post your MONSTER TELES!

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Re: post your MONSTER TELES!

Post by s_mcsleazy » Mon Sep 19, 2011 1:32 pm

Ceylon wrote:
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garyptaszek wrote:monster teles not just monsters please...
how about monsters playing teles?
Good idea!

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Here we see the great, late Godzilla playing what appears to be a Ri Thinline Tele just hours before his untimely death in the Tokyo harbor.
Presumably, the guitar is now owned by Steven Spielberg but no pictures exist to prove this.
i say its next to the raped corpse of yoda
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Post by Maggieo » Sat Sep 24, 2011 9:31 am

Veitchy wrote:
ChrisFFTA wrote:Chaps on TGPs Alt Country thread like this one:

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I dig it 8)
That's gotta be a hella sweet rig with that amp. :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
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Post by Filly-Fuzz » Tue Sep 27, 2011 1:42 am

Maggieo wrote:
Veitchy wrote:
ChrisFFTA wrote:Chaps on TGPs Alt Country thread like this one:

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I dig it 8)
That's gotta be a hella sweet rig with that amp. :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*

mmmmmmmmmmmm...........
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Post by Filly-Fuzz » Sun Nov 27, 2011 10:13 pm

one I built for a friend.
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and the very first guitar i built......
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mmmeeeeeemooryyyssssss.
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Post by s_mcsleazy » Mon Nov 28, 2011 8:50 am

Filly-Fuzz wrote:one I built for a friend.
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and the very first guitar i built......
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mmmeeeeeemooryyyssssss.
im loving that headstock on the blue one
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Post by monkeybeats » Mon Nov 28, 2011 8:59 am

Here you go:
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Post by rat n' fuzz factory » Mon Nov 28, 2011 4:46 pm

Sorry to bring quality down,my first partscaster tele/strat Washburn Stage neck and Floyd Rose 2.Bloody ugly but was a fine guitar to play and good sound.Texas special bridge,select EMG middle and Artec Tele neck.It took the back burner when I aquired a Squier Japan E series Strat which became my go to for strat applications.
And now the Floyd and scratch plate have been stolen for a Ash body Maple neck strat that has turned out great.Its funny I like rough functionable guitars but I soon tired of the way this looked in a way as well,shouldn't matter it played great and sounded lovely.But we are driven by look as well how ever much we try and deny it.
Don't Know what to do now with body and neck maybe put something together for wierd tunings or prepared guitar.
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Post by garyptaszek » Tue Nov 29, 2011 12:25 am

woah that thing is a fucking monster!

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Post by Filly-Fuzz » Tue Nov 29, 2011 4:03 am

monkeybeats wrote:Here you go:
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lovin it

and the setting is sweet.
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Post by smjenkins » Tue Nov 29, 2011 12:44 pm

This one isn't really a monster visually, but it sure is in the TOANZ department. It's got two reissue WRHBs that Telenator reworked to vintage 70's specs.

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Post by Filly-Fuzz » Wed Nov 30, 2011 12:41 am

smjenkins wrote:This one isn't really a monster visually, but it sure is in the TOANZ department. It's got two reissue WRHBs that Telenator reworked to vintage 70's specs.

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Nice Birdseye!
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Post by eskmsaul » Mon Dec 19, 2011 5:54 pm

This is probably my favorite thread. Something about Monster Teles is so right.

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Re: post your MONSTER TELES!

Post by sumlin » Thu Dec 22, 2011 5:33 am

This is my main guitar.

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A 1990-ish Squier Silver Series MIJ Tele. Bought for £110 in 1997. It was black/black then. The previous owner had stripped the finish from the neck and I think he maybe secreted olive oil or maybe spunk from his pores because the neck was (and still is) really yellowed in certain places and if you take it from a hot to cold environment a weird greasy liquid seeps out of the wood.
I sprayed the pickguard silver. Got smashed at a gig later that year then it was immediately stolen/lost before being found hidden under a desk in the venue the next day. Repaired. Pickguard sprayed black over the silver. "MINOR THREAT" scratched into the control plate. Subsequently modified to be a "top loader" with the volume knob removed. It then got damaged again and kind of shelved for a while.

Arund 2000 one of my best friends had hs whole band's equipment stolen from a parked car so I gave him the Tele and he had it fixed. He gave me £40 for it to say thanks. He scratched out Minor Threat and carved HUSKER DU out of the black paint on the scratchplate. He gigged the shit out of it for a couple of years and then for some reason I bought it back for £40. Then I subsequently sold it back to him a year later, for £40. More gigging.

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Hey Colossus by Sumlin, on Flickr

By now this thing looks like it's been dragged behind a car. My friend ended up recording a record for a band I was in and the guitar was at his house. I suddenly realised that through all the dicking about with guitars that I have done for 15 years or more, this Tele has always been around. My friend did the right thing and sold it back to me. For £40 of course.

At that time it looked like this:

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Battle-scarred by Sumlin, on Flickr

I had a proper WRHB from 1973 that I got cheaply so I had that fitted in the neck slot and a Harmonic Design P90 in a Tele case fitted in the bridge. Put the jack back where it should be and voila:

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I've since switched the slider selector for a 3-way Les Paul switch in the same slot.

I love this guitar...

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Post by garyptaszek » Thu Dec 22, 2011 7:43 am

great story and a great looking Tele monster! I love the idea of a WRHP in a standard style tele

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Post by finboy » Fri Dec 23, 2011 2:19 pm

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christmas came early, that is a stereordinary body finished by ADH, and a bound ADH shortscale conversion neck.

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