However, take care of your guitar and store it with a guitar humidifier. Still, it’s a nice touch that makes playing the upper frets more comfortable. This is different than traditional telecasters that feature a bolt-on neck. This guitar is an excellent option for players who want a guitar for modern country, pop-rock, and punk.
However, this being a thinline semi-hollow body telecaster, you get a bit more roundness to the tone, adding more sustain and midrange body. However, where this combination could almost be too shrill and ear-piercing on other telecaster guitars. Then when you roll the tone and volume knob up, you get this beautiful aggression that maintains a stunning clarity. With the addition of the soap bar Seymour Duncan P90 pickups, you get a hot-rodded sound where the rolled-back cleans sound like they have gravel in them and are always on the verge of breaking up.
And while telecasters are well known for their bright, twangy chicken-pickin’ country tones, this Thinline Telecaster has so much attitude.įender Telecasters already have a piercing tone that cuts through a mix. It has the telecaster shape but a Gibson’s hardware and scale length.
The Fender Jim Adkins JA-90 Telecaster is a weird but fantastic guitar.
