Making Of The Fender American Acoustasonic Telecaster

[jeremyb]

Interesting guitar, I quite like it!

[rickenbackerkid]

Ugly but interesting. I watched a couple of YT reviews however and was far from impressed. Sounds kind of lame IMO

[sizzlingbadger]

I thought it was quite cool, something different that actually seems to work. I won't be dropping that sort of coin on one though. I imagine they will cheap as chips in a couple of years time though as guitarists don't like new stuff.

[Slowy]

Ugly and hideously expensive. The sales meeting might have been better without the south of the border nose candy.

At 1/3rd retail, it becomes an interesting prospect. In the fullness of time, I may own one.* I predict it will follow the same trajectory as my American G&L Legacy. An unused $3000 guitar for $860? Hell Yeah!

* Though I can't help thinking Godin did this years ago and superbly well with their Multiac models.

[Jay]

Ugliness is in the eye of the beholder. I quite like the look of it and would love to meet one at the next Auckland gearfest.

[StratMatt]

I played once at the shop a few months ago, it actually played and felt really nice. Choked when I looked at the price tag.

[codedog]

I quite like the look when I first saw the Tele, but preferred the Strat when that came out. The price is prohibitive for me, especially since I'm not sure how versatile this would be.

[rickenbackerkid]

I'd have one of these for cheap - might be a cool guitar to play in the covers band where I switch between elec and acoustic. ugly as sin though!

[Terexgeek]

If the price curls your toes, wait for next year's summer NAMM for the Squier version. If not that NAMM, then the following one.

[Danger Mouse]

This popped up in my youtube feed last week, but I just got the impression it wasn't doing anything a 335 or similar could manage (in this vid anyway).

[slash-ed]

I spent some time with one when they first came out, as I expected it was a bit of a jack of all trades that kinda didn't do any one thing particularly well.

Couldn't decide if it was meant for the electric player who sometimes needs acoustic sounds (then a piezo-equipped guitar is probably fine for gigging and you don't have to put up with the weird looks), or the acoustic player who sometimes need electric sounds (then it doesn't feel right with the neck and the light strings).

Thoroughly in the meh pile for me.

[Starfire]

The contrasting inlaid top reminds me of old surfboards for some reason. Except on the sunburst one, which puts me in mind of those cheap plywood strats with the wide band of black to hide the plys.

I thought based on the vid sizzlingbader posted that there were a couple of quite convincing acoustic sounds. But all the sounds seemed so compromised as to make the whole guitar a bit pointless really.

[Slowy]

This popped up in my youtube feed last week, but I just got the impression it wasn't doing anything a 335 or similar could manage (in this vid anyway).

Yeah, 2 minutes of that was enough.

[jeremyb]