new axe

[bluesbrother]

:dance

I wanted a guitar as comfy as my strat but also a fatter rounder
tone and very good clean aswell.
For me a les paul simply did not work , i found the guitar that can
do this.....a fender vintage 52 hotrod telecaster. The guitar is very
light and resonate like grazy. My strat is more snappy and bright,
this guitar is very warm and fat but not muddy . My pedals work
great with it.The minihumbucker is really killer , when i back off
the tone it is very es335 like. The tone pot works extremely well
compared to my strat. I bought the guitar secondhand , it is from
nov 2009 so for 500 euro less i made a deal.

DOUBLE KLICK ON THE PICTURE TO SEE IT IN NORMAL SIZE :high



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-- Thu Mar 18, 2010 2:26 pm --

my two babies together

[slowpokerhino]

Those are VERY nice guitars, Congrats!

P.S. Can you make the picture a little bigger, I can't quite see it. :high

[surfnorthwest]

The Tele looks great, try to rize the picture to a size of 800x600

[bluesbrother]

Thanks guys,

I hope the size of the pictures are better this way,

This is not a country twanger but a blues axe pur sang,

[bluesbrother]

Nice guitar Bluesman very nice!

Thanks faze, the price for these guitars is pretty steep but it really
is worth every penny.1700 euro new .....i paid 1250 euro.
It sounds incrediably rich, deep, 3D .
The mini humbucker gives a fat blues sound even with pedals
and never gets muddy.Its my first telecaster and only bought this
model for the minihumbucker , fat one piece neck and swamp ash
body.

The only downsides i could mention is that the neck only can be
adjusted when the pickguard is removed ( the brown spot at the
headstock is a dummy. I hardly adjust that on my guitars so it is
not a problem for me.
The guitar is also a little noisy when you only put your hands on
the strings ( no single coil hum but more a kind of noise when
you have a grounding problem.Now i red on the net that most telecasters have this because of the bridge plate. it is only be heard
at bedroom volumes.

I am so happy with it. Together with my strat i have all the sounds i need. From being a les paul player i simply only want to play fenders
in the future.If you get a chance to play one you are hooked because
it is no ordinary tele........ . People who also have this guitar say it is
the best stock fender guitar that comes awfully close to a customshop
guitar. To be completely honest it is the best guitar i ever played.
Surfnorthwest is right when he says better save up a little more and
buy the reel deal ( better for a person piece of mind also)
NICE WEEKEND.

[surfnorthwest]

I am so happy with  it. Together with my strat i have all the sounds i need. From being a les paul player i simply only want to play fenders
in the future.

This thought is more common than you might think, many experienced players just end up playing great Fenders. It is no secret that The best ones come from the custom shop and business is good. Fenders just allow the player better expression.

[Kongels]

Great Tele man, those are just wonderful.

[Green Manalishi]

I guess I am a rarity, I went from Fenders including amps to Gibsons and Marshalls.

[surfnorthwest]

I guess I am a rarity, I went from Fenders including amps to Gibsons and Marshalls.

Nothing wrong with that but you will always come home to a good Fender guitar when you get older, you can't help it.

[slowpokerhino]

I don't know man. My strat was #1 for nine years but since getting the Les Paul I have now it's pretty much been retired. I still play it occasionally (actually used it quite a bit in the studio) but it is no longer my "go to" axe.

As for amps (here comes the flame), the VM is a great amp but I still consider my Twin to be "the amp".

[Ghostrider]

I know exactly what you are saying and why. You need a Metro (plexi) that will cure you of Fenders

[Spotted Dog]

Great looking guitars!!!

-- Mon Mar 22, 2010 6:42 pm --

Great looking guitars!!!

[HappyBlues]

No worry Slowpoke, I went from Strat to LP and I just love the LP so much... And I was a Fender guy for 10 years. LP just has 'something' that strat doesn't. I know it's the same the other way around, but I just found something in LP I didn't have and wanted, and don't miss almost anything for trade-off.

[LivewireBlanco]

I played my Strat at practice today after installing the Fat '50s pickups. At home it sounded great and at practice it sounded great too, until the band came in. It just doesn't cut through like a good LP. :nope

[bluesbrother]

A les paul has a very full bodied sound .
A strat does not have this as much, my new tele has a thick neck
and the mini humbucker sounds way better than my les pauls ever
did.I think for rockblues ala gary moore a les paul just ripps .
But for BB King kind of blues the minihumbucker is perfect, way
warmer and fatter than a strat but still very bluesy.
just like my strat this guitar stays in tune after some heavy bending.
I am very happy with the guitar and see it as a very good replacement
of my les paul.I have to admit a high end fender guitar is not completely
fair to compare it with a gibson les paul studio with bare knuckle mules
pickups.With a vox ac30 the les paul sounded way better than the strat....

Personally i think cleaner amps ( like fender) sound better with higher
output pickups (like on gibsons)
higher /medium gain amps(like marshall) sound better with lower output pickups(like fender guitars). This is just my personal experience with
blues music .

My point is that the combination what guitar with which amp is also
very important. Also the kind of music and most important a guitarist
playing style.
I have had a guitar teacher that played a 200 dollar jay turser guitar
through a ENGL savage amp and just got a insane good tone . Later i
saw he sounded good with even the crappiest gear ......
90 % of a good sound comes from the fingers.