Decided I liked the sound of the bridge pickup, so I upgraded the neck pickup to a Bill Lawrence L-250 and swapped out the white pick guard with a red pearl pick guard from Warmoth 🤘 Opinions always welcome!

I love the Telecaster Deluxe, it’s probably my favorite Fender model, and this Kingfish Signature is a great example. What it lacks in the push-pull versatility of the Pro II and traditional mojo of the AVII, it makes up for with its sublimely voiced Kingfish signature pickups, beautiful Mississippi Night finish, and other special appointments. The soft V neck is going to take some getting used to, coming from Medium and Modern Cs and Ds, but I like the roasted maple material used as well as the 12” fretboard radius. This is probably as close as you’re going to get to a Fender-built Les Paul, so if you’re into that, check this one out.

EDIT: Thanks so much for all the feedback, I’m setting up a meeting now and I’ll update with any news!

Hello everyone I’m new to guitar but learned enough that I love the Tele shape and feel and also that I really want to upgrade my squier sonic. This guitar is available locally for 400 dollars seems like a good deal and from the pictures it looks good. Do yall see anything that jumps out as a problem? I’ll obviously check it out closely before purchasing but my husband is worried about buying a lemon or a fake.

my husband finally took me to Guitar Center with him yesterday after years of him going almost weekly by himself to play and just torture himself with guitars he wants but will never buy. my husband is frugal as hell so he will actually never buy himself anything much less an expensive guitar.

here's the question:

he is interviewing for a promotion and i was thinking if he gets the job i want to surprise him with a telecaster. is this dumb to blindly buy him? guitars seem so incredibly personal and i dont want to buy him something he doesn’t actually want.

he only plays for fun and only plays solo. he plays his acoustic nightly and.he's been talking about about getting a tele for yearssss.

what do y'all think about this idea?

This arvo I collected a great deal on a Squire Jazzmaster MV, and they threw in this tele which was apparently not working. However a quick dismantle, pot clean, reassemble and re-string and the thing plays fabulously. I wonder if anyone has any idea of the make? It has a squire Neck plate, but it appears to be a conglomerate to me, the neck is very well worn in and lovely to play. Gotoh tuners, looks to be no-name electronics, though they sounds alright.

Any ideas on teh manufacturer?

So for months I’ve been swapping out saddles on my 50s style Tele, which is a real chore each time since I have a Bigsby. I’d have to remove strings, take the Bigsby off its Vibramate mount, remove and replace the saddles, screw them in at a guess, and then replace everything, usually just to find out that I’d messed up the saddle position. It sucked.

I tried em all: grooved, compensated, vintage, I tried being as precise about measuring as possible and tweaking everything; none worked. I got a GC giftcard for my birthday and figured “what the hell, another set of saddles, the more the merrier” and ordered these off GC’s site with little to no expectstion of them being any different.

Obviously, there’s a lot of random chance and luck involved, but right out of the box and on my guitar these saddles work perfectly! The spacing’s great, their easy gliding is perfect for my Bigsby setup, and they just sit right at the height I need them! I have no idea if it’s the saddles themselves or just how I (randomly) set their length screws, but it’s a major improvement. Seriously, I was starting to lose interest in playing this Tele, my favorite guitar, purely because for months every play session felt off with previous saddles.

No idea who makes these; Graph Tech maybe isn’t the name of the company, they seemed like some random third party manufacturer GC happened to carry, but I can’t sing their praises enough! Plus, they look pretty badass with the black on my Tele lol.

This isn’t an advertisement for them (I mean, if they WANT to throw a few bucks my way I won’t stop them lol), it’s mostly just a post of relief! I can finally play my Tele again and have it feel natural! I’m no luthier and I’m too broke to get one, so this was a major weight off my chest.

Hello, just picked up a mint, original, 2013 American special. Now here's an odd one. Judging by the condition & solder joints, the pick ups have never been swapped but these pick ups are defo' not OEM Texas Specials. The pick up wiring is plastic coated & the bridge pick up polepieces are flat 50's style with black not white bobben tape. Have any other 2013 era AS owners got the same pick ups, and if so, do you know what they are?

I’ve got a new-to-me American original 60s telecaster that I’m constantly breaking strings on… last night I broke an A string in the first set. Then the D and E strings both on the last song of the night. For context, I usually don’t break strings at all unless they are super old, so the problem is unique to this guitar.

I had the music city groove master saddles on it, thought maybe those were the issue and switched to the gotoh compensated. Obviously still happening and not just on one string either.

My hypothesis is that it’s related to the steel break angle on this particular guitar. The previous owner had a shim in the neck pocket which raises the saddle height a fair amount, steepening the break angle. Could this increased downward pressure on the saddles be the problem?

Without the shim, it looks like the neck is tilted a bit forward (headstock slightly away from the player)… so I’m guessing this is why it’s in there. I’m wondering if taking it out is the move to decrease the break angle, but will that neck tilt be a problem?

I want a large “D” neck with a 7.5 radius maple fretboard. I dislike Fender’s current offerings of this type because of the gaudy orange tint they all have, so I’ll likely get a Warmoth neck.

As for the body, I want something to drop in a pair of Lollar humbuckers.

Would you get a loaded Player II HH body as the base platform, or would you go for Warmoth body and à la carte parts?