
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jack
Platinum Member
USA
1418 Posts |
Posted - 08/25/2008 : 14:51:44
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Originally posted by Fabius
P4P: don't ask to me, ask to Fender, that high price just for the Seymour Duncan p.u. I'm sure!
Zen: I know it and in '99 I was far to buy a second hand japanese one, yellow light (almost cream, like the first one on Jack's photo), with white pickguard and maple neck, but the shopper wanted too much and I don't like the maple, I've had a Strato of 1984 with maple neck and the trasparent paint get down piece by piece like an old mosaic. Also, I want only american 'cause (like we say in Italy) "has more market" than japs or mex: we're americanophilist!
Jack: as above so below I want american Fender, not others, sure your custom guitars are better for the quality and sound, but it's more hard to sell. I had a custom guitar in 86: a Douglas with Bill Lawrence p.u., Kahler trem, etc., very good sound (I played thrash) but when I've sold it I've almost gifted.
Between other the blue light one in the second photo seems the twin of my Strato.
Maybe you missed the link I had in my message, this is the American Fender I think you want:
http://www.fender.com/products/search.php?partno=0100232850
I just made my SX one because I cannot afford, or am not patient enough to save up for the Fender thats featured in the link. I know you were asking about American Teles, I was just saying watch out with Teles, cause you start with one, then you end up with 9... |
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Fabius
Silver Member
320 Posts |
Posted - 08/25/2008 : 15:04:58
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Maybe you missed the link I had in my message, this is the American Fender I think you want:
http://www.fender.com/products/search.php?partno=0100232850
Maybe you missed that it's the same link that Franzoni wrote and my reply 'bout it.
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I was just saying watch out with Teles, cause you start with one, then you end up with 9...
I know, I know my friend, as I wrote: it's a kind of drug. 
When the "Rib's Adventure" will be over I'll go to the shops to try all the Teles they have. |
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zentropa
Gold Member
USA
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Posted - 08/25/2008 : 15:48:15
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Zen: I know it and in '99 I was far to buy a second hand japanese one, yellow light (almost cream, like the first one on Jack's photo), with white pickguard and maple neck, but the shopper wanted too much and I don't like the maple, I've had a Strato of 1984 with maple neck and the trasparent paint get down piece by piece like an old mosaic. Also, I want only american 'cause (like we say in Italy) "has more market" than japs or mex: we're americanophilist!
understandable. i don't like maple fretboards either, but most original 50's-60's and reissue teles will be maple fretboard. gotta get to the 70's for rosewood most times. if you are set on rosewood, you are probably better off going for strats.
as for finish checking... strats/teles generally don't start sounding super sweet until after the finished has been checking for a good long while. it's meant to do that so the wood can dry out :)
the photoflame/fotoflame MIJ teles of the early-mid 90's are the only ones i know of that were definitely rosewood fretboards. they sold new for $399 and for a long time were like $280 used. now they go for more like $600+.
if people aren't big fans of MIJ guitars there yet, now may be your time to score some for way under value. it took a long time here for japanese guitars to value up appropriately with their quality but now MIJ strats/teles sell for as much as if not more than american ones. it's almost easier nowadays to get $1000+ for lawsuit era les paul copies from burny, bradly, ibanez, etc. than it is to get it for actual les pauls :P
MIJ guitars have higher quality control than american ones. you might be able to start a trend :P |
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jack
Platinum Member
USA
1418 Posts |
Posted - 08/25/2008 : 16:11:20
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Originally posted by Fabius
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Maybe you missed the link I had in my message, this is the American Fender I think you want:
http://www.fender.com/products/search.php?partno=0100232850
Maybe you missed that it's the same link that Franzoni wrote and my reply 'bout it.
Sorry about that...I just noticed it now when I clicked onto the thread to see what the new replies were  |
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Fabius
Silver Member
320 Posts |
Posted - 08/25/2008 : 18:11:13
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Zen: I'd open a long thread 'bout the fact that we have Euros since 2001, before any country had it's money, Italy had the Lira and in 1999 1 dollar was around 2.000 liras (the contraction it was Lit.), so if a MIJ costed $399 it was Lit. 798.000, my salary at the times was around Lit. 1.500.000, so I had had paid the half of my salary for an used MIJ... but I can remember that the cost was 'round Lit. 900.000! And now it values $ 600? Isn't a good business on my opinion.
If you think that with the Euros life is better you wrong, my salary at now is � 1.200: changes the dic*s, but the a**ess are ever the same! |
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