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The feel of a Tele is going to vary a lot, mostly by strap weight and neck shape, but also fret size, which all make huge impacts.
Read up on the Tele timeline, and why Telecaster players in different genres regard different year models as "peak". It should help.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hujntf1cvMI
My old man has a MIJ tele that’s very nice. He’s a lefty, I’m not, so I haven’t played it much.
My wife got a MIM strat recently that is a really nice guitar. Other than being heavy, it came out of the box with a great finish and setup. But we rolled the dice buying it as it seems some MIM are better than others.
But people say the same about US made Fenders too, and the MIJ ones.
MIJ Fenders are real nice, but I thought a 90’s MIJ is as almost much as a new US made Fender these days?
The one I was watching on Reverb just came on a sale for even less than the last offer - - $551+tax, free shipping. Couldn't resist.
From what I've read online, these are brand new, just being sold as used to be lower than Fender minimum pricing.
https://reverb.com/item/75362571-fen...-hot-rod-burst
Dunno about the new ones except for hearing that people rally like them. I have an 84 MIJ Strat that I love, FWIW.
There's a pretty big variation from guitar to guitar even among the same models, so trying before you buy is pretty helpful. Or buy used and cheap so you can pass it on without losing money if you don't bond with it.
This one is in the "relatively cheap" category for a MIJ Tele, so should be reasonably easy to move it if I don't like it.
It arrived. Holy shit, it's nice. Finish is really good - the neck is matte and has a tiny bit of a rough feel to it, not quite as smooth as the American strat I have, but that's the only possible thing I could criticize. The body is tapered across the whole thing, not a slab like traditional tele, but no belly cut like a strat. Frets are perfect.
Never had locking tuners before. I guess they'll make string changes easier. It also has a fancy Babicz bridge.
And it sounds fantastic. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...399c541261.jpg
Damn. That’s a real good looking guitar.
OK, I'm done now. Been kinda looking for a Gretsch with two P90s for awhile, and this Electromatic came up on an Adorama sale for $259 (!). Couldn't pass that up. Arrived today, fiddled with the neck pickup height a bit, it was set up and intonated pretty well out of the box.
The blue one ("mako" color) is the new Electromatic.
I'm selling the wood one ("single barrel stain" color) - - it's a Gretsch Streamliner Junior Jet, with a P90 neck and Broadtron BT-2S humbucker bridge. That bridge pickup is telecaster-ish, with kind of a metallic twang, not at all typical humbucker. I like it, it's actually a really nice guitar. But I wanted two P90s, and now have a tele for tele sounds. Anyone interested?https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...786bc72fb0.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...79ab4bc947.jpg