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Post by gouranga on Dec 9, 2009 9:16:14 GMT
Hi guys! Just seen MM's reply to Honeyboy's Coodercaster thread. Michaels love for His Tele, the Blues bear added to it, and I know Andy Solloway is a Tele tubby also. So I hope you guys don't mind me asking the questions. What smacks about the Tele for you? How have you got your Tele configured? Pick-ups,string gauge etc etc! Is yours a standard Tele or Custom made or what? What neck is on yours etc?
Would be interesting to hear from all the Tele titans out there. Leading up to Xmas, I thought we could sit back and see what was on the different Tele's
Me and my telebear have no worries have no cares.
Best wishes to all.
Regards
Gouranga
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Post by Michael Messer on Dec 9, 2009 9:36:08 GMT
Hi Gouanga, My Telecaster is not really a Telecaster. It was built by Dave King - it is a semi-acoustic Telecaster body fitted with a Supro lap steel pickup and a Danelectro lipstick pickup. There are numerous photos of me playing it on my website. These guitars appear to be called Coodercasters, which is a new one on me, but it does seem to have become their name. I think they are Supro Ozarks with better quality bodies & necks. Shine On Michael.
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Post by honeyboy on Dec 9, 2009 10:05:39 GMT
More Chicken Pickin' single coil 'Headcutting' Tele porn..
Brad Paisley, James Burton, Vince Gill, Albert Lee, John Jorgenson, Brent Mason, Redd Volkaert & Steve Wariner..
A points victory for Albert Lee IMHO
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Post by thebluesbear( al) on Dec 9, 2009 11:15:40 GMT
Hi All
what floats my boat about telecasters?, in my case my first decent guitar ,(that i stll own) was a tele this guitar went everywhere with me.. was next to me in gig vans, we even slept rough together we hitchhiked 100s of miles together ;D to make a long story short this tele is a great guitar that is seldom far away from me even today
the affection i have for these is only equal to my affection for resonators
al
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Post by gouranga on Dec 9, 2009 11:21:09 GMT
Nice one Michael.. Thanks Honeyboy. Albert Lee for me!
Gouranga
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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2009 12:38:33 GMT
Hi
My tele ( Telula ) is my divorce guitar. I had a grand left after my divorce and decided to make a serious guitar purchase. I spent a few weeks trying loads of different guitars but had never really considered a tele before. I know it's a bit shallow but I never liked the look of the headstock. However, I tried an American Standard with maple neck through a nice peavey valve amp. Wow I was sold. Fantastic, versatile sound, great action, stays in tune. Covers all bases.
American standard Maple Neck Candy apple red Ernie Ball Hybrid Slinkys Stock pickups
Never use it for slide though
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Post by andys on Dec 9, 2009 13:01:17 GMT
Where to start!?
Leo got it right first time IMO.
The Tele is probably the guitar which transcends all musics. You can think of examples of Tele players in virtually every genre of music, something I dont think other styles of guitar can quite claim to do (though I am open to be corrected on this). From Jazz to country, from blues to metal, from soul to indie, folk rock to world music, the tele is seen everywhere.
To me a Tele just feels right in my hands, and sounds right to my ears. I own quite a few Teles, none of them particulary expensive ones, and I have kept them all over the years. Other types of electric I have bought, the novelty soon wears off.
The Tele is such a simple guitar it is actually hard for any maker, whether Fender or otherwise, to get that wrong. And with its modular nature, things that are wrong can soon be put right.
Neck on your Tele too thick or too thin? Swap it for another one! Cant do that with a Les Paul or a 335.
Dont like the pickups? Easy to swap them out. Easy to fit other types of pickup into.
One of the few guitars where you can make tweaks to the wiring and controls without even loosening the strings.
It is a true workhorse guitar, no thrills and tough as old boots. The first reply to "I dropped my Tele" is often "Anyone hurt?".
Above all with the Tele, its also about the company you keep!!!
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Post by gouranga on Dec 9, 2009 13:18:34 GMT
Thanks guys. Like it Andy. Nice Bluesbear. Tele is man's best friend. Nice BNBob. Sounds like a good deal, a Tele for a misus, at least with the Tele you can grab it round the neck all night long and it just sings sweets songs and no divorce at the end. Keep the stories coming. i like this!
Gouranga
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Post by honeyboy on Dec 9, 2009 19:46:05 GMT
Chris, You're spoilt for choice nowadays. Biggest neck I've seen is this one Warmoth Superwide Neck ConfiguratorYou can configure it exactly how you want it, then it takes about 3 weeks for them to make (depending on your choices). Extra Wide C shape maple neck with jet black ebony fingerboard anyone?? Alternatively, they have a large selection of 'off the shelf' necks to choose from.. Warmoth Tele NecksClick on the 'In Stock Now' button - Changes every day...
