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Stunning guitar, put I never got on with the pickups. Just a bit too muddy for my tastes
So pretty though.
Ignore the RRP, I got mine for about £270 from the local dealer.
https://www.jhs.co.uk/brands/vintage/vintage-electrics/vintage-v72-custom-spec-tl-electric-guitar-flame-tobacco-burst
https://www.amazon.co.uk/photos/share/PeG1ZvjR36OZr3wN1mLwMn7Xzr3Dr9TzgiNNglwh8Gt
An excellent guitar.
I love a good 72 thinline, but most MIM ones aren't that as the pickups are just PAFs in fancy covers. The proper 72 thing needs WRHBs.
I had (until recently) an original 72 Thinline (with the wide range pickups).
Wonderful guitar, ultimately I moved it on - but nothing wrong with the guitar at all, definitely an instrument in it's own right - it's not just another Tele, something different and unique about it
some things to note: as @Wazmeister will confirm, it’s an incredible guitar and I’ve had about ten offers for it off the forum but it’s not representative of others of that era which of course was very variable.
Waz am was so impressed he bought a 73 but then decided it wasn’t quite like mine is....part of the reason for that is the bridge pup in mine is ever so slightly microphonic, but in a good way.
the key to these are the WRHB’s and the ones in the reissues are random HBs with a wide range cover. They are rubbish compared the the real CuNiFe ones.
the ri guitars are very good though, so get a nice one and then get either creamery, mojo or oil city wRHb replacements.
personally I don’t like the single coil late 60s guitars; they’re weedy and reedy compared to the monster tones of the WRHB models
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
I've got a similar CS Nocaster Thinline, but mine has a '50s sunburst finish, 4-way switching and, weirdly, a rosewood-board neck with a '65 C profile. I'm not particularly fond of the neck, I might swap it for a proper fat one-piece maple Nocaster neck.
I used to have a Fender USA '90s Tele Thinline (I think that was the model name) with American Standard style hardware - the sealed tuners made it annoyingly neck-heavy.
And I've got a couple of Warmoth bodies and Fender necks which - like all my partscasters - I've never got round to assembling. One's a blue sunburst '72 style which I intend to put TV Jones pickups in.... but it may never happen.
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.