I’m a 77yr young guitar newbie. I’ve got basic cords & a few patterns that I can do ok with. A year ago I bought a cheap ass 89$ Indio Tele From Monoprice. I absolutely love the sound I get from my also cheap ass Monoprice tube amp. All I play is patterns and strum through cords but I’m having fun in the process. If I ever get better I’ll spring for a Fender Tele. But after I honed the frets, changed the strings and set the intonation most of my well playing friends all say it sounds not to shabby for a cheap Tele.
Nice Review! I have got the same 72 mexican made thinline but in seafoam green ( i allways loved that colour on guitars) it became my workhorse, specially since i upgradet it with 2 push pull 5ook Poti and splittet both widerange (they are not the Real ones anyway) humbuckers. Love it and it became definately a keeper. Stay tuned and keep on rockin'
Very well done demo. I still have my original 69 Tele Thinline. I also have the new Tele Ultra and it even has the rough screws that can catch your palm. I was surprised that Fender allowed that on their top line Tele.
I had a squire version of this guitar and loved it. I regret selling mine. Cool video. I agree, very versatile guitar and personally I love the look of thinline teles!
Awesome Sam🎸《☆》I'm thinking about getting a Fender Tele. Either a Thinline or a Custom. I bought a cheap Donner Thinline Tele copy about a year ago. It's like a gateway drug into the Telecaster world. It does play pretty good & has good tones but it's not a Fender. I like the 70s Fender reissues with Bullet Truss rods👍🏾🔔Nice review & Demo✌😎☮
@@robcarter6599 《☆》it's an Awesome Guitar. I bought a 2nd one when Amazon dropped the price to $110. I also wound up getting a blonde Fender MIM Tele Thinline with the Bullet Trussrod used but like new for $1000. The Fender takes a little getting used to with the 7-1/4" radius fretboard but it plays really well. The Donner is more solid inside & rocks harder with more sustain. It's good to have both of them since their quiet different despite looking the same. Fret wear is an issue with the Donner as they have soft Copper/Nickle alloy frets but it still plays well with the alarming amount of fret wear✌🏼😎☯️
The non Cunife WR pickups aren't terrible; they push the vintage humbucker output spectrum,- around 9 k-, but that specific design makes them singularly more twangy and clear. I like the design, but always put on the heavy brass 3 barrel bridges, which I think adds to the Tele bark; it depends on if you like the Funk or the Punk. Rubbing and buffing compound, and a electric buffer ,work well if you want to remove some of that crazy poly( don't scratch it any deeper in removal than can be buffed out); as much as I like Fender/Squier, I truly wish they'd lay off those heavy clear coats, on necks and bodies.I've gone as far as stripping down to the color coat ,and respraying with nitro.IDK and won't argue about sound differences, but it certainly helps the look and moreover, feel. Fender/Squier need to figure out that most people that actually stay with playing guitar don't care if the finish is bulletproof.Besides being cheap and holding up to overseas shipping, the poly finishes have nothing to recommend them.
Thanks for the demo and review. I have a MIM '72 Thinline from 2004, I think (MZ4). This one is beautifully made, but I've played others that had issues with neck pocket fit and alignment. I've also found that the early 2000's neck profiles vary a fair bit. This one has a moderately chunky neck that seems to transition from a soft V at the nut to a smooth C shape with just a bit of rounding at the edges - very comfortable to play. I didn't like the stock pickups, so I opted for Fralins but I might also try Lollar Low Winds. It's a keeper guitar. Great resonance and sustain, just needs the right pickups.
Beautiful guitar, thanks for sharing! Looks very neck-divey in the video. I've been thinking about a thinline for playing and practicing unplugged late at night, is there any decent volume out of it when unplugged? Obviously with that small a body cavity there wont be much bass response but is it actually useful for a late night finger exercises session without needing to stoke up an amp? Thanks for the video. 👍🙂
Do you think it’s worth it/possible to put a bigsby on it? I really want to on mine but the guitar techs I talked to adviced against it for some reason, saying they’d need to switch out the bridge and that it wouldn’t work well enough on a tele to be worth it. Would obv prefer to use the vibramate attachment would work in your opinion. Thanks!
I have a Tramline deluxe and I love it. I plug it into a Blackstar nt5 digital smp. It's got a 3 band equalizer with built-in reverb and standby switch.
I just got the MIM and I think it’s a fantastic guitar! I had to play around with the pickup height but I think I got it where I like them. Now, I may swap out the pots and pickups for CUNIFE but not sure if it’s worth it. Fender had the CUNIFE on sale last Christmas but still, it was $300 bucks! OOC, would you have swapped out the pickups for CUNIFE?
I bought my American Vintage '52 Hotrod from a very accomplished Jazz player. If you can find one, it has a lovely Seymour Duncan minihumbucker in the neck which is perhaps a bit more mellow rolled back than the traditional single coil but not as hot as a regular humbucker.
Sweet guitar just found a 2006 MIM 72 thinline in LPB 60th anniversary I also noticed that the saddle screws also protrude a little bit, and it is uncomfortable 😎🎸✌🏽🕊✈️🦯✝️🎼💙👍🏽
That moustache tells me everything I need to know, I think I'll stick with my real and manly slab Tele thank you very much. And by the way Starbucks is that 👉 way.
