
Fender Classic Series '72 Telecaster Thinline
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From Matt McGinn, Jonny's guitar tech, through Coldplay's "Oracle" Q&A service: "I can't remember where he picked it up - maybe Chicag... more

In this Panic! At The Disco live performance of "This Is Gospel", Brendon can be seen playing a custom white '72 Thinline Telecaster thro... more

Taylor shows his '72 Telecaster Thinline and talks about the custom updates done to meet his preferences. (02:56) * AlNiCo II pro humb... more

At 19:39 in the source video, Alex can be seen playing a Fender Classic Series '72 Telecaster Thinline in Natural. There are moments when... more
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It has everything normalm teles don't.
I used to be a big fan of the Baja telecaster. I am the only guitarist in the band and single coil teles were somehow not really cutting through the band mix. I have always used one or two dirt pedals so the single coil hum got pretty annoying after a while. Mine is a made in Japan 72 Thinline and it is such a great guitar. Pretty noiseless wide range humbuckers it has, bigger output, but still has the teletwang. My only complaint is the size of the frets. I have never been keen on slim vintage frets so I am thinking of changing them into mediou jumbos, or narrow tall frets.

Good sounding, Great intonation
The first thing I looked for when I was trying out guitars was intonation. All the ones I had played before I picked the 72 tele from the top, they were all craggy with intonation. This guitar is not tone-def, and has great intonation. The current WRH are apparently a shadow of the original WRH, but I like them. The guitar has a poppy, crisp sound not often seen in humbuckers. Pickup selection goes from most umph to least umph, good for cleaning up a tone that needs less low end. Bridge selection sounds good for hard rock high-gain, neck for worship guitar fullness.
The only complaint I had about this guitar is that the bridge saddle pins were a little short when I bought the guitar. I tried adjusting the height of the strings without messing with the truss rod, and didn't have much pin to move the string up. But I got it at a reasonable height.

you know that by adjusting the saddles you can fix the intonation? Look for a player with bad intonation and then demand a discount because it needs work, LOL
Your saddle height problem is just a tele neck angle thing. You could take the neck off and see if its shimmed. If so, remove the shim and take all the relief out of the neck. See if the action is where you want it then....

Such a nice sound! A real Coldplay guitar!
One the favorite guitar of Jonny Buckland thats why i bought it and it was a good choice.



Modded
This guitar has the new fender 2020 cunife wide range humbuckers, the original pickups has been changed 2 times, first with the mojotone clone wide range humbuckers, and now the fender new wide range. It also has a black pickguard and 1 Meg CTS pots

Good guitar, mediocre pickups.
I have the rare custom colour version (Lake Placid Blue). The pickups are a bit dull and lacklustre, and the neck is too hefty for my taste. Still more than a decent guitar; with clearer pickups it'd be pretty good, actually.

Great guitar
With a surprising tone similar to our gretsch this guitar won us over and gave us an excellent blues tone.

that is a beautiful guitar. I've seen the guitarist of Full of Hell playing with one, but in seafoam color. Looks like it is very very versatile even though is semi hollow

Great overall tones
Love the sound and feel of this guitar, although I did swap out the pickups with Lollar Regals which made a nice difference. Only complaint is that the finish is very fragile and began to chip apart after only a year or two of ownership.
My main studio and live guitar.
I use my '72 reissue for just about everything. The neck is perfect and the intonation is great! The wide range humbuckers in my opinion are a bit less dark then the humbuckers on my Blacktop Strat and gives the guitar a very lively tone. Overdriven or clean, this guitar fits the bill. It is also light, and because I love to jump around on stage, low weight is fairly important for me!