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Post by Blacksunshine on Mar 16, 2020 12:45:45 GMT -5
I played Strats almost exclusively for years.
Later in life I got a '52 Reissue Tele and pretty much never went back to Strats.
Teles have more "huevos" IMO.
I've been dumping my Strats one by one over the course of the last few years. I think I was up to 16 at one time, I think I'm down to around 5 or so, I don't really know.
YMMV, 2cents, and all that
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Post by Leftee on Mar 16, 2020 12:59:51 GMT -5
I played Strats almost exclusively for years. Later in life I got a '52 Reissue Tele and pretty much never went back to Strats. Teles have more "huevos" IMO. I've been dumping my Strats one by one over the course of the last few years. I think I was up to 16 at one time, I think I'm down to around 5 or so, I don't really know. YMMV, 2cents, and all that You otter try a Nashville. I’d bet you’d like it.
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Post by Pinetree on Mar 16, 2020 13:14:15 GMT -5
Both of my Telecasters are Nashville.
A Tele is a Man's Guitar.
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Post by Vibroluxer on Mar 16, 2020 14:56:12 GMT -5
With 11s.
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Post by Pinetree on Mar 16, 2020 15:08:11 GMT -5
Duh.
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Post by pcalu on Mar 16, 2020 20:28:39 GMT -5
I play nothing but the Telecaster but love the Stratocaster too.
Obviously...Strats have a tonal pallet very much different than a Telecaster. (so IMO they don't compete) Strats pups quack instead of twang when clean, sing instead of snarl when the amps overdriving. Standard Tele bridge pup is much hotter than a Strat bridge pup and possesses much more mids.
Obviously... Both have a ton of different tone scapes when working the guitar's volume and treble.
Probably it's just me... but to my ears many of the boitique Telecaster neck pup seems to lack a lot of mojo, 99% of the boutique winders that I've tried I do not like and think they get the neck pup wrong. (usually too much potting resulting in too low in frequency, & not enough detailed etc) bridge pups they do ok...
In General though .... For Telecasters... to my ears, Fender has the winding science down pat.reight amount of potting etc...
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Post by LTB on Mar 16, 2020 22:15:05 GMT -5
I have heard the term quack but not quite sure what that means. Maybe I can google it and find out.
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Post by K4 on Mar 16, 2020 22:17:59 GMT -5
I never did bond with a tele.
I'm a Strat and LP guy.
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Post by LTB on Mar 16, 2020 23:45:33 GMT -5
Ok, now I understand Quack
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Post by walshb 🦒 on Mar 17, 2020 6:47:51 GMT -5
Ok, now I understand Quack Now, that's what I'm talkin' about!!! Gotta have it!
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Post by LTB on Mar 17, 2020 9:17:04 GMT -5
Ok, now I understand Quack Now, that's what I'm talkin' about!!! Gotta have it! Almost like the guitar is trying to talk to you
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Post by Stinger22 on Mar 19, 2020 12:46:18 GMT -5
I've had 2 strats...wonderful guitars..they look and sound great...but I hated the middle pickup...just keep getting in the way ...I've also had tele's with middle pickups and hated them as well... so now its all tele's..couldn't be happier If you ever watch clips of The Band you'd think Robbie Robertson plays a two pickup Strat with a single coil neck and humbucker bridge but I read that in fact he hated hitting the middle pickup all the time so he has the middle moved back besides the bridge pickup.
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Post by stratcowboy on Mar 19, 2020 14:08:50 GMT -5
See reply #23, on previous page...
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Post by Tequila Rob on Mar 19, 2020 20:51:05 GMT -5
I've had 2 strats...wonderful guitars..they look and sound great...but I hated the middle pickup...just keep getting in the way ...I've also had tele's with middle pickups and hated them as well... so now its all tele's..couldn't be happier If you ever watch clips of The Band you'd think Robbie Robertson plays a two pickup Strat with a single coil neck and humbucker bridge but I read that in fact he hated hitting the middle pickup all the time so he has the middle moved back besides the bridge pickup. yeah you can see it in the movie the Last Waltz...first time I saw the movie I thought it odd but now it makes sense...
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Post by herb on Mar 21, 2020 14:07:57 GMT -5
Never had a problem with either Tele or Strat. Was lucky enough to start playing both in my early years as I bought my first Strat in 1973 when I was 19 and then a Tele in '76. Made it easy to navigate around either as I didn't have time to get use to just one. Used Strats and Teles back then were around $100 a pop, with case.
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Post by LTB on Mar 21, 2020 20:38:52 GMT -5
Never had a problem with either Tele or Strat. Was lucky enough to start playing both in my early years as I bought my first Strat in 1973 when I was 19 and then a Tele in '76. Made it easy to navigate around either as I didn't have time to get use to just one. Used Strats and Teles back then were around $100 a pop, with case. That seems incredible at at $100 a pop for used Tele or Strat when compared to today’s prices but back then it was more or less the norm in that day’s economy. $100 was a weeks pay for me
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Post by rickyguitar on Mar 22, 2020 1:51:44 GMT -5
I started with Gibson copies and went nothing bor Gibson for years. Quit playing for a while and when I restarted it was on a Tele. I really liked it a lot, but I have a strong preference for s 12 inch radius. My wife bought me a G&L legacy, a strat with a 12 inch radius. I love it.
