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Post subject: Help me out guys, MIM Standard or Highway One?
Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 6:22 pm
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Please help, I'm GAS for a tele and I plan to buy this weekend. What should I consider buying? Thanks! :wink:


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SERIOUSLY PEOPLE SHOULD STOP POSTING THESE KINDS OF QUESTIONS ASKING WHAT THE POSTER SHOULD BUY!! j/k.

It's up to you. I would definitely go for the highway one, but the mim might feel better to you. IN a perfect world, you would get the highway one. BUt the mim may have something that you like.


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Post subject: Re: Help me out guys, MIM Standard or Highway One?
Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 6:42 pm
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Please help, I'm GAS for a tele and I plan to buy this weekend. What should I consider buying? Thanks! :wink:


Well I own both and I can tell you that they are both great instruments.
BUT! Yes there is a but lol You will get better electronics in the Hwy 1 than you will in the MIM version. Also you have to keep in mind that you will be buying a American Tele and the price will always keep going up over the years if you take care of it. I'm not 100% sure how the value of the MIM are doing over the years, I know that I have been able to pick them up second handed for a big discount over the new cost and you wouldn't be able to do that with a American Tele, it would keep going up the older it gets.

So my money would be on the Hwy 1, you're only looking at a $749.99 compared to a Standard Tele at $399.99 and after you figure what it would cost you change out your pots and pickups then the cost isn't that much different..

I hope that this has been some help

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Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 3:19 pm
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Don't cheap out.

Spend the extra on a Hwy 1. It will keep it's value better, and you'll get better hardware/electronics.


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I'd go with the 22 fret Hwy 1. It has the greasebucket circuit and pickups with alnico III magnets. 8)

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I'll second the "don't be cheap". You will not regret. Damn man, save up a couple hundred more and go get a American Standard. Then you definitely will not regret. My standard still gives me goose bumps when I pick it up. Peace. J.JB.

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Thank you guys! :wink: Been thinkin' a lot but I just couldn't decide for my own... Do you have that feeling sometimes when you're eager about getting something and you have to wait for a long time, but when the day comes that you can have it, you suddenly have second thoughts of getting it? Whew.. that's what I am right now. :)


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I have NEVER regretted waiting (and saving up) to get a better instrument/amp.

I have OFTEN regretted being impatient and getting the cheaper amp/instrument. Every time I do I ask myslef like a year later (when the newness has worn off) why I was so stupid not to wait and get the better grade instrument.

One Hwy 1 Tele is worth 5 MiM's, if the Hwy 1 is really what you want.


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Not unless maybe you get a (MIM) classic reissue or classic player's (MIM). Even these (MIM's) have to stick to the original specs of the reissues so that these (MIM)s are slightly better than and a little more expensive than just the regular (MIM) Standards.

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Don't cheap out.

Spend the extra on a Hwy 1. It will keep it's value better, and you'll get better hardware/electronics.


I agree........I would go for the Highway 1. Then later on....you won't say, "Gee....I wish I would've........"

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If you can afford the Highway One, I would go with that one. I own an '04 with the Greasebucket tone circuit, though, I've never played the new model with the "upgrades".


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Sometimes it's good to go with a 2nd opinion to help out a little.

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I LOVE the highway 1 personally, and am jealous of anybody wiho has one...but MY advice would be this: GO PLAY THEM! Take a few days and visit your store and play them. For ME at least, chances are one will really jump out and say "I'm yours". Maybe its the highway 1, maybe you'll decide you wanna save for a deluxe american, maybe a squire will hit you...every guitar is different, and there's no right or wrong with this. OF COURSE, you could always save up 10k and get that Jeff Beck Broadcaster....wow did I drool the day the guitar store guy told me to play it...


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I brought home a Standard Tele yesterday and have yet to pick up any of my other guitars.

The solid build and finish on the standard is second to none and the tones available from the stock electronics are classic Tele.

what more can you ask for and for under $400.00

but price is not the issue here, the quality is first rate.

O.K. I'm a Strat guy, however I have owned four teles now, one of which was a linited edition 60th ann. and an HH american and I will tell you the statndard is every bit as good as any of the others I have owned.

Think about it this way you can get a standard and top of the line pups upgrade and it will still be cheaper than the HWY.

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I bought a MIM Tele in Three-Color Sunburst, but I sort of like to pikcout my own pickups. I've got a set of Seymour Duncans on the way as we speak. Don't spend the extra money on stock pickups unless you know you'd be totally happy with the sound. Plus American guitars have too much finnish on the fret board for me, so if I had more money I'd still do the same thing.

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