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Post by Stevie on Dec 9, 2009 22:28:00 GMT
I have two Warmoth necks (three if I count the one on the Pacifica) All are quarter sawn which to some extent (but not always) reduces the amount of figuring you get in the maple. Both of mine have the side adjusters for the truss rod...ingenious! I consider them to be first rate. My Tele neck was bought from the "changes daily" list referred to above. The Tele neck that is for the Gatton type that I'm making is a monster baseball bat of a neck- as it should be. You get to specify most things. I chose stainless-steel frets both times and have not been disappointed. Purists will decry me though.... I chose ready fitted nuts and both have been faultless. Perhaps I've just been lucky. They'll get changed for bone anyway sometime. If you want nitro, plan on doing it yourself. Only thing to watch out for is that Warmoth's courier company charge you for handling the import duty over here despite Warmoth stating clearly on their website that all fees are paid when you pay them for despatch. They are disinterested in the fact that their couriers are ripping off their customers over here in the UK. My Strat type neck was made to order. You'll save a bundle by watching out for a ready made one.
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Post by andys on Dec 9, 2009 22:59:05 GMT
Huge amount of Tele stuff at www.tdpri.comI think things like the Baja teles have pretty chunky necks out of the box, but search the TDPRI and you'll soon find out which other teles have big necks. I dont think contours are sacriligeous on a Tele, I wouldnt have them myself, but the beauty of the Tele is that they are so mod-able anyway. Jeff Becks Esquire had contours added to it. In fact look at the variety of Teles out there. Big/small necks, 1/2/3 pickups, humbuckers, contours, thinlines, rosewood/maple boards. Then look atthe body materials used;- ash, alder, agathis, mahogany, rosewood and now the latest squier CV Tele is made of pine, like the originals were.
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Post by honeyboy on Dec 9, 2009 23:08:42 GMT
Chris, I've played a Tele with a Warmoth neck, and can vouch for the quality. It didn't belong to me, but it was clearly a quality item. I'd be careful about going too wide - I think anything more than 1 3/4" with a C profile is a bit awkward (unless you happen to have huge hands). My Coodercaster neck is 45mm at the nut which is fractionally over the 1 3/4" size.. The most prized (now) pre-war Gibson acoustics also had 1 3/4 " nut widths, rather than the 1 11/16" of later models. My MM Blues has the most perfect 'slide' neck profile of all the guitars I own (19 at the last count ;D) and that is exactly 44mm at the nut. According to the calculator in google, (1 3/4) inches = 44.45 millimetres Google, tell me what 1 3/4 inches is in mmIf you could get a Tele neck with the same specs and profile as an MM Blues I don't think you would go far wrong..
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Post by honeyboy on Dec 10, 2009 17:57:55 GMT
Michael Messer Blues Neck.. Phoarr!!! They are handmade, so each one is slightly 'different' The 'perfect' handful..?
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Post by Stevie on Dec 10, 2009 19:01:04 GMT
OK here goes, but from memory. It is "Boat Neck" and exhibits no step at all behind the headstock being a full inch thick right along its length. It is quarter sawn for stability, has a compound radiused fingerboard. a prefitted nut in some white plastic, has the side adjuster for the truss rod, has 22 frets (stainless) It has "Kluson" sized holes in the headstock and was supplied with no finish. It has a separate fretboard so there is no "skunk stripe" which disappointed me because I was unaware that you could get one with compound radius but in one piece maple. No problem with that but it was intended as a replica. ( I actually bought "skunk stripe" transfers from someone on eBay but I've wisely abandoned that idea!) Compund radius is good but irrelevant for slide perhaps, I first encountered that on my Pacifica which also had a Warmoth neck on it. The Pacifica also turned me on to Sperzel machine heads but that's another topic!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2009 21:11:38 GMT
For the longest time my Telecaster was wired as an Esquire, without a neck pickup. The stock Telecaster neck pickups aren't very useful for me at all. This year I stuck a 1940s Gibson P-13 pickup in the neck position. It was the evolutionary step between the Charlie Christian pickups and the P-90. I can't believe I waited so long to do this. It sounds a lot better than the Teisco pickup I had previously used as a Tele neck pickup, has loads of output and has a surprisingly broad tonal range. I had to use 500K pots and a .022uF cap to make it sound right (total mud and poor response to volume and tone controls with the stock Fender 250Ks and .047uF) and balanced it out with a brutally over-wound bridge pickup (which would also probably sound awful with the stock wiring). It still sounds like a Telecaster (especially with both pickups on), but you can get some great " I can't believe it isn't an archtop" sounds out of it as well, without the hassle of feedback at high stage volumes. You can roll the tone down all the way and it is still very clear and articulate in a 1940s Tiny Grimes recording kind of way. ;D
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