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Post by LTB on Aug 23, 2022 3:54:56 GMT -5
I do! It looks like it's browned a little. The red streaks are still present. Here's a peek today:
That is quite a nice job, beautiful in fact! You are gifted
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Post by LeftyMeister on Aug 23, 2022 7:21:38 GMT -5
I’m really considering a G&L Fullerton Deluxe ASAT. You won't be disappointed.
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Peppy
Wholenote
Guitar gear guru at Milano Music Center
Posts: 180
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Post by Peppy on Aug 25, 2022 11:15:45 GMT -5
Two days ago bought a new Tele (at least number ten that I have owned) on Tele Tuesday. Fender Jason Isbell Custom Telecaster. (In addition to my rare...1 of 150...ash Cabronita with TV Jones Classics.) Always have to have a Telecaster.
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Post by samspade on Aug 27, 2022 13:32:04 GMT -5
Cabronita's are cool! congrats on the Isbell tele
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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on Aug 28, 2022 7:25:18 GMT -5
Lage thanks Gatton for the "trick."
Gatton learned it from Bill Kirchen.
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Post by cedarchoper58 on Aug 28, 2022 17:51:21 GMT -5
Never played one and have no desire to my heroes were all strats and one a Firebird.
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Post by HenryJ on Aug 28, 2022 21:17:18 GMT -5
I got my first and only Telecaster earlier this year. It's HH with a maple fretboard and 9.5" radius.
I love to play it. I can play this guitar better than I can play my other two, less expensive electrics. One is a Squier Strat and the other a Gretsch Electromatic G5120. My amp is a Vox modeling amp, a small AD15VT with a tube in the preamp section and solid state power amp section.
To answer the question posed in the thread title: "Woman tone." Like Clapton with Cream.
My Gretsch can get woman tone with both pickups with the the amp set on (overdriven) channel two. My Strat can get it with the toggle in position 4, which is the noise-canceling combination of the neck and middle pickups.
When I play my Telecaster with both pickups on and into the overdrive channel, it sounds more like an "electric fiddle" to my ears. This is despite the fact that both pickups are playing and they are humbuckers. The effect is not unlike Jeff Beck's Esquire on the Yardbirds' recording "Over Under Sideways Down."
But hey, I mainly a bedroom player anyway.
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Post by hushnel on Aug 29, 2022 10:53:47 GMT -5
I really wanted a Telecaster since I was 10 or 11. We played at the Skyhooks Serviceman’s Club, Wiesbaden Germany, 1963. Our drummer’s dad let us use his amplifiers and PA. Occasionally Tom, who I still keep in touch with, occasionally used a borrowed Telecaster.
I’ve wanted one ever since those days. I went with mom to be with her when her last remaining sister was near death, we stayed until she passed. We were staying at Aunt Donna’s condo, her son’s were not in country but their was still one of Jeff’s telecasters at her home. I played it when we were at the house. When we got back to Miami, with thoughts of how life is so short I went to the local guitar center and purchased the new 1999 American Standard Telecaster, I made payments on it. It’s is a great instrument, the only guitar type amp I have is an old silver faced Vibro Champ, it’s a cool combination. It just screams Telecaster.
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Post by samspade on Aug 29, 2022 18:02:50 GMT -5
Never played one and have no desire to my heroes were all strats and one a Firebird. Yeah, I felt that way too, until I played one. Maybe better you don't....there is a simplistic epiphany But...I'm still all about the Strat
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Post by Mike the marksman on Aug 30, 2022 7:31:44 GMT -5
One thing that makes teles great is the bridge pickup is bright, yet fat and bold, not thin at all- so all you have to do is roll the tone control down a little bit to get into faux-Gibson territory. So much flexibility in one guitar.
As much as I love the ergonomics and feel of a strat I've always struggled with the bridge pickup. It needs an overwound bridge pickup and a tone control, or a humbucker in the bridge.
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Post by samspade on Sept 1, 2022 17:57:40 GMT -5
Mike, some recent strat configurations do have tone on the bridge, really makes sense.
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Post by LeftyMeister on Sept 1, 2022 18:03:56 GMT -5
As much as I love the ergonomics and feel of a strat I've always struggled with the bridge pickup. It needs an overwound bridge pickup and a tone control, or a humbucker in the bridge. Agreed! That's why I made the change from this...
To this...
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Post by Leftee on Sept 3, 2022 10:06:13 GMT -5
I’m currently building a righty Strat with Tele pickup routs. I guess it will be a STele.
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Post by samspade on Sept 3, 2022 18:31:06 GMT -5
That's a cool build LeftyMeister!
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Post by rickyguitar on Sept 7, 2022 12:29:23 GMT -5
I actually started a thread years ago, "Has the Tele become a chick guitar?", because many of the female slingers at the time (ie, Meredith Brooks, Chrissie Hynde, Sheryl Crow, Susan Tedeschi) were playing them. I now own 3. 3?...chicks? Wow. Seriously I liked my Tele a lot. Once I got my G&L I just didn't play it much at all. Sold it to someone who would use it.
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Post by LeftyMeister on Sept 7, 2022 21:35:52 GMT -5
^^ I gave 3 examples. I didn’t say there were only 3.
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Bopper
Wholenote
Motor City USA
Posts: 507
Age: 72
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Post by Bopper on Sept 8, 2022 9:28:02 GMT -5
Lucinda Williams and her Esquire...
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Post by samspade on Sept 8, 2022 19:53:04 GMT -5
A main guitar model choice is like 'the dog you own is based on personality'. Tele is like no-nonsense, truth, etc. Which is why I love them, but use strats more....wha? I have nothing to hide
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Post by Lesterstrat on Sept 14, 2022 18:49:05 GMT -5
I do! It looks like it's browned a little. The red streaks are still present. Here's a peek today:
That is quite a nice job, beautiful in fact! You are gifted Don’t give him too much credit. He built the darn thing backwards!
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Post by Leftee on Sept 15, 2022 8:20:42 GMT -5
You guys hurt my little peelings so I've listed this one on Reverb.
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