The Fender Tele Thinline: A Short History
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I have long been a fan of both styles of Telecaster Thinline guitars. I've owned more than a few and have enjoyed them all. Not sure why it took me this long to make this particular history.
Thanks for watching,
Keith - Hudba
I feel extremely lucky to be alive right now because of how enthusiastic the whole scene is around guitars right now. Your page has done so much to help push this community in such an awesome direction! THANK YOU!
I am a guitar builder. These times, as you say, are amazing for us guitar geeks. I started building in my basement about 15 years ago, and have sold over 50 handmade guitars and basses. There is no other time in history when a hobby could be this exciting.
Here here!
And yet the guitar has lost its social stature in the music world (as compared to the 1950s-80s).
@@ronj9448 you realize the music "world" includes countries outside the USA right? Go take a look at Finland and Japan.... Also have you not noticed that the popular music industry now is not at all independent artists found and promoted but rather fabricated bands created by the industry itself? No shit that a bunch of suits making music prefer samples over actual instruments and musicians. Thats why so many people don't give a shit about pop music anymore, meanwhile in the 50s-80s pretty much everyone felt represented in some capacity by pop music. Record breaking all time sales numbers for guitars and you don't think there's a return to our roots in the works? I hope someone else handles your investment portfolio....
@@ronj9448 this video itself and the fact that it exists disproves your statement.... this is the music world now.... there was never a market for shows like this before, and now there is, the fact that this audience exists now and didn't before should have told you everything.
It seems to be a recurring trend in electric guitar history that guitar designs don't get a lot of appreciation when they're first brought to market, only for players to fall in love with them many years later. The thinlines were and still are cool guitars, they just needed the right player to make them shine.
It's always nice when there's a little personal history in these guitar histories. You're not just telling the story of the guitar, but how it impacted you. Gotta love that every guitar player at one point looked at David Gilmour and went: "I wanna sound like that guy."
This always happens because most big time guitar players are not technicians in the slightest. They don't look to understand the amount of versatile function you can get out of an instrument or piece of gear. They just want something that does the job and gets out of the way without having them need to think about what pickups they have on, how they are wired, etc. The Jazzmaster still gets a bad rep despite being designed to basically cancel out all negatives of guitar design at the time, as long as you knew how to use it.
Things like easy to adjust truss rods and tilt adjustments should be present in every practical electric guitar or bass if you ask me. If guitarists in general would have more passion for tech over the years, we would have seen them adopted more.
Players would rather fantasize about some unproven difference between bobbin colors or chase flawed guitar designs from the 50s rather than focus on getting and maintaining a guitar that is as practical as it is wonderful. This is why I have such an appreciation of modern smaller brands than the big classics. Brands like Dingwall, Ibanez and Sire make such functional instruments with so much space for creativity in both how you play them and they're setup.
@@elsienova4269 love your reply and the OP comment as well. It’s amazing how subjective guitars are because not everyone who is into them are actual working musicians anymore. Collectors, tinkerers, bedroom players, they all relate to guitars in different ways and look for different things, which generally boils down to whether or not you believe in “mojo” or not. Mojo generally includes having a loyalty to the big brands and traditional designs as well. It’s just insane because the Telecaster is literally 73 years old now and the Thinline is now 55 years old, so it seems like some players need designs to be half a century old before they acknowledge them 😉 I can’t wait for the RG to be 50 years old in that case - it’s “only” 35 years old right now!
It’s also a testament to how much of an effect having an influential artist playing a guitar is for a guitar’s popularity over time
@@davidwonpu353 Exactly this. I'm not a working musician, not even a practicing one (used to play base a long time ago). I just have a big fascination for the instruments, the engineering, the history and the cool sounds people make with them.
Guitars are super subjective. One's dream instrument is unplayable to someone else.
@@elsienova4269 I need to check out that 1st solo album.Of david gilmore
You can always count on a great 5 watt history lesson. With ridiculous demo playing. Massively appreciated as always.
