Favorite Fender Guitars

Favorite Fender Guitars

  • Stratocaster

    Votes: 26 63.4%

  • Telecaster

    Votes: 12 29.3%

  • Jazzmaster

    Votes: 2 4.9%

  • Jaguar

    Votes: 1 2.4%

  • Mustang

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    41
theAeronought

theAeronought

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Aside from the poll, I have a different question entirely: how would you compare a Stratocaster and a Jaguar? I'm fond of Strats because they're so famous in the Rock & Roll/Blues industry, and because I really just love the steely, stable sound of them. I also like Jaguars and Mustangs because they've got similar pickups to a Stratocaster, but only two of them (I like the two-single-coil middle position sound, I just don't like Teles), and about a half-squillion more switching options. I'd say the pickups make the most of the difference in the sound (which is why I have to stick with these three), and the rest is a matter of style and preference in playability and accessibility - what do you prefer?

I personally can't make up my mind, but I'm pretty sure I'm going to stick with the 60's Strat.

Have fun!
- Aero
 
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IDK how anyone in their right mind could not vote telecaster, but I think strat will win
 
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Invalid poll.

Your preamble mentions the outcome that you suspect is most likely. Including this prejudices the responses that you will get.

FWIIW, my favourite Fender electric guitar never had a name. The 1951 "NoCaster".
 
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regan said:
IDK how anyone in their right mind could not vote telecaster
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Who wouldn't vote Tele? Hmmm... Hendrix, Clapton, Blackmore, Beck, Trower, Malmsteen, Knopfler, Gallagher, Harrison, SRV, Gilmour, Johnson, Healey, Bolin, Guy, KWS, Winwood, and a bunch of other guys 'not in their right mind', who don't know as much as you do.

I nominate you for the prestigious 'Most Open-Minded Forum Member Award'.
 
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Two Starts and two Teles but I have the Strat strapped on me at this moment so...Strat.
 
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Securb said:
Two Starts and two Teles but I have the Strat strapped on me at this moment so...Strat.
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Strats aren't just Fender's biggest seller, the design is the world's biggest seller. Leo hit a home run with this one. I don't know how anyone 'in their right mind' could argue otherwise.
 
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Stratocaster.

I've been a fan of Leo's creations since my first good guitar, a 1960 Duo-Sonic in Desert Tan. And then there was a 1960 Strat, a 1968 Tele Thinline, Music Man Sabre IIs, and now a big bunch of stratty G&Ls with one lone ASAT Deluxe. The Legacys, S-500s and Comanches feel like a part of me, and they always will. And they are just my perfect Strat; the dream guitar I've always wanted.

Bill
 
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Strat.

IMO it's the greatest electric guitar ever made, both physically and sonically. It just screams, "Guitar done right".

It doesn't fit me personally but, even I can appreciate greatness.
 
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Strat.

Of all the guitars I've used and recorded with over the years, perhaps one of the best sounding and playing is an old no name double fat strat copy that I refinished myself.
 
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blueman335 said:
Who wouldn't vote Tele? Hmmm... Hendrix, Clapton, Blackmore, Beck, Trower, Malmsteen, Knopfler, Gallagher, Harrison, SRV, Gilmour, Johnson, Healey, Bolin, Guy, KWS, Winwood, and a bunch of other guys 'not in their right mind', who don't know as much as you do.

I nominate you for the prestigious 'Most Open-Minded Forum Member Award'.
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You take this way too seriously
 
Favorite Fender Guitars

Boogie Bill said:
I've been a fan of Leo's creations since my first good guitar, a 1960 Duo-Sonic in Desert Tan.
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I knew there was one I was missing! I always thought it'd be really neat to have a Duo-Sonic. I love old guitars.

Jackson Distortion said:
Strat.

It doesn't fit me personally but, even I can appreciate greatness.
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Lemme guess - you're a Les Paul guy? Got my arms around one a couple of times and didn't quite get what was so great about em. Though I do fancy the Memphis line - those burst buckets in a semi-hollow body, oh baby!
 
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regan said:
IDK how anyone in their right mind could not vote telecaster, but I think strat will win
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Dug yourself a hole with that one, mate. Sorry. Lots of big names played Teles too... I just can't remember most of them. B.B. King played one for a while, I thought, and Keith Richards too - apparently a Tele makes a hell of a club!

They're really big in country and pop it seems, probably because of the huge twang you can get with them. I thought they also sounded kind of raspy and thin, but sometimes I like that. In fact, I actually modified my Squier Stratocaster to have wiring options not all that different from a Telecaster - position two selects the neck and bridge pickups, plus I replaced the secondary tone knob with a bass cut to kind of thin out the sound (or clean it up if I'm on fuzz). I just like the astray pickups and body better, plus the tremolo.
 
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blueman335 said:
Who wouldn't vote Tele? Hmmm... Hendrix, Clapton, Blackmore, Beck, Trower, Malmsteen, Knopfler, Gallagher, Harrison, SRV, Gilmour, Johnson, Healey, Bolin, Guy, KWS, Winwood, and a bunch of other guys 'not in their right mind', who don't know as much as you do.
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all these guys in bold played teles at one time
 
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Invalid poll
I vote in order of greatness my top 3
1Broadcaster, 2Two pickup Esquire (Basically a broadcaster with no truss rod), 3(pine)Esquire
(all made in the year of our Leo 1950)

I dont like Strats that much...Id rather have a Jazzmaster
 
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