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Post by LTB on Mar 22, 2020 3:11:37 GMT -5
I started with Gibson copies and went nothing bor Gibson for years. Quit playing for a while and when I restarted it was on a Tele. I really liked it a lot, but I have a strong preference for s 12 inch radius. My wife bought me a G&L legacy, a strat with a 12 inch radius. I love it. Don't have a Tele or Strat but both my Electrics have a 12" Radius.
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Post by herb on Mar 22, 2020 12:16:44 GMT -5
Never had a problem with either Tele or Strat. Was lucky enough to start playing both in my early years as I bought my first Strat in 1973 when I was 19 and then a Tele in '76. Made it easy to navigate around either as I didn't have time to get use to just one. Used Strats and Teles back then were around $100 a pop, with case. That seems incredible at at $100 a pop for used Tele or Strat when compared to today’s prices but back then it was more or less the norm in that day’s economy. $100 was a weeks pay for me Don't get me wrong. $100 was an incredible amount of money back then. It just looks so ridiculous to see what I stated in print! Right out of HS I got a good paying job busting my ass at a foundry. I was probably making $4 to $5 an hour, which was really good money. To my contemporaries, I was rich. One of my friends that I worked with bought a 1956 Les Paul Goldtop. I'm sure he paid well under $500 for it but we all thought that was insane.
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Post by Bigfoot on Mar 22, 2020 22:25:16 GMT -5
The Nashville Tele was an approach to introduce some of the Strat niceties (position 2 and 4 quack) along with the marquee Tele bridge pup. But the Start has a more comfortable body, great tremolo, and hallmark neck pup. What we need is a Strat with a Tele bridge pup, and some kind of metal bridge thingie to get the Tele mojo, yet keep the Strat tremolo.
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Post by K4 on Mar 22, 2020 22:52:37 GMT -5
Its the pickups mounted on a big piece of plastic that get the strat tone.
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Post by LTB on Mar 23, 2020 0:43:39 GMT -5
Both of my Telecasters are Nashville. A Tele is a Man's Guitar. Well, not totally...here is Randy Skruggs All Star Review doing Lonesome Rubin Steve Wariner on Tele and my favorite Anita Cochran
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Post by Pinetree on Mar 23, 2020 1:29:50 GMT -5
It's not up for debate.
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Post by Rick Knight on Mar 23, 2020 6:04:50 GMT -5
I’ve gone through a lot of guitars trying to determine what I like, and realized that no production guitar checks all the boxes. When I play 6 strings these days, it’s Warmoth Tele bodies with Strat contours and Modern C necks, and various pickup arrangements.
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Post by Bigfoot on Mar 23, 2020 8:11:23 GMT -5
Its the pickups mounted on a big piece of plastic that get the strat tone. Yes, multi-layered plastic pickguards for the later incarnations of the Strat gets you that glorious tone. My '57 has the pups mounted on white Bakelite giving it the early distinctive tones, more brittle.
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Post by LTB on Mar 23, 2020 9:02:28 GMT -5
Wasn't meant to debate. That was my way of saying more than just men like them. Guess it came out wrong
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Post by Pinetree on Mar 23, 2020 12:52:19 GMT -5
Lots of very talented women play Telecasters.
Doesn't matter.
A Tele is a Man's Guitar.
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Post by LTB on Mar 23, 2020 14:00:59 GMT -5
Lots of very talented women play Telecasters. Doesn't matter. A Tele is a Man's Guitar. Back in the 60's everyone seemed to like Strats. Now most I see are Tele's. My son in law is considering getting a Tele for his first electric. Right now he has a nice Gibson Acoustic Electric. I started this thread to get a feel of where the mainstream was as far as fender goes. Several years ago I had an inexpensive Squier Classic Vibe Tele. Because of it's twang tone I changed the pickups to (I think) No Caster Fender pups but then realized it lost it's Tele personality and I got disenchanted and sold it. Had I not mostly played bass at the time I would have kept it and tried to get it to where it did not have quite the twang but not totally lose it's personality. Just didn't want to spend more money. I tried a Strat style guitar but hated the whammy bar and 3 pickups. No matter what I tried just didn't stay in tune long. What Leftee did by putting two pickups in a guitar with no whammy would have worked for me.
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Post by Pinetree on Mar 23, 2020 14:42:29 GMT -5
Dude.
It's really not necessary to quote me when your reply is the very next one.
Really.
Personally, I think Jimi said it best.
"A Telecaster has two sounds, good and bad."
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Post by Joe Potts on Mar 23, 2020 15:23:40 GMT -5
I’ve always preferred Strats. I owned a Tele for a while, and it was nice. But when push came to shove, the Tele went out the door. The Strat just feels and sounds better to me (when I’m playing).
That’s not to say that I don’t love lots of tunes featuring Teles. Anything from Vince Gill to Zep. Just couldn’t make it work for me.
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