I have read with interest the dialogues on Fender guitars. I have two in my “stable” and they are both great guitars. My “haul anywhere” guitar is a Squire with a set neck and humbuckers. I can’t remember the exact model as they quit making it a few years back. I can tell you it was replaced in the Fender line as follows “Special Edition Custom Telecaster® FMT HH The rather scorching and aesthetically appealing Custom Telecaster FMT HH guitar features a carved flame maple top with cream binding, a set neck, two Seymour Duncan® humbucking pickups, a string-through body hard-tail bridge, three-way switching and a pull/push coil tap”. The only difference is my model is a lightly metallicized black finish, and no binding. This is a great guitar with jumbo frets. It plays and sounds fantastic! My other is a Deluxe players strat with the sapphire blue finish. It is the workhorse guitar due to its versatility. If your could only have one guitar in your arsenal then I believe the strat will cover most sound styles.
Rharv your point on Tanglewood guitars is well made. I have owned a model TW45N-DLX-FC4 for about 7 years, and would recommend them. I don’t see this model in their catalogue but it is similar to the TW145 folk series except the body styling is closer to a Taylor CE312. I played four of these guitars before settling on the one I own, and I feel the tone is excellent enough to be called my poor mans Taylor. I had a luthier do some custom nut work and custom bridge work as well as rolling the neck edge a bit. I also heeded Mac’s advice and got rid of the quacking Fishman piezo and put in a LR Baggs pickup. The sound amplified is superb. Thanks again Mac for the suggestion. DennisD

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