Indeed!

Thank you mate! You are gonna love it.

Joseph Gabaldon how is it for heavy distorted rhythm? I use a ec1000 and hell raiser deluxe but this tele is so much thinner. Also is it super noisy? I have a noise suppressor so I’m sure it’s fine though. But that’s the thing it’s so hard to find a affordable tele for metal but it’s my fav shape and I play metal lol

It has active EMGs. This is basically a full blast metal guitar in disguise. The funny thing is that it performs great also with clean tones. It sounds nothing like a fender, it plays nothing like a fender (not implying that's good or bad, just different). I tried it with a ton of distortion and fx and it was as noiseless as it gets.

Your English is fine, mate :) I think you are right, I should'd probably made an audio comparison. However, this is a quick video I had for the Indonesian model (I hope this helps a little): kzfaq.info/get/bejne/msqJmNuCm7Led2g.html

Thanks, very much. I'll check that link. By the way, I'm not a pro musician, just a sloopy bass and guitar player, but I' ve been around buying and selling instruments in my country, and also in Europe and USA, and tried many many Teles. I've even got a metal body fender tele custom shop. But, for traditional tele sound, weird as it may sound, the best I've had was a mexican Ash maple body roseewood fingerboard, Anniversary model, with non stock Fender Custom 52 pups. I agree with you these set neck teles don't feel "fenderish", and that there are excelent korean and indonesian (indonesian wood work is outstanding) instruments. May be the time to let besides our prejudices has come.

I love mexi-teles and MIM Fender in general, well built instruments.

Me too. I’m led to believe they’re Atomic ii pickup bridge . And Black Canyon rhythm. I find them great.

From all teles I have played I would say this is as closed as it gets. Humbuckers and set neck with large frets.

Joseph Gabaldon thanks!!

The build is very similar. The hardware is what makes the biggest difference IMO as it feels 'ok' in some parts of the Fenders -wears out very quickly- but solid on the PRS. Sound-wised, I would not say one is better than the other, they both sound good.

Mine was used... I'm not 100% sure.

Long video... :) there was quite a bit to cover.

When you pull the knob out, I believe it "single coil" taps it In which case your humbucker becomes a single coil pickup *1 row isn't used* The seymour duncan 59' in neck, single coil tapped, is one of my favorites pickup sounds.

@@edp5623 ok that makes sense cool. Thanks

If you use the serial number lookup that you find on Google, it’s incorrect. They started making these in the early 2000s

It is a coil split so it makes the humbuckers single coil.

One of the Seymour Duncan’s is a 59 the other one is pearly gates Perfect combination for me and probably most people , imho,,,,super versatile!!! and the fact that the neck is, is that neck or neck through the difference is vast in that playing. The higher register of the guitar is so much easier and the radius is quite different. There’s zero buzz as far as I can tell on the gig when hyper, bending strings. To me it’s like having the best of both worlds, Italiana, Les Paul, and still being able to get Strat sounds at the same time , not to mention how warm and fat the neck pick up is it sounds very jazzy, very Lucille, or 335-ish

Basswood

@@Rule1ModelRailways thanks, I am also interested in the wood used on the neck and fret board, and I would appreciate your input if you know the types. Thanks again.

@@jongoodman4622 rosewood frets and mahogany neck on mine

@@Rule1ModelRailways thanks. Strangely the back of the body and the neck look to be encased in plastic. so it is difficult to tell what kind of wood has been used, thanks for your help

Mahagony body and neck with a maple cap and rosewood fret board ..

The Boxer, 100%. It's a great guitar and highly underrated. You can get a used one very cheap.

They were a very limited run, but most stores had them in stock because they were not very popular. But those of us who have had on since debut (2012) keep buying and collecting them, boucle we know how good they are. Funny how things flop to the general public, but, after they're gone, people realize how good they were.

@@TroyPosey im 31 now, been playing for 20 years exactly. it took me a very long time to come around to fender, and fender body styles. i grew up a jackson boy. crazy body styles, i wanted to turn heads. as i got older, i realized how god damn pretty the tele body was. but i still want/need a good set of humbucker, neck through, with a c neck. not a u neck like 99% of fenders are. and so i found this gem...WILL ONE OF YOU FUCKS WHO ARE HOARDING THEM SELL ME ONE! I WANT TO FEEL ITS POWA! no but seriously...if you're a collector, and you're reading this...i'd buy one at a fair price. i understand how rare they are and what they're worth.

@@kikigomewmew9466 I have been playing for almost 25 years, and I'll be 34 on Friday. I also grew up a Jackson guy, and still have my (bought 2nd-hand in 1997) original 1990 MIJ Jackson Kelly KE3 Professional. I love that guitar, but the Tele is just such a tone monster. If you find one of them, get it. Checkout my channel to hear my guitars. My earlier recordings are HORIRBLE, as I am still learning how to tweak and tune my setup for recording. It's gotten a lot better in the last couple months since I got an SM57 mic setup.

