Troubleman
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I'm a recent convert to the school of Tele lust.
I spent ten years playing only Les Pauls, and almost twenty after that playing Stratocasters 90% of the time.
I guess it's been a couple of months now since a set of Don Mare pickups (curses don - you've created a monster!
) dropped into my "I own it just to say I own a Tele but just about never play it" mutt Telecaster did something neither a Danny Gatton Sig Model Tele nor a real '68 Thinline that I used to own could - converted me to the Tele darkside...
So... as it turns out, after decades of ignorance, I know precious little about Teles, but I'm jonesin' 'em big time. Everybody pines over vintage Teles, reissues of same, and the myriad of boutique clones they've spawned. Nocasters, Suhrs, Glendales, etc - EVERYBODY raves. Even the MIM Roadworn Tele has been drawing accolades.
One model I don't hear raved about/drooled over - the lowly Fender American Standard.
What gives?
Are they decent?
Flawed by can be made decent with parts swapping?
How do they compare to their vintage-styled cousins...?
How do they compare to say... a Roadworn, or a Baja Tele?
I can't afford the Fender Custom Shop models, nor the boutique brigade.
Not until the kiddies are out of college anyway
Now a used American Standard......?
Might be a different story
School me please
Tele GAS is gnawing at me
Okay - "gnawing" like the opening sequence of Jaws.. chomping at me would be more accurate
(any tele-sluts in the house feel my pain?)
pEAcE,
jb
I spent ten years playing only Les Pauls, and almost twenty after that playing Stratocasters 90% of the time.
I guess it's been a couple of months now since a set of Don Mare pickups (curses don - you've created a monster!
So... as it turns out, after decades of ignorance, I know precious little about Teles, but I'm jonesin' 'em big time. Everybody pines over vintage Teles, reissues of same, and the myriad of boutique clones they've spawned. Nocasters, Suhrs, Glendales, etc - EVERYBODY raves. Even the MIM Roadworn Tele has been drawing accolades.
One model I don't hear raved about/drooled over - the lowly Fender American Standard.
What gives?
Are they decent?
Flawed by can be made decent with parts swapping?
How do they compare to their vintage-styled cousins...?
How do they compare to say... a Roadworn, or a Baja Tele?
I can't afford the Fender Custom Shop models, nor the boutique brigade.
Not until the kiddies are out of college anyway

Now a used American Standard......?
Might be a different story
School me please
Tele GAS is gnawing at me
Okay - "gnawing" like the opening sequence of Jaws.. chomping at me would be more accurate
(any tele-sluts in the house feel my pain?)
pEAcE,
jb