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Fat guitars

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  • 07-06-2002 8:50pm
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    col_nicholson
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    Can some one please tell me what the difference between a fat telecaster and a standerd telecaster and an affinity series telecaster.

    And can where can you get double neck guitars (electric) not that i will b gettinting one just out of curiosity


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    Oeneus
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    A fat telecaster has a humbucker pickup (double coil pickup) at the neck. The same for the fat strat.

    And I think Walton's currently have an Epiphone Doubleneck.


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    lethal dose
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    I've got a mexican standard and I wouldn't part with it for anything! If I were you lookin' for that fatter tone I'd upgrade the the pickups to some smokin seymore duncans. But shop around cause when I was lookin for my tele I seen some dodgy ones and they were both new and some were american!


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    Caesar_Bojangle
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    Is the affinity series not the squier brand, go to www.fender.com they give some info there.


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    Giblet
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    A fat strat/tele has a humbucker in the Bridge, giving it a "fatter" tone.
    I would recommend one if you are looking to buy.
    A standard Telecastor usually just has single coil neck and bridge pickups, and are highly recommended also,
    and an affinity is a piece of shít squire (aren't they all :))

    The double necks they have in waltons are rubbish, the epiphone sg double neck they had a while back was in bits, It wouldn't tune either. There usually too expensive compared to the quality.


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    lethal dose
    Registered Users Posts: 418 ✭✭lethal dose


    Yes, Giblet is right bout the afinity stuff its not the best of budget gear.


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    Caesar_Bojangle
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    There are two kinds of squire guitars mar thampla you can buy a Squire Strat for about IR£130, whereas you can buy a Squire Stratocastor for about IR£300 which is of a slightly superior quality than the cheaper
    squire strat , which i think is the squire affinity brand.


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    Zaphod B
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    assuming its the same for their Strats as their Telecasters, there's the Squier Affinity Telecaster which is cheaper and from what I've heard a portion of excrement, then there's the more expensive standard Squier Telecaster of which I am the proud owner and its fine for my purposes :)


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