I recorded my first 3 albums with one of these so I'm pumped up for this one!
I have a thinline ASAT and it seems to have cured my GAS. Doesn’t get much better than a semi hollow T-style imo. Also, those were some of the best tones I’ve heard John pull off. Great stuff.
Now I need to check out the Thinline piece of history. I used to think the Tele was sheer bud tugly, but now that I've owned a couple I've grown to love the design and features.
Tab Benoit is the first who comes in my mind, when I think of a 72 Telecaster Thinline.
Came here to say that. I feel it is essential to his percussive sound.
Me too, Tab certainly knows how to rock a Thinline
@@guitrr , I've seen Tab play a bunch of times and he really gives that Thinline a workout! It's stock, too. One guitar, two combo amps, no pedals or effects. On a Premier Guitar "rig rundown" interview, Tab said, "I don't know why y'all are talkin' to me, I ain't got but the one guitar and the two amps; the guitar and the amps are just tools to get the song out to the audience".
Tab destroys on that thinline of his. Glad you mentioned him here!
I was given a Squier Thinline Telecaster with a gold finish by my son, to celebrate my 50th year as a performing musician. Nice guitar - still have it - still like it a lot.
"...generally doing my best impression of David Gilmour on his first solo record." Well played, Mr. Williams, well played! Thanks for another superb video!
The thinline tele with wide range humbuckers is one of the best guitars in history. I'm so happy Fender is building them again. I love mine.
God, I love these short history videos that you do, Keith. I just recently went back and rewatched the Les Paul, Flying V and Explorer videos again. I never get tired of them. And, as usual, this one didn’t disappoint. Keep ‘em comin’!
Thanks again, for the history lesson! I always watch these with excitement, no matter how many times I heard these old tales.
I've got a Britt Daniel signature thinline tele and absolutely love it. Like any tele you can pretty much play any style of music on it and it still sounds great. Loved the video and the series in general. It's always good to learn more about the history of these instruments.
This video came to me at the perfect time. I just played a demo of a reissue one of these for my channel, and man. I really love it. Those CuNiFe pickups have all the top end you could ask for and plenty of throatyness to boot. 5 Watt World with another tremendously informative video. Nice one, Keith!
As a traditional tele owner/lover i had often said “why” when i see a thin-line. This video tells me why and now i want one :).Great work.
My guitar teacher had a 72 model 2 thin line that buddy guy signed in 1995 (he signed the year) when he was still struggling to make a living, god I absolutely loved that unique guitar.
A '73 Thinline is one of those "one that got away" guitars for me. A music store I used to frequent had a little bin in the back of the store with random NOS and used parts in it and they would occasionally hang a "luthier special" guitar or two above it. Project guitars that needed various levels of finishing (sometimes just bodies and or necks). I used to raid that parts bin for parts for various projects and one day they had this '73 thinline hanging up above it for something like $200 (this was the mid 80s). It was mostly stripped, the finish was gone, and all it was was the body, neck, tuning machines and bridge (it was strung and played well). Well I really couldn't afford it and I kept thinking about that guitar for days and finally decided to heck with it, I didn't need a project but I wanted it. Went back and it had been sold. I still think of what could have been with that guitar all these years later.
A friend had a Tele Thinline in the 70s. It was a very nice guitar. I had a Les Paul at the time and the sound each made was incredible.
Thank you for assembling this video, Keith. It basically picked up where the short history of the Telecaster left off, and it felt like a history that needed to be put together . My assessment is that you wanted to wait until you got it right before you got it done.
I was 11 years old when the film adaptation of the Commitments was shot by Alan Parker in Ireland and 12 when I first saw it with my own eyes. Glen Hansard (later known for having written and starred in the musical Once) portrayed Commitments guitar player Outspan Foster wielding a ‘72 Thinline Tele refinished in metallic blue and decked out in racing stripe decals. (That probably was the first time I took note of an electric guitar bearing a maple fingerboard.) The fact that Glenn played one would later resonate with me whenever I saw any other guitar player like Jonny Buckland wielding that same model either in original or reissue assembly. It also must’ve been an underlying influence on my decision to get my first Thinline in 2011.