@@TroyPosey absolutely man ill check it out. Ive found a couple fsr teles on the market but they hold their value well. Im considering the schecter version. I just hate pickguards.

@@kikigomewmew9466 Did you ever find one ? Reply if serious about purchasing one.

Great. The one I reviewed was made in Korea.

And with seymour pickup, not EMG, not FENDER

Which one would you pick between that one , meaning the made in Indonesia or the made in Japan Boxer series tele ?

yes you can, my jackson wrmg warrior came with HZ's with a coil tap. i swapped them out for an 81/85 and works just the same.

They are extremely light.

@@mykaljoseph yeah i ended up picking one up (bought 1 i mean). I don't know if id say it's extremely light, but it's definitely lighter than i thought it would be, I've had vintage reissues with ash and alder bodies and bolt on maple necks that were heavier. I have to say that i definitely find the older ones preferable, mine is a 2019 and I'm not impressed with it. I got it last week, the kid i bought if it from mustn't have gotten a setup done when he first bought it. I used to use 11s tuned to standard on Strats, then went down to Eric Johnson nickel rockers that are kind of like heavy tops/,light bottoms, except it's the Low E/A & G that are heavy and D/B & high E that are light. The heavy are supposed to be like an 11 set, but the Low E and A are closer to 12s. I decided to go with straight 10s this time because i hadn't played in a while and i had been using 24 3/4" gibson scale for a while. He said the strings he had been using had like a 58-60 for a Low E (i don't know what set they were he said they were mixed 10s, but I've never seen heavy top 10s with a Low E that heavy). The 10s i used were getting bound up in the nut, so his HAD to have been since they're so much heavier. Even without my fretting tools and straight edge i can tell that I'm going to need to level and crown the frets, i can visually see that the 3rd fret is too high. I think the nut is going to have to go too, it looks like it was slotted to deeply and I'm getting bad fret buzz on the B. These things happen with used guitars, so usually it's not something that really says the guitar itself has issues. I've been repairing guitars for years, but this one is DEFINITELY due to the guitar and not the original owner. Most of the frets have little to no wear, they're all pretty much still crowned like they are before they're played on, the original owner must not have been big into string bending. The fact that it doesn't look too have ever been setup tells me the nut must have come from the factory like that. It had some fret sprout up past the 17th ftet a little, that's not too big a deal, it's common with Guitars at this price point, especially in the winter, so some drafting tape and a sanding block took care of that. I actually thought id be okay with leveling the frets since i still have a few radiused sanding blocks i use to level frets and a crowning and dressing file, but the fretboard has some weird radius that's measured in mm, that translates to like 15.8". That's far flatter than i like, but it's also a radius i don't have wa block for. I haven't decided if i want to flatten the frets down to 12 or 14" and just compound and crown them, or get a 15.5", level them, get the nut to a passable dressing and sell the thing. Probably the latter. It's too bad actually because the thing sounds killer. I was surprised how much i like the Duncans, and was REALLY surprised that the volume and tone controls work as well as they do. Usually they have bad tapers, and you get volume drop-off at some point when you roll it down, and the tone comtrol usually has a cap value that's way too high and it sounds like mud below 6or7. I find the tone control is pretty perfect; it rolls off evenly and is usable pretty much the whole way. I had to modify that coil split to a partial tap like PRS does because they're pretty useless stock, but that's how they all are when they put coil splitting with lower output PAF type pickups, regardless of the manufacturer. I still don't get WHY they do coil splitting instead of a partial tap, there is literally no more you need to do to make it a tap than to use a resistor to ground they coil instead of a piece of wire. The resistor costs me less than 20¢, so how much could it possibly cost Fender? 5¢?

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My "Special Edition Custom Telecaster FMT HH", in "crimson" red, which I bought new in 2005, was made in Korea.

@@edp5623 is the serial # 8 digits? Does it have Seymour Duncan pickups?

@@TerryThayer @metalion1111 THT Serial# is 8 digits Labeled made in Korea Seymour duncan branded pickups I believe the neck is SD 59' and the bridge is SD pearly gates Any knowledge about the serial#? I've never looked it up

@@edp5623 ok. Sounds like we have a similar guitar. Maybe internet is wrong then. I looked online and it told me my serial number indicates it's dated 1988-1996 but you said you bought it new in 2005. So I think mine is probably mid 2000's now

No.

I have this same guitar... Want to hear how one sounds? Here you go... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qNl-Z66hlrCamWw.html