All user reviews for the Fender Classic '72 Telecaster Deluxe

In the 70s Fender was looking to become more Gibsony. This was one of the guitars they put out to try and get some people away from the Les Pauls and on to some Telecasters. This is one of my favorite Telecasters because of this. The 72 Deluxe tele is very 70s in design. It has a neck similar to that of a 70s Stratocaster. It has the large 70s headstock which I like. It has the 3 bolt neck joint with the micro tilt adjuster. The Deluxe has a strat style hardtail bridge instead of the ashtray bridge because there are humbucking pickups in it. It has dual Widerange Fender pickups and a Gibson style control setup with a volume and tone knob for each pickup and a 3 way toggle to switch among them. The Widerange pickups were designed by the same guy who designed pickups for Gibson so it really has some Gibson mojo.

UTILIZATION

The feel of this guitar is not that of a vintage Tele but more of a Les Paul. The Deluxe has larger frets than the stratocaster at the time and the fretboard radius is flatter. It has more of a Gibson type feel to it. Since this is a bolt on Fender guitar there is quite a large neck joint heel where the bolts are and this may get in the way of the higher frets. The 3 bolt neck is not a problem although some people hate it. It works just as fine as the 4 bolt ones did and with the microtilt you dont have to take the whole neck off to shim it. This is a great feature because normal truss rod adjustment doesnt really help the action above the 15th fret or so. I think people just saw back in the day that it had one less bolt and assumed it was worse. Now there are high end boutique guitar makers making strat style guitars with 2 bolt necks. The controls may be awkward for someone who is use to a traditional tele setup. If you are use to Gibson controls you will love it.

SOUNDS

These are some of Fenders earliest Humbuckers and the design feels pretty old school. They are hotter and smoother than single coils but they are by no means modern high gain pickups. This is probably the smoothest sounding solid body telecasters out there. The tone of the pickups is very p90 ish but with more bottom end. It does not have the telecaster quack that tele players may be use to. With the smoothness there is a bit of a loss of clarity in the tone. Overall there is a nice old school woody tone to the guitar. This guitar also has a great jazzy tone. It is very warm without getting boomy. If a Telecaster is too quacky for you this is a great alternative. The humbucking design means they can be used for high gain without being super noisy and super harsh as well.

OVERALL OPINION

This is the Gibson players Fender. It has a wider fat neck with a flatter radius and bigger frets. It also has dual humbuckers with a Les Paul control layout. It is pretty obvious what Fender was trying to do. I dont know what kind of impact this guitar had in 72 but now it is an loved oddball in the Fender line up. If you are looking for a Telecaster with a smoother more modern sound this is the Telecaster for you.

The Mexican has nothing to be ashamed to face "Made in America".
Maple neck and head fat Start, 2 humbuckers, Les Paul settings, what more?

UTILIZATION

Its handle C is just the most pleasant I know, I got adjusted immediately. Fingers glide over the maple like butter!
The ergonomics are very good and the body Telecaster reworked makes the game up very nice. In addition, the weight of the guitar is well distributed.
Access to treble is good but not exceptional, but that's not what you look for when buying a guitar like this, we forgive Satriani.

For cons, I had the displeasure to find that my rope acute middle of the handle out slightly, especially when performing bends on it. I discovered that the slot of the 6th string in the Nut was a big difference whatsoever in relation to whether or edge of the handle (the Tequila had to run freely on that day in the factory Fender Mexican ). However, installing a new nut is not expensive and I am the only user to complain of this defect.

