Tele Players...

Ok Telemasters...tell us about your plank!

Mine is a modded Highway 1...
-single layer guardplate
-Kluson keys
-round string tree
-Compensated brass saddles
-Custom Shop 53 Tapped Tele set w/5-way switch
-Electrosocket
-Schaller Straplocks

Honey blond finish and I love it!!!
 
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Mine's a Deluxe Nashville Tele (MIM) with SD Vintage Stacks, in Candy Apple Red with a Tortoiseshell pickguard.
 
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I've got a sunburst Hwy 1 and some new Duncans that I've not had a chance to slap in there yet.

Vintage neck and Hot for Tele bridge (tapped)
 
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okay, i have three, two fifties reissues and a custom made tele by Gauge guitars.

The custom made tele has a super light weight ash body, black nitro finish maple neck and voodoo Te50's for pickups

My blonde reissue is also ash with a maple neck and it has tele antiquities for pickups

my sunburst tele is again ash with a maple neck and it still has a set of texas specials in it, but not for long if i can help it
 
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mine an '87 blk american. i have it set up with a qp in the bridge and custom wound strat pup in the neck. killer rock guitar
 
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My favorite is my '54...a real one. Stock except I had it refretted with medium jumbo frets. Three brass saddles. In it are Lindy Fralins: Blues Special bridge and Tele Stock neck. I have the original pickups too but I like the Fralins alot better.


I also have a NoCaster with jumbo frets and a set of Duncan Antiquitys.

And a James Burton Tele with Duncan Custom Shop pickups MJ wound for me. Tapped Hot bridge and alnico 5 Tele ala Strat neck.

I think the James Burton Tele has my favorite pickups and those might go in my '54 someday.
 
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I have a Warmoth lightweight ash tele with Antiquities

I have an Am Series tele with a JD bridge/ Hot neck

I'm working on a custom alder tele from USACG, rw board, Custom Shop "SWD" set by MJ
 
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'92 black mim poplar tele

-painted the pickguard with grey acrylic paint. later covered that with black. used metallic acryilic paint to paint the body silver, and later green.
-put a humbucker in the middle (currently a '59, though i originally had a jb in it, then a cc which i converted to a c5)
-put a qp in the bridge and a vintage p90(b) in the neck
-put in two push/pull pots: one to split the humbucker and the other to turn the bridge pickup on with other pickups
-put a 96 mij 62 strat neck on it

other tele

bought a project tele from someone on this forum. came equipped with:

-black alder tele body
-maple mij reissue tele neck
-humbucking tele bridge/tortoise warmoth tele pickguard routed for humbucker
-super distortion bridge/paf pro neck

now has:

-metallic copper acrylic paint finish
-72 tele style black warmoth pickguard
-two volume, two tone knobs
-lp style three way switch on upper bout
-same pickup in bridge, 86 alnico ii pro humbucker in neck

actually, this guitar doesn't have anything in it because i'm in the process of rewiring, but those same parts are going back in (i think).
 
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fender black lite ash tele with black guard, birdseye neck, 3 barrel bridge, SD alnico Pro2s

i also have a MIM tele maple neck with SD five-two
 
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My Tele started out life as a stock 50's Classic. Since then it had a pickup change-Bill Lawerence something or other pup in the neck(I forgot) and a NoCaster bridge pup. The pickguard was changed to a '52 RI Bake Lite pickguard. '52 RI bridge plate and compensated brass saddles added with great tonal success. This guitar truly sounds and plays amazingly. Couldn't be happier with it. Tele's are probably my favorite guitars.
 
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I have 2 heavily kustomized Teles -

WD Alder body in Tropical Green, Warmoth maple neck with Braz. rosewood board, reverse Strat headstock, Schaller locking pegs, star inlays, QP tapped bridge and neck pups, white MOTO guard, CTS 250k pots - push/pull tone for neck tap, Fender 5 way switch for bridge tap, .022 OD cap, Wilkinson Vintage bridge, pinstripping by Frankie at Frankensigns, Schaller Straplocks and a kustom painted SKB case.

