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because i have a spear strat neck and i want to build a guitar with a tele body


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I have several posters of Jimi Hendrix playing a Strat with a Tele neck so I imagine that the necks should be somewhat interchangeable.

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guitslinger wrote:
I have several posters of Jimi Hendrix playing a Strat with a Tele neck so I imagine that the necks should be somewhat interchangeable.


It was a temporary replacement. The story goes that Hendrix broke the neck of a particular Strat he was fond of and a Tele neck was the only replacement neck available in the city where the show was. There is no documentation that I found of Hendrix using that Strat/Tele guitar after that one show. Please let me know if your posters show Hendrix using this guitar in other shows. I'm curious how long he used it.

But fitting a Tele onto a Strat is not as easy as fitting a Strat neck onto a Tele. It's the square peg in a round hole problem. From the diagrams I posted above, you can see a Tele neck has a squared off heel and the rounded corners in the neck pocket and pickguard of the Strat would have to be chiseled out for it to fit.
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So why not get a 72 Tele Reissue ?

Not everyone can pull off such an awesome look. :wink:

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One of the nicest sounding and playing guitars I ever tried out..was a friend of mines Tele with a strat neck. Granted it was all pre-cbs (original vintage 60's stuff) ..but regardless.. it look fine to me.

Regardless of what may be involved with switching necks..seems with Fenders as long as the scale is the same...it should be pretty much a bolt on. If any "persuading" or wood work was required, I could not see it being that difficult..wood it a fairly workable material to say the least. Cuts easy, shapes easy and fills easy.

With that said...IMHO putting a Strat neck on a Tele is good...putting a Tele neck on a Strat... not so good. I am not a fan of the conventional Tele headstock..but, I do like teles overall.

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Hi Metropolis 74,that's the concert that my posters are of -I believe it was the Atlanta Pop Festival and that's the only pix I have of that Strat/Tele combo.The story you related is what Jimi's equipment manager Eric Barrett said in an interview for one of the books on Jimi so it's fact. The Tele neck must have been tossed after that concert because I haven't seen it anywhere else in my piles of Jimi related material.I never looked closely enough at the posters(one is lifesize)to notice if pocket mods were made,I'll have to check it out.
Edit: I just had a close gander at the large poster and the Tele neck was definitely rounded to fit the Strat neck pocket.

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Hendrix stories always seem to be an enigma. I know there are all kinds of rumors with him..was he murdered?...the animosity with Clapton yet Clapton recorded some of his songs...who knows?

But this is from Wiki..don't know how to back up these facts..but here is what it states regarding his guitars...

In addition to Fender Stratocasters, Hendrix was also photographed playing Jazzmasters, Duosonics, two different Gibson Flying Vs, a Gibson Les Paul, three Gibson SGs, a Gretsch Corvette he used at the 1967 Curtis Knight sessions and miming with a right strung Fender Jaguar on the "Top Of The Pop's" TV show, as well as several other brands.

Hendrix borrowed a Fender Telecaster from Noel Redding to record "Hey Joe" and "Purple Haze", used a white Gibson SG Custom for his performances on the Dick Cavett show in the summer of 1969, and the Isle of Wight film shows him playing his second Gibson Flying V. While Jimi had previously owned a Flying V that he'd painted with a psychedelic design, the Flying V used at the Isle of Wight was a unique custom left-handed guitar with gold plated hardware, a bound fingerboard and "split-diamond" fret markers that were not found on other 60s-era Flying Vs.
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guitslinger wrote:
Hi Metropolis 74,that's the concert that my posters are of -I believe it was the Atlanta Pop Festival and that's the only pix I have of that Strat/Tele combo.The story you related is what Jimi's equipment manager Eric Barrett said in an interview for one of the books on Jimi so it's fact. The Tele neck must have been tossed after that concert because I haven't seen it anywhere else in my piles of Jimi related material.I never looked closely enough at the posters(one is lifesize)to notice if pocket mods were made,I'll have to check it out.
Edit: I just had a close gander at the large poster and the Tele neck was definitely rounded to fit the Strat neck pocket.


