Guitar Choice...

[Jeff-7]

Send me yours so I can test it against a telecaster. No need for a return address

UPS said it will be there by Friday.

[Dub-T-123]

Telecaster for sure.

 

Like others have said, you already have a Gibson so you should go for something totally different for now.

 

I've been really playing my Tele a lot. It just works better for some things. It's really nice to have both guitars so you can choose which to play for certain things. I bring my Tele and SG when I jam with my friend.

 

My Tele kinda inspires me to play a little differently because of the way it sounds and feels. I wrote songs on it that I wouldn't have written on my SG. My Tele also makes me work a little harder so I don't know if the result is better or worse but it's definately a little different.

[Rocky4]

After the Tele, it'll be time for an SG with P90s

[Mr. Natural]

Keep playing your LP and saving for the SG. After you've got the SG, start saving up for the MIM Tele. You'll have enought bread before you know it.

[DennisMiller]

I have a Les Paul, an American Strat, a Mexican Tele and an Ibanez clone of a 335.

 

My 2 cents worth is to go for the Tele. It's like starting at the opposite end of the spectrum and then later on you can find a Strat to fill in between the two. An alternative, (somewhat radical), is to get a Fat Strat with coil splitting on the humbucker. That would give you something pretty similar to the Tele bridge tone and the rest of the typical Strat tones to boot.

[Silenced Fred]

So torn. What I'm thinking of doing, is getting a telecaster, and maybe putting a humbucker in the neck, something like the sd jazz pup or maybe a p90...

 

But yes, those two are first priorities on the GAS list

[canon_mutant]

So torn. What I'm thinking of doing, is getting a telecaster, and maybe putting a humbucker in the neck, something like the sd jazz pup or maybe a p90...

 

This is what I am currently building. But a tri-pup Tele. Can't wait to get 'er done. SD Lil '59 Bridge, SD Cool Rails Mid, and SD SH-2 Jazz in the Neck. All split-able with a push-pull tone and a bridge ON function with a push-pull volume in a custom made ash body with a 59 profile compound radius neck. Love the Tele guitar but found the off the shelf configurations too limiting. Plus, just wanted to build my own . . .

[Dub-T-123]

If you're going to put a humbucker or p90 in you might have to get a little creative with the wiring.

 

The pots and caps that work best with the Tele pickups might not sound too great with other pickups.

 

There's a pretty small but interesting thread about this on the Tele section of the Fender forum right now. I think it's called "p90 sounds like mud" or something like that.

 

Seriously get a Tele man. I just plugged mine in and reassured myself that it's awesome. It just sounds really cool. And judging by the music you like, I think the sound would fit nicely with you.

[Shnate McDuanus]

Tele.

 

Or whatever else you might want instead next week.

[Dub-T-123]

Hey at least he's been pretty consistent.

 

This forum induces a lot of Tele GAS.

[Tman5293]

So torn. What I'm thinking of doing, is getting a telecaster, and maybe putting a humbucker in the neck, something like the sd jazz pup or maybe a p90...

 

But yes, those two are first priorities on the GAS list

 

You could always get on of these:

 

http://www.guitarcenter.com/Fender-Classic-Player-Telecaster-Thinline-Deluxe-Electric-Guitar-106082472-i1468375.gc

 

 

 

Telecaster with humbuckers!!!!

 

But My vote goes to the SG for obvious reasons.

[Silenced Fred]

Tele.

 

Or whatever else you might want instead next week.

 

So no SG then?

 

And It's always been between a tele and an SG, semi hollow bodies come later down the road

[Dub-T-123]

Well maybe not always...

 

Since you didn't even like the SG until like 2 weeks ago lol.

[DennisMiller]

A Tele with dual humbuckers is just so... uh... so... WRONG! It's UNAMERICAN to call it a Tele unless it's got single coils.

[Dub-T-123]

I like those Teles with the wide range humbuckers. Especially the one with the single coil at the bridge and the wide range in the neck.

[Silenced Fred]

Warning ahead!

 

My dear sweet lord

 

Just for you XDemon, just for you I have to throw another guitar in the mix

[DennisMiller]

I tease when I say a Tele has to have single coils... I do know some purists who would mean it and fight about it... The Tele pictured above is a neat sounding guitar. Any hollow body Tele, particularly with an F hole, seems to come out with a cool airy sound unlike any other solid body or hollow body I know. Even the Squier version with single coils is a wonderful sounding guitar.

