NLAGD
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NLAGD
That’s “New Lifelong Ambition Guitar Day�.
Flexed this on the Zoom chat last night, but my good fortune deserves a wider audience. Seeing Spacemen 3 at an impressionable age, and being a huge Spiritualized fan throughout my drugs hell* (and after) placed a 72 Thinline firmly in my all time Top 3 Must Own Guitars. But a case of “wrong place, wrong time� means I’ve never had the opportunity to grab one. Was the first guitar I was ever outbid on on eBay (in 2001!), I bought a '69 Thinline instead.
This is one of those slightly daft American Classic ones from 2012/13, which were nitro, even though the originals were poly. It’s a factory special run with a 9.5" radius neck (which it taking me far longer to adapt to than I expected) and medium jumbo frets. The pickups are the upgraded widerange humbuckers, but they’re still not grand - I’m going to sell some pedals and spring for some Fender CUNIFE reissues.
I love it though, real wish fulfilment for me. Figured I deserved a bit of a treat; lost a lot of timber in lockdown, taught on site all this term while most colleagues sheltered in bunkers. Never known a guitar like it for where you pick making such a difference. Have a five ply black guard on its way to replace the moto one, for peak 70s, and to make me like the burst. Will take a few days for it to sink in that it’s mine. Got a good deal too; traded my SG Classic and Italia for it; I definitely got the better end of the bargain (cost wise, although both those guitars were beauties), but was upfront with the seller about it. He was keen to just keep the kit moving around though, which I respect. He had the Italia just to flip, but has just messaged me to say how much he loves it (and how much that’s scuppered his plan).
* Wasn’t actually that bad, really enjoyed big chunks of it.
Flexed this on the Zoom chat last night, but my good fortune deserves a wider audience. Seeing Spacemen 3 at an impressionable age, and being a huge Spiritualized fan throughout my drugs hell* (and after) placed a 72 Thinline firmly in my all time Top 3 Must Own Guitars. But a case of “wrong place, wrong time� means I’ve never had the opportunity to grab one. Was the first guitar I was ever outbid on on eBay (in 2001!), I bought a '69 Thinline instead.
This is one of those slightly daft American Classic ones from 2012/13, which were nitro, even though the originals were poly. It’s a factory special run with a 9.5" radius neck (which it taking me far longer to adapt to than I expected) and medium jumbo frets. The pickups are the upgraded widerange humbuckers, but they’re still not grand - I’m going to sell some pedals and spring for some Fender CUNIFE reissues.
I love it though, real wish fulfilment for me. Figured I deserved a bit of a treat; lost a lot of timber in lockdown, taught on site all this term while most colleagues sheltered in bunkers. Never known a guitar like it for where you pick making such a difference. Have a five ply black guard on its way to replace the moto one, for peak 70s, and to make me like the burst. Will take a few days for it to sink in that it’s mine. Got a good deal too; traded my SG Classic and Italia for it; I definitely got the better end of the bargain (cost wise, although both those guitars were beauties), but was upfront with the seller about it. He was keen to just keep the kit moving around though, which I respect. He had the Italia just to flip, but has just messaged me to say how much he loves it (and how much that’s scuppered his plan).
* Wasn’t actually that bad, really enjoyed big chunks of it.
Yeah, congrats Tim. Beautiful guitar.
Are you wrestling with the 9.5� radius because you’re used to 7.25� or something flatter?
Are you wrestling with the 9.5� radius because you’re used to 7.25� or something flatter?
Fran wrote:I love how this place is basic as fuck.
ekwatts wrote:I'm just going to smash it in with a hammer and hope it works. Tone is all in the fingers anyway.
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I've owned a 69 Squier thinline and a set neck Squier Thinline and a CSL Tele Deluxe then a Mexican one. I've skirted round one of these for so long. Well jel.benecol wrote:
Flexed this on the Zoom chat last night, but my good fortune deserves a wider audience. Seeing Spacemen 3 at an impressionable age, and being a huge Spiritualized fan throughout my drugs hell* (and after) placed a 72 Thinline firmly in my all time Top 3 Must Own Guitars. But a case of “wrong place, wrong time� means I’ve never had the opportunity to grab one. Was the first guitar I was ever outbid on on eBay (in 2001!), I bought a '69 Thinline instead.
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I loved my old RI Telecaster Deluxe, which I think is pretty close to this
Gareth from Sell Crazy had the Mexican RI of this model back in the day and that was also a lovely guitar - they have nice necks and a good balance as I recall.
A grown up guitar, without the slab heaviness of a solid body Telecaster (though I love that also)
I'm really most interested in the black guard hopefully reducing the ugly on the sunburst and also hearing about those proper CUNTLIFE Wide Rangers I had no idea Fender had reissued. We run them at this point
they're like £200 a pop, right? Expect some money from your pedal graphics works when I sell my next batch of builds. Should be enough to cover one of them.
Choose your fighter.
Gareth from Sell Crazy had the Mexican RI of this model back in the day and that was also a lovely guitar - they have nice necks and a good balance as I recall.
A grown up guitar, without the slab heaviness of a solid body Telecaster (though I love that also)
I'm really most interested in the black guard hopefully reducing the ugly on the sunburst and also hearing about those proper CUNTLIFE Wide Rangers I had no idea Fender had reissued. We run them at this point
they're like £200 a pop, right? Expect some money from your pedal graphics works when I sell my next batch of builds. Should be enough to cover one of them.
Choose your fighter.
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Yeah, I'm very surprised by how much of a difference this makes.Nick wrote:Congrats! I wasn’t sure about the black guard when you mentioned it, but after seeing it it’s definitely the way to go.
Congrats on the purchase, Tim!
Even though I'm a big Tele stan, Thinlines never really appealed to me until very recently. I've found myself gassing for one lately, although I think I'd be more likely to go for a '69 (nice).
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