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blane .

Joined: 04 Oct 2006 Posts: 715 Location: United States
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Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2017 2:56 am Post subject: NGD - 1997 Mexican Tele |
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Walked into the local guitar center and saw this wine modified tele up on the used wall. $299 was too good to ignore.
I guess the guy wasn't in a good place and came to sell his tele and strat that morning. You could tell this was not his favored guitar. No scratches, chips, digs, or fretwear. S# dates it as a 1997 model.
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2014 American Deluxe Stratocaster
2013 Gibson SG 61RI
1998 Paul Reed Smith CE22 |
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Rhysyrhys The Kraken

Joined: 02 Nov 2009 Posts: 2998 Location: San Francisco
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Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2017 5:24 am Post subject: |
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Absolute steal for 299. Well done, looks like exactly my sort of thing. _________________
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You'll cowards don't even smoke krack. |
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Fran The Curmudgeon

Joined: 20 Apr 2006 Posts: 22196 Location: Nottingham, Englandshire.
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Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2017 6:56 am Post subject: |
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That is a bargain!
I had a wine red Squier Tele back when Squier were made in Mexico, must be 20 years ago. It was a nice guitar, always liked that colour as well.
You keeping them pickups in it blane or swapping them for something more traditional? |
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speedfish .


Joined: 27 Oct 2011 Posts: 1148
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Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2017 2:25 pm Post subject: |
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WOW!!! AMAZING SCORE! CONGRATS! _________________ Disciple of Pain
"I'm like the monkey screwing the skunk. I haven't had enough, but I've about had all that I can stand!"
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paul_ .


Joined: 27 Jul 2006 Posts: 9795
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Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2017 6:13 pm Post subject: |
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That's nice! Love the F-stamp Bigsby setup on Teles, hell of a deal for a guitar that's had so much money poured into it.
It seems to have been converted to vaguely similar specs to Dan Auerbach's modified Jerry Donahue Tele that he used on old school Black Keys before he had a big weird guitar collection, though I guess his guitar can't lay specific claim to the setup.
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blane .

Joined: 04 Oct 2006 Posts: 715 Location: United States
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Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2017 12:50 am Post subject: |
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Fran wrote: |
That is a bargain!
I had a wine red Squier Tele back when Squier were made in Mexico, must be 20 years ago. It was a nice guitar, always liked that colour as well.
You keeping them pickups in it blane or swapping them for something more traditional? |
the lil 59 sounds great. I might swap the neck back as i like the traditional tele neck pickups _________________ Guitars:
2014 American Deluxe Stratocaster
2013 Gibson SG 61RI
1998 Paul Reed Smith CE22 |
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blane .

Joined: 04 Oct 2006 Posts: 715 Location: United States
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Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2017 12:50 am Post subject: |
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paul_ wrote: |
That's nice! Love the F-stamp Bigsby setup on Teles, hell of a deal for a guitar that's had so much money poured into it.
It seems to have been converted to vaguely similar specs to Dan Auerbach's modified Jerry Donahue Tele that he used on old school Black Keys before he had a big weird guitar collection, though I guess his guitar can't lay specific claim to the setup.
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oh snap, didn't realize that i'll have to look it up, but that may just be this guitar's inspiration. thanks for the heads up _________________ Guitars:
2014 American Deluxe Stratocaster
2013 Gibson SG 61RI
1998 Paul Reed Smith CE22 |
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robroe Bon Jovi Fan Club!!1

Joined: 20 Apr 2006 Posts: 49153
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Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2017 1:44 pm Post subject: |
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don't know if you care but the official Fender color for that model is called #525 CRIMSON RED METALLIC
that model you got there has a modified bridge on it too. the stock fender tele vibrato came with a jaguar bridge in it.
What you got is a pretty rare beast.
so rare that if i type in FENDER TELECASTER CRIMSON RED METALLIC into google, none come up with a bigsby unit on it.
and if i type in FENDER TELECASTER BIGSBY none come up in crimson red metallic.
its the first one i have ever seen. |
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singlepup .


Joined: 10 Dec 2010 Posts: 4153 Location: San Diego
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Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2017 6:22 am Post subject: |
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Pretty dope. |
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Doog mid-century modem

Joined: 24 Apr 2006 Posts: 21317 Location: London
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Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2017 1:34 pm Post subject: |
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Hey Blane! How you doing, man? Long time, no etc.
Love that, I nearly bought a Squier Cabronita with Bigsby, looks so sick
Those Fender-branded ones are even better |
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