Put me off this Squier...

impmann

Undoubtedly nice guitars. However what are you going to use it for? What does it do that you haven’t already got? And how often will you need that?

Im a big fan of the’72 Wide Range Guitars - my Tele Deluxe With trem is a go-to favourite at home. BUT the original pickups were pooh - woolly, lifeless and dark. I’ve got Mojo wide range units in there now and it sings. A friend played it recently who owns a ‘75 Tele Deluxe and reckons it sounds close if a little ‘warm’. But the pickups were north of £150 iirc.

darthed1981

impmann said:

Undoubtedly nice guitars. However what are you going to use it for? What does it do that you haven’t already got? And how often will you need that?

Im a big fan of the’72 Wide Range Guitars - my Tele Deluxe With trem is a go-to favourite at home. BUT the original pickups were pooh - woolly, lifeless and dark. I’ve got Mojo wide range units in there now and it sings. A friend played it recently who owns a ‘75 Tele Deluxe and reckons it sounds close if a little ‘warm’. But the pickups were north of £150 iirc.

I literally don't need anything, I just have an itch!

I will have to make a trip to one of the bigger stores and try a few guitars, trade in a couple of mine I am not as fond of.

Alnico

Get the LTD set up by a luthier.
It'll play like a new guitar again!

Bridgehouse

Plug in Baby would sound shit on it...

darthed1981

Bridgehouse said:

Plug in Baby would sound shit on it...

To be fair when I'm playing it, it would be in good company!

I think the LTD I got off @alnico would be good for Plug In Baby

impmann

darthed1981 said:

Bridgehouse said:

Plug in Baby would sound shit on it...

To be fair when I'm playing it, it would be in good company!

I think the LTD I got off @alnico would be good for Plug In Baby

What does the LTD need doing? Want me to take a look? 

Alnico

impmann said:

darthed1981 said:

Bridgehouse said:

Plug in Baby would sound shit on it...

To be fair when I'm playing it, it would be in good company!

I think the LTD I got off @alnico would be good for Plug In Baby

What does the LTD need doing? Want me to take a look? 

Very not much.

It's as new out of the box and as such the nut slots are too shallow or, the nut is cut too high and needs lowering.
It needs the frets checking to see if they are level however they are *very* nice frets indeed so it needs as little as possible doing.
It needs playing.

That's it.

Bridgehouse

darthed1981 said:

Bridgehouse said:

Plug in Baby would sound shit on it...

To be fair when I'm playing it, it would be in good company!

I think the LTD I got off @alnico would be good for Plug In Baby

I reckon you just need to go with the flow mate.

You never know what's round the next corner.

Buy it. Play it.

WezV

Funkfingers said:

FX_Munkee said:
Fender haven't made "proper wide-range pickups" for ages unless I'm missing something? The ones they put in their 72 Custom reissues et al are just re-covered humbuckers AFAIK.

This is why my local Fender dealership still has an AVRI 72 hanging on the wall. I gave serious consideration to buying it but the modern American-made humbucker sounded too ordinary. It lacked a certain something.

At about the same time, a long-standing eBay search discovered a N.O.S. Wide Range humbucker in France. Vendor wanted about €300 for it. (Approximately £225 at the time!) 

I put one original WRHB on eBay for 99p no reserve about 5 or 6 years ago.  It finished at £415.

darthed1981

Thanks all for the help

I'm going to bring the LTD to the Northampton jam, FWIW high nut notwithstanding it plays and sounds lovely.

Legionreturns

darthed1981 said:

stimpsonslostson said:

If you put it down on your laminate floor you might never find it again. 

Slightly creepily, my laminate floor is roughly that colour....

The stalker becomes the prey

crunchman

Is it possible to make a real WRHB without the CuNiFe magnets?  I imagine it's possible to get close, but I don't know if it would be possible to get it bang on.

Veganic

Cons:

1. If you already have CV Telecaster I am guessing that this will not feel much different - same neck, same body shape.

2. You already have a humbucker equiped guitar.

3. Plug in Baby sounds ace on a CV Tele

4. Thinline telecasters, as far as I can tell, don't sound hollow.

5. Last week you were giving it all up, this is a rebound guitar. Unless that was someone else.

6. I have just watched JDB playing it on youtube and it sounds very much like a telecaster to me, well it definitely has some "bite".

7. For 300 quid you could get something more useful than another guitar.  A trio+? a bass guitar? a ukulele?  Just start a what can I get for 300 quid thead.

Pros:
1. Getting a new one can make you appreciate what you already had.

2. It's only 300 odd quid.

Over to you.

darthed1981

I'm fortunate to be a member here loads of good advice to think on as always

Bridgehouse

Why not build a partscaster version and make it a longer term project?

WezV

crunchman said:

Is it possible to make a real WRHB without the CuNiFe magnets?  I imagine it's possible to get close, but I don't know if it would be possible to get it bang on.

Yes, it's what most of the good clones are.  

most are honestly better than the originals, but that makes them not quite the same 

darthed1981

Bridgehouse said:

Why not build a partscaster version and make it a longer term project?

That's an interesting idea, I played the one @alnico has and it is superb

Any tips @Bridgehouse ??

Bridgehouse

darthed1981 said:

Bridgehouse said:

Why not build a partscaster version and make it a longer term project?

That's an interesting idea, I played the one @alnico has and it is superb

Any tips @Bridgehouse ??

Loads. When I get 10 mins I'll post some thoughts 

Alnico

I can only bring 2 guitars to the Northampton Jam as I'm on the train and on foot.

I was going to bring the Strat and the Ibanez Universe but the UV 7 string isn't really relevant to anything we're playing and the Telecaster is, so I can bring that if you Ed or anyone else who's going wants to see and play it?

I'd like to give it a go "On stage" as it were since I haven't done that with this one yet.

VJIves

I played one of these yesterday, they're very light (felt even lighter than the Jim Adkins, which was my previous thinline Tele experience). Sounded OK, but you wouldn't have to spend much more to get a much better tele used.