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Post subject: Fender FSR Ash Telecaster
Posted: Mon May 06, 2013 10:39 am
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I have seen these guitars fs online for a good (cheap) price. They seem to have some nice features. I have not heard of this model. Has anyone here had any experience with them?


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Post subject: Re: Fender FSR Ash Telecaster
Posted: Mon May 06, 2013 12:30 pm
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There are always a number of different FSR runs being sold on the internet at any given moment. You'll have to be more specific. Post a link perhaps.

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Post subject: Re: Fender FSR Ash Telecaster
Posted: Tue May 07, 2013 10:13 am
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Hold it closer to the computer screen so we can see it better. :lol:


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Post subject: Re: Fender FSR Ash Telecaster
Posted: Wed May 15, 2013 2:46 am
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One of these??:

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/guitars/ ... ric-guitar

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/guitars/ ... ss-pickups

FSR stands for Fender Special Run. Guitar Center, MusiciansFriend can ask Fender to make these guitars to their specs like the Blues Junior Tweed. Although they are FSR they have been selling these same guitars for years. The butterscotch Affinity Squier Tele is supposed to be the same thing but they have been selling it for about 10 years.

I personally would not buy either of those. They are just souped up $499 MIM Standards w/ nicer pickups.

I just searched eBay's Completed Listings for "Fender FSR Butterscotch" and the guitar MusiciansFriend sells new for $699 is selling used for $400 or less. Too much loss of money imho. If you could buy one used for $350-$375 that would be a good deal.

People do not seem to be bidding on the sunburst w/ Tex-Mex pickups if you check Completed Listings.

Good luck with whatever your decision.


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Post subject: Re: Fender FSR Ash Telecaster
Posted: Sun Jun 23, 2013 2:28 am
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In case you're still trying to decide :D , I just got a MIM FSR Tele today at GC for $499, and it rocks. I'm an oldster who plays mostly classic rock and blues style originals on recordings for fun (so I'm not actually any good, but I'm very picky about tone). I've been going to the local shop to compare Teles for a couple of years, and have bought and sold a few in that time, but those were more expensive, like the ash AM Dlx, which I thought was quite good, but this one's nicer, with its "authentic" sounding single coils, as opposed to the Noiseless. It's a 2013, with the brass barrel saddles which I think sound snappier and livelier than the modern style individual steel saddles. The setup was perfect, though the intonation had gone badly out, so I moved the saddles around to set it, so now it's really good all the way up the neck. The relief at the 8th fret is about .010, though I think it could benefit from a touch more to avoid buzzes. Anyway, I'm obviously excited to have a new guitar, so my present view is hardly objective, but I did try a host of costly alternatives, including a $5k Master Built Custom Shop (a better guitar in some ways, as one would hope, with a more unique tone, but too bright for me), a $1,700 pine special something (pretty, but not rocking, and kinda weak), Am Standards, some other cheepos, and the FSR won (being generally thicker and louder than the rest), rocks harder, and even felt at least as good to the touch as anything else, and looks butterscotch good, too--one of my favorite flavors. This particular guitar was a real bargain.

How can I post a photo of it here?


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Post subject: Re: Fender FSR Ash Telecaster
Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2013 11:55 am
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rwhitney wrote:
In case you're still trying to decide :D , I just got a MIM FSR Tele today at GC for $499, and it rocks. I'm an oldster who plays mostly classic rock and blues style originals on recordings for fun (so I'm not actually any good, but I'm very picky about tone). I've been going to the local shop to compare Teles for a couple of years, and have bought and sold a few in that time, but those were more expensive, like the ash AM Dlx, which I thought was quite good, but this one's nicer, with its "authentic" sounding single coils, as opposed to the Noiseless. It's a 2013, with the brass barrel saddles which I think sound snappier and livelier than the modern style individual steel saddles. The setup was perfect, though the intonation had gone badly out, so I moved the saddles around to set it, so now it's really good all the way up the neck. The relief at the 8th fret is about .010, though I think it could benefit from a touch more to avoid buzzes. Anyway, I'm obviously excited to have a new guitar, so my present view is hardly objective, but I did try a host of costly alternatives, including a $5k Master Built Custom Shop (a better guitar in some ways, as one would hope, with a more unique tone, but too bright for me), a $1,700 pine special something (pretty, but not rocking, and kinda weak), Am Standards, some other cheepos, and the FSR won (being generally thicker and louder than the rest), rocks harder, and even felt at least as good to the touch as anything else, and looks butterscotch good, too--one of my favorite flavors. This particular guitar was a real bargain.

How can I post a photo of it here?


Really better than a $5K Masterbuilt CS - - in which ways?

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Post subject: Re: Fender FSR Ash Telecaster
Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2013 1:35 pm
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Sure enough. The Materbuilt sounded too bright for my purposes. It had more character in a sweet way, but not a good rock in' sound to me. The FSR is both warm and with the hot standard pups, rocks real well for any more modern stuff. The same was true of the Old Pine Tele I tried, real sweet sound, but thin and not rockin IMHO. Another thing I preferred about the FSR was the modern "C" neck and frets. The MB had a large vintage style "U" shape neck that wasn't as comfortable for me. Yet another thing is that the MB had a relic finish in a gray/green color that did not appeal to me. I wouldn't trade if I had to keep the MB.

I have a Greg Fessler MB Strat, btw, with Ybarra pickups, which is the sweetest sounding Strat I've ever played--well worth the $$$$ to me. But the reason I really wanted a Tele is while the Strat is great for a vintage or classic sound, it's not an all-out rocker either.

Final update: The $500 FSR Tele sounded great, looked and played fine, too; but I returned it because I couldn't intonate it. I think I could have got it with more time, or compensated saddles, but in the meantime I tried a used team-built Custom Shop Tele that interests me more. It has some of that sweet soul sound while being more solid for wild rock, too. Of course, it's $3,300 for all that versatility.

Another I really liked was an LsL T-Bone sugar pine relic (at The Guitar Shoppe in Laguna Beach, CA in case you're hunting), but it may be less versatile than the CS. I'll have to compare the two at some point.


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Post subject: Re: Fender FSR Ash Telecaster
Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2013 7:45 am
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rwhitney wrote:
I have a Greg Fessler MB Strat, btw, with Ybarra pickups, which is the sweetest sounding Strat I've ever played--well worth the $$$$ to me. But the reason I really wanted a Tele is while the Strat is great for a vintage or classic sound, it's not an all-out rocker either.


Until you order another Strat with two sweet-sounding single-coils and a hot humbucker in the bridge for more of a hard rockin' kick :twisted:

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Post subject: Re: Fender FSR Ash Telecaster
Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2013 12:02 am
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Until you order another Strat with two sweet-sounding single-coils and a hot humbucker in the bridge for more of a hard rockin' kick :twisted:

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Now that's an idea. But it's more fun to have an additional guitar for the purpose! :-)


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