New Squier Tele custom

[Mark Bedingfield]

I'm excited about a new guitar for a change, Fender are releasing a Tele
custom, a thinline (no effing hole) with rosewood fretboard with 62
stylings. It'l be 6 months before any appear here, but I'll be waiting
and saving in the interim. Just like my old MIJ Canora I sold. God I
miss that thing.

http://www.squierguitars.com/products/search.php?partno=0303030500

Mark

[Arlowe]

Mark Bedingfield used his keyboard to write :

Jumbo frets???. I don't like big effin frets...& no f hole? so where
are you gonna keep your picks & empty gum wrappers?

[Mark Bedingfield]

In my guitar case of course ;-)

I'm really excited about this beast. All I need now is a bloody job.

Mark

[Arlowe]

Mark Bedingfield explained on 8/01/2010 :

What do you do for a crust?

[sa...@dog.com]

How do you figure that it's a thinline? From the link you provided, it
doesn't say that anywhere. It's a double-bound alder body.

[Mark Bedingfield]

A bit ambiguous I guess. For some reason I just associate double bound
with thinline.

Reading the specs gets me more excited. This might be the only guitar i
could buy that I wouldn't modify. Yeah, right.

Mark

[Mark Bedingfield]

Don't wash my undies?

Tech support. Not been a good day on the job hunting front and new
guitar models like that don't help. Ah well.

Mark

[Squier]

> Mark Bedingfield <atar...@nomorespampleaseoptusnet.com.au> wrote:

if you take the time to pick out good ones then the Squier guitars
can be really nice players (with a few mods.. pup change.. sometimes
better tuners etc). But I don't think that's the thinline.

here are the thinlines:
http://www.squierguitars.com/products/search.php?partno=0303035521
http://www.squierguitars.com/products/search.php?partno=0301240544

actually the classic vibe mahogany body one looks very interesting.

[dvaoa]

On Jan 7, 10:34 pm, Mark Bedingfield

How do they figure a 9.5" radius as "modern"? That sounds pretty
vintage to me. I always equated modern with a 12" radius or more.

-d

[Mark Bedingfield]

Its a Fender thing, most are 9.5". I have 3x 12', 1x 9.5" and 1x 7.25".
Just luck, not a reflection on preference. Mind you the 9.5" Squier BSB
Tele is a player and a half.

Mark

[Mark Bedingfield]

It does indeed, so does the Pine bodied 50's Tele, and the..... aw crap.

Tuners only seem to be an issue on the bottom end Squiers. And then its
hit and miss, I bought my BSB and planned to replace them but discovered
they held tune so didn't bother. Left it as is.

As for pups, no guitars of mine have their original pups, Fender or
otherwise, but this Tele has alnico 5 pups stock, so I may just keep
them when the time comes.

I would go so far as to say its easier to find a good Squier than a MIM
standard. The Squier Standards are generally easily better than their
Mexican brethren and the classic vibes have an outstanding reputation
too. Don't confuse this guitar with the Bullets or SE100's of 2 years
ago, its a pro level guitar.

Yeah, its not the thinline, I have been corrected ;-)

Mark

[Bruce Morgen]

Mark Bedingfield <atar...@nomorespampleaseoptusnet.com.au> wrote:

A move to the Indian
subcontinent will improve
your chances -- that's
where the English-language
tech support jobs continue
to go these days, just
like the non-tech customer
service jobs before them.

Good luck!

[Russell Watson]

On Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:34:32 +1100, Mark Bedingfield
<atar...@nomorespampleaseoptusnet.com.au> wrote:

Nice! But like the others who have chimed in I have to say not a
Thinline.
As for Squier quality, my brother plays in alternately in 3 or 4
different bands from C&W to hard rock, main axe is a bone stock Squier
Strat and is perfectly adequate for all genres. he bought it used from
someone when he was hard times after a job loss and had to sell him
MIA Standard. Figured to only use the Squier as a stop-gap but now has
no intent to get rid of it at all.

[Russell Watson]

Looks like there IS a Thinline in this series, but has maple
fretboard.