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Post subject: 6 Month Old tele, very little sound from neck pickup
Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2011 6:01 pm
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I just traded for a 6 month old MIM telecaster in which the original owner provided the receipt. The guitar plays very nice, and the bridge pickup sounds great, but there is hardly any sound coming from the neck pickup..

I don't think it is the switch...

Should be under warranty right? Even though I did not purchase the guitar originally, I do have the receipt which the guitar was purchased 6 months ago.


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Post subject: Re: 6 Month Old tele, very little sound from neck pickup
Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2011 7:42 pm
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Fender Instruments are warrantied to the original owner. Did the original owner submit the product warranty card? Is his name on the reciept? He may have to send it in for any warranty work. Transferable warranties are on some amp's only. Sorry

http://support.fender.com/warranty/FEND ... 1_revC.pdf

Did you check the string height on the neck pickup? maybe you can raise the neck pickup.


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Post subject: Re: 6 Month Old tele, very little sound from neck pickup
Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2011 7:51 pm
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Oh well.. i am electronically inclined so I did some investigation.. I read someone else had this issue on an American Ash too:

http://www.tdpri.com/forum/tele-technic ... ickup.html

I resoldered the leads on the pickup where they come off the coil and bam, good as new..

:)


Fender probably has some Q/C issues every now and then, so it is BS that they would not cover this.. but oh well.. good for me that I am self sufficient.

I cleaned the guitar up, set the intonation and wow this one is a keeper.. sweet tones through my Dr. Z... the intonation and action is amazingly accurate up and down the fret board.. almost rivals my USA Ash strat :) seems like the mexicans are building better guitars these days.


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Post subject: Re: 6 Month Old tele, very little sound from neck pickup
Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2011 8:28 pm
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Great!!! That is probably the best solution anyway. If your like me there is no service center locally so you saved shipping costs plus your not missing a guitar until it gets fixed


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