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When I was a kid, in around 1979, I saw a friggin Fender Broadcaster for sale at a yard sale. Like $50. There was no way my grandma was going to spend $50 for me at a yard sale, and I wasn't even playing guitar yet. (My "BIG" Christmas present each year back then cost less than that.) I was about 10 years old, and I think quite reasonably I had *no* idea how old and valuable that guitar already was. In fact, I thought: "Well, I've heard of Fender Stratocasters, and Telecasters, but never a 'Broadcaster.'" That's how I remembered it so vividly, and a few years later I realized what I had missed out on. A Broadcaster could _only_ be a '51 (I think- or right around that year) and often go for $25,000-$30,000 USD these days. fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.
damm
+godfatherNYC wow thats really got to hurt just think if you mugged her and killed her you would have been out of jail by now lmao just kidding but i really feel for you man thats the first time i have ever heard of a Broadcaster i really love the Stratocasters.
***** Haha!
+godfatherNYC Lord Leap'in Jesus ... First your money then your clothes, reading that makes me arse hole pucker up so tight, Its water tight. What a crime of the century. Yeah got to wonder where it is now? The garage sale people prolly did not sell it and used it for fire wood. That is fitting for this yarn
In Durant OK. ina music store I used to go to a lot had a broadcaster on display but it was worthless. The last owner had taken a jigsaw to it and a drill. Making bullet holes and cuts and blood painted all over it lol
You guys are like the top gear of guitars.
Andrew James check out 'That Pedal Show'. Blew my friggin mind. For about 2 months and it still is...
Just tried the Mexican Telecaster today. Extremely good guitar, although that might be because I haven't tried any other electric guitar ever.
Stop playing minecraft and you'll do it better!
T9chaosmothersoccer
But he doesn't, he just watches these guitar videos on comments on every single one.
Rock on man
Mexican guitars are bad.Buy only American for a good sound
Or buy a Mexican and put super nice pickups in it later
I can't believe it's been 9 YEARS since this video, and I think of this as one of the newer videos. The changes from the early videos are enormous. (I remember when Captain was really uncomfortable in front of the camera) I think it was this video and Rob's comment that he was adding the Classic Vibe Tele to his collection that made me buy one a few months later.
Isn't it funny how Fender is a company you learn to appreciate more as you get older. Like, as soon as you start accepting them into your life it's JUST the strat... You find that shape and sound acceptable, but the tele looks ugly and disgusting and you hate them, but then as time grows on you, the tele starts looking nicer and nicer, then after a while there's no guitar in the world more beautiful, and the strat just looks kind of crude to you lol Then in comes the Jazzmaster! Still 50/50 on that one, but i do love Jim Root's one's with the brushes aluminium EMG's
+Anthony Quigley Hey, that's exactly what happened to me. I used to hate how a Telecaster look. Recently i fell in love with the classic vibe in the shop nearby, it has a natural finish and looks even prettier than the one in the video. Like you said, it grown on me, sound wise as well, of course.
+orbitalchiller
same
*****
right? lol
Kai Burns
i like the jaguar or whatever it's called. the blue with the white go faster stripe lol
Can't agree with you. Strats are the best guitar ever made.
Rob Chapman: Great guitarist, terrible dress sense WTF
+Hacksaw Jim Duggan Ha ha yes he looks like he just came out of mom's basement after a month long xbox marathon.
+Hacksaw Jim Duggan 90's style ^^
+Hacksaw Jim Duggan great name!
Rob Chapman what a fat nerd. A poly finished fretboard makes zero difference. Horrible jizzy trousers
You know its a bad outfit when the best piece of clothing is a black ops 2 t-shirt.
I had a couple of heavy duty commercial shelving units (18' long). My neighbor saw them and said he wanted them bad, real bad for his new shop. I told him "take them, they are yours". A few days later he came by and handed me a hard shell case and told me to open it after he left. He said.... "I had this in my closet and never really used it. I know you love to play so I thought it best to give it to you, to be played as it deserves to be."
He left and it took everything I had to just stare at the case with the Fender Logo on it, wondering what might be inside. To celebrate my new gift, I got myself loaded, chilled out and calmed down. Alone in my music room I opened the case and inside.... A like new American Tele, Black just like the one in this video, only older (dates to 91 from what I can tell). Took the pick guard off to spray out the electrics, lube the switch and inside, a penny found from 1991. My neighbor did not put it there.