Between September 2010 and January 2021, I grabbed up four different Telecaster models of my own, two ‘72 reissues, one “partscaster” with Gibson H’s and a Strat-style ttem bridge and finally my current model, a Modern Payer Deluxe Thinline Tele w/ Seymour Duncan soapbar P90s. The areas where it divergence from a ‘72 Thinline include the 22nd fret, individual controls and those pickups supplanting the wide range buckers. I can recall resisting getting one of those before listening to the demos and realizing that I liked the sound of that P90s better.
i have a squier cv 70’s thinline and it’s one of my favorite guitars. i love the way telecasters feel and play, but i don’t really vibe with standard telecaster pickups, since the wide range humbuckers have a bit of a warmer sound, they work much better for me and what i play. i really love my thinline, and i think it’s the perfect telecaster, at least for me
That first David Gilmore album is fantastic. “There’s No Way Out of Here” just hits home every time I listen to it. If you don’t know, it’s just a search bar away. Do yourself that favor right now.
Thank you Keith for this channel and these history lessons. I slogged thru an awful day at work fixated on this episode tonite being a reward for toughing it out. As always, your presentation was stellar. I became smitten with and purchased new in 1989 a MIJ '69 thinline reissue w/mahogany natural finish body & maple neck. It has served me all these years, loved and worn now in all the right places. The MIJs were built very well- I rewired it eventually & did a 4 way switch mod, but the original pickups remain. I call it Pegasus as the curve of it's white pearloid pickguard suggests a wing of that mythic horse. Airy but slightly darker sounding than solid, heavy ash T bodies l'd played, the versatility of this horse has flown me to any tonal palette I needed or my ears desired. Thrilled that you chose to shine a Short History spotlight on these unique Tele variants!
Thanks, another great history lesson! One of the earlier Thinlines (Dark Sunburst) came thru the music shop I was working at early 70's. It was lovely - first time I had even considered buying a Fender (I was playing my 1968 Les Paul Custom at the time). I didn't have much time to find the money for the Thinline because 2 days later some guy bought it as soon as he tried it! I met him in 1977, our producer brought him in to arrange the strings on a couple of tracks on our album . . . asked him about it and he'd already sold it - turns out he was a very much in demand session player and arranger in NZ. Ho hum - so it goes! 😀
The video brings back fond memories of the MIJ 69 Tele Thinline I played for many years in the early 2000s. Great guitars and a great video. Thanks Keith!
I will never get tired of watching these episodes on the classic Fender and Gibson guitars. Everytime I think you got them all, then another video comes out on something I didn't think of or forgot about. I hope i am pleasantly surprised to see more of these in the future.
Got my hands on a couple Thinlines over the lockdown and absolutely love them. Thanks for this
These are my favorite Teles, and to me one of the coolest designs ever. Such a great video, Keith!
Thanks JB! Hope you’re well man!
I had wondered why they made the semi hollow design. I thought they were trying to get an 'acoustic' or Gibson look. I am glad I got a logical answer of making the body lighter. I am going to go ahead and apologize now for some nerd trivia; the holes are taken from the classic look of the Stradivarius violins. The wholes were actually 'S's (for Stradivarius). They are more accurately called 'S' holes. I know, I am kind of an 'S' hole for inserting this trivia.
The same style sound holes were used on violins that pre-date ones made by Antonio Stradivari, even though he mastered making the instrument. The core design of the modern violin, including the shape of the sound holes, appears to be attributed to Andrea Amati.
Following your 'S' hole reasoning, my insertion of this trivia upon trivia about 'A'mati earns me the distinction of being some kind of an A-hole.
@@paulketchupwitheverything767 Brilliant, thank you. I am going to go learn more about this.
