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Thank you Firebird: very interesting and essential information. Unfortunately I now question if i should buy that American reissue at $1400.00 if it isn't what it is supposed to be.Quote
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I would like to buy a tele custom 1972 similar to Keith richards'. What should I know about the ones that are on the market? Is it a good guitar, where to buy it and how much? Thank you for your help.
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Mops
What you should know is that in the originals the pickups that look like humbuckers have a completly different construction. Nowadays they just put standard humbuckers into the reissues, but they are hugh differences in sound.
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Hi Ming subu; thank you for your help. I e-mailed Noval and Lollar for info on pick-ups.Quote
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Get the reissue and drop a Novak or lollar in the neck. They are spec'd to the original wide range humbucker.
Be sure to also havenjoy the tone and volume pots changed to 1M audio.
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Typo, sorry.
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Get the reissue and drop a Novak or lollar in the neck. They are spec'd to the original wide range humbucker.
Be sure to also havenjoythe tone and volume pots changed to 1M audio.
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The CuNiFe magnets are not available, but I'd bet roll mops would be more than happy with the novak, considering if he goes with a reissue.
[curtisnovak.com] these are hand wound to vintage spec.
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My two cents....
- Vintage 70's: Don't buy without playing it, because most are dogs. The 1973 to 1975 specimens are better than the 1976 and after guitars, these are just best to be avoided. Until 1975 about half or so are actually quite nice, but most of the nice ones are 1) sunburst (better and lighter woods used) and 2) have rosewood fret boards (which have better quality woods than the all maple necks).
- Fender American Vintage 75 Tele: very good instruments, probably the best of them all for the price. Good woods, build quality and components, except for the FWRH.
- Mexican made: I find the Mexican made guitars decent. Build quality is very good, on par with American made guitars (to which there is no difference). The lacquer is thicker, and components are cheaper. To make it sound good, the pickups and bridge need replacement.
- Japanese made: very good build and very good woods, albeit often locally sourced . Better made than American and Mexican, with thinner coats of lacquer. Downside is the cheap electronics, so pickups and pots need replacement. Many Japanese Tele's have steel frets. I don't mind, but not everybody likes them.
- Fender Custom Shop: there's two of three Custom Shop versions, ranging from only 30 or so build to a couple of hundred. Mostly they resemble vintage 70's instruments, with all the quirks, and they are relic'd as well. I don't get this concept at all, as for $3000 I prefer to look out for a good early 70's one.
Big thing with all instruments not from the 70's: the wide range humbucker. The original used CuNiFe rods, a material simply not available anymore. So most new versions are either standard humbuckers in a bigger casing, or use rods made of AlNiCo. It doesn't matter, as none of the new WRH sound anything like an original one. So, there's only one way to go if you want to sound like Keith on the 1981 tour: find a 1970's. They can be found relatively easy, but they are expensive. $250 is a bargain, $400 a common price.
Last the pots: all 70's Fender's used 1 MEG pots. This makes both the lead and neck pickup sound bright, aggressive and punchy. This sounds great on dark amps like Ampeg SVT's, and on aggressive amps like the Boogie MK1, but quite horrible on Marshall's and VOX amps.
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Since rollmops is a german word i want to point the original poster to this german shop: www.guitarpoint.de
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I live in Kensington, md near DC. I don't mind paying more for the American made. I understand that the one for Mexico is good but I want my guitar to be from the USA
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Since rollmops is a german word i want to point the original poster to this german shop: www.guitarpoint.de
They are specialized in vintage guitars and offer Tele Customs sometimes
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Since rollmops is a german word i want to point the original poster to this german shop: www.guitarpoint.de
They are specialized in vintage guitars and offer Tele Customs sometimes
Thank you Firebird. I live in DC.I didn't know "Rollmops" was a german word. I picked it up at moniker for a little radio show that I started in 1982 in france when "Radios libres" started to erupte in every city, town, little own, village in France thanks to President Francois Miterrand. It was fantastic a the begining. I had one hour every wednesday from 6pm to 7pm. I could do whatever I wantted and what I did was I played rock and roll music, the good shit, lots of stones of course. I called the show "Rollmops" because the first ever written and recorded french rock and roll song was called "Rock and rollmops"(1956) by Boris Vian and Henri Salvador. Then after few months people started to call me Rollmops and I kept the "silly" nickname when I joined my first serious rock and roll band as a guitar player/harmonicist.
