Tele sound from LP deluxe?

[chill]

Re: Tele sound from LP deluxe?

Putting a Tele pickup in the bridge position of your Strat would improve the bridge pickup of your Strat. If your guitar is routed for humbuckers under the pickguard all it would take is a new pickguard and a Tele pickup to do that. IMO, a real good Tele pickup in the bridge position of a Strat gives a better, stronger tone anyway. Lowell George did that. So did I.

Did you orient it as it would be in a tele with the single screw toward the neck, or reversed as it is shown in the adapter pic above? I've wondered if routing out a strat bridge pickguard hole to accommodate a tele pickup would have room for the base without removal of wood.

 

[Gypsyblue]

Re: Tele sound from LP deluxe?

Did you orient it as it would be in a tele with the single screw toward the neck, or reversed as it is shown in the adapter pic above? I've wondered if routing out a strat bridge pickguard hole to accommodate a tele pickup would have room for the base without removal of wood.

I didn't catch that. Mine is installed like a normal Tele pickup would be. My Strat was routed out for a humbucker by the previous owner and there was plenty of room for the baseplate and to orient it "correctly".

If you were going to have to reverse it, I'd think a pickup with flat polepieces would be the way to go.

You'd have to do some routing in a typical Strat to install a Tele pickup. But some are factory routed for a humbucker already, under the pickguard.

 

[Masta' C]

Re: Tele sound from LP deluxe?

Honestly, if you want to sound like a Tele, get a Tele. Nothing else to say. I didn't buy an SG so that I could make it sound like a Strat, so don't buy an LP to make it sound like a Tele.

Puuuuhh-leeeezzzz...Ya gotta think outta da box!!!

Here's what I'm imagining:


Washburn WI-50V

+

Single Coil Neck Adapter

+

Tele Bridge Adapter

= THE SUPERSTRATELEPAUL!

(su-per-stra-tele-paul)

 

[Masta' C]

Re: Tele sound from LP deluxe?

Hmmm....

Come to think of it, I just happen to have a Washburn WI50V in need of pickups. Uh oh! I feel an urge coming on... :smack:

 

[jwaltb]

Re: Tele sound from LP deluxe?

Interesting thoughts. I'm intrigued by your Strat mod - would like to hear that sometime. And will have to check the routing on mine but I don't remember it being that way. As for the JB splitting/parallel suggestion I will definitely give it a shot. Guess I'll pick up a new pot before going after a pickup. Thanks for the input.

jimB

....Putting a Tele pickup in the bridge position of your Strat would improve the bridge pickup of your Strat. If your guitar is routed for humbuckers under the pickguard all it would take is a new pickguard and a Tele pickup to do that. IMO, a real good Tele pickup in the bridge position of a Strat gives a better, stronger tone anyway. Lowell George did that. So did I.

Or installing a switch to allow you to split the coils of your JB or put them in parallel would make more sense to me than putting a different humbucker in your Les Paul.

You could remove one tone control and use the hole for a 3 way switch to use your JB in series, parallel or single coil and then connect the remaining tone control to your output jack (like Hamer does) and use it as a master tone control.

 

[Myaccount876]

Re: Tele sound from LP deluxe?

I would suggest what a lot of people say.

Let a Stratocaster be a Stratocaster...

Let a Telecaster be a Telecaster...

Let a Les Paul be a Les Paul...

etc.

Don't expect your guitar to do something too far out of it's range. But you could try the Jimmy Page wiring and mess with amp settings. The playing is really more important to the sound. For example, most people agree that Page used a strat for the intro the Achilles Last Stand, and a Les Paul for everything else in the song. I always thought the guitar tone was something like a telecaster with a rosewood board though.

 

[shawn7oh]

Re: Tele sound from LP deluxe?

this guitar is already modded, why don't you go all out and put on a tele bridge plate tailpiece and single coil sized humbucker, like rails or distortion in? you can split those to go from a traditional tele sound to a heavier rock/metal sound. you might have to either bend the plate to fit the body, or more likely sand the body flat for the area under the bridge/pickup plate.

you've got room to angle the pickup i would think, with the routing, or just route a little more, who cares? the pickup angle is a big part of the tele sound, a les paul deluxe body is very similar, just a little fancier.

you might want to try string through body while you're at it.

this sounds like a pain in the a**, but i'm sure you'll have one hell of a unique cool guitar if you do it!!

Duncan makes mini humbuckers, you might want to check if they are splittable. Don't think you'll get much of a tele sound out of them though.

the P90 is another one worth checking out, as i'm told, as i'm told...

 

[Gypsyblue]

Re: Tele sound from LP deluxe?

...but i'm sure you'll have one hell of a unique cool guitar if you do it!!

Yes, but totally unsaleable if that day ever comes. :smack: