nathan17

I already put my cable through my strap - it's not the jack socket itself that's the problem, it's the way it's attached. The little flat nut-type-thing unscrews itself from the jack very easily. With the Electrosocket, the jack is screwed into the jack cup itself instead of held in by a nut. I've already put one in another guitar and it works a treat. Thanks for the link. Maybe I'll have to put it, too)

I haven't had to do anything to it yet (had it about a year and used very frequently). The only thing that annoys me is the horrible jack cup - it's the same one as every other Tele and it comes unscrewed very easily. I'm going to replace it with an Electrosocket soon. hm...maybe you just need to push a cable through your strap... usually helps to avoid such things...for example when you jump and accidentally step on it... sometimes there are problems inside jack...it's much worse and annoys with noise, cause cable is now fixed well

Anyway, mexican and japanese cost almost the same (~1050 here) so i don't think there is a big difference. It depends on a particular model. did you change anything in your mexican? I've heard that mexican have not so good electronics Originals are too expensive)) I owe Schecter USA 'S' Custom Shop and I don't think I'll sell it in a nearest future. It's unique and I took my chance to buy it for a half-price. New it costs about $2050 So I think about Tele Thinline as my second guitar. Before Schecter I had Peaver Cropper Mahagoni Tele. And I miss it...there were other advantages...)

Fender didn't open factories in Japan and Mexico until the 80s, and I don't think Jonny's Thinlines are reissues so it's more than likely that they're USA-made. edit - don't know when they stopped producing Thinlines originally though, so they could be Japanese I don't think he plays '69s either - I've only ever seen him with '72s (Sunburst, brown (I think) and his new natural one) I've talked to some people and they say Fender don't produce experimental series in USA. And thinline is an experimental (relaunched in 1998-1999). Also there is a version that mexican guitars have better quality, than japanese. So Jonny may prefer mexican, doesn't he?

and what about his 2 Classic Thinline Tele's ('69 & 72')? Are they Japanese or Mexican? I'm gonna buy one as my second guitar