Thinline Strat

[5F6-A]

That floral (burst?) telly is the nuts though...

just sitting thinking that 18 year old me prob would have attacked now me for saying that.. lol

The humble Tele... it wins everyone over eventually.

you are sooo right

[tekbow]

Humble + floral.

It brought back a memory of me seeing an MIJ pink paisley caster in belfast sitting on a rack beside pointy Ibanez and Jacksons in the mid 90's, I don't know if i had anything against tele's, don't think so, my guitar teacher had a b bender tele, and while i didn't agree with what he liked, even at that age i recognised the dude could play and no matter what his taste in music/tone he had more to teach me than i could ever learn, but i think the paisley thing was the objectionable point to late teen metal me. I turned my nose up at it and was like "why is this even allowed to sit beside those Ibbys.."

Now i think they're kind of cool.

You ever look back at yourself years ago and think "If i hadn't been so preoccupied with my preferred genre being the best i might have learned a lot more"?

Anyway, proud tele owner these days and i don't even think it needs BKP's.



plus if i ever find that i need to grab something to kill an invading polar bear with, i can always smash it in the face with the main body and use the broken off neck to finish it off.

[Philly Q]

plus if i ever find that i need to grab something to kill an invading polar bear with, i can always smash it in the face with the main body and use the broken off neck to finish it off.

I'm not sure the neck would break!  Teles are indestructible.

[juansolo]

My Baja bounced down my concrete drive and survived. Smashed the finish up a bit, but otherwise fine.

[tekbow]

They really are indestructible..

when i say break, i meant more at the body/neck joint, that neck has no chance of breaking anywhere along it's length.

hypotheically speaking in the event of polar bear attack of course.

saying that, how did your Baja bounce down the drive???

[Lew]

I'm sure you could get one made over here easily by a builder like Feline.

[juansolo]

Carrying it and some other stuff... Slipped off the step. Baja wasn't in a case or gigbag.

[Philly Q]

This thread inadvertently led me (via Google images) to a picture of one of the Fender Pawn Shop models I had hitherto forgotten all about.  It's not MIJ, it's MIM, and it's not actually a Thinline, it just looks like one.

But anyway, I went out to GuitarGuitar on Friday and tried one.  I liked it.  I bought it.  That wasn't in the plans for this week!  :|

[gwEm]

22 fret neck with a bullet truss rod? Unusual!

[Philly Q]

22 fret neck with a bullet truss rod? Unusual!

Yes, it's a strange one, I don't think there's any other model with that combination of features.  There is (or was) a Classic Player Tele Deluxe with a CBS Strat neck, and the Road Worn Tele Deluxe was basically the same, but they were 21-fret, 12" radius.  So Fender must have tooled up for just this guitar, which is surprising.

It was the neck which won me over, they call it a U shape, you could possibly argue it's more of a deep C, but it's a good chunky, rounded neck.  I was thinking if nothing else, I could pinch the neck and put it on something else, but the guitar's growing on me!  :)

[Telerocker]

I like that, cool guitar!

[PhilKing]

Interesting reversal of the usual humbucker placing on a tele.  Doesn't it make the neck pickup seem really weak?

[tekbow]

My preference may be for MIJ, over MIA in the mid to high end, but i absolutely cannot deny Mexico are turning out some tremendous guitars for the money, and i think they're very much starting to encroach on the upper levels of fenders midrange stuff..

Wonder will they do a drastic restructure when they realise people who could be buying MIA stuff are buying MIM stuff.. They couldn't really do what they did with Japan and make them for home market only because Mexico isn't as geographically isolated, or, potentially, as high end a market.

The pawn shop series is a great, if hit and miss. And i only say that because instead of sitting down and thinking these guitars out, it's almost like they're pulling random features out of bowls and running with them. That strat/tele mashup is really nice, but for every 1 like that there's mebbe 3 or 4 other models that don't work.

[dave_mc]

This thread inadvertently led me (via Google images) to a picture of one of the Fender Pawn Shop models I had hitherto forgotten all about.  It's not MIJ, it's MIM, and it's not actually a Thinline, it just looks like one.

But anyway, I went out to GuitarGuitar on Friday and tried one.  I liked it.  I bought it.  That wasn't in the plans for this week!  :|

:lol: Nice score :)

[Philly Q]

Interesting reversal of the usual humbucker placing on a tele.  Doesn't it make the neck pickup seem really weak?

Not as much as you might expect, although I'm still getting used to them.  I always like the warm, soft tone of a Tele neck pickup... and I don't know how hot the bridge pickup is, but they seem to work OK together.

Even though this is from the Pawn Shop series, to me it has a more modern vibe than the other models, its not really like a '70s guitar.  In some ways I think it's almost like a "grown up" version of the Hello Kitty Strat!  :lol:

I think it may end up morphing into my "Rock Strat" with a VHII or Holydiver at the bridge and a hot(ish) Strat pickup at the neck.