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• guidewell

  

  Sat 27 Sep 2008, 10:27 am UTC

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  As you'll see in my Soundboard, my wife searched out this one for me (lurking neglected in a wall display of solid Fenders behind everything else with its shrink-wrap still in place over the pick-ups and pick guard) because I have a deformed right side and can't handle guitars that are heavy or large bodied. In any case, I coveted one of these when I first saw it back in the days of its first release. My love affair with hollow-bldy electrics started with my 1962 Hofner Verithin - a bitch to play well but immensely satisfying when you've mastered it. The Fender has all ithe Verithin's qualities in a more compact and handlable style added to which you have the luxury of 'fat' Humbuckers (great with a fruity triode-coupled vacuum tube amp) and Fender's easy=-playing maple neck. The understated clear-varnished ash body has adelicious straight grain and its yellow hue to me augments and points up the proper pinkness of the uncoloured maple nec,. I miss the sxplit-stereo wiring of the Verithin that allows me to plug each pick-up into a separate amplifier but otherwise I can't fault the Telecaster Thinine... but, dear Fender pretty please, could I just hav the teeny-weeny personalizations of a coil tap and your slightly shorter neck with a 24-3/4" scale?

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