NGD: Fender Japan FSR 50s Tele Special

Chuffola

Been a very long time since I bought a brand new guitar but this is the first one in a long time that sang to me in the shop. Just today, in fact.  

I've been wanting a Tele with a neck humbucker for ages but have never come across one that I liked. This is in my favourite Tele finish and, although the bridge is wrong (before anyone calls out!!), that's easily fixed if I want to.  Pickups are Fender Japan own and sound great - bridge is spikey and classic, neck is warm and raunchy with gain. Neck is standard Fender C, a decent handful but no baseball bat and it's vintage radius / vintage frets. The frets must be superbly level, because I've dropped the action to pretty much my usual string height, and there's no choking. It's certainly not low, but its easy to play.

Anyway, tonight, Matthew, I shall be Keith Richards.  And I've no idea why the pics are sideways - I'll fix later.

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Parker

Funnily enough I fancied one of these too. Tried one last night in PMT, but was a little disappointed on the resonance. Sounds like you're happy with yours though - goes to show every guitar is different!

fretmeister

Lovely.

i love jap Fender stuff. I should never have sold my jap Precision.

Chuffola

@Parker That's a shame. This is quite a light Tele and seems fairly resonant to me, but more importantly for me is that it sings through the amp. I imagine, like most guitars, you sometimes get a dog and sometime strike lucky.

usedtobe

Really nice!

Parker

Yeah. Pleased you've found a good one. I may try another but lusting after something different now though. Enjoy!

Adam_MD

 Very nice Chuff you still rocking the junior in your profile pic? 

Chuffola

No, mate. The Junior was sold earlier today. It was a fantastic guitar but no matter how responsive one pickup is, to be honest when the bulk of your playing is at home - you don't really get the chance to crank the amp and control everything from the volume pot.
Didn't plan on buying anything today but couldn't pass this one up. I'm worth it.