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Falstaff said:
What are you planning to use as a bridge pickup? I like the "Esquire" that I have so much that I am incredibly tempted to take the neck PU out of my second tele.
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I've got a Rio Muy Grande in there now. I'll probably keep that one, but I ran across a Fender Tex-Mex Tele bridge pup for $20 the other day. I might pick it up just to have. If the Rio turns out to be too thick, I'll pop the Tex-Mex in there. I love the Tex-Mex p'ups on my JV Strat :D
 
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Ok guys, I'm brand new to the Tele! In fact, my Tele body hasn't even arrived yet. In fact, she's absolutely 'bare'-no hardware or pickups. I've been a Strat player for about 15 years, and I decided to pick up a Tele.

I'm very interested in setting it up with the vintage 'ash tray' bridge, compensated saddles; I'm sure you get the idea. Would any of you seasoned Tele guys be able to point me to a knowledgeable, friendly retailer that sells quality Tele hardware at reasonable prices?

In terms of pickups, I have an extra RW/RP antiquity I strat pickup lying around that I may use for the neck...the bridge I'm not so sure about.

Mark
 
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The best Tele I've ever played was a pre-95 Tele plus that's rediculously overpriced now because Jonny Greenwood plays them.
 
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he wants either a traditional 52 stlye tele but maybe with a humbucker in the neck like keefs
 
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Mine's a MIM 72 custom reissue. It's black with a maple neck, just like the one Leo Nocentelli played with the Meters. Keef bought an identical one after hearing Leo playing his when the Meters supported the stones on tour in the early 70s.

The neck on mine is a bit special. I think someone was having a bad day at the factory when it was born, as instead of being the standard baseball bat U 70s shape, it sort of ended up as a sort of chunky U with a touch of V. I love it.

The only mod currently is a coil split on the humbucker, though a six saddle bridge may be added after I wore a hole in my palm at a recent gig.

I'd love a relic nocaster, but I'm thinking a tele strat hybrid for my next guitar:

Hardtail alder strat body (for the balance and contours).
Fat one piece maple tele neck.
Strat neck pickup, tele bridge pickup.
 
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I'd do a vintage blonde chambered swamp ash body, with a callaham bridge, A JD in the bridge and I'd like a hot A2 neck pickup. Maple/rosewood board, 9.5 rad.
 
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JohnJohn said:
I'm just finishing one for my son,(arched top with spiderman airbrushing maple neck with his name goldleafed and spiderman on the neck birdseye fretboard with a spiderman burnt into it.
But I'm enjoying the Hoss build as well.
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I would like to see pics of that....


Dave said:
I'd do a vintage blonde chambered swamp ash body, with a callaham bridge, A JD in the bridge and I'd like a hot A2 neck pickup. Maple/rosewood board, 9.5 rad.
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Sounds very cool.
 
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Alvin Lee Fan said:
I've got a Rio Muy Grande in there now. I'll probably keep that one, but I ran across a Fender Tex-Mex Tele bridge pup for $20 the other day. I might pick it up just to have. If the Rio turns out to be too thick, I'll pop the Tex-Mex in there. I love the Tex-Mex p'ups on my JV Strat :D
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Please let us know how you make out. I had the chance to play a bit more than usual this weekend and I was loving my Esquire...I didn't find myself missing the neck pickup at all. I was able to go from a nice sweet Jerry thing to Pete Anderson. I mean an approximation of the tones, not the playing. :)
 
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My sunburst American Series Tele with Antiquity I flatpoles has been "Esquirized" for a couple of weeks because the neck pickup died. :yell:
The bridge pickup sounds great on its own, but I always end up missing the neck and combined tones too much.
 
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