A Mahogany Strat or Tele?
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drew_half_empty
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Re: A Mahogany Strat or Tele?
warmoth has the tonewood info
or you could just search on google, that usually yields better results
warmoth has the tonewood info
or you could just search on google, that usually yields better results
diggamark
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Re: A Mahogany Strat or Tele?
try here:
http://www.tonosity.com/Detail/Editorial.aspx?Editorial_ID=26
or this site has someuseful info..
mimf.com
try here:
http://www.tonosity.com/Detail/Editorial.aspx?Editorial_ID=26
or this site has someuseful info..
mimf.com
Re: A Mahogany Strat or Tele?
My guitar teacher has a mahogany tele, the bridge pup is a JB jr or lil 59 (one or the other) but the neck pup is a normal tele one. Sounds great, a bit different to a normal tele but still a great tone.. been a while since I played it though so I can't give a detailed comparison
My guitar teacher has a mahogany tele, the bridge pup is a JB jr or lil 59 (one or the other) but the neck pup is a normal tele one. Sounds great, a bit different to a normal tele but still a great tone.. been a while since I played it though so I can't give a detailed comparison
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Re: A Mahogany Strat or Tele?
I have a book called "Fender: The Sound Heard 'Round the World", it has a picture of a Mahogany Telecaster made in 1963...
Curly said:
I have a book called "Fender: The Sound Heard 'Round the World", it has a picture of a Mahogany Telecaster made in 1963...
Re: A Mahogany Strat or Tele?
Thanks for the link it was very helpful. Also thanks to everyone else who responded.
Basically i have a cheap strat copy that has a nice neck, but the body is made of sawdust and the electronics suck. It does have some value to me though since it was my first guitar, so i thought of bolting the neck on another body,painting it the same color and upgrading the electonics.
Also since i have'nt seen to many mahogany strats i thought it might be interesting.
diggamark said:
Thanks for the link it was very helpful. Also thanks to everyone else who responded.
Basically i have a cheap strat copy that has a nice neck, but the body is made of sawdust and the electronics suck. It does have some value to me though since it was my first guitar, so i thought of bolting the neck on another body,painting it the same color and upgrading the electonics.
Also since i have'nt seen to many mahogany strats i thought it might be interesting.
Re: A Mahogany Strat or Tele?
I would pull towrds the tele as the more versital although the strat might be interesting and most of this depends on what you want to do with it-
as you know from gibson vs fender discussions, mahagoney is considered one of the warmest tone woods and it really emphathizes mids- ive got a freind with a warmoth tele and it sounds like it's in between an SG and a tele- still has the bite, but more sustain and thicker- Becuase I think of the tele as a bright guitar I can understand and appreciate this body change-
but I dont think of strats as bright- to me they run the gauntlet of tones and average out in the middle- but the coolness of the clasic strat to me is the quacky sc sound and lack of sustain for rhytem work- I've never played a mahognney strat (wiht classic features) but in my mind scoils, quack and short sustain are exactly the opposite of what mahgoney would get you-
Now if you are after a LP sound in a strat body, there is no doubt that this is the way to go- One of my buddies in 25.5 dependent as I am and his primary LP tone comes from a HSS Zion with a mahoney body and maple cap-
The SCs can get a tele like sound, but they just dont sound like a strat at all- and most of the time you would sware he was playing a 2hum LP
I would pull towrds the tele as the more versital although the strat might be interesting and most of this depends on what you want to do with it-
as you know from gibson vs fender discussions, mahagoney is considered one of the warmest tone woods and it really emphathizes mids- ive got a freind with a warmoth tele and it sounds like it's in between an SG and a tele- still has the bite, but more sustain and thicker- Becuase I think of the tele as a bright guitar I can understand and appreciate this body change-
but I dont think of strats as bright- to me they run the gauntlet of tones and average out in the middle- but the coolness of the clasic strat to me is the quacky sc sound and lack of sustain for rhytem work- I've never played a mahognney strat (wiht classic features) but in my mind scoils, quack and short sustain are exactly the opposite of what mahgoney would get you-
Now if you are after a LP sound in a strat body, there is no doubt that this is the way to go- One of my buddies in 25.5 dependent as I am and his primary LP tone comes from a HSS Zion with a mahoney body and maple cap-
The SCs can get a tele like sound, but they just dont sound like a strat at all- and most of the time you would sware he was playing a 2hum LP
