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Re: Forgot how much I love Teles, AKA Tele Appreciation Thread
Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2024 3:16 pm
by StevenO
I hear ya! It’s my favourite look as well. Classy, timeless, but also has all the beauty of well-used hammer.
Mine has a fair amount of wear. All natural, of course, but it has a very thin finish so admittedly it wears rather easily.
Re: Forgot how much I love Teles, AKA Tele Appreciation Thread
Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2024 4:19 pm
by Ursa Minor
Re: Forgot how much I love Teles, AKA Tele Appreciation Thread
Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2024 4:42 pm
by Dave
StevenO wrote: ↑Tue Jan 16, 2024 3:27 am
Haven't posted in awhile... But Teles are my favourite. I've had my Blonde Tele for almost 15 years and it's my number one, but I also put together a couple of parts Teles that I also love. Here they are:
Glad you’re still around even if only once in a while Mr O.
That is a fantastic collection right there. Is the Danelectro/esquire mutt a baritone?
Re: Forgot how much I love Teles, AKA Tele Appreciation Thread
Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2024 5:05 pm
by MattK
StevenO wrote: ↑Tue Jan 16, 2024 3:16 pm
Mine has a fair amount of wear. All natural, of course, but it has a very thin finish so admittedly it wears rather easily.
I have an amazing 80s MIJ Tele which had a truly horrible yellow clear poly on its ash body, I would kill to be able to put a finish like that on it.
Re: Forgot how much I love Teles, AKA Tele Appreciation Thread
Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2024 6:56 pm
by marqueemoon
Hot damn that Tex amp. I dig the Danosquire too. I mean they’re all great.
Re: Forgot how much I love Teles, AKA Tele Appreciation Thread
Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2024 1:15 am
by StevenO
The Tex amp belongs to a friend. He let me borrow it while I fixed up/overhauled his Strat. It's easily one of the best, most musical sounding amps I have ever played. Like a Tweed-ish Vox amp, if that makes any sense at all. Really beautiful.
The Danelectro Tele hybrid is a regular scale guitar, 25" scale, so slightly shorter than a Fender but longer than a Gibson. I bought the neck from Shyboy and Tex guitar repair in Toronto for $50 and then bought the ultra-lightweight pine body from a local prominent session bassist also for $50. The pickup is a Lollar '52 T and it rips. An incredible guitar.
The walnut blackguard Tele currently has Pickup Wizard 52 pickups in it, but I have a set of Lollar Vintage T pickups on the way. Hoping to make that guitar a bit more ferocious as the Pup Wiz pickups are a little too polite...
Re: Forgot how much I love Teles, AKA Tele Appreciation Thread
Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2024 12:50 pm
by Dave
StevenO wrote: ↑Wed Jan 17, 2024 1:15 am
The Danelectro Tele hybrid is a regular scale guitar, 25" scale, so slightly shorter than a Fender but longer than a Gibson. I bought the neck from Shyboy and Tex guitar repair in Toronto for $50 and then bought the ultra-lightweight pine body from a local prominent session bassist also for $50. The pickup is a Lollar '52 T and it rips. An incredible guitar.
Very nice, sounds like a score of a project. Not sure why it seemed long scale to my eye in that picture.
Shy boy and Tex is/was one of the chaps from Capsule I think ? I’ve played the odd Shyboy telecaster and always found them awesome.
Re: Forgot how much I love Teles, AKA Tele Appreciation Thread
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2024 10:41 am
by MechaBulletBill
i put monel strings and uncompensated saddles on my tele before xmas. not been able to play it much since but had a quick go yesterday. it sounds pretty good, the pickup heights are totally backwards to my usual with regular strings and the plain strings are a little too loud but it does not sound bad at all.
Re: Forgot how much I love Teles, AKA Tele Appreciation Thread
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2024 12:13 pm
by JVG
MechaBulletBill wrote: ↑Fri Jan 19, 2024 10:41 am
i put monel strings and uncompensated saddles on my tele before xmas. not been able to play it much since but had a quick go yesterday. it sounds pretty good, the pickup heights are totally backwards to my usual with regular strings and the plain strings are a little too loud but it does not sound bad at all.
How do you like the monel strings?
I use them on a couple of guitars - really like the sound (although their output is noticeably lower than nickel) but find they go dead rather quickly. I don’t understand why, since monel is supposedly more resistant to corrosion than normal nickel or nickel plated.
Re: Forgot how much I love Teles, AKA Tele Appreciation Thread
Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2024 8:24 am
by MechaBulletBill
i need more time with them (also my ears are congested at the moment so everything sounds wrong) but they're certainly not terrible and definitely different to normal nickel/steel whatever strings
Re: Forgot how much I love Teles, AKA Tele Appreciation Thread
Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2024 11:13 am
by Jonesie
I got lucky with some lighting on my MJT tele so decided to take a couple of pictures. Pine body, all rosewood WD neck, bootstrap pickups (Palo Duro bridge, pretzel neck), 4-way switch.
Re: Forgot how much I love Teles, AKA Tele Appreciation Thread
Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2024 1:23 am
by Futuron
Put this together this week. Cobra blue (darker than the photo shows) with 3 pickups, using 5-way and series/parallel switching. 1 of 2 Teles I've been working on.
Re: Forgot how much I love Teles, AKA Tele Appreciation Thread
Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2024 2:26 am
by zhivago
Very cool Nashville Tele vibes on this one.
Re: Forgot how much I love Teles, AKA Tele Appreciation Thread
Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2024 12:15 am
by Futuron
Yep, that was the basic starting point! I already had one, so for this, I wired things a bit differently for variety.
Re: Forgot how much I love Teles, AKA Tele Appreciation Thread
Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2024 10:28 am
by Jonesie