'72 fender tele deluxe reissue

PushedCrayon

PushedCrayon

New member
Have any of you guys had a chance to play one of these? What are your thoughts? I'm looking into buying one but don't know if I need to make a trip to the guitar store yet or not

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I337 using Tapatalk
 
Re: '72 fender tele deluxe reissue

The pickups are the same as the ones in the 72 thinline that I have. Decent, but nothing special.
 
Re: '72 fender tele deluxe reissue

Hey I have a similar question... i was wondering if any of you guys ever wear Levi's 514 jeans. I just want to know if they're comfy and don't know if I should make a trip to the clothing store or not.
 
Re: '72 fender tele deluxe reissue

Empty Pockets said:
Hey I have a similar question... i was wondering if any of you guys ever wear Levi's 514 jeans. I just want to know if they're comfy and don't know if I should make a trip to the clothing store or not.
Click to expand...

Actually you could get them a little tighter...you know....with the empty pockets and all...
 
Re: '72 fender tele deluxe reissue

(THe 72 deluxe is my all-time favorite Fender so I did LOTS of research before I got one) I had one of these, when they first got re-issued in the early 2000's. (It actually was my first "real" Fender). They are nice, well built, PROBABLY worth what they go for...and don't sound anything like the real 70's ones. YOu CAN get "real" Cunife magnet pickups, but each one costs as much as a whole 72RI (used at least)
http://www.telenator.com/cunife-wide-range-humbucker/ THey do sound awesome, though. Originals turn up on ebay for about the same as the new ones, and may (or may not be) "real" (crooks "distress" the RI ones and sell them as vintage) or they might just not work. The RI ones for sure are more consistent than the originals, pretty much every one of the new ones plays and sounds the same as the others (yay CNC machines!) so the 3-bolt neck thing works like it should. THey seem lighter overall, too.
So yeah, nice guitars, just don't expect them to nail the authentic 70's sound out of the box. So I got one, spent an a**-load of $ getting it to sound as good as it played, (I played a lot of originals and a suprising number of them were dogs, or weighed as much as an LP, or were fake) then got laid off, and sold all my "good" equipment and haven't been able to afford another one.)
 
Last edited:
Re: '72 fender tele deluxe reissue

Now that review helped a lot! They look gorgeous, and I love the dual humbucker in a tele idea, I just wanted to get some information before driving a ways to try one. Thank you!

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I337 using Tapatalk
 
Re: '72 fender tele deluxe reissue

FWIW I played one at a local GC - they're clean sounding, not like a typical humbucker. There wasn't much character to the sound itself - kind of like "this is the sound the strings are making right now and nothing else." I wouldn't call them sterile, because they did react to playing dynamics fairly well. But I wouldn't call it a spiritual experience or anything.

I think the biggest problem with the 72 deluxe reissue is that regular telecasters are so distinctive that when you start to get away from that you're kind of moving into a different market segment. I sat down and played it, and I just thought, "well this would be real nice with a good tele single coil in the bridge... and maybe a strat pickup in the neck..." I love love love the control layout - the 4-knob layout is the most versatile IMO because you have so many shades in the middle position, not to mention if you want to get crazy with push-pulls and spin-a-splits, etc. But the wide range humbuckers aren't my favorite.

If that's what you want though, man go for it. I really liked the feel of the thing.
 
Re: '72 fender tele deluxe reissue

The only issue is that the pickups have very little in common with the originals.
 
Re: '72 fender tele deluxe reissue

If you're a player - not a collector - and you really dig that 70's WRHB vibe, you could have a great guitar for less money than an original vintage instrument would cost.

If you bought a mint Tele Deluxe used for $600 and went crazy enough to install a set of CuNiFe repros in it for $900, you would have a guitar that is built better than anything to come out of the 70's and a set of the "real deal" CuNiFe pickups in it for about $1500 total. That's less than you could by a vintage guitar or "other-brand" model for and you'd have a genuine Fender with the right pickups in it.

There are people building these things for more money and they're not using CuNiFe pickups. It's really not that expensive when you look at it this way. You get that incredible vibe in a new, superior Fender guitar, for less than the other alternatives.

I'm sure the Seymour Duncan WRHBs sound awesome too because, well, that's what SD pickups are known for. Their great sound.

There are many approaches to getting that 70's vibe. If you're truly after THAT sound, you can have it in an all Fender guitar with the right pickups for less money than you thought.
 
Last edited:
Re: '72 fender tele deluxe reissue



after it got a set of "real" 70's pups. Totally changed the guitar from "meh" to "Exactly what I'd always wanted". I had to buy a couple different ones until I got a pair of "good" ones, they hadn't come out with the "Telenator" ones at that point. It got "String Saver" saddles after this pic, too. Of course after it was all done, I'm sure I paid about the same as what a vintage one was going for, and I got about 1/6th of what I paid when I sold it... but going this route will get you a lighter, better built and awesome sounding instrument, rather than the crap-shoot buing a 30+ year old "CBS era" guitar that's had got knows what done to it over the years.
Or, just get one of the Squier Deluxes, buy a pair of SD humbuckers and decent pots/switch and call it good (and spend less than a quarter of what I spent for an equally good guitar). I still miss mine, though.
 
Last edited:
Re: '72 fender tele deluxe reissue

I've been gigging with a Squier Deluxe lately with a set of MOD1's in it. It doesn't sound like the original WRHBs, but it's worlds ahead of the stock pickups.

I have 22 guitars in my collection. Fender, Gibson, Suhr, Heritage, etc, and this Squier Deluxe blows my mind! I get such a kick out of getting awesome tone so cheap!

Total investment including the guitar = $370
 
Re: '72 fender tele deluxe reissue

Squier Tele Deluxe.jpgI've been gigging with a Squier Deluxe lately with a set of MOD1's in it. It doesn't sound like the original WRHBs, but it's worlds ahead of the stock pickups.

I have 22 guitars in my collection. Fender, Gibson, Suhr, Heritage, etc, and this Squier Deluxe blows my mind! I get such a kick out of getting awesome tone so cheap!

Total investment including the guitar = $370
 
Re: '72 fender tele deluxe reissue

I have a 72 thinline deluxe version, which is pretty similar. I like it a lot although, as it was mentioned earlier, stock pickups don't sound good. I have a dark sounding gear so it sounded dark and dull in the beginning. It comes with 250k pots, so I swapped them for 500k. Then I bought a set of creamery wrhb's and installed it with 1meg pots and it sounds good now.

Wysłane z mojego HTC One przy użyciu Tapatalka
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top