SOUNDS

Then there is a small wonder!
Jazz, blues, brit-pop, rock, hard and even the heavy, his sound palette is broad, it is of rare versatility.
Playing with the neck pickups, neck + bridge or bridge, you get crystal clear sound is faithful to the Telecaster is a warm sound on the edge of Gibson's (I recall in passing that Fender had created this guitar to compete with Gibson pickups on the market doubles).
I play Franz Ferdinand, the Kaiser Chiefs and is wonderful in the British register. It also sounds nice for classic rock like the Stones (Bridge position for the foil) or as Lynyrd Skynyrd (neck position or neck + bridge to taste for sounds round).
It also sounds surprisingly well by playing ACDC and even Maiden! The magic of humbuckers works brilliantly!
I like his clear, foil bridge, perfect paired with a Fender Hot Rod, but also its clear, round neck, plans for jazz or bluesy.
Side crunch and distortion, it collects all that it is subjected, by moving closer (relatively speaking) of the heavy to the Maiden Bridge and a round at the Black Keys in neck.
Plugged into a Fender, Marshall or a Blackstar, the guitar is great.

OVERALL OPINION

I use this guitar for a year and a half after trying an American Telecaster, which lacked punch for my taste and a Gibson SG, which lacked precision in the treble. I was amazed from the first notes as she corrected the defects of these two models. Its versatility is very impressive while keeping a nice character.
I really like everything about this guitar, it is beautiful, not common, and sounds wonderful.
The price / quality ratio is exceptional and I would definitely do it again this election for a second!

- Made in Mexico.
- 21 Frets! (Not 22 ...)
- 2 Fender Wide Range pickups humbucker (Neck / Bridge)
- Bridge "Vintage Style Start Strings-Through-Body Hardtail Bridge"
- 2 volume, 2 tone (1 for each pickup)
- A 3-position switch not trs solid (Bridge, Bridge + Neck, Neck)
- Channel while Saddle

UTILIZATION

- The handle is trs pais (BChE was believed one!)
You really love ...
Pais a much more even than a standard Telecaster Gibson Les Paul.
- Access in acute is normal (it's not as if there were 24 frets either!)
- The guitar is quite heavy but the shape is more subtle than a Gibson Les Paul with a good rpartition space on the body.
- This gives a good sound but nanmoins ATTENTION: trs typ blues, jazz.
In fact, I do not know if it is of vintage microphones to handle or Saddle trs but the sound is soft, even with a large distortion ...
The hammer-on or even tapping some are almost impossible because of the trs couraging dry low sustain.

SOUNDS

- The only saturation which allowed me to use back this guitar is the Fuzz Factory Z-Vex with its almost infinite gain.
Otherwise I think it is only just my style plutt pop-rock but I really feel the need for a second guitar which restored its best of my pedals.
- I play on an amp Hughes & Kettner Edition Blue 60 Watts.
My pedalboard consists mainly of a Fuzz Factory, Phase 90, Whammy, CryBaby, Echo Park.
- The clean sounds are trs round and slap, but not purely crystalline.
- The saturated trs are round or too smooth and too aggressive.

OVERALL OPINION

- I use it for a year now.
- What I like most:
The sound quality is same when compared trs own guitars "first price"
Her look
Its clean sound with delay and phaser
- What I like least:
The lack of gain
The absence of vibrato
The 21 frets that does not really simplify my solos!
Weight
The thickness of the handle
His switch to DCON and sometimes cut a micro
- Report qualitPrix correct for guitarist warned (700 delivers the eBay Runion)
- I would do this choice because this guitar silent primarily a favorite and is quite rare but for now I would opt more for an Ibanez or a Cort sounding much more raw!

The 72 Tele Deluxe is one of my favorite Fender Designs. In the 70s guitar makers were willing to take chances unlike anything before or after. They were coming out with new iconic designs not endlessly reissuing stuff. This tele is unique in the Fender world. t has more in common with a Les Paul than a tele and is very 70s in design. In the late 60s Fender was trying to compete with Gibson for a guitar that was good for hard rock music. The traditional singlecoils that Fender used in most of their guitars were not well suited for higher gain types of music and applications. Around that time Fender hired a guy who used to design pickups for Gibson. He made Fender a humbucking pickup to use in their guitars. This pickup was the Widerange pickup. The 72 Deluxe tele is very 70s in design. It has a neck similar to that of a 70s Stratocaster. It has the large 70s headstock which I like. It has the 3 bolt neck joint with the micro tilt adjuster. The Deluxe has a strat style hardtail bridge instead of the ashtray bridge because there are humbucking pickups in it. It has dual Widerange Fender pickups and a Gibson style control setup with a volume and tone knob for each pickup and a 3 way toggle to switch among them. Im sure many Telecaster traditionalists were mad at this design when it came out but this guitar was not made for them it was made for the modern player at the time who wanted a Telecaster that could do more modern sounds.

