This is a very neat MODIFIED Tele! I love the TV Jones pickups. I've been wanting to replace the pickups in my humbucking guitar with 'em for a while now! Throw a Bigsby on it and it's a Fender/Gretsch love child!!!
I can take one of my excellent Chinese built Tele's , fit a pair of Tv's and wire it myself with multi-cap switch and things and all for £350 max, any color ( not shoreline as it shows every mark) and they stand up with the big F' s guitars and in some cases beat hands down. This after all was Leo's budget-buy model made of the cheapest lumber he could get .
The LCE is a great design, it would be nice if there were a non-Custom Shop, consumer friendly version available. Not much else to quibble with except the "pearloid" tuners. Ugh. For CS prices, I think you should get decent metal Gotoh tuners at the very least instead of plastic!
@00Jackacid its not a question of whether people can afford it or not, they are saying that it is ridiculously overpriced. I could build this guitar with warmoth body and neck, same hardware and stuff for under $1000 and it would look and sound just as killer.
GREAT idea... sounds awful. It's like a Tele had sex with a Gretsch and the baby had all their WORST features instead of the best ones. You can hear an utter lack of acoustic resonance. If an electric guitar doesn't sound good unplugged, it won't sound great plugged in. And it won't be worth this asking price either.
im definately getting tv jones for my tele, but im confused, this one has classics, the 1 pickup version has a powertron. maybe a classic in the neck and a classic plus in the bridge would be the best compromise?
Did they know that "cabrona" means bitch and "cabronita" means little bitch in spanish? Btw, this guitar is way over priced. I could have this made to my specs for under $1,500.
I feel like this was a rare miss by Fender. I do love their guitars but this sounded disappointing and the price is 100% based on the “custom shop” label. It sounds terrible in this video.
Yes way overpriced. This is a beatuifull guitar, full of vibe and looks alot like the last esquire prototype before production start in 1949(50). But very simple guitar, the price is not justified.
To the guys who say they can have the CS master/team build them basically the same guitar for cheaper- Good luck. The shop has refused more than one person who has tried to do the same thing.
Dammit, when are you You-Tube demo posters gonna get hip to the fact that when you have a vocal pickup mic open, WE AIN'T HEARIN' WHAT THE PUP REALLY SOUNDS LIKE. I only wish somebody made a pup with that glassy high end, but we're hearing the actual acoustical striking of strings with the amp mic (if there is one). It's a great old studio trick, but somewhat misleading here.....
I agree with you my friend. What is the deal and who the heck do they think they're fooling? I mean I have all the love and respect for Fender but that is a very simple guitar design and shouldn't be costing anywhere near that.
@alvaritooooooooo Lol good point.. the parts of this guitar would be no more than $600! Toa big company like fender??? I bet the parts cost half that...
Most (not all) custom shop guitars DO NOT appreciate in value! Whoever thinks so clearly knows nothing about supply and demand. They are pumping out huge numbers of custom shop guitars every year, and while he says there are only twenty of this particuar model in that color it doesn't mean they won't produce more in other colors. Vintage Fenders have appreciated because there are relatively so few around, and hardly any available on the market. That can't be said for most (not all) CS guitars.
I would have liked a seperate tone control for me do the mix myself. I'd rather put together a Tele and put a couple of TV Jones pickups myself which would cost less than a 1/4 of these things.
So a basic Tele body with new routing, a basic Tele neck, then "relic" it by damaging a brand new guitar and somehow that adds up to selling it for $5k. Hmm.
Hello, i just got a Fender Cabronita CS, with 2 pups....used but as brand new !!! The pickups have been raised too much ? Could you send me the distance between polepieces and strings depressed at last in /64 inch please ? Factory settings For both side of each pickups....best regards from France
Having said what I did in my last comment, I also want to add that if someone has the $5600 (or whatever it costs) and they want this guitar, then so be it! It isn't overpriced if that is what the market will bare. I wouldn't spend that much on this particular guitar, but someone else may.
Easy budget-beater version: TV Jones sell what he refers to as the "TV Savalas" Telecaster bridge. Short version, it has a humbucker cutout in a modern Tele flat bridge-plate. Add a TV Jones(or equivalent) pickup, and you're in business for WAAAAY less.
This is a very neat MODIFIED Tele! I love the TV Jones pickups. I've been wanting to replace the pickups in my humbucking guitar with 'em for a while now! Throw a Bigsby on it and it's a Fender/Gretsch love child!!!
He may have came up with the concept but he can't pronounce it. Tele + gretsch pickups apparently = $5000 these days
Like all guitars...
Sounds exactly like a $300 Squier....and then like a $300 Squier if someone threw a blanket over the amp. WTF...
It's not "Cobranita," Mike.
I can take one of my excellent Chinese built Tele's , fit a pair of Tv's and wire it myself with multi-cap switch and things and all for £350 max, any color ( not shoreline as it shows every mark) and they stand up with the big F' s guitars and in some cases beat hands down. This after all was Leo's budget-buy model made of the cheapest lumber he could get .
