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  • Tele or Les Paul? (No Rob Option)

    We have recently had a thread circulating about how a Tele is the only guitar you'll ever need, and a new one just got dug up about how Les Pauls are the best and most versatile guitars out there. This got me thinking, which of these bare bones, non-ergonomic, single cutaway, double pickup guitars would you chose if it were the only guitar you could ever play?

    If you think about it, they're really opposite sides of the same coin.
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    Telecaster
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    Les Paul
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    Re: Tele or Les Paul? (No Rob Option)

    id take a tele anyday. id mod it a little but ive done that to every guitar ive owned, i even swapped a pup on my first guitar a squier ii. i have a nice lp and i like it, but ill always be a fender guy at heart

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    • #3
      Re: Tele or Les Paul? (No Rob Option)

      Les Paul:
      - Looks beautiful, especially in flame top
      - Upper fret access is worse
      - PAF in the neck can sound great
      - Bridge does rock well
      - Flatter radius neck is better for playing lead and bending
      - Don't like the short scale
      - Frets are traditionally larger

      Telecaster
      - Looks like a failed high school shop project
      - Slightly better upper fret access
      - Neck pickup is very me
      - Bridge does rock well
      - Neck traditionally has a small radius which is harder to bend with
      - Scale length is more comfortable for me
      - Frets are traditionally smaller




      Eh . . . neither are my first choice. Or second choice. I'd give the edge to the Les Paul if forced to pick one.
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      • #4
        Re: Tele or Les Paul? (No Rob Option)

        Les Paul. It's not even close for me: I prefer humbuckers, flatter fretboard, mahogany and the shorter scale length. The controls are also better.

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        • #5
          Re: Tele or Les Paul? (No Rob Option)

          Originally posted by jeremy View Post
          id take a tele anyday. id mod it a little but ive done that to every guitar ive owned, i even swapped a pup on my first guitar a squier ii. i have a nice lp and i like it, but ill always be a fender guy at heart
          Come on man. No mods what would you take?

          I will jump on the Les Paul team real quick.

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            Re: Tele or Les Paul? (No Rob Option)

            A Tele if I could mod it. I'd pick an LP if I couldn't.
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            • #7
              Re: Tele or Les Paul? (No Rob Option)

              Today it would be a Paul

              Next month I may move more Tele

              Right now a chambered Paul with a JB/JAZZ set is my jam

              But I could go Tele with JB/JAZZ just as well

              I have an RG hardtail with a JB/JAZZ set

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              • #8
                Re: Tele or Les Paul? (No Rob Option)

                ...as far as I'm concerned they both sound great & look pretty bad

                I'd take a decent superstrat over either...or a pointy. But of the two the LP wins 'cause it's tone has the edge (looks a bit better too)
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                If you let your tone speak for itself you'll find alot less people join the conversation.


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                • #9
                  Re: Tele or Les Paul? (No Rob Option)

                  History suggests I'd mod either, but I'd prefer the Tele for two reasons. Weight is a big issue for me, and I'm a fanatic about my preference for a straight run of strings from the bridge to the tuning pegs. Obviously the angles have to break down over the nut, but I can't stand them angling off to the sides.
                  I am so close to retirement that I could play in a band full time. All I have to do is figure out what to use instead of money, improve my playing, learn some songs, and find some other musicians more talented than me who will do exactly as they're told. .

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                  • #10
                    Re: Tele or Les Paul? (No Rob Option)

                    Originally posted by Securb View Post
                    Come on man. No mods what would you take?

                    I will jump on the Les Paul team real quick.
                    '52 tele or '52 lp? tele. '59 tele or '59 lp? lp. '66 tele or '66 lp? tele. '72 tele or '72 lp? tele. '79 tele or '79 lp? canoe oar. '86 tele or '86 lp? tele.

                    i own one real lp, one very lp influenced guitar, three other sorta gibsony guitars, and like twenty-something fender or fendery guitars. i could make a lp work but id be more comfortable on a tele

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                    • #11
                      Re: Tele or Les Paul? (No Rob Option)

                      Between just those two, a Les Paul. They balance better for me. A Tele just doesn't balance right on the strap for my comfort.

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                      • #12
                        Re: Tele or Les Paul? (No Rob Option)

                        Tele. Esquire, actually.

                        But Les Paul JUNIOR is right behind.

                        I love carved-top Pauls, but they don't even rate on my top ten list of favorite guitar models. They are behind (in no order) the Tele, Esquire, LP Special, LP Junior, SG, Strat, Jazzmaster, Jaguar, 335/345/355 styles, 330 styles, Guild thinline fully hollows, and any number of Gibson non-thinline hollow bodies.
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                        • #13
                          Re: Tele or Les Paul? (No Rob Option)

                          I would pick a Tele just off the middle position alone.

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                          • #14
                            Re: Tele or Les Paul? (No Rob Option)

                            I like both. But will tell you, the day i got my first lp was the best day of my life. Was always my dream guitar. My brother and i woke up early and he drove me to 2 or 3 dif shops, all on the opposite ends of town to make sure i was getting the "best" one. Still gives me chills every time i see and play it.
                            Last edited by Open lane; 12-14-2019, 10:13 AM.

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                            • #15
                              Re: Tele or Les Paul? (No Rob Option)

                              Tele, all day, every day and twice on Sunday
                              -Chris

                              Originally posted by John Suhr
                              “Practice cures most tone issues”

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