post your MONSTER TELES!

preservation · Post by **preservation** » Tue Mar 18, 2014 6:05 am

got a mexi tele coming to me tonight w/ Fralin blues PU's. stoked. aged (yellowed) Oly White w/ white PG & maple neck.

can anyone point me in the direction of those brass bridges (all brass or even just brass saddles) a la Andy Summers ??
i need a six-saddle bridge (can't do 3).

also, any experience w/ putting a bigsby on a tele ? issues ? fit problems ? model suggestions ?

AWSchmit · Post by **AWSchmit** » Tue Mar 18, 2014 9:54 am

I don't know if this is a "Monster" Tele, but it's a little different.
This is a partscaster that I've modded this way and that in it's short 4 year life. But I think it's where it's going to stay. It has a Strat neck pickup and regular Tele bridge pup. I added a strangle switch to the pickguard. Which BTW is from Guitar Fetish and is their 64 aged white, which is a perfect natual mint/parchment, although in my pics it's looks like WHITE white... It was bright outside. I also rebeveled the edges to a more vintage degree. I made the body out of Poplar and finished in ReRanches Shoreline Gold. This was actually one of my first decent finishes. Anyway, on with the pics!

This is what it looks like under the hood:

torchindy · Post by **torchindy** » Wed Mar 19, 2014 5:04 am

preservation wrote:got a mexi tele coming to me tonight w/ Fralin blues PU's. stoked. aged (yellowed) Oly White w/ white PG & maple neck.

can anyone point me in the direction of those brass bridges (all brass or even just brass saddles) a la Andy Summers ??
i need a six-saddle bridge (can't do 3).

also, any experience w/ putting a bigsby on a tele ? issues ? fit problems ? model suggestions ?

You will need to either cut string notches out behind the saddles (assuming you're using a regular ashtray) or else shim the neck and raise the saddles HIGH. And the Bigsby B5 was designed for a flat-top solid body like a Tele or LP Junior.

Here's one on my Ratocaster with notched bridge plate (which is such a monster tele that it isn't a tele!)

PS - I apologize for polluting this thread with a strat-shaped body. Here's my Lacquer Classic 50's Tele with a Sheptone bridge pup and a Gibby burstbucker set low in the neck. With the selector switch in the middle it sounds beautifully acoustic through the AC30 set clean.

Con-Tiki! · Post by **Con-Tiki!** » Wed Mar 19, 2014 3:49 pm

Holy cow, don't apologize. Just today I was thinking how cool it would be to have a strat with an ashtray and a tele pickup...

ARAMP1 · Post by **ARAMP1** » Wed Mar 19, 2014 5:23 pm

torchindy wrote:
preservation wrote:Here's one on my Ratocaster with notched bridge plate (which is such a monster tele that it isn't a tele!)

DUDE...That's BA.

preservation · Post by **preservation** » Wed Mar 19, 2014 7:25 pm

a strat i can fap to ? now THAT'S something !

sar0 · Post by **sar0** » Fri Jun 27, 2014 12:01 pm

bringing back this thread because i enjoy looking at modified teles!

...and i have an update on my tele. originally a baja, but now the pickups are changed, it's been refinished (my first) and finally a bigsby (i just installed today).

i have said earlier that tele is perfect as it is and the simplisity would be ruined with a vibrato. i obviously take it back. a tele needs a bigsby

Stratelejazzuar · Post by **Stratelejazzuar** » Fri Jun 27, 2014 2:43 pm

Rustic/scrap tele build I finished about a month or so ago:

sar0 · Post by **sar0** » Fri Jun 27, 2014 10:37 pm

Stratelejazzuar wrote:Rustic/scrap tele build I finished about a month or so

fantastic! got more photos? what is it built from?

dsiew · Post by **dsiew** » Sat Jun 28, 2014 2:50 am

torchindy wrote:

WOW! Love the contrast of that dark, dark board against the beat-up body. One of the coolest guitars I've seen in a while.

sar0 wrote:what is it built from?

I believe this is it: viewtopic.php?f=8&t=82243?

DarnWeight · Post by **DarnWeight** » Sat Jun 28, 2014 11:12 am

I've since swapped out the Wilkinson Roller bridge for a Rickenbacker-style floating one, but apart from that, same as she ever was.

JakobLyngbo · Post by **JakobLyngbo** » Sun Jun 29, 2014 5:09 am

That Strat/Tele-beast with bigsby is one of the coolest guitars I've ever seen!!

And the idea of a Deluxe Tele with Jazzmaster-tremolo... Damn!

Andreas N · Post by **Andreas N** » Wed Sep 10, 2014 9:51 am

Here's my 70's Japan mashup.

70's Fender US body stripped and routed, rest of the parts 2003 CIJ '52.

preservation · Post by **preservation** » Thu Sep 11, 2014 5:16 pm

sar0 wrote:bringing back this thread because i enjoy looking at modified teles!

...and i have an update on my tele. originally a baja, but now the pickups are changed, it's been refinished (my first) and finally a bigsby (i just installed today).

i have said earlier that tele is perfect as it is and the simplisity would be ruined with a vibrato. i obviously take it back. a tele needs a bigsby

sar0 where did you get that awesome strap ??

apreswho · Post by **apreswho** » Sat Sep 13, 2014 6:14 am

So many awesome instruments in here.

Heres my Tele. Began life with me in 2004 as MIM standard, and since its more or less been designated my lifelong companion, i just do whatever to it haha

I recently tried out routing on the pickguard and the body. Functional but not great looking! But now i've got my favorite neck pickup in (JM-V) so its a fair trade off haha

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