NGD: Fender Vintera Road Worn Tele, Lake Placid Blue

chrisj1602 · October 2020

chris78 said:

chrisv said:

Haha that’s cool to hear. I really liked that guitar. Hoping they hurry up and release a Road Worn '50s P-Bass too...

a roadworn jazzmaster wouldn’t do me any good

There was a run in shell pink last year I think.

chrisj1602 · October 2020

Wazmeister said:

Chris, I love that... it would look awesome too with an off-white scratch plate. Congrats mate.

Thanks, I might try the white at some point.

richardhomer · October 2020

Very nice!

richman6100 · October 2020

It's a beauty for sure. HNGD.

chrisj1602 · October 2020

Tried to get a few close ups of the relic work, it’s nicely done I think...

Keefy · October 2020

chrisj1602 said:

Tried to get a few close ups of the relic work, it’s nicely done I think...

That's streets ahead of the original Roadworn belt-sander relicing.

crunchman · October 2020

PonchoGreg said:

Very very nice. Love my roadworn. Glad they're still as good!

If only they did a 60s version...

If only they did the nitro finish without the fake wear.

rze99 · October 2020

Keefy said:

chrisj1602 said:

Tried to get a few close ups of the relic work, it’s nicely done I think...

That's streets ahead of the original Roadworn belt-sander relicing.

Yes it is. Worth noting these are nearly a grand new. The original Road Worns Teles were like £600, so a very substantial increase.

chrisj1602 · October 2020

They were £859 when launched in 2009. It’s mentioned in the guitar.com review and the original Music Radar review is still up with the pricing on. I paid £920 new for this, so they have managed to keep these Road Worns pretty well priced I think.

For comparison, I bought my Fender Classic Player 50s Strat in 2009 I think and that was around £450. The equivalent Vintera 50s Modified is £849. A Squier Classic Vibe 50s is now closer to the price of my old Classic Player...

Gerz6558 · October 2020

rze99 said:

Keefy said:

chrisj1602 said:

Tried to get a few close ups of the relic work, it’s nicely done I think...

That's streets ahead of the original Roadworn belt-sander relicing.

Yes it is. Worth noting these are nearly a grand new. The original Road Worns Teles were like £600, so a very substantial increase.

They were around 600 at original release, but that was a long time ago and they did end up increasing to a touch under a grand up to being discontinued.

This definitely is an improvement visually over the brad paisley tele I had. Very nice indeed.

chrisj1602 · October 2020

crunchman said:

PonchoGreg said:

Very very nice. Love my roadworn. Glad they're still as good!

If only they did a 60s version...

If only they did the nitro finish without the fake wear.

Maybe that will come, I think these are a limited run so maybe the gloss will be next? The lacquer classic series were nice, I had the Jaguar.

Gerz6558 · October 2020

chrisj1602 said:

crunchman said:

PonchoGreg said:

Very very nice. Love my roadworn. Glad they're still as good!

If only they did a 60s version...

If only they did the nitro finish without the fake wear.

Maybe that will come, I think these are a limited run so maybe the gloss will be next? The lacquer classic series were nice, I had the Jaguar.

I think they talked in one of the recent andertons videos about the Mexican facility not having a dedicated area for nitro finishing. They essentially have to stop production of the regular poly models, do a run of nitro models, and then back again to poly.

They mentioned this new line would be limited because of that. So I guess the facility must occasionally book to do runs of nitro models across the year.

chris78 · October 2020

chrisj1602 said:

chris78 said:

chrisv said:

Haha that’s cool to hear. I really liked that guitar. Hoping they hurry up and release a Road Worn '50s P-Bass too...

a roadworn jazzmaster wouldn’t do me any good

There was a run in shell pink last year I think.

Wish I'd seen that at the time.
Just looked and you're quite right. Came with American Vintage pickups.

Hmm - WTB thread.....

dindude · October 2020

I just picked up a blond Road worn 50’s Tele - not really a relic fan but at this price point I can be a little less serious about it, but.......

Great light weight and sounds fantastic - I’m a Tele convert (amazingly this is my first straightforward vintage spec Tele) but the neck on mine is not the chunky 50’s U they advertise - thought I might be imagining things but my digital callipers confirm that even with strings in place the thickness is much less that it should be at the 12th fret, in fact it’s marginally thinner than at the first fret - someone’s belt sanded this one a bit too much!

Really rather annoying as it’s now going to have to go back as the neck feels a bit odd when everything else about the guitar is really very good.

Come on Fender!

chrisj1602 · October 2020

Sorry to hear that, are you getting a replacement?

dindude · October 2020

chrisj1602 said:

Sorry to hear that, are you getting a replacement?

Will probably leave it for now. There isn’t any stock in the Uk until next shipment, I bought from a shop that declares the weight of each guitar so I knew I wasn’t getting a boat anchor, if the neck shape is another variable then it makes it difficult,

I may wait and step up to an American Original Tele or something.

finest1 · October 2020

nice, especially the lake placid blue.

now you have three from the vintera range, what is your conclusions on them?

chrisj1602 · October 2020

finest1 said:

nice, especially the lake placid blue.

now you have three from the vintera range, what is your conclusions on them?

I think they’re very good guitars, with specs I like for reasonable money. I’ve had good experiences previously with the MIM Classic Series and Classic Player guitars and the Jazzmaster got my interest when the Vintera range was launched, so I got one and I’ve really enjoyed it ever since.

Then I wanted a Strat and I felt the Vintera was a good price/spec balance so went for that and I’m really happy with the Strat too.

Early days with the Road Worn but i’m very impressed so far. Maybe too soon to say it’s my favourite but that’s my initial feeling. No issues with any of them, except that I don’t like the stock Jazzmaster bridges so it has a Staytrem.

hotpickups · October 2020

Love my vintera 60s strat. White like yours in your image

Js24 · November 2020

Hey @chrisj1602 - thanks for uploading lots of pics! I'm not usually a roadworn guy at all, but your guitar looks great.

I've really wanted to get my hands on a nitro finished Lake Placid Blue Tele for a while, and I managed to stumble across a crazy deal for a new one of these the other day, and I couldn't say no! Unfortunately I've still got a couple of months before the shop gets stock from Fender, but really looking forward to it turning up and keeping my Jazzmaster company.

Anyway, how are you getting on with it a couple of months down the line? Made any real changes to the guitar? How's the pickups/wiring?

I was originally thinking I'd definitely swap the guard for a white one, but the more I see pics of it with the black guard, the more it grows on me...

Anyway, congrats on the guitar!

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