Squier mystery wood body (soild wood though not a ply), USACG maple neck with an ebony board, abalone inlays, reverse 70's style Strat headstock with a 17° tilt back, vintage tint lacquer. SD Custom Shop BG1400 bridge pickup and as of today an SD Phat Cat neck (formerly had a 59n) CTS 500k pots, .022 OD cap, LP style 3 way switch all under a kustom butnut control plate with a smokin'/burnin' toggle ring, stock bridge, Schaller locking pegs. Kustom sparkle flame paint job by butnut -large silver metal flake, House of Kolor kandy orange and HOK kandy red orange under PPG clear poly with aztec gold powder.
 
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2003 MIM Tele (blonde)

Antiquity bridge
Fralin Blues Special neck
Stew.Mac compensated brass saddles

A very resonant, very lively guitar. So versatile! Sounds like Led Zep with a Soulbender through the Bogner Metro. Chicago blues bite with the BSM OR treble booster. Pure Plexi mayhem with the Buffalo Pfuz and SLO-100 crunch channel. All that with a guitar that sold for $539.00!!!
 
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First year Squier Telecaster. It has a Little 59' in the bridge and Classic Stack in the neck. Volume and tone split the 'buckers.

Aside from straplocks that's the end of the mods on it. Nothing has been changed. Nothing has needed to. I count on it to do two things; sound great and play great.

It's been my #1 since I got it in 1987.
 
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Ez74 said:
fender black lite ash tele with black guard, birdseye neck, 3 barrel bridge, SD alnico Pro2s

i also have a MIM tele maple neck with SD five-two

AMEN on the 5/2 man - i got one in my MIM strat in the middle. awesome, TOTALLY underrated pickup for clean and light OD sounds.

sorry, its just the first time i've seen it mentioned since i installed it, and i'm amazed how much better it sounds than the stock one lol
 
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I have two.

A candy Apple red withe RW FB. it has a strat pup in the NEck and a Tele PUP in the bridge (Tex Mex PUPS)

My other Tele is a MIJ 52 RI. Completley stock. Both are excellent guitars.
 
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Scott_F said:
I've got a sunburst Hwy 1 and some new Duncans that I've not had a chance to slap in there yet.

Vintage neck and Hot for Tele bridge (tapped)

You go Scott!! Sounds like a killer combo. You should also try the Joe Wilson wiring scheme.

Joe Wilson Wiring

Duncan Website said:
"This wiring was designed for one of our sales reps in the Southeast, Joe Wilson, who wanted to add some extra versatility to his Tele®, while retaining the stock look. For this scheme, we use our "tapped" Hot Lead (STL-2T) and a Vintage Rhythm (STR-1) pickups. We used a special 4-pole 5-way switch in place of the standard 3-way switch. In position 1, you'll get a hotter Tele lead sound. Position 2 will give a traditional Tele lead sound. Position 3 gives you both the rhythm and "traditional" lead sound in "parallel" (the typical Tele wiring). Position 4 gives the rhythm and "traditional" lead sound in "series," a warmer and fuller sound for smooth jazz runs. Position 5 gives you the rhythm pickup by itself. We also put in a push-pull pot on the tone control that reverses the phase of the neck pickup. This gives a nice, chiming, James Burton-esque sound in positions 3 and 4. Make sure that you cut the short bare wire between the cover and the black wire on the rhythm pickup. You must then run an additional wire from the cover to ground, so that the cover still shields the rhythm pickup. The 5-way switch we show here is Yamaha's 4-pole 5-way switch. The value of the push-pull pot should be 250k. Take your time wiring this one, and always take your guitar to your local technician if you are not comfortable wiring your own instrument."

Oh, my own Tele...

Model - Fender 50's Telecaster
Finish - White Blonde
Pickups - Stock

I am searching for a good pickup combo that's higher output but retains the twang and is noiseless...
 
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2004 MIM supposed to be alder
Blue Aguave
Hot Vintage Broadcaster Bridge(8.2k)
Stock Neck soon to be replaced by Hot Vintage neck
Fender 4way switch for Series Bridge/Neck setting for fatter sound
 
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mine's being made by JohnJohn as we speak...

white oak arch topped body with bookmatched birdseye maple top and a warmoth wizard maple/maple neck with medium jumbo frets and earvana nut.
59 neck and i believe CustomCustom bridge nickel covered which will be tapped by one volume push/pull and one tone push/pull and a 3 way lp switch (gibby style). the finish is going to be butterscotch with butterscotch ghost flames and a hipshot hardtail bridge with hopefully sperzel locking tuners....?!
 
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