I've owned a Baja Tele for a while, which never really did it for me.
Due to me already owning a Tele that covers my traditional Tele needs (my Eternal Guitars Betty), and not being able to sell the Baja for a decent amount, I decided to have some fun with it and turn it into an Esquire-ish beast.
Fitted a new Lil'59 bridge humbucker, new bridge, new pickguard, 500K Tone and Vol pots... and this thing sings. Also cures my GAS for now for buying any more guitars :D
I'm loving it at the moment. Simple.... but very effective ;)
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I have the same tele :) nice mods btw. The guitar has a awesome neck but i dont like the bridge its pretty bad my strings tend to break at the bridge especially the g string. I love the neck pickup but the bridge is a bit iffy i dont know just not feeling a tele sound on the bridge :/
Yeah I agree; thats why I fitted a new bridge and new bridge pickup ;)
I can do without the neck pickup as well to be honest. I can kind of see why the Esquire is such a popular guitar; one pickup and no messin :)
Esquires are great guitars. A buddy of mine has a real one from the 50's and I like getting some hands on time with that one whenever possible.
I had my no name ebay Tele Baja modded. It just opens up new sonic possibiltys. I love it. Great for testing pedals too.