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Post subject: Putting a strat neck on a Telecaster?
Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2010 6:36 am
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Can i put a standard MExico neck onto a telecaster body? Does anybody know the Neck pocket Depth ,Neck pocket Width and the Neck pocket Length of this neck?


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Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2010 6:42 am
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pls dont do that. let a tele be a tele, let a strat be a strat. :cry:


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Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2010 6:48 am
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It won't work. It will look like this:
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See the gaps around the neck heel?
Strat neck pockets and heels are rounded:
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While Tele neck pockets and heels are more square:
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Check this out. http://www.warmoth.com/Guitar/Bodies/Op ... ocket.aspx

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Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2010 6:59 am
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I agree. As Paul once said, Let it be. I'm not a big fan of the telecaster, or the headstock. It just doesn't look great to me, but when I see a telecaster with a strat neck it just looks out of proportion.


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Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2010 7:46 am
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I don't agree. Of course you can put a strat neck on a Telecaster. Fender did it once (Telecaster Custom, early seventies). John 5 does it. Why shouldn't you?

Technically it's no problem, it will fit right in. And the "squareness" of the pocket is no big deal IMO.
If your stat neck has 22 frets it won't even be possible to see it.


//Erik


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Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2010 7:49 am
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A while back there was an article in Premier Guitar about a builder who did guitars that had tele style necks and pick-up assemblies on a strat body, I thought they looked pretty cool.

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Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2010 7:58 am
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Eric Clapton used one when he played with Blind Faith. I don't believe it was a MIM tele though.


In Blind Faith, Clapton used a Gibson Firebird through either Fender Dual Showman or Marshall amps; and at the debut performance played a Fender Telecaster with a Stratocaster neck (supposedly Clapton didn't like the Tele neck). [Guitar World, Dec 1989]


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fhopkins wrote:
Eric Clapton used one when he played with Blind Faith. I don't believe it was a MIM tele though.


You believed correct. That was about 20 years before Fender's Mexico manufacturing even existed.

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metropolis74 wrote:
fhopkins wrote:
Eric Clapton used one when he played with Blind Faith. I don't believe it was a MIM tele though.


You believed correct. That was about 20 years before Fender's Mexico manufacturing even existed.



Yep!! :wink:


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metropolis74 wrote:
It won't work. It will look like this:
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See the gaps around the neck heel?
Strat neck pockets and heels are rounded:
Image
While Tele neck pockets and heels are more square:
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Check this out. http://www.warmoth.com/Guitar/Bodies/Op ... ocket.aspx


+1

And cosmetics aside, tuning stability and sustain may suffer.

How "cool" is that?

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Retroverbial wrote:

tuning stability and sustain may suffer.




Could you please explain that...


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Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2010 11:32 am
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Hey if it's good enough for Steve Morse, ..... His main guitar for most of the Dregs years was a Tele body/Strat neck combo!


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swenglish wrote:
I don't agree. Of course you can put a strat neck on a Telecaster. Fender did it once (Telecaster Custom, early seventies). John 5 does it. Why shouldn't you?

Technically it's no problem, it will fit right in. And the "squareness" of the pocket is no big deal IMO.
If your stat neck has 22 frets it won't even be possible to see it.


//Erik


The 70's Telecaster Custom has a Tele head, you are thinking of the 70's Telecaster Deluxe mate.

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Celtic Cyclonus wrote:

The 70's Telecaster Custom has a Tele head, you are thinking of the 70's Telecaster Deluxe mate.

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Yes, of course. I mixed up. Sorry.

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On the picture: -72 Telecaster Deluxe (reissue).


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So why not get a 72 Tele Reissue ?


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