Guitar Question

[Handmade.Mercury]

For those of you who are familiar, what's the general opinion on MIM Telecasters? Some people say don't bother, others say that they are hit or miss, some say that they're perfectly fine. What's the truth?

[TheEpicOfTyler]

Don't take people's advice on guitars, usually they're just regurgitating what they heard from someone else. Go to a guitar shop and play one if you can. There is a lot of decent gear out there that is scoffed at by gearheads.

[Thanasimos]

I'm going to say this: Every guitar sounds different to everybody, so you should pick the one that sounds best to you. If you go into a guitar shop, don't just play the model you're looking at. Play every model in your price range, and pick the one you like most. I'm sure a lot of guitarists would flip a shit if I asked them to buy my guitar, but I'm madly in love with the thing and with the sounds it makes. I picked it from many, and was most impressed with it.

Try to do that with yours!

[JediSanf]

For a beginner guitarist, there's not a thing wrong with them. I learned on a MIM Strat and it was probably two years of playing that and then fooling around with every guitar I could get my hands on before I really developed an opinion on a guitar's tone, playability, and range (of things I could make it do). It really takes playing the same licks on every guitar you can before you decide / can reasonably opine on rosewood vs. maple or crowned vs. flat frets (or even why you might like a Parker Super Fly for x but a Les Paul for y).

I'm don't have the ears for it but I know a player who swears by his hand-wound pickups. He does this I think partly because he's a Brian May fan but also partly because he's a much better player than I am and knows exactly what sound he wants.

So basically: don't let the internet scare you off what may be exactly the guitar you need right now. If you like it's sound over everything else in your price range, buy it.

[Spockrocket]

Ditto on what the last 3 posters said. Try it for yourself, and get it if you like it. You don't choose your guitar. It chooses you. Corny, I know, but true nonetheless.

[JediSanf]

Necropost because I want to know what Hg went with and how the playing is coming along.

[boratika]

Don't take people's advice on guitars, usually they're just regurgitating what they heard from someone else. Go to a guitar shop and play one if you can. There is a lot of decent gear out there that is scoffed at by gearheads.

This is so true. I assume it is the same phenomenon that causes people spend copious quantities of cash on copper speaker wire (or even worse, silver.)

[Handmade.Mercury]

Well, I ended up getting on Craiglist and getting a MIM Tele that plays beautifully. Follow the link if you want to see it.

TDPRI Link (http://www.tdpri.com/forum/telecaster-discussion-forum/190069-finally-got-tele.html)

[The Continental]

Those pics look great! I've got a "Midnight Wine" Fender Jazz Bass and it just kinda looks, well... purple. Yours looks great.

[Handmade.Mercury]

Those pics look great! I've got a "Midnight Wine" Fender Jazz Bass and it just kinda looks, well... purple. Yours looks great.

Slap a black pickguard on there, and all will be good.

[JediSanf]

Excellent! So what music have you been learning on?

[Handmade.Mercury]

Excellent! So what music have you been learning on?

Lots of Muse, some folk songs like House of the Rising Sun, and I'm definitely trying to get some blues influence into my more impromptu playing.