After a total cleaning/polish and set-up (I do my own work), Strings, plugged in and discovered "The Monster". A guitar that I now reach for first.
The story continues.....
After much though (remember, loaded) I pondered which song to play first. I decided to go with "Danger", in memory off the recently passed JJ Cale (the Clapton, JJ Cale Version). I knew the guitar would wail, but could she play a song like Danger, well?
She made me cry.......
That s a neat story, mate. And you got that guitar because of a good deed and good intentions, so there s a special mojo in it.
Thanks so much, appreciated.
You should hear the The Echoes, Gilmore Live in Gadansk played on her ! What a monster indeed.....
that sounds amazing! but what do you mean when you say loaded?
@@selenalamothe997 toking the ganga.
Went and bought a classic vibe Tele after this, absolutely fantastic guitar
PoetOnMoet mine does
@PoetOnMoet for the most part yeah, only problems I have with it are in the neck, it's slightly bent upwards which means the strings buzz on the lower frets and also the E strings slide off the side way too easily but other than that I love it
@PoetOnMoet Actually very well!. I also have the modern player tele and it stays in tune as well. The modern has the 6 saddle bridge!.
@@brendanryan8439 A good setup should cure this bud.
Geat playing guys, love the teles, I bought one in '73, the 72 thinline USA with f hole, humbuckers. My sons shunned it, they called it "that old brown thing" (mocha - official colour), then my son told his music teacher that dad had a fender telecaster and he came home gushing and wanting to play my guitar. The teacher told him it was a classic, legendary guitar. H e now plays metal with a schecter, a jackson and an esp but every now and again he cranks up the amp and the humbuckers and gives it a good thrashing. I still play and love this guitar, my fender thinline, cheers.
johnnywebb good to hear guitar playing going through the generations, my two sons play also
Robs pants make me think that he sleeps on the couch in Anderton's demo room. Cap just kicks him awake to film.
I have played guitar since I was 12 and I am 47, a few years back, since I was established enough financially to support it, I decided I was finally going to buy the best guitar in the store regardless of cost, I spent hours playing the highest end guitars, and everything else, it came down to two guitars. An Epiphone John Lee Hooker Limited Edition Sheraton II Elitest, or the blonde squire you show in this video. They beat everything in the store, I went with the Epiphone because my pride decided I was going to spend some money on a high end guitar. Here is the Irony, my main guitar before this was an Ibanez custom which was made in Japan in 79. It is the main reason I never needed another guitar, I come to find out by entering the serial numbers in a search engine for guitars, that the Ibanez and Epiphone were made in the same custom shop at the Tekada plant in Japan. I guess I like their guitars the best. Tomorrow I buy a squire strat on sale. I am looking forward to having a light guitar for live play.
Everyone`s saying pine is light. MIne weighs an absolute ton!
Pine wood can be chock full of pitch (heavy density situation) or not so much - almost like balsa. That's wood for you.
Telecaster is the best guitar in my opinion. My first guitar and I still love it more than all my other electrics :)
The body is not Swamp Ash...it's PINE...soft PINE wood with a hard poly coat finish. And the two Squire Classic Vibe colors have different pickups..check the specs
Is The Captain consistently saying "trust rod"?
+styx85 he's actually saying "Trussed" rod. Which kind of is an accurate description of what he's talking about
Antony Quigley
Aah, interesting, cheers! :) That does make sense. I'd be curious to know how he came to use that term, it seems to be an exceedingly rare variation; Google returns less than 300 hits for the phrase, vs. several 100k for the conventional "truss rod".
*****
i found this, kinda makes sense "to furnish or support with a truss or trusses. 4. to tie or secure (the body) closely or tightly; bind (often followed by up)."
+styx85 Yes...yes he is lol.
+styx85 I think just truss rod
I just bought a Nashville Deluxe Telecaster and I absolutely love it. The fit and finish is just as good as my US standard strat and it has upgrades such as locking tuners, noiseless pickups and the added strat pickup in the middle position. Super awesome guitar. I still like the tone of my Les Paul the most but I'm a huge tele fan now as well. I actually enjoy it more that my $1400 strat.
