Thinking about picking up a 72 Tele Thinline reissue......love the sound of the wide range humbuckers. Feels good in the hands too.

Any ideas or opinions?

Beaubs

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Maybe post this in the Telecaster section?

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Bill

Hi Beaubs,that would be a great choice,they were always high up on my list of faves,some day I'll have one too,in fact if they had been around when I bought my Les Paul,I would've bought one of them instead.I always loved the sound of Fender 'buckers, they sounded much fuller to my ears than the LP.

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I'm going to ruin your day and point out that reissue Wide Range Humbuckers aren't the real deal. Not by a long way. Original WRHB's had Cunife magnets, reissue ones are alnico and they just do not sound the same.

If you open up a reissue WRHB then you find a standard sized humbucker wrapped with some padding material to fill out the wider pickup cover.

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not really ruining his day, seen as he says he likes the sound of the RI

Fine then, I'll go look for someone else to ruin their day

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I like them too, this is the 72 thinline I found. saw one today at GC along with a decisions decisions

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you can save the world with your guitar one love song at a time it's just better, more fun, easier with a fender solid body electric guitar or electric bass guitar.

The Pawn Shop 72 is one of the most beautiful guitars I've ever seen. I'd stick a Bare Knuckle Crawler in the bridge, a Creamery WRHB in the neck and much fun would be had.

Not that I'm planning on buying another guitar this month, oh no.

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Beaubs, I played original 72's as well as the Tele Deluxe in the 70's. The original Thinline came out in 1969 they had the same single coil pups as a standard Tele but with a "semi acoustic" ash body. I never found them as full sounding as a Gibson Humbucker but we all have different ears and amps. The Reissues pickups are a bit different sounding than the originals and don't really seem a potent to me, but, if you love the way it sounds, that's all that counts. I'd go for it if you like it that much.

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The MIM Thinline Reissues are good guitars but it's the new American Vintage Thinlines that are calling to me. The Guitar Center I loiter at the most just got both the '69 and '72 in and the GAS pressure is already starting to build. Road trip!

John

Sold the G & L.....

I played a couple of 72 Thinline Reissues this weekend and did not bond with them. The hunt for a the Telecaster twang continues.

............stay tuned

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Hi Beaubs,back in Dec.when trying out my Vox AC-15 the sales guy plugged in a Squier Tele with "Duncan Designed" pickups and it was one of the best sounding Teles that I ever heard.The tone was so full and in your face but in the most pleasing way.You still get the Tele bridge pup icepick sharp treble but there was a myriad of tones that I'd never heard coming from a Tele and all of this was only $279. I was very tempted to go over my budget and buy that too but I didn't feel up to starting the household equivalent of Armageddon.

There will be a Tele with the Duncan Designed pups in my future-I just can't let the wonderful tones that puppy is capable of pass me by.

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I have a 72 RI and I have heard originals -- agree that that pups don't have quite the volume or cut to them. But I find that the 72 makes a terrific rhythm guitar and I have mine tuned to open G for Stones style rhythm and the small amount of slide I do. The RI also fits in well (in part because it doesn't have a seriously hot output) when working with acoustic players. I've done small coffee house type gigs using the thinline through my Champ SCXD and it's a good combo for that type of music (folk/blues).