A Little help Please

It's a beautiful guitar and I honestly don't think $ 399.00 is too far out of range. I certainly would, especially if it talks to you when you play it.

 

I would snap it quick. The Kahler is worth 150.00 and I got to tell you I love mine. I find I pick it up to practice because it's never out of tune. I love my kahler. Good looking guitar. Pull the trigger. You will not regret it imho.

 

I would add Japanese strats are awesome! Mine is an 87 and it kicks butt. Everyone who picks it up cannot believe how much they love it. Cannot go wrong with a Japanese strat imho I will never buy another MIM or MIA.

 

Fender didn't use those Kahler Steeler bridges for long; they switched from the older Spyder bridge (as found on the HM Strats) to the Steeler for part of a year, then they picked up the distribution for Floyd Rose products when Kramer went bankrupt and they switched everything over to OFRs or FRIIs (depending on the model).

 

Yes, it is.....

$400 is top dollar value.....if it's plus tax plus shipping I wouldn't do it but if it's local it might be a good deal....

Basswood body, 12" fretboard radius (some are 9.5" though), and flat pole alnico pickups....

 

have you looked at guitarcenter.com used guitars

 

yeah my bad.. I should have read before writing.. I tried to edit it

 

That's $350 new - Contemporary Tele HH - new model! grab it!

 

I liked the strat but that tele price nah. Sounds like money’s burning a hole in your pocket man. Just pass

 

I have a Chinese Tele ... a Modern Player Plus ... it's my easiest playing guitar, an absolute joy to play ... but I haven't been able to get it to sound right. I just don't like how it sounds; it's not horrible, also not great. It has three p/u and a Humbucker in the bridge position. I considered replacing the pickups, but I didn't get a very good deal on the guitar, and feel more like cutting my losses. But it's a joy to play ... lol. Don't know how long it will last, that's the next concern, but the electrics are what I didn't like about my Chinese Tele.

 

I picked up my MIJ Standard back in 1996, and absolutely love it. It had some tuning issues (like many Strats do, where the string would stick at the nut, or sometimes in the tree); but I eventually had my tech fabricate and install a stone nut and locking tuners, and it stays perfectly in tune, no matter what I do with the bar, or how I bend the strings.

Twenty-two years later, and I'm still in love with this guitar. I'd never part with it.

I don't have any experience with the Chinese-made Fenders. Good luck, whatever you decide!

 

I had a Contemporary Telecaster, back in the mid-Eighties. It was very unusual, in that it had dual (exposed pole piece) humbuckers, a solid black body, with black neck (rosewood board), matching black headstock and black tuners.

It had a locking nut, and floating bridge, and the bar snapped in-place, as opposed to being threaded.

It also had a coil splitter switch. I don't think it ever had the typical Tele spank that most Tele's had, but it was still a great guitar. I probably would eventually have replaced the pickups with some EMG's, or something.

I'm really sorry I ever sold that guitar. I don't know what the hell I was thinking. But that was my very first Japanese-made Fender.

It was absolutely beautiful. I wish I still had, or at least some pictures of it

Recently saw a similar one, but in a different color, but missing the bar, on eBay:

http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-5...0001&campid=5338148356&icep_item=152133787761

I don't think I could ever get myself to pay 700 bucks for a used one, even if I had it, though. I paid about 400 and change, for mine, new, with the case.