CLASSIC VIBE IS NOT A BEGINNERS GUITAR! I have two Gibson Les Pauls and I dont even play them anymore! The Squier classic vibe is an incredible guitar
I have a Custom Shop Tele, American Standard, Mexi, Classic Vibe and other pieced together Teles including a Warmouth with all the supposedly "hippest" parts etc. The Vibe is as good to me if not the best of all. BEWARE: Vibe was a gift and I did not select it myself. I was lucky. The Vibe I was given is much better built than any Vibe sampled on my own. A huge difference! BE SELECTIVE and you should be fine with the Vibe. In my next purge I will sell all the teles except the Vibe and Warmouth.
I thoroughly enjoy your videos, entertaining , musical and informative. Making the transition from acoustic and adding an electric. Your videos are helping me choose the guitar and amp. Cheers from what is today minus 40C Canada.
I'm actually considering buying a second squire classic vibe telecaster custom and hotrodding one and leaving the other as it is with the classic tele twang such is the quality of them. Who knows if squire will keep this consistent quality going but I challenge anyone to go and try one and tell me it's not a very good quality made and great sounding guitar.
I work at a music school and see kids with Squier instruments all the time; I am consistently surprised by the quality of these instruments. Just 10 years ago they were absolute garbage, but that has definitely changed.
Does lee keep saying "trust" rod?
i used to own a blonde 50s squier classic vibe telecaster. the fit and finish were great. nice fret job with the ends trimmed and finished below the lacquer. the only reason i dont have it anymore is that i traded it off with other gear for an american telecaster. with all the joy of the american tele, i still had to file off the fret ends when the first cold winter came here, as the maple and rosewood shrink up a bit, and the fret ends stick out. my biggest issue with fender is that the necks are flat sawn, not quarter sawn. truss rod adjustments are needed seasonally. my gibsons with quarter sawn necks never need truss rod adjustments. cheers mates.
He looks way better without the dreads
He's finally not a teenager anymore
The body of the 1950 Esquire was made of pine. So the Classic Vibe is just staying true to the original it's copied from. Not because it's cheaper, but rather true to the Esquire model.
i love watching these guys talk about guitars :)
I know, I feel smarter after watching these.
The greasbucket circuit was first introduced on the lower end highway one's and then latter added to other models , it allows the player to reduce highs without adding bass , it doesn't bypass the tone circuit, like is mentioned around 16:40 .... Fail ....
That classic vibe is twice the guitar of the other two 🤷♂️
6:32 that was an expert-level casual Star Wars reference
Can andertons stock a tele with a body design based on the pattern of robs pants here? Those are awesome!
Good call mentioning Johnny Hiland guys. He is an extremely talented guy, and versatile as all hell.
21:42 I thought Captain was gonna play the Andertons theme
I have the Butterscotch Blonde Squier Affinity Telecaster. Love it!!!!!
That Classic Vibe sounds killer for the scratch...
My buddies dad has an original 54 tele, butterscotch and black, with the original tweed case! I played it, and it just takes you back in time!
yeah, well come to Australia for a master class in being touched up price wise.
The Classic Vibe Tele is the deal of the century! Great guitar.
Sorry about the time machine effect here - been a few delays in getting videos up and as a result they are coming out in an "Interesting order"...
This is from a while back ;-)
A few years back when I was looking at getting a tele I spent hours a my local music shop playing with the different models. I settled on a Mex Tele as it just felt and played the best (for me)
9:19 blue on black kws
The neck pickup in a telecaster is a single coil with a cover, not a lipstick.
The lipstick pickup was pioneered by Danelectro, because its easier and cheaper to make. It's simply wire wrapped around a magnet in a chrome tube to keep it all neat.
A single coil (as I'm sure most of you know) is wrapped around individual magnetized pole pieces, not a single magnet.
Never was a fan of the Classic Vibe logo being on the pickguard.