@@paulketchupwitheverything767 I need to go back to my college and correct the violinists who told me that old tale. I remember clearly one senior student telling me and a teacher agreeing. Volinists, hmph!
@@paulketchupwitheverything767 It kinda shows my age. I was told this before I had internet to check everything i was told. Nowadays I look into these things, but this info has sat with me since the 90's.
Not at all. I have learnt something. Thank you.
Roger Rossmeisl was craaaaazy talented as a luthier. Definitely was behind a lot of the innovation in the guitar that we take for granted today
Thanks Keith and all involved in this Short History episode!
Keith, I would like to tell you that, one could search CZcams for any number of documentaries and " history behind" types of videos but some how yours hit the nail right on the head EVERYTIME. You do it better than the others. ITS JUST BETTER.
Awesome video! Another great V2 Thinline player is Dylan Mattheisen from the midwest emo band Tiny Moving Parts. Unreal musicianship, Dylan shreds these guitars!
once again, a very interesting history lesson!
Thanks for sharing it!!
Thank you-I’ve been thinking about one. They look and sound great; grateful for your work.
Fantastic documentation of a magnificent guitar. Well done as always.
I love the way you present your content.....thank you for all your hard work!!!!
Jeff
Bought my first "real" guitar in 1981. A 1969 sunburst Thinline Tele, I was listening to a lot of Steve Khan and paid a kid $350 (with case) seriously warped Pearl guard. It wasn't cool enough cause I needed a strat for cover band gigs., so stupidly sold it a decade later. It had the most gorgeous neck. God I wish I had kept it
I personally am not a huge fan of the Thinline, the single F-hole just doesn't do it for me. But I do love that it was a sister model to my personal favorite Fender model, the Tele Deluxe. Another excellent video Keith and crew!
Great Informative Video, Thanks Keith.
It was lovely to hear Tobias playing Rory Gallagher on that thinline.
Thanks Keith, another great video.
Keith, thank you for your insight into the tele thinline. It is a guitar I have been quite intrigued and interested in learning about. The more I watch you on a Short History the more I realize how little I truly know about guitars. So, I again thank you and wish you good health and safe travels.
What a great treatise on this beautiful model. I really am, first and foremost, a Mustang man but when my wife and I walked into a Guitar Center one day back in 2009 and saw an ash body humbucker tele we went right to it. What a beautiful instrument. I’ve enjoyed it ever since.
As always another great Five Watt World ! Thanks again for imparting your knowledge on us "Lovers Of Everything Telecaster" ... and guitar geeks in general. Thinlines are great guitars ... I have had a fondness for this guitar since I first time I saw it.
Thanks Keith. I’ve always loved the Thinline. In fact it’s my current #1. It’s a fair bit of Rickenbacker DNA in the way it’s made, body-wise of course. Keep the vids coming!
Another great video Keith
I have a baja tele with an ash body no routing and only 6.8 lbs. guess I'm lucky i got one of the light weight ash bodies. Very resonant too!
Seeing Nathanial and Tobias, et al, was a real treat! I always appreciate your work, Keith! Thank you, sir!! ♥
I can never get enough of the short history series, the depth you go into is pretty amazing. I know a lot about guitars but you always come up with some things that I never knew before about either the instrument or the history of it. I'd love to see one on Taylor Guitars, maybe the Grand Auditorium model as it was essentially invented by Bob Taylor just a few decades ago and is thought of as THE Taylor guitar. Keep up the great work and deep dives into the history of the people and instruments that have changed music as we know it.
Awesome vid Keith!
This is something I have always wanted a nice natural finish slimline with a pair of wide range pickups. Thanks for some really great content this video very much reminds me of the videos you made when you first started making content. Keep up the great work Keith.
Awesome educational video. Thank you for making it
loved this video - I just bought a thin line after falling in love with teles over the last few years. very nicely done!
