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Picked up one of these off eBay. It is pretty cool The bridge is spaced better and the strings go over the pickup poles better than my Squier. I like them both. Not sure what the stock pots are in this one, but it sounds less muddy than the Squier did stock. The details are closer to the original than the Squier, but they are both very nice guitars.

20160302_193436 by Hentai No Baka, on Flickr

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Looks classy!

Looks great. I like that it has tummy cut

Dat nice!

Another Tele Deluxe?

Congrats! What color is that?

Yeah, it looks sweet!

sunshiner wrote:Looks great. I like that it has tummy cut

Ah, the seppuku model?

Harakiri limited run

71Smallbox wrote:Another Tele Deluxe?

Really wanted to compare the MIM to Squire to see how they stack up. Neither were super expensive, so I took a bite. Both of them together were almost $200 less than one Japanese Fender.

Looks great.

When not all 1970s MUSTACHED with jumpsuits and feathered hairand overdone, walnut finish guitars in general with black trim have the potential to look quite nice.

speedfish wrote:Congrats! What color is that?

Just brown stain. I think these came in black, burst, and brown.

I am getting a different guard made for it, so it gave me a chance to check out the guts. Funny enough, the Squire is shielded better. The MIM has no shielding paint in it. It does have nicer pots and a nicer toggle, but even the pickguard has less shielding than the Squire.

20160316_082936 by Hentai No Baka, on Flickr

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Is shielding really needed for humbooger guitars though?

Sicne you're going through the different versions, did they ever do a US re-issue of this guitar? I seem to remember one but I can't find it.

I don't think so. I know there was a Japanese version, but I think the only US ones were the originals?

When i see a brown tele i think of two people.. George Harrison and Muddy Waters..

Looks awesome bro

Noisy Cat wrote:Is shielding really needed for humbooger guitars though?

Agree, there is no need in shielding

HNB wrote:I don't think so. I know there was a Japanese version, but I think the only US ones were the originals?

I think there was an American made version for the Japanese market. I got to go through my photos.

SneakyT got my guard sent to me. I am just waiting on the 1meg pots. I figured I could do sort of a mock up. It still has the protective film on it, but looks great!

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Finally got it back together. I put some aluminum shielding on the pickguard.

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After that I just replaced one pot at a time matching wires until I got this.

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Siblings.

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