It's a sticker
Daniel Reite I know. No one seems to want to remove it.
the last couple of usa strats i bought had fender logo stickers in exactly the same spot
Urgh, totally agree. And yes, people are pointing out it's a sticker, but I see so many people simply leaving it there to collect sweat and grime. Yuck
My Baja came with a sticker but on the plastic that covers the pick guard, so all I had to do was remove the plastic to remove the sticker. I guess the sticker is on the Classic Vibe pick guard?
you guys have the best music store/demo channel in the entire youtube universe !!!
Classic Vibe's are around $400 now.
Yup, they got much more expensive since they were/are superpopular
They've been that price for years now
What's the conversion of pounds to U.S. dollars
What's the conversion of pounds to U.S. dollars
displeasing covers GOOGLE
I love my '95 American Standard Tele (and my '97 Am Std Strat, too). It's always the right guitar at the right time, and I'll never get rid of it.
That improve at 12:30... tooooo good. Reminds me of The Pusher:)
I don't think its an improv, I've heard him play it several times before and always thought it reminded me of the pusher too but I cant figure out what it is. I know I've heard it somehwere.
If you find out, let me know!
RageMonkey Will do, hopefully ill figure it out.
Rob Chapman Help us out, this still eats me that I can't figure it out.
The song isDarude- Sandstorm if I'm not mistaken
capt. lee its called an astray bridge because originally there was a big metal cover over it which is the actual astray. people didn't like the look of it on the guitar so they took it off and used it as an ashtray
What about semi hollow body teles
What a great way to start a Saturday morning, with a 26 minute video from the Chap-Man himself!
Are you telling me you can't tell the difference between the sound of these two guitars? (classic vibe & Mexican Tele)...........because I'm still saving my pennies for the Mexican ! ha :)
Recently i got a tele style guitar and i just fell in love with it, totaly getting an Am-Standard when i get the cash!
For god's sake someone tell me what they are playing at 12:38?????? It sounds so familiar.
AmonRa1081 i think it may be the pusher steppenwolf
AmonRa1081 it's the opening song of some of chapper's videos
AmonRa1081 It's a riff Rob plays in almost every guitar demo, I still haven't figured out what song it is from. I believe it is from his work as a solo artist, but I am not sure.
Ezekiel Verdan To me it sounds somewhat like 'Might Just Take Your Life' by Deep Purple
+AmonRa1081 sounds of silence by Ozzy
If anyone ever told me I'm offered a job at Andertons I would be in the U.K. Yesterday. You guys are awesome! All we ever get here in the US is guitar center :(
... and Mafia bosses play something called a "Doncaster" : )
Wood takes time to adjust. If your truss rod adjustment is at the body, loosening the string tension to make a quick adjustment is fine. In fact it's better to loosen the strings to adjust the Trussrod. The wood takes about 24 hours to slowly adjust. .
Thanks for another great video ...
(LOL @ 8:10)
the captains playing is tons better now days, crazy to see him grow so much as a player.
i really want a tele, but i don't like the neck on them, i think i might go with an esp ltd te-202, then throw some duncans in there. i think it would be kinda funny to walk on stage with it then start playing metal
I'm having that exact dilemma as well. I want that classic telecaster look but with a bit of a metal twist, so I was also looking at that Ltd and wondering whether that would cut it for modern metal tones. A bit of a juxtaposition
Dudes... Ml-3 Bea, Ml-3 RC or one of the standard Ml-3's
RagerLeagueGaming Yeah but i'm not really a fan of the paint styles and i want the guitar to have a maple neck, i want to to look just like a regular telecaster, but with metal capabilities that's why the ESP guitar appeals to me.
i think an ml3 modern would be sick, i just checked them out. good value too
and gamingghost, ml3 traditional. check it
So that's where all the Orange amps went to! ;) Nice shop! Very UK'ish ... long, tall, and narrow. Where here in Canada our shops tend the be wider and a little more scattered. Sort of like an Ikea. Good work.
We prefer them...
the neck pickup isn't a lipstick pickup, it is just a little smaller single coil pickup with a cover
there are build differences and defintly tonal differences between the two
Song at 21:45?
It’s Only Love by Bryan Adams & Tina Turner
I'm so glad you mentioned Richie Kotzen!
He's one of my favourite artists and it's sad to see how overlooked he is.
Bring back Clarkson
I love the tele. In punkrock nobody seems to like the tele, but I think it sounds awesome everywhere.
