Made In Japan
21 frets
Fender Texas Special Tele Pickups
Alder body, maple neck.
Channel C: Hyper pleasant, rather than on my old 50's Classic Series Tele.
1 volume, 1 tone, 3-position selector.
Mechanical? but take the road a priori, not too much detuning.
Lighter than MIM.
10/10 for the violin, finishes and pickups.
10/10 at 9, not because of the microphones: see below.

UTILIZATION

The neck is SUPER nice for a Tele.
I felt good on the sleeves of Les Paul, it makes me change my mind. On my old Tele MIM Classic Series 50's, I had trouble making force barred solos with string jumps ...
It is very light, a joy to my shoulders after my Les Paul and my old MIM Tele.
Access to Acute: yes, but nothing more, unless a Start or an Ibanez, but it's still a Tele.

SOUNDS

I've had it yesterday.
After tuning, load test. Well, the drawing is a bit steep for my taste, I'll come back in 10-46, but that's a detail (it must be a currently 10-52). When empty, there's natural sustain, a good sign. Good resonance across the wood, it feels when you hold the hearing.
Test on a 5W tube amp Blackstar.
By the time the lamps warm the amp, you plug the grattoune. First clean sound on the neck pickup. REALLY sound a little warmer, I expected a mix Tele (I'm not too much for her too sharp and sometimes slamming Tele). I had before microphones SD STL/STR2 I had before on my MIM: very good microphones own with little background noise, but too much "twang" Tele.
Bridge pickup: it goes good, however I think I will use little in his clear, this position does not suit me rarely on guitars. However, this is very unpleasant on this guitar with these pickups is the breath that is much more pronounced than with my old MIM with Seymour. This will be corrected with shielding of the cavity + 1 jack my best today.
In crunch sound, bridge pickup: a massacre! Frusciante's sound on the album Blood Sugar Sex Magic. No frills and very little adjustment on the amp is really sound.
In neck pickup is great for blues solos sound a bit warm.
Not too tried saturated fat: it's not my style, but what I can say is that the microphones do not seem too crachouiller, which is good for singles.

OVERALL OPINION

I've had it yesterday.
In point of comparison, I had a good Tele invoice, a Fender Tele MIM Classic Series 50's, but in a tone deSousa: microphones means very original (they even crachouillaient horribly simple crunch). After a good replacement Seymour Duncan STL/STR2, microphones, high quality cleaner, but it was better for her too like slamming my ear.
This 62 MIJ Tele Custom is over by the handle much better, her sound much more rounded (due to the choice of Texas Special pickups and an alder body), but while remaining Tele.
I did not want microphones Stack, let alone humbucker on my Tele. Not at all mind a Tele in my opinion.
Acquired at 580 € including shipping to OCCAZ 'is excellent value for money.
It will still "invest" to correct this horrible breath (jack and shielding). This is an excellent television that will fill the pros I'm sure.
For blues, improv blues sound a little warm, a little funk - rock / funk is the foot.
I do not want to get into comparisons with American, I never tried. But the bar is set very high!