Great guitar, nice choice. 12's? Wow, those are what I'd call heavy strings - I use 9's! Don't they use the bottom E's from a set of 12's for holding suspension bridges up?
I notice your American standard Tele has one more fret than my MIM Tele - you've got 22 frets as opposed to my 21 frets.
Anyway, enjoy your new guitar - you're going to LOVE that maple fretboard pretty soon!
:D :D :D
Vic
"Sometimes the beauty of music can help us all find strength to deal with all the curves life can throw us." (D. Hodge.)
It's kind of funny how I got to .12s. I started on .09s and accidentally bought .10s and loved em. Decided to try .11s for the hell of it. Then .12s. I use .12s on the strat and tele, .13s on the gretsch.
It affects my action for sure. With heavy strings, a 3.0mm pick and heavy picking i have to put the action kind of high. no big deal. the tele handles it well. I'm a little paranoid about it though...ive always got this idea in my head that it's not set up perfectly, like my neck relief isn't right or i should adjust the neck angle. It's my own nerosis, it plays like a dream so whatever..
btw Vic, good catch on the frets. i hadnt counted. and i do love the maple. my strat has maple. on the tele its finished to a high polish, which is a really cool feeling under the fingers.
12's..........holy moley.
I could see 'em on a gibson scale but on a fender that's pretty heavy.
I play 11's on my tele's.
The Tele is THE electric geetar !
JJ
Hard to go past a Tele. My brother got a beautiful green one brand new a couple of years ago, after playing a Strat clone for many years. He's never looked back.
BEAUTIFULL guitar!!!
I play the guitar, I taught myself how to play the guitar, which was a bad decision... because I didn't know how to play it, so I was a sh***y teacher. I would never have went to me. -Mitch Hedberg
Nice! Have Fun!
Crazy that a $1000 needs a new nut. The is unexcuseable. AND, the store needs to make that right. What a bunch of bozos at GC. If you bought that from a local shop I'd bet they would have fixed up for nothin.
-=- Steve
"If the moon were made of ribs, would you eat it?"