Any Mahogany-bodied Tele users in here?
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Funkfingers
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My green Warmoth La Cabronista Especial Tele has a mahogany body. It is capable of twanging like a regular Tele and of growling like a Les Paul Junior. Well, almost.
Essentially, the midrange emphasis is in a different frequency band. Pickup choices would allow you to either cancel that out or exaggerate it still further.
For what it is worth, I also have a redwood telecaster. This has Sixties style single coils but a maple neck. Sounds like a Telecaster but without so much of the Roy Buchanan high frequency edginess.
My green Warmoth La Cabronista Especial Tele has a mahogany body. It is capable of twanging like a regular Tele and of growling like a Les Paul Junior. Well, almost.
Essentially, the midrange emphasis is in a different frequency band. Pickup choices would allow you to either cancel that out or exaggerate it still further.
For what it is worth, I also have a redwood telecaster. This has Sixties style single coils but a maple neck. Sounds like a Telecaster but without so much of the Roy Buchanan high frequency edginess.
muttznmongrelz
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Re: Any Mahogany-bodied Tele users in here?
Had one; Mahogany w/Maple Top Kramer SC-3 Mutt that I built out...much better sound/tone IMHO. Can't go wrong with Mahogany or Ash.
1987 Kramer E.E. SC-3
1989 Kramer Telecaster Custom
Had one; Mahogany w/Maple Top Kramer SC-3 Mutt that I built out...much better sound/tone IMHO. Can't go wrong with Mahogany or Ash.
1987 Kramer E.E. SC-3
1989 Kramer Telecaster Custom
Mattr4president
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I just made one myself. I love the tone of mahogany regardless of shape. Acoustically it's not as bright as maple or ash but I wouldn't say it's dark because I always feel that's considered a negative description. I say it's smoother sounding. I did go with the hot rails in my tele though. I've never got along with single coils, it's just a personal preference. The maple neck is a good compliment to the mahogany
I just made one myself. I love the tone of mahogany regardless of shape. Acoustically it's not as bright as maple or ash but I wouldn't say it's dark because I always feel that's considered a negative description. I say it's smoother sounding. I did go with the hot rails in my tele though. I've never got along with single coils, it's just a personal preference. The maple neck is a good compliment to the mahogany
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This is very close to what I want to build.
That's kind of what I'm after - still some twang and Fender character, just a darker, smoother, fatter version of it.
This is very close to what I want to build.
That's kind of what I'm after - still some twang and Fender character, just a darker, smoother, fatter version of it.
astrozombie
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Re: Any Mahogany-bodied Tele users in here?
I kind of feel like my Gretsch corvette is what a tele would sound like if it was made of mahogany. Jangly but warm at the same time.
I would expect to hgear some of the shrill top end rolled off.
I kind of feel like my Gretsch corvette is what a tele would sound like if it was made of mahogany. Jangly but warm at the same time.
I would expect to hgear some of the shrill top end rolled off.
ItsaBass
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Any Mahogany-bodied Tele users in here?
I have two vintage spec '63-style mahogany bodies that my buddy made for me. He used to work in the Fender Standard production factory, and eventually in the custom shop. Now he's a final assembly builder for G&L. His work on the bodies was out of sight. Every last detail was historically accurate, aside from the fact that he used single piece wood blanks at my request. (I supplied the aged Honduran mahogany to him, and I couldn't bear to split and rejoin the beautiful blanks just for the sake of being historically accurate.). I can't wait until these things are together. I plan on doing a perfect vintage reproduction with one, with the translucent cherry finish. The other one I'm not sure what I'm gonna do with yet. Maybe a neutral blonde finish with an ebony fretboard, and maybe a humbucker or two - maybe even a three pick up Tele.
I have two vintage spec '63-style mahogany bodies that my buddy made for me. He used to work in the Fender Standard production factory, and eventually in the custom shop. Now he's a final assembly builder for G&L. His work on the bodies was out of sight. Every last detail was historically accurate, aside from the fact that he used single piece wood blanks at my request. (I supplied the aged Honduran mahogany to him, and I couldn't bear to split and rejoin the beautiful blanks just for the sake of being historically accurate.). I can't wait until these things are together. I plan on doing a perfect vintage reproduction with one, with the translucent cherry finish. The other one I'm not sure what I'm gonna do with yet. Maybe a neutral blonde finish with an ebony fretboard, and maybe a humbucker or two - maybe even a three pick up Tele.
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Gaspasser69
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Re: Any Mahogany-bodied Tele users in here?
This is a mahogony body kit guitar with maple neck. Broadcaster set of sd pus. Str 1 / stl1b
http://youtu.be/aAe5_Kra-FM
That one was a wedding gift by my coworker to his friend. I liked it so much i had to have my own. Thus this
The headstock has a girls name on it in urdu - sadia. Gotta polish the laquer after leveling it off then the best part final assy. And electronics. ��
I could use a good player to show off what this thing can do when its done in a you tube vid. Im in nj.
This is a mahogony body kit guitar with maple neck. Broadcaster set of sd pus. Str 1 / stl1b
http://youtu.be/aAe5_Kra-FM
That one was a wedding gift by my coworker to his friend. I liked it so much i had to have my own. Thus this
The headstock has a girls name on it in urdu - sadia. Gotta polish the laquer after leveling it off then the best part final assy. And electronics. ��
I could use a good player to show off what this thing can do when its done in a you tube vid. Im in nj.
crusty philtrum
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Re: Any Mahogany-bodied Tele users in here?
