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LOVE the Sister Rosetta Tharpe on the wall! Very overlooked artist.

Hey John, love your playing and introducing new instruments.... It is so much fun and joy to listen to you playing AND talking. So, thank you so much... Greetings from Germany, Jochen

Your playing has improved tremendously. Great demo! Sounds Amazing!

After hearing several videos of this model, they really made the proprietary pickups sound great.

Enjoyin' this!love the tone.. especially your playing,Sir🙏🔥

So glad to see a new John B review. Been missing him for a few months. And also, wish the made this as a lefty.

John I have always loved your playing. You can float through styles and your reviews and interviews are always interesting and informative. That guitar looks and sounds phenomenal.

My two favorite artists, Johnny B and Jason isbell!

There he is! The man we've missed! so happy to come home and log on to Mr Bohlinger with a beautiful Custom!! Somebody beat me to the punch but happy to see two of my favourites together - Even if it's Jason Isbell in spirit!

Super, this will be my next Tele! Thanks!

Dig the country western shirt with this sweet axe! Nice playing Mr Bollinger.

I've got a killer Custom Shop '63 in Dakota Red and yet I still really want this guitar. Looks and sounds fantastic. As always, fantastic pickin' by John.

Awesome demo, as usual.

I got my Isbell Tele a couple weeks ago and it really is a fantastic guitar. The neck pickup is magic. Great playing and review!

Thanks John! Always enjoy your enthusiasm and playing. 👍 In mid-2020, I started playing guitar each day again after taking ten years off. I am using a Taylor T3B and Schecter Nick Johnston HSS this time around. Looking to add one more guitar into the mix at some point. This beauty just might be it my friend 🙂

Great to see Mr. Bohlinger finally. Great guitar and superb playing. Love PG

Yay! John is back!

Looking great John, your such a great player

Welcome back John!

Damn sweet demo thanks

JB love the demo! Nice sounding guitar. I really wish fender would do a whole line like that guitar out of Mexico with the nitro, or acrylic lacquer in the 60s custom colors.

Love your playing, gonna steal some licks 🤘

Good stuff, John. Keep'a pick in' . Sounds cool.

Great guitar, smoking playing, and love that shirt John!

Love the Tiffany lamp.

John painted the walls! Nice!

I just found out about this over the weekend. Finally found my tele.

John is one of those guys I’d love to meet! Seems like a totally down to earth music nerd

Jason got taste 👌👌 I love Tele with binding. Especially double binding

John, you certainly selected a great spanking amp tone to compliment that Telecaster. Quality review.

Shirt goes perfectly with this Tele….

So I guess I have another artist to go check out now, thanks John!

Great guitar and demo

“I’ve got the fat switch on cause I love that damn thing!” Gotta have the fat switch on when playing a Blues Jr. Aside from that awesome quote and playing from John can we also appreciate his awesome pimp shirt he’s wearing!

I feel like I haven't seen one of these in forever. Been missing John and our first look videos. Let's start getting loud again. Maybe youtube just hasn't been showing me these videos anymore.

Great playing John...

Nice playing John!

Those tuners are awesome .

The real star of this video is that shirt.

So, I really want to get a tele...and I think this is going to be the one. I think the American Pro II's are great too, but I think I will love the pickups in this Isbell Tele much much more. Great review John.

Shame me if you will… I have heard of Jason Isbell but don’t know his music. However, I do know John’s videos and this one is great. Great to see him play and not just interview (which is also cool!) This is a cool axe, and I love how much the neck sounds like a strat. Great combination! Thanks for the review!!!

Sir....!!!...2 things if I may???.....#1...watched you for years on Rig Rundown, never knew who you are....but you seem like a good dude and now, over few years, have learned you have incredible chops...#2....thank god you gave up the hair dye....mad respect for both...lol.....are you otherwise a famous player?

I just ordered one. It would be my first Tele. Reasons why I chose this: the custom pickups. Most other Teles I saw on the site had pickups I can buy and put in this. But I don’t see where I can buy a non-artist based Tele and put these Tim Shaw ones on. Yes, I’m sure there are pickups that are like the ones in the JICT. The truss rod adjustment placement, the nitro finish and smooth neck. I don’t mind 7.25 radius, I’m not going to play metal on this. Can’t wait for it to arrive!