I don't know why people care about tuners. If they hold their tune, that's all I care...
LuxeXx I have a shitty strat that can't even hold the tuning for 3 minutes
my strats hold their tune very well. maybe your nut is binding up a bit.
LuxeXx I don't know, but everything with the strat is horrible. I'm saving up now for my dream guitar. Fender Telecaster. I had a squier one but the input got broken after 3 days so eh.. I later I bought a squier bass and I love it.
LuxeXx I think Squier guitars are not that good, but squier basses are great!
It's all case by case. Some guitars end up great, even though they have cheaper materials and less quality workmanship.
So what is the difference in hardware such as tuners??? Pots? Weight? Frets? I am interested in what kind of materials are used that makes the price differences.. Most of the sound comes from the amp these days.. Do they stay in tune? Etc. etc. eTC!
Mainly the body woods are different. The lower end stuff is usually made of basswood. The tuners are usually the same between the models. You either get the vintage tuners, the standard tuners or locking tuners. They do stay in tune very well because of the scale length. A guitar is literally a sysyem. Body wood makes a difference, neck and fretboard woods make a difference, string gauge makes a difference, bridge type makes a difference, pickups make a difference, your guitar lead makes a very tiny difference but still makes a difference, amps make a difference. But anyway, the biggest reasons the prices are different is because of the location in which its made and the amount of care taken in testing and sourcing the wood
Did he just say COD 2 t-shirt? As in Call of Duty..the second one? That's just not...correct!
Really? Does "Squier JV" ring a bell? If you're really that old you should know about that... I have one of those and they beat anything that came out of the USA in that era.
it's a shame because they say that the Mex Tele is one of the most popular guitars fender do - but it gets the least demo time. and it's really had to get a decent review of a mexican tele online, it's all either squiers or americans. and i really want to hear one :-(
guess i'll just have to go to the local music shop and embarrass myself with m lack of talent lol
+Steve Wilson I wish Fender would do a Mex Tele in Butterscotch. Sure they would sell like hot cakes.
Got a Baja Telecaster MIM in the end, beautiful guitar, in Blonde finish.
aww you poor baby
HAHAHA. +Raven lol.
this video made me buy a tele as my first electric 10 years ago. it's still my number one :D
unless you are buying a guitar as an investment, you shouldn't care what the headstock says. They people listening to you won't care. Buy the one one you are more prone to enjoy playing.
Don't take the neck off to adjust the truss rod, you remove the pickguard. And the 4 bolt neck plates without the microtilt adjustment can be adjusted with shims between the neck on the neck pocket.
I'm a luthier and i can say without a doubt, he's full of shit cause he said that saddles were made of bone or tusk sometimes. there are only brass and steel saddles. Either way Squier aren't very good, the electronics are horrible, but if you replace them with some $150 fender N3 noiseless pickups, they will sound exactly like the $1500 fender american deluxe telecaster, I've done it myself and compaird it to my friends Am Deluxe tele and they sound identical. WOOD MAKES NO DIFFERENCE, IT'S A TACTIC GUITAR CO.'S USE TO MAKE YOU OVER PAY. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS "TONE WOOD" (unless its in an acoustic, wood makes all the difference there, but not in electrics) A LUTHIER IN ENGLAND HAS PROVEN WOOD DOESN'T MATTER, however, if you like the way the wood looks on a tras painted guitat go for it, its not my place to tell you how to spend your money. Just trying to educate anyone who will listen, and warn them of the bullshit that is fed to them. I once believed that tone wood made a difference, I wasn't as knowlegeable back then as i am now, but just think about it, pickups are magnets and magnets dont pickup wood... It's that simple. To anyone who has read this entire rant, thank you. i hope you believe me, at the end of the day I just hope i can inform those who have been tricked into believing the crap from not only fender but so many others, also cheap guitars are still cheap for a reason, dont take this as you can buy a squier and get a Fender sound
+tonyvanban so is a mim guitar a lot better than the squier classic vibe?
Yeah. a mim's parts are of better quality in general. The classic vibe's are good guitars. good for starters. but the electronics inside aren't very good. if your looking into getting your first guitar, then if possible go to a guitar shop and feel a bunch of guitar necks. its the most important part of the guitar and if your hand isnt comfortable, you wont want to play
oh no ! the tonewood debate ! not again !