I am one of the people who when I was younger, a teenage guitarist in the 90s… I thought telecasters were ugly and then when I got older and started trying them out more, I immediately bought one ……the bridge pick up sound I just can’t live without now….. and now I think they’re so beautiful
Loved this video thanks Keith 👍
wow. I sent for a Fender catalog as a 10 year old in '67 then again in '72 when i started playing.
This is where i first saw these. Really didn't know anything about them.
Nicely done, Keith!
jonny buckland is my biggest guitar inspiration and made me want to pick up learning the guitar, and a 2 humbucker tele at that. happy to see his signature instrument featured on the best guitar history series around. fascinating to learn that the design originated as a solution to a stock of heavy wood! i'm around a year and a half into the guitar scene so i've got a lot of catching up to do, and these histories help a lot. thanks keith!
I've been saying this for awhile but the Classic Vibe guitars that Squire are building are excellent and their thinlines are no exception. I've found myself wanting these guitars more than most Fenders and I think they do a great job at capturing the overall vintage specs, look, and feel!
Couldn’t agree more. Seems like we’re reliving the introduction of the Squier JV years but Indonesia and China
Killer video, Keith!
I owned the Jim Atkins model for a while and it is a fantastic guitar!
What a fantastic video I actually enjoyed it have a good weekend
Great video thank you. Good to learn some history of the thinline. I just bought a mim classic series 69 reissue made in 1998. Absolutely love it. The neck profile is amazing and sonically it has a unique vibe. It's even threatening to overtake my Esquire as being my go-to guitar
My buddy has an early 70's thinline, and I really love playing it. I think he likes hearing me play it too, as we all like to hear our guitars being played by another. It gives you a different perspective on it's tonal qualities. Great review.
6:19 GUITARGASM!!! That is just perfection.
Thanks for yet another excellent presentation Five Watt World. Number one guitar history channel.
I have a 72n thinline. Made in Japan 1995. Got it from a Japanese gentleman who kept it untouched in the gig bag for twenty years. Even had the original strings. Still like new today. My go to guitar. Love it.
0:36 I love how part of the catchphrase has condensed to “whinchested” 😂 love what you do thanks
Love this guitar, thanks Keith.🎸🎵🔥
Today (June 8, 2024) I ordered a Donner Thinline dual humbucker guitar for $119.99. It comes with a gig bag, cable, tool, and strap. A couple of CZcams reviewers say it is great. Several Amazon reviewers say it is really bad. Though their photos show a different style Telecaster copy. Maybe luck will send a good one.
So many of those old guitars in this video looked ready for retirement. The idea of making a new guitar look old and worn seems insane. I kept guitars for twenty years and they looked nearly new when they were sold. Paul Reed Smith agrees with me in this regard. At least one prominent person in the guitar manufacturing field shares the same opinion.
Great video, thinlines have an amazing tone.
Another wonderful video! In the early eighties I saw the Plimsouls (opening for the Tubes!) and Peter Case was decked out in his tweed jacket and Ray Bans slinging and series one mahogany Thinline and I was smitten with the look and tone. I got one later and it's still one of my favorites.
My favorite guitar type by far! Great episode
Great commentary. Thank you.
Keith. Thank you so much for this. It was nice to hear all the variations in tone between the different versions! There are elements there of the best of both worlds, right? You have a classic Tele sound and then the warmth of the thinline. I love innovation.
I have a Japanese Fender ’69 thinline reissue that I bought new in 1994.
It a cool guitar.
I use it as a sort of Kieth Richards style open g tuned guitar.
I’ve always enjoyed playing it.👍🥃
Great video like always! I was thinking recently it would be cool if you guys did "a short history" on the Rolling Stones mobile tour bus. I feel like a lot of people don't know about it and the amount of very successful musicians that have used it back in the day is crazy. Anyway, thank you for all that you do! You guys do great research and great presenting.
I have a ‘72 thinline and it’s amazing. Thanks so much for the video
A wealth of great information... Five Watt World is Awesome.
