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Published on 09/26/10 at 15:19Fender made in Korea, Seymour pickups, 1 vol, 1 tone... but everybody knows that.
In my view, the only defect is a poor shielding, but that can be quickly fixed with an aluminum sheet. The birdseye maple neck + fretboard are really nice.
UTILIZATION
The neck is nice, the weight is perfectly distributed.
You need some time to get familiar with it: A Tele is not an easy guitar to play and even less so to make it sound!
SOUNDS
It sounds great clean, it's amazing!
I play it mainly with a Traynor or with a Palmer pocket amp.
With the bridge pickup and the Tone to the max on the neck pickup, I add a heavy distortion and it sounds awesome!!! (yes, yes, even Obituary works!)
With a blue box you get a killer sound...
OVERALL OPINION
I've been using it since 2005, it's a 2004 model. It will get a patina over time, which is fine because I had a hard time getting a good feeling with the neck. You just need to let it age a bit. This is the only guitar I use for clean sounds and the only one with single-coils, the rest of the time I have EMG 81s, which will stay with me until death do us apart. I just love it. It turns 10 this year and it just sounds better and better.
I paid $780 back then, which seems a good deal. I would buy it again with my eyes closed. I wanted to make it active (Emg) but after thinking it over, I decided to leave it "as is.". The only mod I did was to add some shielding with the aluminum sheet to control the buzz when playing distortion. If you find one secondhand, go for it!!!
In my view, the only defect is a poor shielding, but that can be quickly fixed with an aluminum sheet. The birdseye maple neck + fretboard are really nice.
UTILIZATION
The neck is nice, the weight is perfectly distributed.
You need some time to get familiar with it: A Tele is not an easy guitar to play and even less so to make it sound!
SOUNDS
It sounds great clean, it's amazing!
I play it mainly with a Traynor or with a Palmer pocket amp.
With the bridge pickup and the Tone to the max on the neck pickup, I add a heavy distortion and it sounds awesome!!! (yes, yes, even Obituary works!)
With a blue box you get a killer sound...
OVERALL OPINION
I've been using it since 2005, it's a 2004 model. It will get a patina over time, which is fine because I had a hard time getting a good feeling with the neck. You just need to let it age a bit. This is the only guitar I use for clean sounds and the only one with single-coils, the rest of the time I have EMG 81s, which will stay with me until death do us apart. I just love it. It turns 10 this year and it just sounds better and better.
I paid $780 back then, which seems a good deal. I would buy it again with my eyes closed. I wanted to make it active (Emg) but after thinking it over, I decided to leave it "as is.". The only mod I did was to add some shielding with the aluminum sheet to control the buzz when playing distortion. If you find one secondhand, go for it!!!