" Any Mahogany-bodied Tele users in here? "
No, despite feeling a little wooden at times due to age, my body is flesh and bones. It's a set-neck with TWO heels, sounds a little creaky sometimes. But it's never stopped me using my Tele.
" Any Mahogany-bodied Tele users in here? "
No, despite feeling a little wooden at times due to age, my body is flesh and bones. It's a set-neck with TWO heels, sounds a little creaky sometimes. But it's never stopped me using my Tele.
Re: Any Mahogany-bodied Tele users in here?
In the late 70's I started cobbling tele and strat partscasters from various suppliers, Schecter, Warmoth, etc and two fellas I met that made bodies and necks. Some of them turned out great and others were OK, but no great shakes. I stopped around 1995, but in 2002 I got the itch to build 'one last' tele. I called Tommy at USACG and asked him to make me a chambered mahogany body (and to pick the wood for it's tonal qualities over looks) and a killer neck.
This was the first time I actually spec'd out every aspect and detail based on my playing style, tone preference and neck radius, width, frets, etc. Well, Tommy delivered big time and exceeded my expectations. This guitar became my #1 from the moment I strung it up for the first time and to this day, continues to inspire me every time I play it.
Mahogany has always been my first choice for guitar bodies. Perhaps because my first 'real' electric was a 1957 Les Paul Special (I found in the basement of my gramma's house) and the tones of that guitar with it's mahogany and P-90's is still the benchmark for me.
I understand you asked specifically about solid bodies and not thin-lines, so take my comments with a grain of salt, but since I'm an old fart with a bad back, the chambering was done as much for weight as it was for tone.
I've tried a ton of different pickups in this guitar and with a set of Fezzter Oildales, it twangs as well as a couple of older, ash body teles I had....a 67 and a 71. The 71 tele by the way was one of the better sounding teles I've had. However, as much as I love teles, I'm an old blues hound and twang (as much as I dig it) does not relate well to my style of play, so I go for more beefy tones. I have used various low wind PAFish pups in the neck, (along with several nice bucker sized P-90 types...with the BG Pure 90 being the best) and darn near every type of tele bridge pup from vintage wind single coil to pups ala the HD S-90 to blade buckers ala Dimarzio Tone Zone T to tapped broadcaster to Don Mare 0038 to Zhang Paul Bunyan (my fav) to Bill Lawrence 290-298, etc.
I met a fella here who winds pups and told him of my problem finding a bridge pup with more beef and less twang that I can live with. I should have that pickup any day now and I'm excited to give it try. While far from traditional in magents and output, I have a good feeling it will be just what the Dr ordered.
Anyway, I got way off the topic, but suffice to say a mahogany bodied tele is by far my favorite. Oh yeah, I finished mine (and neck) with 11-12 light coats of tru-oil and I love the beautiful color and organic feel it provided.
In the late 70's I started cobbling tele and strat partscasters from various suppliers, Schecter, Warmoth, etc and two fellas I met that made bodies and necks. Some of them turned out great and others were OK, but no great shakes. I stopped around 1995, but in 2002 I got the itch to build 'one last' tele. I called Tommy at USACG and asked him to make me a chambered mahogany body (and to pick the wood for it's tonal qualities over looks) and a killer neck.
This was the first time I actually spec'd out every aspect and detail based on my playing style, tone preference and neck radius, width, frets, etc. Well, Tommy delivered big time and exceeded my expectations. This guitar became my #1 from the moment I strung it up for the first time and to this day, continues to inspire me every time I play it.
Mahogany has always been my first choice for guitar bodies. Perhaps because my first 'real' electric was a 1957 Les Paul Special (I found in the basement of my gramma's house) and the tones of that guitar with it's mahogany and P-90's is still the benchmark for me.
I understand you asked specifically about solid bodies and not thin-lines, so take my comments with a grain of salt, but since I'm an old fart with a bad back, the chambering was done as much for weight as it was for tone.
I've tried a ton of different pickups in this guitar and with a set of Fezzter Oildales, it twangs as well as a couple of older, ash body teles I had....a 67 and a 71. The 71 tele by the way was one of the better sounding teles I've had. However, as much as I love teles, I'm an old blues hound and twang (as much as I dig it) does not relate well to my style of play, so I go for more beefy tones. I have used various low wind PAFish pups in the neck, (along with several nice bucker sized P-90 types...with the BG Pure 90 being the best) and darn near every type of tele bridge pup from vintage wind single coil to pups ala the HD S-90 to blade buckers ala Dimarzio Tone Zone T to tapped broadcaster to Don Mare 0038 to Zhang Paul Bunyan (my fav) to Bill Lawrence 290-298, etc.
I met a fella here who winds pups and told him of my problem finding a bridge pup with more beef and less twang that I can live with. I should have that pickup any day now and I'm excited to give it try. While far from traditional in magents and output, I have a good feeling it will be just what the Dr ordered.
Anyway, I got way off the topic, but suffice to say a mahogany bodied tele is by far my favorite. Oh yeah, I finished mine (and neck) with 11-12 light coats of tru-oil and I love the beautiful color and organic feel it provided.