I am still searching for that black tele custom 1972.
Rock and roll,
Mops
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Since rollmops is a german word i want to point the original poster to this german shop: www.guitarpoint.de
They are specialized in vintage guitars and offer Tele Customs sometimes
Thank you Firebird. I live in DC.I didn't know "Rollmops" was a german word. I picked it up at moniker for a little radio show that I started in 1982 in france when "Radios libres" started to erupte in every city, town, little own, village in France thanks to President Francois Miterrand. It was fantastic a the begining. I had one hour every wednesday from 6pm to 7pm. I could do whatever I wantted and what I did was I played rock and roll music, the good shit, lots of stones of course. I called the show "Rollmops" because the first ever written and recorded french rock and roll song was called "Rock and rollmops"(1956) by Boris Vian and Henri Salvador. Then after few months people started to call me Rollmops and I kept the "silly" nickname when I joined my first serious rock and roll band as a guitar player/harmonicist.
I am still searching for that black tele custom 1972.
Rock and roll,
Mops
Alle Möpse beißen, Nur der kleine Rollmops nicht.
Your moniker is a pickled haring wrapped around a cucumber, which actually is very Dutch. The German's stole it from us, the bastards.
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Since rollmops is a german word i want to point the original poster to this german shop: www.guitarpoint.de
They are specialized in vintage guitars and offer Tele Customs sometimes
Thank you Firebird. I live in DC.I didn't know "Rollmops" was a german word. I picked it up at moniker for a little radio show that I started in 1982 in france when "Radios libres" started to erupte in every city, town, little own, village in France thanks to President Francois Miterrand. It was fantastic a the begining. I had one hour every wednesday from 6pm to 7pm. I could do whatever I wantted and what I did was I played rock and roll music, the good shit, lots of stones of course. I called the show "Rollmops" because the first ever written and recorded french rock and roll song was called "Rock and rollmops"(1956) by Boris Vian and Henri Salvador. Then after few months people started to call me Rollmops and I kept the "silly" nickname when I joined my first serious rock and roll band as a guitar player/harmonicist.
I am still searching for that black tele custom 1972.
Rock and roll,
Mops
Alle Möpse beißen, Nur der kleine Rollmops nicht.
Your moniker is a pickled haring wrapped around a cucumber, which actually is very Dutch. The German's stole it from us, the bastards.
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Since rollmops is a german word i want to point the original poster to this german shop: www.guitarpoint.de
They are specialized in vintage guitars and offer Tele Customs sometimes
Thank you Firebird. I live in DC.I didn't know "Rollmops" was a german word. I picked it up at moniker for a little radio show that I started in 1982 in france when "Radios libres" started to erupte in every city, town, little own, village in France thanks to President Francois Miterrand. It was fantastic a the begining. I had one hour every wednesday from 6pm to 7pm. I could do whatever I wantted and what I did was I played rock and roll music, the good shit, lots of stones of course. I called the show "Rollmops" because the first ever written and recorded french rock and roll song was called "Rock and rollmops"(1956) by Boris Vian and Henri Salvador. Then after few months people started to call me Rollmops and I kept the "silly" nickname when I joined my first serious rock and roll band as a guitar player/harmonicist.
I am still searching for that black tele custom 1972.
Rock and roll,
Mops
Alle Möpse beißen, Nur der kleine Rollmops nicht.
Your moniker is a pickled haring wrapped around a cucumber, which actually is very Dutch. The German's stole it from us, the bastards.
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I called the show "Rollmops" because the first ever written and recorded french rock and roll song was called "Rock and rollmops"(1956) by Boris Vian and Henri Salvador.
Yes Boris Vian thought rock and roll was stupid. But he wrote a good song anyway. Great minds can't get everything right all the time. Rock and roll rulesQuote
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I called the show "Rollmops" because the first ever written and recorded french rock and roll song was called "Rock and rollmops"(1956) by Boris Vian and Henri Salvador.
Since this thread has derailed into "off topic" territory I'll take the liberty of explaining that Rock and rollmops"(1956) was recorded by Boris Vian and Henri Salvador as a "f@ck yuo" to this new musical genre. These jazz "purists" hated rock'n roll and the youth culture that came with it.