Fender MIM Tele Player set up

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This set up of Jonathan's MIM Fender Player Tele gives a good example of how a low group of frets on a neck causes bends on the high E to choke out and how precision fret levelling can free up those chokes in real time. Overall the MIM Player Tele is a decent guitar but, like other MIM Fenders, it suffers from their habit of fitting the frets first and then spraying clear poly finish over the top. This creates a thick carpet of finish which is immediately broken either by sanding / buffing at the factory or by the owner when he/she starts playing the guitar. That's not idea and it can look pretty messy - but it's even worse when the time comes to re-fret... this carpet of finish, already broken up into fret-spaced pieces comes apart further when the frets are pulled and requires the fingerboard to be re-finished (the correct way!) before fitting the new frets. All to save a few bucks in time and labour at the factory.
I note also that on this Tele the bridge fixing screws sit very close to the saddle grub screws... it happens that on this guitar neither actually collided with the other but it certainly has done on other such guitars I've worked on. Just not a good placement; not well thought out.