Tele body wood.............
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sufferinrewind
New member
Re: Tele body wood.............
Swamp Ash.
Swamp Ash.
JacksonMIA
Lemur-buckerologist
Re: Tele body wood.............
Limba.
Limba.
sufferinrewind
New member
Re: Tele body wood.............
If you really want to do something different, you can try pine, which is what the original prototypes were made of. I don't think they would look very good with a natural finish, though.
If you really want to do something different, you can try pine, which is what the original prototypes were made of. I don't think they would look very good with a natural finish, though.
B Bent
Vibroluxologist
Re: Tele body wood.............
Here is what I'll be doing. I have thought about this for a while now. I have in my mind all of the gripes that I have with Teles from a playability standpoint. I have been in contact with Tommy at USACG to build my ultimate/dream (main) Tele.
I have asked him to spec/price me out a body with Swamp Ash, tummy cut and forearm contour, top bound and with a middle Strat PUP route. I am thinking very seriously about an Orange Sparkle finish.
At some point before I have it finished and maybe after I will have some sort of B bender installed.
Here is what I'll be doing. I have thought about this for a while now. I have in my mind all of the gripes that I have with Teles from a playability standpoint. I have been in contact with Tommy at USACG to build my ultimate/dream (main) Tele.
I have asked him to spec/price me out a body with Swamp Ash, tummy cut and forearm contour, top bound and with a middle Strat PUP route. I am thinking very seriously about an Orange Sparkle finish.
At some point before I have it finished and maybe after I will have some sort of B bender installed.
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Skarekrough
Guest
Re: Tele body wood.............
If it isn't Ash it isn't a Tele....
If it isn't Ash it isn't a Tele....
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Guest
Guest
Re: Tele body wood.............
Definitely Ash
Definitely Ash
Curly
Moe's Bluesman
Re: Tele body wood.............
well, Tommy is the man to help you build your tele!
as much as I think the orange sparkle on my Hamer Newport is very cool, on swamp ash, I would seriously consider an orange stain
well, Tommy is the man to help you build your tele!
as much as I think the orange sparkle on my Hamer Newport is very cool, on swamp ash, I would seriously consider an orange stain
sufferinrewind
New member
Re: Tele body wood.............
It looks like a Soloway guitar.
http://www.jimsoloway.com/InStock.htm
EDIT: It is. I looked at the image location of the image Curly posted.
It looks like a Soloway guitar.
http://www.jimsoloway.com/InStock.htm
EDIT: It is. I looked at the image location of the image Curly posted.
Robert Delahunt
Showmasterologist
Re: Tele body wood.............
Warmoth has a tone scale on their website for seeing how guitars sound based on wood. I suggest you look there. Sure, swamp ash is brighter than alder, but not very much brighter. Still, yeah, I'd say swamp ash on a tele, but honestly it's the overall result that you get, so you could in theory get a rosewood or mahogany body tele, just put the right pickups in it. My ESP (agathis) with the Hot Rodded combo through a Delta Blues amp has a tanginess, but not tele twang.
Disclaimer: I'm not a tele player, and haven't really played many. I've heard many recordings, and my pickups in my guitar, when split, might sound close, but they're not going to sound like a Tele anyways. I know the difference, I'm just pointing out that you can make other woods twang if you use the right pickups.
From what I've heard, it was pickups, the body manufacturing, and neck wood, that made a Tele sound the way it did, also possibly the original brass string saddles. Also, single coil pickups tend to have a "quack" to them. Just my 2 cents...
Warmoth has a tone scale on their website for seeing how guitars sound based on wood. I suggest you look there. Sure, swamp ash is brighter than alder, but not very much brighter. Still, yeah, I'd say swamp ash on a tele, but honestly it's the overall result that you get, so you could in theory get a rosewood or mahogany body tele, just put the right pickups in it. My ESP (agathis) with the Hot Rodded combo through a Delta Blues amp has a tanginess, but not tele twang.
Disclaimer: I'm not a tele player, and haven't really played many. I've heard many recordings, and my pickups in my guitar, when split, might sound close, but they're not going to sound like a Tele anyways. I know the difference, I'm just pointing out that you can make other woods twang if you use the right pickups.
From what I've heard, it was pickups, the body manufacturing, and neck wood, that made a Tele sound the way it did, also possibly the original brass string saddles. Also, single coil pickups tend to have a "quack" to them. Just my 2 cents...
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Skarekrough
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Re: Tele body wood.............
It looks like a zipper...
....as to why there would be a zipper on a Tele is totally beyond me.
It looks like a zipper...
....as to why there would be a zipper on a Tele is totally beyond me.