I just bought a squire classic vibe telecaster custom and the quality of it easily competes with my usa made 2012 strat. I was also going to change the pickups but decided not to as they are also brilliant.
>talking about the wide range of sounds that teles can achieve
>only playing boring blues licks on overdriven amps
why even bother
>meme arrows on UA-cam
Why even bother
Richard Deckard
>not knowing what green texts are
odesee sorry dude can't handle Epic 4chan memes XDD
If I ruled the world I'd decree that all guitarists must only use Telecasters, Strats, Les Pauls or SGs. If you can't play your favourite style of music on a Telecaster then it's probably a shite form of music.
il Solano no offsets? pleb
Just bought my first mim tele from long and mcquade, can't wait for it to get here! Thanks guys!
that's one ugly pair of pants that rob wears
Those are Pajama Bottoms.
I've never played a telecaster. I played a Mexican tele today and the bridge pickup sounded absolutely amazing. The cleans on it were superb and now I want one so bad haha
I used to enjoy watching your vids .... but I can't be bothered to wait the 21 seconds for ads to clear any longer ....a shame really ...cos your vids are mostly informative and often funny
21 seconds, yea that's known to be a really really long time
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yes its 21 seconds longer than no ad at all .....and if I perhaps watch 10 or 12 vids it becomes a little tedious don't you think? and at my age time is running out fast so every second counts ...even the time wasted replying to flippant remarks Eh? ...all taking valuable minutes of my life that I can never have again .....
Nick Ziverts Thanks Nick... I have already tried ad block .... it gets rid of the popup ads at the side but not the ones embedded on the actual video ..... but I suppose thats not a bad thing ....at least it stops me wasting my time sitting on my arse watching video's ha ha h....
It's a youtube issue. Blame Google, not the guys putting out this free content for you.
RageMonkey
I know that its google ...it doesn't make it any less irritating ...and the free content the guys are putting out ...isn't really for me ...its an exercise in marketing the guitars that they have for sale .... Plus I would imagine that they have ticked the "allow advertising" and receive a remuneration for their video's ....funny old world isn't it? probably why I'm becoming more cynical with each passing day
I recently purchased a Baja Tele. I love it, all except one problem. The pickguard creates all sorts of static that's picked up by the pick-ups when playing. I'd bet this Classic Vibe does the same thing. Be nice if Fender could add something (Anti-Static) to the plastic pick-guard composition to eliminate that problem. Just sayin'...
a mexican can probably make a guitar as good as an american can
tis the truth...they've been making Spanish acoustics for over 100 years...they know how to make instruments...the guy that leads the custom shop for fender speaks about how when he goes down there to teach relicing and other new processes that they pick it up and master it within a weeks time...even the fit and finish on mex strat and my 72 reissue tele is great.
I had one, they're just as well built but not the same quality of components.
that's not even the truth anymore Ashley Mann, the Mex plant is like 30 miles from the Cal plant....they swap parts every week to meet demands for production and the MIM guitars are just Mexican BUILT with mostly American parts the rest of the parts are manufactured in the Mexican plant with brand new machines waaaay nicer than the machines still used in the Cal plant...the Guitars coming from south of the border are actually/probably more precisely made guitars than the ones in Cal but the USA guitars have more history....I would bet to say the Mexican guitars within the last ten years are just as nice if not nicer than the standard americans since they are all line guitars.
Synapsis perhaps they are. But the USA Standard here blew everything else away.
I would still be buying MIM if I got another Tele though.
Just buy both YOLO, but seriously I have the US and MIM and I love them both.
Danelectro pickups were in tubes that they bought in bulk as overstock from a lipstick company. They were really housed in lipstick tubes. Telecaster pickups were not, they just have a chrome cover.
I like you guys, but I've never heard so much misinformation about Telecasters in one video before. I mean, really, glossy necks sound brighter? Come on....
***** It's exactly what he said. Besides, it was only one of about a half dozen things they got wrong, but it's no worse than the tons of misinformation about teles and other guitars you find all over the idiotnet regularly.