UTILIZATION

To go with the modern player concept this guitar had a flatter neck and bigger frets to allow more expressive playing along the neck. Old Telecasters have 7.5 inch radius necks which do not allow much of a good action at all. The Deluxe has larger frets than the stratocaster at the time and the fretboard radius is flatter. It has more of a Gibson type feel to it. Since this is a bolt on Fender guitar there is quite a large neck joint heel where the bolts are and this may get in the way of the higher frets. The 3 bolt neck is not a problem although some people hate it. It works just as fine as the 4 bolt ones did and with the microtilt you dont have to take the whole neck off to shim it. I think people just saw back in the day that it had one less bolt and assumed it was worse. I have seen guitars made by boutique makers that cost thousands and thousands of dollars that come with 2 bolt necks so dont tell me 3 bolts is not enough.

SOUNDS

The Widerange humbuckers would have been hot super modern pickups at the time but nowadays they fall into the vintage catagory like most other things from that era. They are hotter that the single coils that you would have gotten otherwise but they are by no means hot pickups by todays standards. They have a very vintage voice to them. This is probably the smoothest sounding solid body telecasters out there. The tone of the pickups is very p90 ish but with more bottom end. It does not have the telecaster quack that tele players may be use to. With the smoothness there is a bit of a loss of clarity in the tone. Overall there is a nice old school woody tone to the guitar. This guitar also has a great jazzy tone. It is very warm without getting boomy. The additional tone control lets you really shape the tone more than you could with a traditional tele. You can have the twang or bang with just the adjustment of the tone knobs.

OVERALL OPINION

This is such a great Telecaster design there is no wonder they have been reissuing it for a long time. People like me like the tele design but cant find anyway to use the tele sound. The one thing I would have changed if I was designing this guitar is I would have thrown away the amp knobs the guitar uses and put on some Gibson style speed knobs. There is no silly ashtray bridge here. It has a normal strat style hardtail bridge so it feels like a strat, and with the neck it plays like a Gibson. With this guitar you get a smoother more usable sound with the tele looks. And plus it has a big headstock. A big headstock makes everything better.

Mexico, as it is available in Mexican reissue (the original is 72, and is trading at around 3,500 E).

and there to 822Euros in Nimes, was the new and beautifully crafted.

Everything else was said.

UTILIZATION

The handle is great, it was much easier to play on.
The interface is excellent (it is a hybrid tele / strato / paul).

about it, my father at that time (1969) was a telecaster, and had decided to file the back of the guitar body to make a échacrure at the hip, because after 5 hours it was a ball little sore, he was rotting from all the scratch. well this telecaster deluxe 72 'has the original notch, as a stratovolcano, one gains in ergonomics and comfort!

for access to acute, it's not the swords from Ibanez, but hey you never see Franz Ferdinand, Radiohead and, with Ibanez .... So for the treble, it will balance a little, and yes re can be reached easily.

the sound is versatile, and excellent. For style

SOUNDS

Rock, Pop / Rock British, Indie, triphop, great!

The sound is closer to warm Les Paul.

