Telecaster quandry
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Always been a strat fan as far as looks and style. Was my main player for 20 years but now I'm just sort of sick of them. Sort of like being a toyota minivan owner. I cant even find mine in the parking lot. Twice my wife got into a van that wasnt hers. Strats are just too damn common.
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^ Same here. My best friend is a Tele guy since his conversion from an 85 Les Paul Custom and a Dale Bluebond Strat, in 1993. He always had great chops, execution and a musical ear and it worked for him that the Tele put you right out there. For me for a long time, it was an unforgiving, mistake amplifying demon.
I learned how to approach the Tele and my chops are better and the light bulb went on. Oh and I use meatier pickups than the trebly variety from the 60s' and 70's. So my Tele is more approaching my Les Paul (which is wound light) in tone.
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Oh, your description of it is still accurate, but you have obviously reduced your mistakes. It IS "an unforgiving, mistake amplifying demon".andrewsrea wrote: ↑Tue Sep 22, 2020 11:49 am^ Same here. My best friend is a Tele guy since his conversion from an 85 Les Paul Custom and a Dale Bluebond Strat, in 1993. He always had great chops, execution and a musical ear and it worked for him that the Tele put you right out there. For me for a long time, it was an unforgiving, mistake amplifying demon.
I learned how to approach the Tele and my chops are better and the light bulb went on. Oh and I use meatier pickups than the trebly variety from the 60s' and 70's. So my Tele is more approaching my Les Paul (which is wound light) in tone.
If i were a guitar teacher, I would highly recommend all of my students to start on a tele. If you can play it well on a tele, you can play it on anything!
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I've been looking up Gary Moore's videos and came across an interview where he talks about guitars, and he's playing a tele, an ES-335, among other things. He also mentions that the way to pick out a [solid body] guitar is to see if it sounds good unplugged (he proceeds to strum his Les Paul without going into an amp). It needs to be resonant and sound good. It was interesting to hear this from him. I might even start a thread on that topic.
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^ Please do start that thread!Gear_Junky wrote: ↑Tue Sep 22, 2020 3:07 pm It needs to be resonant and sound good. It was interesting to hear this from him. I might even start a thread on that topic.
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- nomadh
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Gibson '13 studio dlx hsb
Gibson '79 flying V
Gibson '06 sg faded
Gibson '15 LP CM w gforce
Epiphone Casino coupe
Epiphone dot studio
Fender USA strat w mjt body _w Original body 81
Fender lead II
Firefly spalted 338
Squier affinity tele bsb
Squier strat std relic
Squier subsonic baritone
Agile al2500 albino
Agile al3001 hsb
Sx ash Ltd strat
Sx ash strat short scale
Sx ash tele
Sx callisto jr
Dean vendetta
Washburn firebird. Ps10
Johnson trans red strat
Johnson jazz box Vegas
Seville explorer
Inlaid tele
flametop bigsby tele wood inlaid neck
23
Acoustics
new Eastman acoustic
Sigma dm3 dread x2 (his and hers)
Fender 12 str
Ibanez exotic wood
Silvercreek rosewood 00
Ovation steel str
martin backpacker acoustic
Johnson dobro
Is this why I moved from fenders to gibsons? I didnt get beter. I just hide it betterdabbler wrote: ↑Tue Sep 22, 2020 12:29 pmOh, your description of it is still accurate, but you have obviously reduced your mistakes. It IS "an unforgiving, mistake amplifying demon".andrewsrea wrote: ↑Tue Sep 22, 2020 11:49 am^ Same here. My best friend is a Tele guy since his conversion from an 85 Les Paul Custom and a Dale Bluebond Strat, in 1993. He always had great chops, execution and a musical ear and it worked for him that the Tele put you right out there. For me for a long time, it was an unforgiving, mistake amplifying demon.
I learned how to approach the Tele and my chops are better and the light bulb went on. Oh and I use meatier pickups than the trebly variety from the 60s' and 70's. So my Tele is more approaching my Les Paul (which is wound light) in tone.
If i were a guitar teacher, I would highly recommend all of my students to start on a tele. If you can play it well on a tele, you can play it on anything!

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If you want pine, you should get a used Squier CV '50s Tele, and a Warmoth neck. Nothing on that guitar needs upgrading IMO, and Squier necks tend to fetch about $150 on the used market. A lot of people like that thin neck... I don't think you'd have a hard time selling it.andrewsrea wrote: ↑Mon Sep 21, 2020 10:11 amI had not. Out of stock, so someone must have grabbed that up!Gear_Junky wrote: ↑Sun Sep 20, 2020 2:50 pm And I imagine you've seen this:
https://www.rondomusic.com/product10273.html
I would have considered it, but I am OCD picky about what I like in a Tele neck. I like the 7.5" to 9.5" radius, 1-5/8" nut, rosewood fretboard and a fat, but not clubby neck depth with a 'U' or 'V' shape. Plus I have my MiM 1968 Thinline Reissue that is plenty fine. If I were to do another Tele, it would be a pine body and I'd have the neck built to my spec.
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