The LCE is a great design, it would be nice if there were a non-Custom Shop, consumer friendly version available. Not much else to quibble with except the "pearloid" tuners. Ugh. For CS prices, I think you should get decent metal Gotoh tuners at the very least instead of plastic!
@00Jackacid its not a question of whether people can afford it or not, they are saying that it is ridiculously overpriced. I could build this guitar with warmoth body and neck, same hardware and stuff for under $1000 and it would look and sound just as killer.
GREAT idea... sounds awful. It's like a Tele had sex with a Gretsch and the baby had all their WORST features instead of the best ones. You can hear an utter lack of acoustic resonance. If an electric guitar doesn't sound good unplugged, it won't sound great plugged in. And it won't be worth this asking price either.
im definately getting tv jones for my tele, but im confused, this one has classics, the 1 pickup version has a powertron. maybe a classic in the neck and a classic plus in the bridge would be the best compromise?
Did they know that "cabrona" means bitch and "cabronita" means little bitch in spanish?
Btw, this guitar is way over priced. I could have this made to my specs for under $1,500.
I feel like this was a rare miss by Fender. I do love their guitars but this sounded disappointing and the price is 100% based on the “custom shop” label. It sounds terrible in this video.
i built one for 800$
nice but a complete waste of money
Yes way overpriced. This is a beatuifull guitar, full of vibe and looks alot like the last esquire prototype before production start in 1949(50). But very simple guitar, the price is not justified.
To the guys who say they can have the CS master/team build them basically the same guitar for cheaper- Good luck. The shop has refused more than one person who has tried to do the same thing.
this thing sounds like it has absolutely no soul, character or sound.. can't believe someone actually managed to build a guitar like this..
its overpriced yeah for 1.5k i can get a masterbuild guitar by any guitar builder that plays way better it only doesn't say fender
Dammit, when are you You-Tube demo posters gonna get hip to the fact that when you have a vocal pickup mic open, WE AIN'T HEARIN' WHAT THE PUP REALLY SOUNDS LIKE. I only wish somebody made a pup with that glassy high end, but we're hearing the actual acoustical striking of strings with the amp mic (if there is one). It's a great old studio trick, but somewhat misleading here.....
I agree with you my friend. What is the deal and who the heck do they think they're fooling? I mean I have all the love and respect for Fender but that is a very simple guitar design and shouldn't be costing anywhere near that.
In my opinion: I don't like the sound of this guitar at all - and I'm a huge tele-fan ...
@alvaritooooooooo Lol good point.. the parts of this guitar would be no more than $600! Toa big company like fender??? I bet the parts cost half that...
Good grief. For that much money you could get about 6 Cabronita bodies and necks from Warmoth and build your own.
Most (not all) custom shop guitars DO NOT appreciate in value! Whoever thinks so clearly knows nothing about supply and demand. They are pumping out huge numbers of custom shop guitars every year, and while he says there are only twenty of this particuar model in that color it doesn't mean they won't produce more in other colors. Vintage Fenders have appreciated because there are relatively so few around, and hardly any available on the market. That can't be said for most (not all) CS guitars.
I would have liked a seperate tone control for me do the mix myself. I'd rather put together a Tele and put a couple of TV Jones pickups myself which would cost less than a 1/4 of these things.
So a basic Tele body with new routing, a basic Tele neck, then "relic" it by damaging a brand new guitar and somehow that adds up to selling it for $5k. Hmm.
First proper comment... I think John Mayer has got one of the 20 gold ones already.. He must've been right on the phone when he heard about it..
Cabronita = small female goat. In slang it can have dirtier connotations.
Hello, i just got a Fender Cabronita CS, with 2 pups....used but as brand new !!! The pickups have been raised too much ? Could you send me the distance between polepieces and strings depressed at last in /64 inch please ? Factory settings For both side of each pickups....best regards from France
5k for a slab of alder, a chunk of maple , 200$ worth of metal (tuners, bridge, pickup)?
b.s.
Having said what I did in my last comment, I also want to add that if someone has the $5600 (or whatever it costs) and they want this guitar, then so be it! It isn't overpriced if that is what the market will bare. I wouldn't spend that much on this particular guitar, but someone else may.
It would be even cooler if it wasn't artificially beat up.
cmon this is a greasebucket toned guitar way too overpriced
it sounds way too thin, not worth all the money
I think my American Standard sounds just as good (at least) for $1000.00
I think the designe is ugly^^^
So the pickups are hand selected and not foot selected, that's why it costs so much...right?
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Easy budget-beater version: TV Jones sell what he refers to as the "TV Savalas" Telecaster bridge. Short version, it has a humbucker cutout in a modern Tele flat bridge-plate.
Add a TV Jones(or equivalent) pickup, and you're in business for WAAAAY less.