tele advice?

[brian_ward]

im looking at either the american special or the classic players baja tele. i have played an american special and i liked it but the frets seemed a little big. the fit and finish was excellent though. action was low enough and was realitively buzz free. im more interested because of the features the classic players baja tele boasts. the s1 switching, the larger neck and the smaller more tele-like frets are all cool and i would like to have them. my concern is that im unable to play the baja because none of the local stores carry them and am leary of the consistency of the instruments coming out of mexico.  anyone have advice?

brian.

[Elliot]

Baja's are excellent and the quality of the Mexican Fender factory is very good for factory made guitars.

[tomjackson]

Baja's are excellent and the quality of the Mexican Fender factory is very good for factory made guitars.

+1 great guitars and every one I have played was good.  As far as buying a guitar without playing it goes I would say the Baja's are relatively low risk.

[Ian Price]

Most definitely a +1 on the Baja from me. I have tried a few and they have all been good - the one I got is pretty resonant acoustically and sounds great with BG flat 50s.

If you do get one I'd recommend those pups - as would many on the forum.

[brian_ward]

Most definitely a +1 on the Baja from me. I have tried a few and they have all been good - the one I got is pretty resonant acoustically and sounds great with BG flat 50s.

If you do get one I'd recommend those pups - as would many on the forum.

cool. i talked to the guy at gc today and he said i could order the baja and play it and if i like the american standard more i could just exchange it. whichever i end up with is definitely getting the newly revamped flat 50s or possibly the boss. thats a whole separate issue though. thanks.

[Roobubba]

My advice is don't get a tele.

But you won't heed it. I mean, you obviously don't realise now that they look sh!t and they make their player look sh!t, so you'll probably never realise this!

Shame.

[MrBump]

My advice is don't get a tele.

But you won't heed it. I mean, you obviously don't realise now that they look sh!t and they make their player look sh!t, so you'll probably never realise this!

Shame.

Slow day at work, Roo?

;)

[horsehead]

I'm just finding it shocking that Roo is commenting about teles!

[Ratrod]

Never mind Roo. He has Tele Tourette's. He can't help it.

[St.James]

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[Roobubba]

Sorry, I got as far as the 'BEATLES' (seriously, dude, take your caps lock key and throw it in the bin), then could read no more of your post.

As for:

You can go with you standard one's and with a pup change,caps and add a 4 way switch and you can go from COUNTRY to THRASH METAL with the flck of a switch

Whether or not this is true, you'll still look like a total tw@t, because you're wearing a tele. End of story.

The only thing you could have said to make your argument even worse would be something like: 'Even traffic wardens love the look of the telecaster'.

Yeah, I think I do have tele Tourette's. :)

[shobet]

Jesus H Christ, that will have roo going apoplectic!

Nice collection you have St. James. Not jealous at all, nope, not in the least.

[St.James]

 8)

[Philly Q]

.......your life is empty and you prefer to spend more time talking about playing guitar rather trhan practicing so MAYBE one day someone will hire you to play for them.

Nah, that's me. 



Don't mind Roo, it's just his way.... he has a pathological hatred of Teles.  You have to get used to him.



(Love the '55 LP goldtop!  :o :)  )

[gwEm]

So you're not a TELE man....let me guess a STRAT player....HOW ORIGINAL!!!

he plays a quite unique fanned fret custom build.

anyway, the whole Roo vs Telecaster thing is kind of a forum running joke. we all know hes a big tele loving paul macartney fan really.

i enjoyed reading your rant though - Roo had it coming to him  :lol:

nice guitars there mate