 

The combination I like is a bridge single coil and a neck humbucker. For a dual pickup guitar with just a 3 way switch, that might actually be one of the most toneful guitars you could have. Really versatile,,,

[Californiaman]

So torn. What I'm thinking of doing, is getting a telecaster, and maybe putting a humbucker in the neck, something like the sd jazz pup or maybe a p90...

 

But yes, those two are first priorities on the GAS list

 

Look for a 1997 Fender California Fat Telecaster.

Nice guitars. Some came with a humbucker in the neck. Some came with a Stratocaster pickup.

Still, a lot of luthiers will gladly route that out for you.

[damian]

I own a MIM tele, it is very nice, good tele tone, made well. Get an SG as well. One can not have too many guitars. I own so many that I can't count them. Get several SGs as you can afford them. You'll only need one tele though, probably.

[DennisMiller]

Californian is right that the Fender California Series Telecasters are really sweet guitars. The only problem is, they are so rarely available. When you do find one for sale, they hold a pretty reasonable value. People who have them don't let go of them.

[Versatile]

I own a MIM tele, it is very nice, good tele tone, made well. Get an SG as well. One can not have too many guitars. I own so many that I can't count them. Get several SGs as you can afford them. You'll only need one tele though, probably.

Au contraire mon ami...3 Teles is about right...they are at least as interesting as Strats.....

 

 

 

 

 

[milod]

I guess my thing is that the Tele will likely change how you play a bit simply because of the difference in the neck. A Tele with a Gibbie neck - if possible - would still likely bring some change in technique due to the differences in sound. That may or may not "fit" where a given picker is in his personal musical development.

 

I've never had a "F" guitar largely because I do not care for the necks. Period. I kinda like the Tele sound on some stuff. A rare guy like Roy Buchanan can make a Tele "work" for about any style of music, and he had a definite preference for the "F" neck.

 

My "harem" includes a full hollow jazz box with humbuckers, a thin-body semi ditto, a solidbody ditto, a small A-E Epi, a 12-string acoustic with a mag single pole pickup added, two first generation 1970s Ovation A-E with one nylon and one steel string - and no Fenders at all. I've never felt a need to have one. Never had one when playing rock and country in bands, either. Why? Mostly the neck and too little gain for a bit of tone difference.

 

The main advantage of a Tele to me, btw, isn't the pickups, but rather the single volume knob where one might use one's pinkie to control volume while playing... Buchanan, for example, did that quite well. But then, a volume pedal does the same...

 

I guess I'll never change my opinion that playability of the guitar is paramount. Period. That's kinda the same as saying the guitar will find you, I guess.

 

m

[Versatile]

I heard a great U Tube clip of the 80's pop/jazz/latin group 'Matt Bianco' the other day...nice woody archtop tone for the solo...then the camera reveals the S/C Tele....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Silenced Fred]

I guess my thing is that the Tele will likely change how you play a bit simply because of the difference in the neck. A Tele with a Gibbie neck - if possible - would still likely bring some change in technique due to the differences in sound. That may or may not "fit" where a given picker is in his personal musical development.

 

I've never had a "F" guitar largely because I do not care for the necks. Period. I kinda like the Tele sound on some stuff. A rare guy like Roy Buchanan can make a Tele "work" for about any style of music, and he had a definite preference for the "F" neck.

 

My "harem" includes a full hollow jazz box with humbuckers, a thin-body semi ditto, a solidbody ditto, a small A-E Epi, a 12-string acoustic with a mag single pole pickup added, two first generation 1970s Ovation A-E with one nylon and one steel string - and no Fenders at all. I've never felt a need to have one. Never had one when playing rock and country in bands, either. Why? Mostly the neck and too little gain for a bit of tone difference.

 

The main advantage of a Tele to me, btw, isn't the pickups, but rather the single volume knob where one might use one's pinkie to control volume while playing... Buchanan, for example, did that quite well. But then, a volume pedal does the same...

 

I guess I'll never change my opinion that playability of the guitar is paramount. Period. That's kinda the same as saying the guitar will find you, I guess.

 

m

 

Pickups are meh, they might grow on me, but I'm not overwhelmed by them. I do love the playability of them though.