1975 Fender Tele Deluxe

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1975 Fender Tele Deluxe

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I've been downsizing most of my gear collection as I'm slowly moving over to the states. However I needed at least one humbucker guitar and I wanted something a little different. I picked this up for a pretty good price.

1975 Fender Telecaster Deluxe

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It's all stock and weighs 8lbs so shouldn't be a boat anchor. It'll be delivered friday morning so will update then.
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So you're going to import expensive American guitars into the US? Might not be so cheap after you pay customs. At least you won't have to worry about CITES with that.
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I believe as a working musician, Gabe can just carry it in (as any of us could anyway)?

That's a real beaut - is it the one from thefretboard?
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Nice... many great things came into existence in 1975
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Looks great Gabriel.

And nice to see you back again. Good luck with the move.
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The vintage gear market in the UK and the exchange rate with the dollar actually brought the price of this down to $1000 less than the average price on reverb in the states, so was a nice deal in the end.

But Benecol is right, I'll be taking this as my hand luggage when I fly over anyway so no need to deal with import things.

It's the one from thefretboard yeah! Almost traded my Gibson + cash for it but it wasn't going to be the best financial deal, but the local sale meant I had cash to bargain with and that brought the cost down significantly, meaning I came out of the Gibson sale and Fender purchase having made a little profit which is nice.

The guitar is getting delivered tomorrow morning, so we'll see what it's like when it arrives.
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You could also take the neck off and put it in your suitcase and use a gigbag.
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That's some serious niceness.
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Very nice Gabe!

Love that big 70's headstock on the Tele body.
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plopswagon wrote:That's some serious niceness.
dezb1 wrote:Nice... many great things came into existence in 1975
Including my my lovely partner!
And mine.
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dezb1 wrote:
plopswagon wrote:That's some serious niceness.
dezb1 wrote:Nice... many great things came into existence in 1975
Including my my lovely partner!
And mine.
Haha and mine.
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Has it arrived yet? Thoughts on the pups?
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Thom wrote:
dezb1 wrote:
plopswagon wrote:That's some serious niceness.
Including my my lovely partner!
And mine.
Haha and mine.
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Johno wrote:Has it arrived yet? Thoughts on the pups?
It arrived yesterday morning, I'm visiting my sister at the moment before I fly out so no chance to play through an amp but through my little vox amplug they sound really cool. Kind of like a telecaster with a lot more bottom end, more scooped sounding then traditional humbuckers. It's a really cool guitar. The neck tone is shorting when it's on 0 so I'm assuming the cap is making contact with the body of the pot on both ends, so when I have more time and some tools I'll take it apart and sort that, but besides that it's very nice.
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BearBoy wrote:
Thom wrote:
dezb1 wrote: And mine.
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Nice! Bravo sir... that was one of the most cringe worthy bits of viewing this year.
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NICE, man.

I saw 3-piece band in Camden a few weeks ago, and the guitarist had one of these:

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The look AND sound had me making some serious plans. He was running through a darn Marshall Mode4 head (regarded as pony, although I've never played one) and it sounded fucking GREAT.

Turns out these reissue don't even have 'proper' Widerangers, which is what I thought the source of the magic was. Couldn't tell if it was an original or reisssue... so confuse. Maybe those amps actually sound good when dialled-in?

Said band, just in case someone can ID that TELE:
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benecol wrote:I believe as a working musician, Gabe can just carry it in (as any of us could anyway)?
I don't think it counts as importing if you are moving to a country, otherwise you'd have to pay duty on all your belongings.

If it had a rosewood fretboard cites would be an issue though.
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BearBoy wrote:
Thom wrote:
dezb1 wrote: And mine.
Haha and mine.
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Post by singlepup »

We don't have a comedy tax in the US. Gabe could have bought a Tele from Andertons and had it shipped to his new Stateside abode without the American government collecting a penny.

Lovely guitar regardless :D
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