I'm getting the wheels in motion to get this status quo telecaster sorted for effectively my brother in law.
Based on the rossi one, my current train of thought is to scrap the idea of fitting a set of lace sensor lookalikes and farting around with the bridge assembly. I'm gonna ask my mate to respray it the same colour as the rossi guitar and lightly relic it. Just to make it a bit special. I'm eyeing up donor guitars, my main concern is the condition of the frets etc. So I was gonna see i could grab a late model or a new telecaster.
At the moment I'm looking at the fender player series and the classic vibe. Is it worth going for the player series? He's told me he likes a fairly wide neck (liked the DGT profile the best), the mim tele is pretty close.
Just thinking is the extra £100 or so worth it?
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A Nashville Tele will already be routed for SSS, so that might be worth a look. Dunno if they do those in a maple board though.
I agree with scrapping the lace sensors but i'd buy a tele scratchplate with 2 single coil holes cut in and just have the bridge pick up with 2 single coil strat pickups with white covers.
Someone on here will have a singlecoil in their drawer for £25 that you or your tech could wire in .if your mate is charging you for the respray i would just do it yourself with the ronseal then cut it back with fine wet a dry then t.cut it ..its a relic so you dont have to worry about a mirror glass finish ..Maybe go on ebay and order a custom logo in fender style with husband and wifes names on and serial number the date of the wedding ??
p.s dont forget the 32mm hole in the body.
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Yeah my concern with buying used is getting a tele wirh frets that are pretty much worn away. Thats why I was thinking getting a new guitar. I really like the idea of getting the wedding date and wife's name involved. I could possibly look at a custom logo or an engraved neck plate.
That would do the trick, just trying to keep costs down atm. I might send him a message see if he can move on the price.
Then buy a cheap neck to your spec and a few cheap parts and you're done.
From my own experience buying a 1980 Jazzmaster which showed other wear of being gigged & played, the frets weren't too worn (not enough to bugger the playing), if you're buying a player's instrument.
Same with a 96 Gretsch
I'm sure that other members can share greater advice but I wouldn't discount an instrument immediately on its age - you can possibly ask the seller for a photo of the cowboy frets?
Edit: I haven't had to replace frets on these or other guitars.
If it's just a refin, the MIMs are a better guitar out of the box from my experience, especially considering they cost not too much more than a Squier when bought used.
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Yeah mim is the way to go, looked last night and I should be able to grab a semi decent one for £300. Its the neck width more than anything else.
This happened to me. I tried to put together a Rossi Tele, you start thinking you can buy whatever you want, but my budget just went down, down, deeper and down.....