I've always been keen to get my hands on a Thinline - although I've never liked the look of the pickguard, small beer I know - they sound wonderful. These vids are such great learning experiences - thanks yet again, Keith and team.
Excellent video, I was looking for videos of the Thinline history while researching recently to buy one, found some but nothing as this one! Thank you! I did end up buying one, a Custom Shop Knotty Pine CuNiFe, excelent tones with the wide range pickups 🤘🤘
Hey Keith!
I finally had some time here to sit down and watch your video here in peace 😊
I do a fair amount of Warmoth builds here and I’ve been eyeing this body style for quite some time now too. One of these days I’ll make one I’m sure too, I especially love all the extra customization you can do with Warmoth’s as well. ( You can even call or email them for some added options not even on their drop tabs on the menu for special requests at an added charge of course too.
Great video as always man, keep doing what you’re doing 🤙
Thanks!
Another amazing video! I have an '08 MIM 69 Thinline and I love it! It's very unique but also very versatile =)
Awesome video! I've always thought the Thinline Teles were awesome guitars. And I LOVE your Strandberg! If I were to get a Thinline Tele style, I'd probably get a Strandberg too!
15:29 That David Gilmour cover…I bought the CD and started listening to it and thought “wow! This is David Gilmour in the early years?” However, upon close inspection of the actual CD, I noticed that it said “Gary Moore; the early years”!!! It was brand new! What? Anyway, that was my introduction to Gary Moore! Thanks, David Gilmour!
Enjoyed this video very much Keith, so interesting and neat to learn about this variant even if I'm not a Telecaster guy. I hope you do an episode on the Fender Coronado down the road, that's a cool looking guitar IMHO and neat how Fender brought it out in answer to the Gibson 335s etc I'm assuming. Anyway keep up the great work and I'm glad to be a part of the Five Watt World! 👍
Another excellent video 👏👏👏👏
Thanks for a very informative and enjoyable video about the history of the Thinline. 🌞
Perfect. Those melodies and sounds... it picked me.
I have a 72 Telecaster Thin Line with light natural finish Ash body with Maple neck and fretboard. It weighs under 5 pounds. Sounds like no other guitar I've ever owned. The neck and fretboard have a snappy bouncy quality to them. It's fun to play and has a great acoustic volume and tone too.
Another great video Keith, now I need to broaden my taste and find a thinline.
It's a pretty guitar with humbuckers so what's not to like? Nice and light so it isn't a drag to play for three sets in a bar. Another video that will outlive us all and be watched by future gear heads looking for the right guitar for themselves.
As an elder millennial, the thinline was the pinnacle of guitars to me, from the emo bands of the late 90s to the indie bands that grew out of it in the early oughts, especially blake sennett
Thanks for the deep dive - I ❤ my MIJ Thinline ‘72 RI, it’s light, bright and punchy with the WR humbuckers. Sounds like a Tele, just with some air and slightly more refined
What a lovely instrument.
Big fan of things like that.
The 2018 NAMM custom shop 50’s telecaster thinline creation is cool. Something that’s a slight twist on an original was a great idea. Chunky 57 soft V Maple neck/ no cap. 50’s body colours like honey blonde
The playing (and tone) at 4:30 is incredible, thanks!
Great show as always. Well done. Aloha from Hawaii!
Around 1981 when I wanted to upgrade from my initial firewood guitar, I found a 1972 Tele Delux in a small back alley store. Nobody wanted 1970s guitars and definitely no weird pickups so I got it for a price I could afford. Little did I know I was purchasing a classic! Of course I sold that guitar long ago, but recently bought a MIM re-issue that feels pretty much identical.
Another excellent video. Great guitar.
Great video wish you would have touched on the wallpaper ones from the late 60s the flowers and the paisley and the ones Japan started making in the 90s
Wow, A Telecaster Thinline hisstory and no mention of Tab Benoit?
Tab is terrific! For Keith/5WW to not mention him here is like when he did an episode about Danelectro guitars but left out both David Lindley and the Silvertone amp-in-case guitars.