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Post subject: Modified Telecaster or Partcaster?
Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 11:16 am
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Its the old iv had my broom for 10 years, its had 3 replacement heads and 4 handles! basically, in your opinion, when does a telecaster stop becoming modified and simply just become a partcaster?

Would love to hear your opinions!


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Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 2:40 pm
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When you change either body or neck. Hardware, pickups don't count to make the guitar a "partscaster".

But that's just me :) just be happy with what you have!


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If you change hardware and electronics its a modified guitar, if you change the neck its a partscaster, if you change the body its a different guitar.

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Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2009 11:28 am
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I consider the neck as essential as the body, so if you change either one it is another guitar altogether different guitar = partscaster IMO :wink:


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Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2009 12:42 pm
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Just for the sake of discussion, I submit that all Telecasters (and Strats, basses, etc.) are partscasters, just like Leo Fender intended. The reason for the bolt-on neck in the design of the Fender Broadcaster was for faster/easier/cheaper assembly, but it was marketed as having a replaceable neck. Even today, it's often cheaper to buy a new neck than to have an old one refretted.

Obviously the Custom Shop builds some guitars with matching necks and bodies but for the vast majority of Fender guitars and basses, don't factory workers just grab necks from one stack and bolt them on to bodies from another stack, based on their daily work orders?


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