Hmmm. Maybe my taste is in my mouth, as my favorite ash tele's have all been at or under 7 pounds, with one 8 pound exception. And swamp ash's popping tone tickles my ears much more than the hard sound of heavy ash. I doubt that Fender would be able to produce light weight ash guitars for a reasonable price, so maybe that's part of why they went with alder, whose medium weight seems to sound quite good in the demo in this smaller 4 string. So 5 lbs 7 ounces is thrilling!!
I need some help understanding the legal tele definition idea. Whatcha got?
It was just a joke. The 2 Teles I've owned were both just under 9 lbs, but admittedly they were Squiers (Classic Vibes). It was the only thing I didn't like about them. 5 1/2 pounds seems amazing, though they're obviously smaller.
Okay, i was wondering what i was missing out on. There was once a MIJ Squier tele in the house; not as good a guitar as its Strat counterpart and with the weight on the heavier side of medium with basswood body was uninspiring. You might like a lighter weight Tele or G&L ASAT.
Hello Baron,
I agree about the break angle problem on the first string. On mine the high E has a changy chorus kind of tone when open because of the lack of a string tree.
I think staggered tuners like the ones that come on the E. Johnson strats might be the solution. I put a set of staggered post Sperzel locking tuners on my wish list, which I'm hoping will improve the problem and will be a direct fit replacement - no drilling.
https://reverb.com/item/38807-sperze...-locking-tuner
About the grounding and buzz - I had great success on a project guitar by replacing the pickup wire with shielded wire, covering the bottom and sides of the pickups with copper tape and building a shielding box out of copper tape around the jack plug.
A full year later (after the limited release), and a friend of mine found a brand new butterscotch Tenor Tele sitting on the floor of the Sam Ash store in Houston yesterday. I just got off the phone, and they're shipping it to me in Colorado for free. Score! (And I didn't have to pay an eBay premium AND pay to have it shipped from Japan.)
I also ordered a set of Fender locking tuners (which are shorter than the standard ones), and that should resolve the break angle on the head stock for the top 2 strings (without having to install a string tree).
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