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Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 9:57 am
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I've heard a rumor that Fender ships some of the American made guitars to Mexico for painting. Apparently to skirt around regulations put down by the EPA. If that's true, some of your american models had some work done in Mexico, too.

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Oh great a new label "Assembled in the USA"


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So I wonder if the wood that they are made from comes from a tree grown in Canada would that make them part Canadian? Its most likely a Canadian cutting the tree down. CIC MIA PIM

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I have recently bought two MIM tele's. I am happy with both of them. The first is a 50' blonde repro. and the second I just bought yesterday which is a 72' thinline special edition (one of 250) in butterscotch blonde. They both play and sound incredible. When I was trying out the thinline yesterday a customer came up to me and stated how "great that guitar sounds!". It plays incredible and the humbuckers scream! I would not hesitate to buy another due to the fact that I am happy with two so far. The pricing is hard to beat and fender usese cnc machines whether its Calif. or Mexico.


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I've got a hecho-en-Mexico Tele that I absolutely love.

My maple-necked semi-see-thru-lite-blonde baby (christened "Big Tex") has a vintage (late 50s/early 60s) Fender logo and what can only be described as an "updated vintage bridge" (it has the vintage-style string-thru bridge a la 50s Telecasters, but with six individual string saddles instead of three). It's pretty heavy (feels & sounds like swamp ash), and it absolutely rocks. Lots of sustain and heavy tone.

It came from the factory with a coil-tapped humbucker in the neck position and a five-way selector switch. I have modified it twice as far as the neck pickup is concerned. First, I converted the whole thing to an Esquire, removed the humbucker and changed the 5-way to a 3-way. It stayed like that for a year or so; I liked the sound of the "all-out" setting (switch set to exclude the tone pot from the circuit) but I missed the fatness a neck pickup afforded me. So I installed a Mighty Mite P90 in the neck position and changed the 3-way to a 4-way (N+B in series, N alone, N+B in parallel, B alone). This was great, but I missed the "all-out" setting of the Esquire wiring. Then I found out that Fender makes a "no-load tone pot" which, when cranked all the way up, clicks and removes the tone pot from the circuit. Voila--my favorite Esquire setting mixed with my favorite standard Telecaster sounds, plus an ultra-fat P90 neck pickup. Sounds amazing.

Everyone who has played this guitar has expressed surprise that it isn't an MIA model--the workmanship and feel is that good.

Back to the original question--yeah, the MIM Telecasters are really great--especially for the price. All of the MIM Fenders I've played have been good-to-great. The Jimmie Vaughan signature model Strat is really killer, too, and it's made down there in Ensenada.

Good Vibes To Y'all... 8)


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