I play a Fender Champ 25se, which I intend to equip two Celestion (in a box: a V30 in 16 ohms and up the Fender 12'': a g12h30 in 16 ohms);

My chaining effect:

- Tuner (PolyTune)
- Compressor (BBE Opto Stomp)
- OD Blackstar
- Blackbox fuzz ultraviolet II
- Metal muff,
- Wha vox,
Phaser-moog
- Poly chorus
Vibra-vox,
- Boss noise gate.
- BBE Sonic Stomp.

loop effect: Holier grail, echo # 1, HeadRush 2, ab box morley, morley alligator.
I love the sound, and what it can offer me through this range of pedal. + Later, I add a whammy, a Microsynth and a talkbox.

OVERALL OPINION

Two weeks that I have;
yes, I tried many guitars, but I'm very attached to the thunderbolt, which was overlooked in a skyscraper, and there it was.

particularity is that it is not common, vintage look, (in + of + other points mentioned above)

now I do it again this election!

It is there that I had to make my first fart of Fender ... On it was to fall!
I am not a beginner guitar ... and yet I must admit having been completely seduced by ... his mouth! and yes as a good beginner who seeks the look that kills! J exaggerates good and I do not want to offend beginners through this page! Actually J had tried the Black Dove (micro p90) whose sounds were more than charmed m!
For the characteristics tt was said below. In short rt add my grain of sand ...
very nice guitar, lots more that a more traditional tele, at least my memories ds. The handle is very nice, the acute access is not difficult. Of course this is not a guitar shredder, but ... with a minimum of envy (if that's your thing what) vs.'ll get there! Good idea to keep the locations of six bridges on the three usual TV.
The walnut finish is the most beautiful effect!

UTILIZATION

Bin is a skyscraper! Good at that! Lighter than my Les Paul, of course, heavier than my dowry ... There are some who find it heavy ... the les paul too lol. Yet size issue ... I am more side grain of rice (60kg for 1m70) and as for each of my guitars nothing wrong! Certan should be thinking about playing or sitting to the ukulele hihi!
S sound is easily obtained ...

SOUNDS

guitar very versatile! We can play anything! I have read not hard rock or metal ... uh guys you play with? Or leave the stereotype for this kind of music! you do not play with all the gain to 10! Well certainly it is not specially made for that ... but like everything ... use the possibilities of your stuff! And your right hand too!
I've tried mostly ds context oriented 60s rock, and quickly ds metal records we will say (if want to take an ear vs. www.myspace.com / themarchband on record ns use gibson rickenbacker classic and Dakota. I plays on the lp (left channel). ... Ben is not the same sound, fortunately, ms it s more that comes out honorably. For those interested the guitar player and singer of one of the scratch Isis Cult Of Luna play it ... It supports relatively low tunings (see the groups listed on ... ... after that adjust the equation!)
So down with the instrumental biases!
the wide range of wide-range sound like! Whether on my mini vox to play at home or on my head koch studiotone xl ... but happiness (of course it is the ecstasy on koch, played with a box in a 2x12 celestion v30 equipped DC-nothing very original). That said, I will try shortly changing knobs! In fact it sounds a bit dull with fuzz, wah and octaver



OVERALL OPINION

I use for a little over 2 months. As I've said j qq scratch. I am a bit of a geek's ... I ve had a lot of other hands (sg, stratum, tv, near ...). At the beginning I were a little confused ... what is the fender! No scratches and was not tip top set and the set of strings a little for me ligt! I have therefore replaced by a flat 10-53 thread and I've set the handle (also of what a pleasure not having to unscrew a plate to do it (yet a little over 72 models!). and where the Happiness! This guitar perfectly complements the dot (very good guitar compared to price elsewhere! I write a review later) I qd a more biting (register rock / soul)
I love this guitar for its sound (looking forward to the boost a little better with wiring and change potos) as well as its look!
An excellent value for money! At the risk of offending in a qq ... it is an American! Largely the same! But after he s acts as my opinion (not type!)
I do it again without hesitation that choice! I put my DC 9 in anticipating the changes that will make me even more in love with her!
Scratching to try if you vs. in the OCCAZ really amazing because you're so groovy baby