Fender Modern Player Telecaster Plus

[Ecrawf099]

So I picked up this 2012, Chinese-made Fender Modern Player Telecaster Plus. I am totally impressed with the build quality on this guitar. Sounds good. Plays amazingly well. Anyone have any experience with one of these?

[Kenny8416]

My budget doesn’t stretch to big brands sadly.

Really like the tobacco burst on that though - will have to attempt that on a future build I think.

[Ecrawf099]

@kenny-milne

My budget doesn’t stretch to big brands sadly.

Really like the tobacco burst on that though - will have to attempt that on a future build I think.

I bought this in a pawn shop. $325 US. Very much plays, sounds, and looks way better than the price paid would indicate. I’ve only played one other Tele that I liked this much, and that was an original 1972 Tele Custom that belonged to a friend of mine.

[pcarter (AnungUnRama)]

I worked at a music store straight out of college. We were a rival dealer to the Fender dealer in town (we sold Gibson). I did not have a lot of experience with Fender.

We somehow sniped the Fender franchise from them and frankly I wanted to hate them. I could not. Even the inexpensive Fenders were like “whoa dang man, that’s a nice guitar”. Given the choice today, I’d take a USA Fender over a USA Gibson almost any day of the week. There are very, very few exceptions to that and nothing in production today at Gibson counts.

This looks like a great axe man. I love the finish and the subtle chattoyance on the fingerboard. That’ll take on some nice character over time. The only thing it lacks is a B5 Bigsby ;0).

[pcarter (AnungUnRama)]

@ericcrawford

@kenny-milne

My budget doesn’t stretch to big brands sadly.

Really like the tobacco burst on that though - will have to attempt that on a future build I think.

I bought this in a pawn shop. $325 US. Very much plays, sounds, and looks way better than the price paid would indicate. I’ve only played one other Tele that I liked this much, and that was an original 1972 Tele Custom that belonged to a friend of mine.

I’ll give you $340 for it right now. Seriously that is a killer deal man. Since 2020 you do not find deals like that anywhere.

[Ecrawf099]

@pcarter

@ericcrawford

@kenny-milne

My budget doesn’t stretch to big brands sadly.

Really like the tobacco burst on that though - will have to attempt that on a future build I think.

I bought this in a pawn shop. $325 US. Very much plays, sounds, and looks way better than the price paid would indicate. I’ve only played one other Tele that I liked this much, and that was an original 1972 Tele Custom that belonged to a friend of mine.

I’ll give you $340 for it right now. Seriously that is a killer deal man. Since 2020 you do not find deals like that anywhere.

It does have a couple of sharp fret ends. But that’s an easy fix. I definitely think it’s a keeper. Much to my wife’s dismay… they are all keepers, though. LOL