Classic Series '72 Telecaster® Thinline

[electrofaro]

I'm looking for a decent, fun guitar. Right now I'm thinking of getting a Fender reissue like this:

http://www.fender.com/products/search.p ... 0137402321

Any feedback would be welcome!
Anything cheaper that's about the same in sound & quality/price?

[egosheep]

I think they are cool guitars, but just beware that those pickups are not at all like the vintage Wide Range humbuckers used on the originals. I think Novak can re-do them to spec, with magnetic threaded polepieces. The fender ones have bar magnets, they are much more like a standard gibson PAF in a larger housing.

This may not be cheaper, but what about putting your own Tele together? You can get a thinline body and neck, and you could have fun getting it made just how you prefer.

[electrofaro]

you could have fun getting it made just how you prefer.

And pay a lot... I mean, surely a custom made's not cheap? I live in Europe, so there'd be the shipping - getting my 360 from Scotland and waiting for the package to arrive was already hell!

[captsandwich]

I just saw this on craigslist:

http://toronto.en.craigslist.ca/tor/msg/1625841377.html

[electrofaro]

I just saw this on craigslist:

http://toronto.en.craigslist.ca/tor/msg/1625841377.html

Looks nice, but would also mean shipping to Europe - shipping within Europe's bad enough, let's not add customs to that

[brammy]

I had one... played like a dream. Reluctantly sold it because I needed the $ and also because if I'm going to have a
Tele I want it to have at least one single coil pup. What I SHOULD have done is kept it and had it re-wired for single coil with a new pickguard
like a '69 Tele.

You might consider getting.....
http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/Tele69TMNAT/

[wmthor]

A friend of mine used a '72 Thinline Reissue up until he got himself a PRS DGT.



The video is from a gig at The Desert Dome in Bahrain that he did while his ship was in port.