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Re: Why Am I So Obsessed With Telecasters?

Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2012 5:53 am
by Zounds Perspex
I could give a shit about the LOOK of a relic, what I like is the feel. Good ones have just impossibly great neck feel...it would takes years and years of play to get a shiny new guitar to that point.

Re: Why Am I So Obsessed With Telecasters?

Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2012 5:59 am
by phantasmagorovich
Zounds Perspex wrote:I could give a shit about the LOOK of a relic, what I like is the feel. Good ones have just impossibly great neck feel...it would takes years and years of play to get a shiny new guitar to that point.



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Re: Why Am I So Obsessed With Telecasters?

Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2012 8:51 am
by Chankgeez
kosta wrote:Always good to have a goal! Also, I am loving that burst on that Fano you found Chankgeez!!!


Yeah, that's a hot one. When I saw that , I knew it was too hot not to post.

Re: Why Am I So Obsessed With Telecasters?

Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2012 9:46 am
by sylnau
I really like the Tele Deluxe style guitars.
Any suggestion other than the ASAT deluxe for something with more option like coil split, etc...
And I also prefer rosewood fretboard and fat maple neck.

I'm tinking about selling my PRS CE22 and getting something that look better (with more soul to it... I don't know).

Re: Why Am I So Obsessed With Telecasters?

Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2012 10:27 am
by Monkeyboard
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I really need a Tele.

Re: Why Am I So Obsessed With Telecasters?

Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2012 1:39 am
by kosta
Zounds Perspex wrote:Good ones have just impossibly great neck feel...

Yep yep.

Re: Why Am I So Obsessed With Telecasters?

Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2012 2:50 pm
by CBA

Re: Why Am I So Obsessed With Telecasters?

Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2012 3:55 pm
by Almonds
Telecasters rock shit...but are very uncomfortable if you try to play while sitting

Re: Why Am I So Obsessed With Telecasters?

Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2012 4:17 pm
by CBA
I don't know if I can do it.

I'm just soooooooooooooooo used to the sounds that P-90s make that everything else sounds... too much like a guitar. I know that doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but after playing my Casino for a decade and then my LP Faded Special... my effects and everything sound a very specific way through P-90s and my amp. It sounds like a big CRUNCH.

Teles are obviously great, but they sound like a GUITAR. I think I've said this a few other times, and I know it sounds ridiculous.

I think that P-90s set DIRECTLY into the wood of a guitar is what I need. That's just the way it is.

The simplicity of the Tele is what draws me, but the sound just does not lend itself to my playing style and how I like my effects to work.

I suppose if I were to put together a mahogany Tele body with a 24.75" scale neck and then cram some P-90s into it I'd be alright... but again, it seems like it's defeating the whole purpose. And I've gone down that road before and its exhausting.

I like the aesthetic of the steel plate with the two chrome knobs and switch, and the pickguard has always been attractive to me... the way it sits on the body.

WELP.

http://www.tdpri.com/forum/just-pickups ... -idea.html


And you guys always come to my rescue with Telecasters with P-90s in them... but none of them suit me. The Squier one, the Jim Adkins, the Modern Player Thinline, Tele Deluxe... they have the P-90s, but they aren't as simply laid out at a Telecaster. I don't think there is one with a regular Telecaster routing and P-90s.




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Re: Why Am I So Obsessed With Telecasters?

Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2012 5:13 pm
by MEC
I just bought this:

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I am planning on doing the solid Glendale bridge with no pickup hole, a rosewood neck and either a HB or P-90 in the neck posistion.
If I do the HB in the neck, the switch will be wired for split HB/full HB/kill.
I'M EXCITE!

Re: Why Am I So Obsessed With Telecasters?

Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2012 5:46 pm
by univalve
Wow, awesome Project!
And finally One will use my Glendale tip ;)

Re: Why Am I So Obsessed With Telecasters?

Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2012 8:35 pm
by spacelordmother


This is the tele legend for me:

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Re: Why Am I So Obsessed With Telecasters?

Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 1:46 am
by WeHuntKings
hell, yeah mogwai make teles sound so mournful and lush. still distinctively twangy, but super full and watery sounding too. Those clean neck-pickup tones really get me goin'.

Re: Why Am I So Obsessed With Telecasters?

Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 3:24 am
by univalve
Fuck, can't get that fano Les Paul Tele Cross Out of my Head. And even found an eu Dealer...

Re: Why Am I So Obsessed With Telecasters?

Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 8:17 am
by Chankgeez
univalve wrote:Fuck, can't get that fano Les Paul Tele Cross Out of my Head. And even found an eu Dealer...


Oh, snap.

Look what we done did.