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Fender Graham Coxon Telecaster Review 0
BY MNJ ON SEPTEMBER 7, 2011 GUITAR, REVIEW
Graham Coxon is the latest name to be added to a diverse roster of select guitar players who each have an Artist model Telecaster in Fender’s current catalogue. He joins traditional players like James Burton and GE Smith, as well as more contemporary artists like Jim Root, Jim Adkins and John 5 on a list of guitarists who are all acknowledged as having championed the Fender Telecaster. Although Coxon has been seen with plenty of other guitars throughout his 20 year or so career, his main instrument with Blur and as a solo artist has always been the Tele in various forms. The European-only Fender Graham Coxon Telecaster is modelled on his main guitar and features a humbucker in the neck position.



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The Coxon Telecaster features a fairly weighty ash Body with a yellowy Blonde opaque polyester finish. Gloss urethane has been used on the very sixties-style neck which is held in place with a four-bolt neck plate with no serial number stamp. 21 nicely finished medium jumbo frets adorn the rich-coloured rosewood 9.5” radius fingerboard which is inlaid with white dots. The serial number, along with GC’s signature, is on the back of the headstock.

The pick-ups on the Graham Coxon Telecaster are a vintage style Tele in the bridge and a Seymour Duncan SH-1 humbucker in the neck position. The humbucker is mounted in a black pick-up surround and installed on the four-ply tortoise shell pick guard. All the hardware is chrome, including the vintage style bridge, control plate, knurled volume and tone knobs and machine heads. 375K pots have been installed to add brightness to both pick-ups. The guitar includes a Fender Deluxe gigbag.



Curiously, the three bridge saddles are the vintage sixties/seventies design, which makes correct intonation virtually impossible and although changing them for a more tuning-friendly six saddle arrangement would entail swapping the bridge plate as well, they could be replaced with the Wilkinson type compensated saddles. The only way to improve the tuning on this guitar as it stands is to slightly flatten the G and B strings but this doesn’t produce perfect results either. The C shape neck is player friendly enough but the weight of the guitar may be a deal breaker for some. Tone wise, the Graham Coxon Telecaster is deliberately biting, edgy and hard sounding, assisted no doubt by the density of the ash body and the higher value pots.

Unlike the John 5, Adkins and Root Telecasters, the Coxon model is relatively unadorned with custom features – which undoubtedly gives the guitar a wider appeal – and the Seymour Duncan humbucker certainly summons up some extra power from the engine room. However, this isn’t a Custom Shop or even US made instrument, it’s MIM, (made in Mexico) and is very affordable as a result. Minor criticisms about the bridge saddles aside, the Fender Graham Coxon Telecaster is a well put together instrument that would be ideal for post punk, indie and alt. rock, or even modern country at a push. Alternatively, if you simply need a guitar to forcibly slice through a mix unhindered, look no further.