Fender American Limited Trouble Maker

vincechu89 · January 2018

Sorry if someone else has posted this, but Fender have released a American Limited Trouble Maker - a Strat with Tele body and a Tele with Jazzmaster bridge. They are on Coda's website - do a quick google (sorry, not sure if we can post shop links here). They don't appear to be officially released yet.

They look interesting, kind of remind me of the Mischief Maker, although that was CS and Strat with Tele headstock... is it me or do the Strat and Tele bodies and necks looked better swapped?

WezV · January 2018

Shop links are fine

https://www.coda-music.com/fender-american-limited-edition-troublemaker-tele-ice-blue-metallic.html

https://www.coda-music.com/fender-american-limited-edition-troublemaker-tele-ice-blue-metallic-17608.html

I would have gone wraparound bridge to leave some space behind... looks a bit unbalanced with the full Gibson set-up

Funkfingers · January 2018

Thanks to the fine people at Warmoth, Guitarbuild and elsewhere, there is now a strong tradition of self-builders throwing together "F" style guitars that Fender themselves probably never would have done.

Some of these mongrels look better than others. If you take the view that sounds and feel trump appearances, even the fugliest of these designs could satisfy.

For my eighteenth birthday, my parents bought me an American guitar. It was a Peavey T-60 from Buzz Music, Hereford. (Remember them?) When we got to the shop to collect, lurking in the pre-owned display area, there was a beaten up late Sixties Telecaster with a Filter'Tron in the neck/Rhythm position - priced about the same as the brand new Peavey. If only I had known then what I know today.

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In 1980, a stripped Tele with the wrong pickup was "butchered". Now, it's a Custom Shop special.

john_r · January 2018

WezV said:

Shop links are fine
https://www.coda-music.com/fender-american-limited-edition-troublemaker-tele-ice-blue-metallic.html
https://www.coda-music.com/fender-american-limited-edition-troublemaker-tele-ice-blue-metallic-17608.html

I would have gone wraparound bridge to leave some space behind... looks a bit unbalanced with the full Gibson set-up

If that had a hardtail strat bridge, the pickup selector on the lower horn explorer style, or even a master tone with two volumes and the selector in place of the pot closest to the bridge and a tele neck would be perfect!

grungebob · January 2018

shop links no longer work it seems ( at least for me)

Sesh · January 2018

I think Fender must have had a word. The Ones on Wunjo in another thread have gone too. In some cases that's a good thing. The stratjag thing was the worst guitar mash up I've seen in a long time.

Sassafras · January 2018

Sorry but a Strat peghead on a Tele body just looks wrong and ugly. Don't get me started on the bridge, the stoptail, the controls, the scratchplate and the pickups.