NSPGD: What's purple, sparkles, and is the result of you enabling wotnots?

Snags

Yes, it's a New Sparkly Purple Guitar Day, for the gentleman who is most definitely comfortable with his sexuality.

Can't remember which of you hideous corrupt fiends posted the thread early in lockdown, but it led to my first ever rash pre-order scenario. Only weeks after I'd vowed that it was pre-loved guitars only for me from now on in.

A few months down the line, and a Squier FSR Tele Deluxe in understanded purple sparkle with no Liberace pretensions whatsoever had landed Chez Snags. Only had time for a quick blast, but it seems like enormous fun, and may well have slayed my "I'm not sure I get on with Teles" issues. Pots are a little bit sudden at the top end, and not desperately smooth, so once it's bedded in there might be a few minor mods in the pipeline, but for the timebeing I'm just going to stick with it as-is and see how things go.

As Mrs Snags said when she got back in "Oooh, sparkles".

I know it's not posh, expensive, rare, or in any way anything other than a run of the mill mass produced bit of geetar tart's boudoir, but I think I likes it.

munckee

Congratulations on letting go of your masculinity mate. Hope it’s liberating : )

Nice looking beast, congrats. 

HAL9000

That looks scarily like it’s been carved from a block of Ribena. Looks great. HNGD.

CasperCaster

Happy NSPGD! That looks lovely - absolutely cracking colour! 

BahHumbug

Looks fabulous!  That’s the second purple Tele that I’ve seen on tFB just recently, and I find myself wanting one.  Happy NSPGD!

stonevibe

I like purple sparkle, looks nice with a black pickguard in my opinion.

Bigsby

Cool finish! But why do Fender save their best finishes for the Custom Shop or Squier?

Teyeplayer

Bigsby said:

Cool finish! But why do Fender save their best finishes for the Custom Shop or Squier?

You mean you are dissatisfied with the run of the mill options: 2 tone sunburst, 3 tone sunburst, autumn burst, sunset burst, midnight burst and silver burst... really good sir!

Joking aside, absolutely agree with you, the standard 4/5 finish options are far too repetitive. 

scrumhalf

I known it's accurate but that scratchplate is too big for such a purpley sparkly guitar. 

rain.parade

Nice!  How's the build quality / general fit-and-feel?  I've been deliberating over getting the green sparkle version since they were announced, but been slightly put off by reports of iffy QC for some other recent Squier Classic Vibe models.

UnclePsychosis

Love it. 

GuyBoden

You'll be needing the purple MagicStomp to match.

dazzajl

I’ve looked at pics but not dared read the post. Please tell me it’s an absolute horror show and that I don’t want one

Hattigol

Danish Pete signature model? Nice guitar.

Not sure of the spelling of your elaborate acronym though!

JerkMoans

Teles don't rock my casbah at all, but that looks like the illest shit imaginable.  Gotta play a bunch of early 80's Prince numbers on that bad boy.

S56035

That's bloody awesome

Snags

Should have said in the OP: big thanks to @DougCoda and the team at Coda Music for making this happen. Super helpful throughout, and even thought it's not a high-end guitar, it had obviously been out of the box and checked over before shipping on to me (either that or the courier is a nosy git ).

@rain.parade and @dazzajl it's utter shit, you'd hate it, save your money.

But if you're still reading ... I'm not the best person to ask, as I don't really know what I'm looking at, so I'll try to keep the bluffer's guide stuff to a minimum and be honest. I've also only had chance for a very quick noodle, so haven't completely checked it out for any random high spots etc. on frets. That said, I'd say it's absolutely fine, given the price point. Action out of the box is fine for me, no sharp fret ends (you can feel the fret ends if you run your fingers along the edge of the neck, but not in an uncomfortable way, and they don't seem to intrude when playing), actual finish is great, no chips, dings, cracks, flaking, lifting that I've spotted on a first check-over before taking the plastics off.

Selector switch seems sturdy enough. Spare switch-tip in the box, although it appears to have something jammed up it. Not sure if that's by design or a bit of crap that's found its way in there in transit.

As mentioned in the OP, the pots are a little bit "sudden" in their action at the top end. On all of them the difference between 9 and 10 is very pronounced, but from 9 downards it's a more gradual taper. Physical action of the pots is a bit erratic - stiff to start with, then much more free, which makes fine adjustment on the fly a bit awkward compared to e.g. the speed knobs on my LP Studio; and the knobs are a bit cheapy feeling, but ... it's not an expensive guitar. If I change anything on it then I can see me fitting new pots and knobs at some point. OTOH they might free up with use or a little bit of lubrication. We shall see.

As far as I can tell the neck is fairly standard Classic Vibe style. Certainly feels very similar to a Classic Vibe Strat I've got, and is a relatively shallow-to-average profile (based on my experience), but comfortable. It's lacquered, but that doesn't bother me, although I know some people don't like it. Doesn't feel sticky, and I'm far from a fast player anyway, so it's not going to slow me down any.

Sound-wise all three positions seem very usable. Playing solo the bridge needs taming slightly with either a bit of volume or tone roll-off, but not much. The middle position is very usable. Clean the neck possibly needs a bit of a roll-off too, but with a bit of grit not so much. It's not uber-bright - after all, they're humbuckers not Tele single coils - and volume is quite balanced, but there's definitely a different character between neck, bridge, and both. I suspect that in a band context it would end up being everything on 10, if you were rocking out.

I think I'm going to like it. I'm sure you'd hate it, and would be better saving your money. Of possibly spending it on my Fenix Tele which may end up in classifieds

Snags

Hattigol said:

Danish Pete signature model? Nice guitar.

Not sure of the spelling of your elaborate acronym though!

New Sparkly Purple Guitar [Bastard]|[Bollocks]

OK, long week, edited

Not a Danish Pete as far as I'm aware, just an FSR from Fender, available from all good retailers near you etc.

mrkb

Will look great with your new stage suit!

YellowLedBetterMan

I love that. Perfectly glary.

Snags

@mrkb I think I'd better get a few more sit-ups in. And a few less beers.