Gloss necks do sound very slightly brighter than a natural maple fretboard. What other misinformation are you pointing to?
***** But the first ever fender electric guitar was called an esquire so it came out before the tele. The esquire wasn't a budget version. It just had one pickup but a capacitor that changed the sound in the first position (towards the neck). In the middle position, it puts in the tone pot, and in the bridge position, it's kind of like a blow switch. It takes out the tone pot but leaves the volume pot in. And eventually, the esquire eventually did have 2 pickups but with the same capacitor in the neck pickup. And the tele bridge was strung through the body and the esquire was strung directly into the bridge. And they sound VERY different
Trevaun Dhom You're a dufus. Thanks for listening!
Trevaun Dhom You're enough to make a grown man cry.
idk i think it kinda helps. it keeps things a little more scientific when you want to compare sounds. in an experiment, you have to have a control, and some standards that are the same with every test.
i own one, I ended up changing the bridge, and the pick guard to a standard telecaster style, but kept the pickups. Love it.
Snakehead was a prototype that Fender gave to guitarist to try out and kinda spread the word of the upcoming guitar (Tele) And they changed it alot from the Snakehead when they actually released the Tele.
The squier classic vibe custom's body is made of alder and retails for $20 more. Just an FYI. But fender doesn't say what kind of pine. Plus pine is soft and susceptible to dents/dings. Go alder!
Nitrocellulose isn't porous...it was originally used in car finishes. If it was porous, all of those great old vintage cars would have rusted to hell. It's meant to protect the guitar, not let it breathe. A super thin poly finish is just as good as a good nitro finish.
14:21 - 14:36 *.* one of the best things I've ever heard in my life.
At about 24:18 you can see the line where the planks of wood are glued together through the paint of the black
American tele in the light reflection. Just bought a nice blacktop mexitele that has it's plank line showing a bit off center, guess that happens from both factories. Good to know, maybe it'll bother me a little less.
My American precision bass has the split closer to the E string side
It's totally normal
I had an American early 2000's strat, a mexican early 2000's strat up until recently, then a friend of mine gave me one of those beautiful Squier Classic Vibe Tele's... holy shit, it looks and plays and even sounds just as good as the american. Not kidding. They're amazingly well built.
You could get that hybrid tele. Its kind of like a mix between a Les Paul and a tele. It has the classic tele shape and is made by fender, but it has LP Humbucker pickups, which is probably the kind of pickups your looking for as long as you don't want active pickups.
Your reviews have more authority just because of your British accent. I love Squier guitars. I have a PJ Bass and a Classic Vibe P Bass. I have owned Japan made Fender Strats and Telecasters. I'm definitely going to order the Squier Standard Telecaster. Just to let you know, you guys Rock!
I love The Captain's solos. Very gently with clever licks. Greetings from Brazil
Some old growth pine can be really stable but a big problem with it (being a soft wood) is warping/ twisting... I am not sure how they deal with the issue of getting all the sap out of the wood either, but I would hope they do. That is my only real hang-up with a pine guitar. I would prefer Alder or Ash based on how strong and stable it is. The poly finishes are stronger, but I feel they kinda "dull" the guitar sound. I relic'ed a J bass for my brother, and it sounded way better after sanding it
Mario Martin guitars (formally Guitar Mill) make fantastic American Tele's out of pine. I'm growing to prefer it. Swapping the pickups with an Arcane pickup or a Dimarzio Area 615 bring some of the best tones as far as aftermarket ones go.
Indeed. I mean, you'll probably want to slap in some higher output pickups for anything that's really gainy/use a higher gain amplifier, but it really can. That's the only issue the MIM Telecaster that I have. Needs higher output pickups. I'm thinking of picking up some Bare Knuckle Piledrivers.
I dont see how they couldnt tell the difference between the classic vibe and the nocaster? I have a classic vibe and the neck is a modern C where as the No caster would have a baseball bat compared to the squier :/
that's possibly Lee's smoothest playing
Dear Captain and Rob, excuse me for being pedantic, but this Squier has no lipstick pickup in the neck. The classic Telecaster neck pickups and the lipstick pickups are often confused due to obvious visual reasons. However, they are not the same if you take a closer look :-) That being said, I enjoyed watching this video very much, honest thanks!