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Nice I myself have never been a big tele fan (There are some people who can do GREAT stuff with it, it's just not for my playing style). It's just way to... bright? sounding for me. Excellent find though! One of these days I'll have to give a tele a serious playing, maybe I'll like it

Great!  Exactly what I was hoping for!!!  I usually plays my strat in my weekend makeshift band I'm in, and my friend has the les paul marshall thing going.  Now we got another guitar player in the band and he has a home made guitar that looks like a telecaster but has very much a strat quality to it.  single coils are my favorite sounds so I decided to sound different from him.  It was either a Tele or something with P-90's.  I'm not afraid to say this on here but I'm a Fender guy.  Its totally true now.  Now at least I do have the option to borrow my dads Les Paul Traditional Pro which was much better then my guitar I sold.  I guess my dream sound is like Jimmy Page from zep I Good Times Bad Times.  Maybe with the swollen pickle I'll have it.

I also hate to admit this, but we also have an Eric Johnson strat in the studio, and the baja Tele gets played more. It seems like the EJ sounds great for single notes, clean and soloing, But the baja has great bar chords, reg. chords, and soloing/clean as well.

- Nic from Detroit... posting on JB's Forum since 6-2-2006
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Thanks guys, I feel good about the deal.  I never played my Les Paul it ended up being 27 lbs to ship to france that cost about $102!  No wonder my shoulders always hurt playing that thing!  I once weighted myself with and without the guitar and it said it was 13 lbs.  not very good way to really get a number but it was the must heavy Les Paul I've ever played and I have played a lot.  So I think the Baja Telecaster is what I've always wanted in a guitar I've just never had the chance to purchase one until now.

Thats true.  I heard that gibson was bought out in 2003 by the parent company of guitarcenter who also owns musiciansfriend.  2002 or earlier the back of the les paul were solid.  Now they piece the guitars together before they cut them out.  There is nothing wrong with that but for the money they charge a pieced back should cost less and honestly they don't pass the savings down to the consumers (us) The big thing I don't like is the maple tops these days.  Plain tops are not my issue, its the AAA plus tops or the AA tops they don't match the tops well anymore and the flames are barely visible.  In the 90's when you bought a les paul you got the choice of a plain top or a flame top and the flames always looked good.  I don't wanna sound like I hate Gibson, I love them.  I just think more about bang for the buck.  Thats not gibson.  Gibson is for the people who can afford them for everyone else made in mexico, korea, japan, etc.  is good quality stuff for really cheap prices.  I got my dads squire Telecaster right now that I'm playing getting ready for the new Baja Tele and honestly we put GFS pickups in it and it sounds as good as any guitar I've played or owned.  Dad has less then $200 in it and I wouldn't think twice about playing it at a gig.

I'm pretty sure that most of the Historic LP's are completely solid wood.  You can hear the holes or chambers if you knock on the wood.  I'm just sayin', without opening the whole "chambered vs. non-chambered" can of worms.  I agree also, there are some great pre-80s guitars out there that haven't exploded with collectors yet.  I'd love another SG like my '70s Special or even a nice old beat-to-hell LP Custom.