It’s crystal clear and acts a lot like nitro – it makes a wonderful base coat and we spray nitro over it. It’s nitrocellulose lacquer mixed with Plexiglas. “CAB stands for cellulose acetate butyrate. The final piece of this 2020 McCarty puzzle is a new nitro-over-cellulose finish, or NOC, that originally was called CAB. The scale length, bridge, master volume and tone setup add up to make the McCarty much broader than a vintage-chasing clone “I was making a claim and they accepted it.” “It was eye opening for everybody,” continues Paul. “You were in that meeting could you hear a difference?” Paul asks PRS’s director of marketing, Judy Schaefer, who was sitting in on our interview. “Yes, there have been discussions here about whether the weight of the tuners made a difference, so we went into Jack Higginbotham’s office and we changed the tuners right in front of everybody and asked if they could hear the difference. I hear a difference, a beautiful difference, and I think we’re doing it for very grounded reasons. “The tension between the gear and the worm makes a difference. “The weight of the tuning pegs makes a difference,” states Paul Reed Smith today. While the 2016 model used the latest-spec Phase III locking tuners with their unplated string posts, the 2020 reverts to the vintage Kluson-style tuners of the original model, a change back then from the rather clunky cam-lock tuners of Paul’s original vision. The rolled-top edge binding is vintage ivory acrylic.
#POLY BRIDGE REVIEW SWITCH SERIES#
Whether the out-of-phase sounds (which are essentially what the S-1 switch brings) have a place in your music is for you to decide, but the extra option of the two pickups in series - thanks to the four-way - is undoubtedly a winner.These two-piece bird inlays have a green ripple abalone centre with vintage ivory acrylic edges. Position two does a similar thing, this time with the pickups in parallel for what you'd always think of as the standard in-between Telecaster tone. Hit the S-1 switch and whole thing hollows out completely, the bottom end dropping away to an out-of-phase sound.
Things get more interesting when you explore positions two and four, where both pickups in series (position four, S-1 up) gives a big, fat powerhouse of a tone that brings to mind a hint of Brian May. Straight out of the bridge or neck pickups it delivers credible Tele attitude. The Baja Telecaster has a wide tonal palette. You can knock the tone back to tame some of the high end with more drive, or simply dive in loud and proud for anything from country spank to searing Buchanan-inspired leads.
Many players find a Tele bridge pickup just too unruly, but if you've got the guts to attack a Fender Bassman or Marshall 'Plexi' you'll soon realise why so much rock 'n' roll rhythm guitar has come from this very set-up.
#POLY BRIDGE REVIEW SWITCH PLUS#
So, positions one and three are always the bridge and neck pickups in isolation, leaving positions two and four to varying combinations of neck and bridge pickups in series, parallel, plus in and out of phase, depending on whether the S-1 is in or out: very neat. More interestingly the Baja Tele has a four-way blade selector and a discrete push/push switch in the volume pot for Fender's expanded S-1 options. Under the hood, so to speak, are a Custom Shop 'Twisted Tele' pickup at the neck and a Custom Shop Broadcaster single-coil at the bridge.įender doesn't publish any specs on these units, but historically the Broadcaster pickup was a flat-pole design that was more powerful than later Tele pickups, with a strong midrange.
The Classic Player Baja Telecaster has a lot more going on electronically than its looks might suggest.
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