Nice to see you back, John! Where have you been??

John's playing and style rocks!!

0:36 'Where is my tremolo bar?' 🧐🙈

Great playing..... teles are the best

Always enjoy this guys playing! I heard a bit of Jerry Reed and a touch of Doc Watson, nice - great guitar too!

The White Top Hat pickup selector is the show stopper for me...LOL...

Isbell. Bollinger. Tele. Priceless.

Another guitar i want !! :)

I was sold on it up to the 7.25 radius. I would put a white guard on that in a bug's eye! MUCH agree with you on the lacquer. Fender needs to learn to offer many of their guitars with flatter boards as an option. Nice playing, Mr. B.

Nice playin'

Here in Holland most are like Jason who ? Thank god I have lived in Georgia for many years.... didn’t he play I know a little at that Skynyrd tribute ?? Hey John, dig the shirt, brother 👊🏻😎🎸

Fender put Jason on a Tele. We all appreciate that because Jason Isbell is known for his fluidity on a telecaster. Or maybe he's known as the poet laureate of our generation and Fender is just glomming to his success

thanks for the review country david byrne

Nice shirt!

That's some fine playing John. Actually I'm subscribed to Premier Guitar and when I receive it,I read it from the last page to the first and John's article is what I read first.A big fan. Cheers from Canada

7:50 “... this will become *your* guitar.” Yeah, that made me laugh, too.

Deep river blues, v tasty my dude

DAM JOHN!!!! What an intro,i like most of em but that was just mean,but smooth,in your face ,yet slick andbuttery....man you are on fire today!!! NICE man!

I got them Deep Water Blues …..And I want that guitar

Next episode John is back with the b-bender version!!

missed Johnny B so much - had to go back and watch again

I’m gonna get mine tomorrow 😬

Slotted Klusons are great! I really can't understand why all tuners are slotted. Nice Tele, at a sane price. Aren't the sides of the bridge plate trimmed down too? A subtle, practical tweak to the original design.

Cool pillow

never heard of Jason BUT I SURE KNOW JOHN !!!!!!

I’m here for John B

Me want. Nice pickin'.

The guitar is also nice OOOOHHHHH!!!!

Great demo as always by John. He reminds me of a Sam Elliot. I wish that signature models would be offered with a choice of a non-reliced version. Keep the specs, ditch the relicing for those who prefer such.

I have to admit that those pickups sound like they are tuned to perfection.

Fat switch, love that Damn thing 😜

Ooooooooh dats a Purdy one

Man i want that shit lol

I wasn’t even really super interested in this tele. I just wanted to hear John pickin. Cool guitar though.

Looks like my Chandler Telecaster...

Everything is vintage looking in this video (lamp, couch, shirt, guitar) except the clock.

I keep wanting a good Fender Tele and a Fender Strat, but they just sound too sharp to me. Am I suck with Les Paul's?

I want the Gibson Redeye replica instead but it costs a bit more...

I didn't know Billy Bob Thornton played guitar

Still waiting for this to land in Wolverhampton! Can't wait

Would you buy this over a professional ii?

Never thought I'd find another sister Rosetta Tharpe fan. And damn that Tele is sweet, but my best friends who I share a house with said if I bring home one more guitar, they'll evict me. So...

Does the guitar come with that shirt?!

Is this a one piece guitar?? Because i got mine today and you can see at leats 3 parts of wood :*

Genuine question - who is Jason Isbell? My knowledge of any music post 1998 is pretty limited tbf.

So in other words, it's a Telecaster...

Is that a blues jr? I have a blues jr.

How’d you get one? I have an order in and I’m told late Aug shipping.

I'd buy one if it was made in the US.

This is a cool guitar, but I have tried 3 different ones and all of them had playability QC issues, and for 1600 bucks that is not acceptable. In general I feel like in addition to raising the prices significantly for the MIM models, Fender has also done a lot of cost cutting in their processes over the past 5 years as it seems like almost every MIM I pick up now has some fret issues and they used have really great fret work across the line for a good 5 to 10 year period there when the bang for buck on them was just amazing.

Why relic it ? Why not just tone down the new finish ?

Ace Ventura forever

Who’s Jason Isbell?

Why 7.25 radius? Why, fender ?

I have no idea who Jason is....

Not a fan of the seems in the wood showing in the top.