Tele GAS...

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i never loved teles until i tried the QP bridge pup. Before that i hated just about every sound that came out of a tele. The neck sounded dull and bridge overly shrill. Once i found this for the neck http://store.guitarfetish.com/alfaovpotene.html and the QP for the bridge though....amazing. I love a mini bucker in the neck of a tele too.
 
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I have a couple and I am starting another build. you should see what kind of sound you are looking for and get something that will compliment your playing. If you really stick in the les paul sort of range I might suggest something with a bucker in the neck or just a standard tele setup. very versatile guitars.
 
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it may be wrong for the new guy to enable, but i loves me some teles!! i'm a humbucking kind of guy, but recently my guitar tech let me play his american deluxe with a set of quarter pounders in it. amazing!! when i get another tele, a set of these WILL go in!!! for me, best tele pickups made! IMHO YMMV:14:
 
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Butch Snyder said:
Telecasters are guitars that require "real playing". They don't hide your mistakes and make you work for every note and tone you get out of them. They are either loved or hated. The haters are usually the players who either never tried them or couldn't cut the mustard on them and gave up.

For a traditionally 2-pickup, single coil guitar, they are extremely versatile and will allow you to move into virtually any genre of music and do it with style and a flare only a Telecaster can give.

IMHO, they are the guitars that are the most fun to modify. My main Telecaster has gone through so many face-lifts and pickup changes it's not funny. My current iteration is in my signature. How long will it stay like that? I don't know; but it's all fun....
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Yup, nailed everything!

Tele's are indeed fun to modify, and relatively easy as well. Given the required body cuts, you can purchase all types of pickguards and intall the traditional Tele neck pups, Strat single coils, full size humbuckers, mini humbuckers, P90s, well you get my point!

Being a bolt-on design, one may easily swap necks at will to experiment with different neck woods.

Tele's are indeed unforgiving guitars in terms of playability, but you just gotta get used to it.

The are on the heavy side but resonate great!

Try 'em!
 
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I built a parts Tele.

Then I built another parts Tele.

I liked the second parts Tele so much I built another.

After building the third one I decided what I really needed and couldn't do without was another Tele, so I built one.

A while later I knew I needed something different, so I built an Esquire.

I then discovered a pattern and am now collecting parts for a Tele build.

Go buy the darn guitar but don't come around complaining next year that you have too many Tele's.


You've been warned.
 
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so after much soul searching, and the many, many subliminal messages from this thread (thanks guys) i went out to buy a tele, i searched and searched until i found the right one, and i went to several stores to try them as many teles as i could, well in the last place i went to, i did not notice the "no parking" sign and lo and behold, when i come out of the store and look for my car, it's not there... so after calling the cops, i found out it had been impounded... $500 dollars later, i got my car back, so the next day i head to this one store where "the one" was, and guess what? they sold it!... oh well, i'll just have to wait a bit longer, and keep searching
 
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vladmarr said:
so after much soul searching, and the many, many subliminal messages from this thread (thanks guys) i went out to buy a tele, i searched and searched until i found the right one, and i went to several stores to try them as many teles as i could, well in the last place i went to, i did not notice the "no parking" sign and lo and behold, when i come out of the store and look for my car, it's not there... so after calling the cops, i found out it had been impounded... $500 dollars later, i got my car back, so the next day i head to this one store where "the one" was, and guess what? they sold it!... oh well, i'll just have to wait a bit longer, and keep searching
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Man, that sucks! I mean, that REALLY SUCKS! Didn't you tell the cops you were buying a tele? Any sane person would have given you a break based on that alone.
 
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pzaxtl said:
Man, that sucks! I mean, that REALLY SUCKS! Didn't you tell the cops you were buying a tele? Any sane person would have given you a break based on that alone.
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will this actually work? i didn't know that owning a Tele immediately gave you a mulligan with the cops.... i should have gotten one sooner
 
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FWIW, my Telecaster has just gone through another modification. It is back to a 2-pickup config with the pickups being a Fender Tex-Mex Tele set. Yeah, I know there are better sets out there; but the TM's are over-wound and a bit more raw than vintage types Tele pickups. Besides, I may mod change the pickups in another week. The pickguard is my favorite white pearl. Yeah, I'm living in the 90's. But I love the MoP guards.
 
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