Fender Nashville Telecaster Deluxe

Good Guitar but for a few hundred dollars more you could get an American built. The sacrifice would be not having the middle pickup but you would gain better electronics and hardware. Amp is dependent on what tones you want, how it accepts pedals etc.

I was hoping you’d chime in.

So investment-wise: better to buy an American Tele and have it converted?

I have one, it has really hot pickups in it, and isn't really right for most of what I do. It also has a swamp ash body and is heavy as hell, but I only gave like 250 bucks for it, maybe 300. I play it now and then. I could probably change the pickups out and use it more, because it plays really great.

If you can pick one up for a good price, I would say to go ahead and do it. You might love it. A lot of my friends really love that guitar.

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What about the Squier Classic Vibe? Is it easily convertible as well?

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The body isn't already routed out for the middle pick up, but you can probably find a replacement body on guitarfetish.com that is already routed for it, probably for less than 60 bucks.

I looked through their website, and didn't see a telecaster body that was routed for 3 single coils. I guess you could route yours out, but it would be more cost effective to buy a used Nashville telly.

Now that I have looked through Amazon and reverb.com, It looks like those have really gone up in value since I bought mine. I didn't realize they had gone up that much.

Maybe worth mentioning too, I took an Indonesian made SSS Sqier strat on trade the other day, The pickups say Duncan Designed on them. That guitar is awesome and will do almost anything you want to do. I was really surprised at how good it is, and I don't even care much for strats generally. Further investigation indicates that it is the Squier Strat deluxe model.

You bought a Nashville Telecaster for 180 bucks? You got a heck of a deal, they are selling for upwards of 700 now. I got mine for 300 or less, but that was several years ago. I might be willing to let it go, now that I see what they are bringing. I hardly play it.

No, a Classic Vibe.

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No, a Classic Vibe.

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That's a decent price on a classic vibe. You won't buy anything better for 180 bucks.
I've got a couple of them and play them a bunch. The nice thing about them is, you don't have to worry about putting them up or anything, just leave them out on a stand or in a chair and pick them up and play when you are ready. If something happens, it's not a big deal. They are like the channel locks of guitars, not the perfect thing, but come in handy a whole lot.

No clue, I've never cracked open a RW to see.

No, it is shaped AND sounds like a Telecaster (there is a big tonal difference in stock tele and stock strat pickups) .. but with an extra pure strat tone (middle pickup alone) and two strattish tones in the 2 and 4 blade positions.

They call it the "Nashville" because Music City session players were the ones who made the T-S-T config popular. Session rats could produce tele AND strat-like tones on the fly while only toting one utilitarian guitar between studios.

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If three single coil pups are what you're after, why not just get a Strat?

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That was just answered. For some reason I thought there were other factors that affected the sound from Strat to Tele other than just the pickups. Now it makes sense that I've never really found a Telecaster that I could get dialed in to sound the way I want it to.

I wonder if they make a T-S-T config Stratocaster?