Japanese 62 ri Tele- anyone had one?

Thomas · Post by **Thomas** » Sun Oct 16, 2011 4:28 pm

Hello Shortscale. I've been offered a Japanese 62 ri in CAR as a trade for my mustang 69 ri. I've always fancied one of these but i've never got my hands on one. Any of you have/had one? if so what do you think? hat are the necks like on them? i prefer slim necks.

Cheers!!

Thom · Post by **Thom** » Sun Oct 16, 2011 4:41 pm

Pretty sure timhulio had one with a bigsby on it.

stewart · Post by **stewart** » Sun Oct 16, 2011 4:42 pm

i really fancied one, but decided against it for fear of becoming "the CAR guy". wish they made them in a different colour (apart from sunburst/black obv).

edit: just noticed they do trans blue ones.

benecol · Post by **benecol** » Sun Oct 16, 2011 5:46 pm

They are lovely - right up there with the best CIJs I've played. Slim necks, too. Hell of a trade, in fact.

lorez · Post by **lorez** » Sun Oct 16, 2011 7:57 pm

knowing what my old 69RI was like I'd swap it in a heart beat if I had the offer

iblastoff · Post by **iblastoff** » Sun Oct 16, 2011 8:01 pm

i have a '62 custom reissue (the one with usa texas specials)

love it

SKC Willie · Post by **SKC Willie** » Sun Oct 16, 2011 9:29 pm

I've played quite a few of the mid 80s 62ri and they're nice. Neck is pretty thin for me and I prefer maple but their definitely quality guitars; I would do that trade, for sure.

Thomas · Post by **Thomas** » Sun Oct 16, 2011 11:47 pm

Awesome guys. Thanks for the info. Yeah Stewart I would have preferred a sunburst one but CAR will do for now. Not my fave colour tho i seem to have ended up with 4 in that colour. Dunno how the hell that happened. Guess if the price is low enough the colour doesn't really matter.

benecol · Post by **benecol** » Mon Oct 17, 2011 9:01 am

Well if you don't like it, and it's not a boat anchor: dibs on the flip.

timhulio · Post by **timhulio** » Mon Oct 17, 2011 9:02 am

Thom wrote:Pretty sure timhulio had one with a bigsby on it.

Yep it was great. Probably the highest quality CIJ guitar I've ever played. Kinda regret selling it, but the bigsby pushed the weight up and I'm a wuss.

Thomas · Post by **Thomas** » Mon Oct 17, 2011 10:43 am

benecol wrote:Well if you don't like it, and it's not a boat anchor: dibs on the flip.

Sure thing.

izodiak · Post by **izodiak** » Mon Oct 17, 2011 11:41 am

Why dunt they make one with a maple neck?
Isnt it 'era' appropriate ?

I have always wished for one like Barrett had.

willlin · Post by **willlin** » Mon Oct 17, 2011 12:11 pm

I've got one. It's the sunburst with black trim and I loves it...

I think mine's a late 90's one, but I bought when I went in to try the Baja tele. It is a genuinely lovely guitar, really nice neck, which I much preferred to the Baja. I've a mind to swap out the pickups for Bare Knuckles and pop a compensated 3 saddle bridge on it, but no real issues so far.

ultratwin · Post by **ultratwin** » Mon Oct 17, 2011 1:17 pm

izodiak wrote:Why dunt they make one with a maple neck?
Isnt it 'era' appropriate ?

I believe the F Stamp B5 maple neck one you're referring to is the '68 spec model.

izodiak · Post by **izodiak** » Mon Oct 17, 2011 6:36 pm

ultratwin wrote:
I believe the F Stamp B5 maple neck one you're referring to is the '68 spec model.

Yes, but they dont have the binding... :/
So the only way to get something like that is to buy an american vintage?
This http://experiencedmusicalinstruments.co ... uitars.htm shows it had got one and it just says
60's telecster -

Hope that someday Ill be able to fulfill my dream, h. Not spending thousands of dollars.
edit - I just dont get it, is binding so expensive? Because on the 60s all the telecasters had binding.
Now all the Epiphone casino,dot etc have binding,so it shouldnt be that expensive. I dont understand Fender on this one.

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Tue Oct 18, 2011 5:28 pm

iblastoff wrote:i have a '62 custom reissue (the one with usa texas specials)

love it

That's the best looking Tele I've ever seen.

hotrodperlmutter · Post by **hotrodperlmutter** » Tue Oct 18, 2011 8:40 pm

izodiak wrote:Now all the Epiphone casino,dot etc have binding,so it shouldnt be that expensive. I dont understand Fender on this one.

most cheaper guitars don't actually have binding (i.e. plastic material bound into a groove on the body), it's usually just painted on. the fender 62RI tele (sunburst with white binding) i played was just paint; the black binding on my white epiphone dot studio is just painted on, and the white binding on my squier tele 60s custom (or whatever the fuck it's called) is painted.

i was really surprised that the dot that was posted a week or so ago had legit binding.

izodiak · Post by **izodiak** » Wed Oct 19, 2011 9:21 am

The colored on binding, thats what You refer as 'fake binding' ?

Mine looks real -

So why Fender U so cheap ?

i always have thought that a binding on a guitar give is a beautiful aspect, the same with two tone coloring - sounding like
a gretsch man here.

benecol · Post by **benecol** » Wed Oct 19, 2011 9:58 am

I think we're going off a bit half-cocked here: to the very best of my knowledge, all of the double-bound fenders have genuine binding. Hence the slight upcharge. It's usually only the cheapo brands that paint them on.

hotrodperlmutter wrote:the fender 62RI tele (sunburst with white binding) i played was just paint

SKC Willie · Post by **SKC Willie** » Wed Oct 19, 2011 2:42 pm

the dead give away is there should be a line around the neck from where the binding was cut; if it doesn't have that, it's not real binding.

I don't really care if it's painted on or not, to be honest, it looks the same either way. I think my epiphone dot has real binding but it has been painted over. You can the outline of the binding if you look really closely at the edge. It's not enough to tell if there is a split in the binding though.