Thanks for the info guitslinger. So the Tele neck was modified to fit in the Strat body, not the other way around. Interesting.

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Hi Metropolis 74,that's the concert that my posters are of -I believe it was the Atlanta Pop Festival and that's the only pix I have of that Strat/Tele combo.The story you related is what Jimi's equipment manager Eric Barrett said in an interview for one of the books on Jimi so it's fact. The Tele neck must have been tossed after that concert because I haven't seen it anywhere else in my piles of Jimi related material.I never looked closely enough at the posters(one is lifesize)to notice if pocket mods were made,I'll have to check it out.
Edit: I just had a close gander at the large poster and the Tele neck was definitely rounded to fit the Strat neck pocket.


Thanks for the info guitslinger. So the Tele neck was modified to fit in the Strat body, not the other way around. Interesting.


The bottom of a standard tele neck is squared off..a Strat is rounded. So why not square off the Strat neck pocket if so inclined to replace a neck? Why anyone would want to replace a sexy headstock Strat Neck with an ugly headstock Tele neck is beyond me..but if it is the same scale...and all else being equal, the only difference is the headstock shape and heel shape....it seems to me in all logic, either type replacement would bolt right on and work perfectly...perhaps requiring only minor "massaging" of the neck pocket if putting a tele neck on a Strat.

I guess if the Hendrix story is true...this was done in a pinch..so perhaps if the tele neck was fighting to fit the pocket..it was easier to take a file to the neck..or take the neck to a bench grinder then route a little off the pocket. I guess other then the picture which on my PC I can't really tell..there does not seem to be any way to verify what was done..and how.

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Hiya,

Yes, Just think, It would be pretty silly sanding the body to fit a neck, I would sand the neck to fit the body. I'm sure this was a "recycled" strat. I read somewhere about Hendrix's Tech carried a box around, and every guitar that died had working parts salvaged from it and ended up in the box. It was either that the body of one of Hendrix's rosewood board white stratocasters ended up in this box or it needed a replacement neck. From the start of 1969 onwards, I have not seen this guitar crop up in Hendrix's Inventory, if you like.

An early CBS Stratocaster, possibly a 1967 model, With a white body, Rosewood fretboard and the easily distinguished, larger profile headstock:

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=h ... 45&bih=559

(The Hollywood Bowl, 1968)

Early on, In late 1966, Hendrix owned maybe two to three stratocasters, one of those, A pre-CBS stratocaster, another white bodied one with a rosewood board, but a small size head:

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=h ... 29,r:1,s:0

(Ready Steady Go, 1966)

My best guess is, One of these two white strats had the modified 50's skunk stripe Telecaster neck put on to it's body, the reason being for this odd guitar choice was because he was busy with Buddy miles and their band at the Devonshire Downs, Newport Festival in 1969, because the Experience's truck was heading away to the next gig with the bands equipment. Hendrix also used Fender amplifiers at this gig, which were most probably borrowed as he most certainly used the Marshall's at the next gig.


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Another thing to be taken into account. This was all going on in the late 60's. So it wasn't like trying to find a pre-CBS neck was very hard or that price was an issue.

Now I do not think it is substantiated if Hendrix or his "tech"(s).... that he "chose" to use a tele neck on a Strat...but most likely any neck that was available quickly in a pinch to be ready for a gig.

But them again who really knows for sure? Hendrix was a unique artist so maybe he requested a tele neck for whatever reason..just to be different perhaps?

Either way..there was no way to go wrong in that era no matter which neck was on which body...and someone as innovative as Hendrix playing wise and effects wise, would probably have been able to make anything work for him even if it required a bit of jerry rigging.

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No mods necessary - it's a bolt-on and done, but you will have to live with the gaps. If you were to round the body OR square the neck, there will still be a gap (only a uniform gap...) unless you re-locate the mounting screw holes. However, this will screw up the scale, so don't do that...

In any event, if you like the look (I do) and you can live with the gaps (I can), I say go for it!! :D


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No mods necessary - it's a bolt-on and done, but you will have to live with the gaps...In any event, if you like the look (I do) and you can live with the gaps (I can), I say go for it!! :D


What he said.

It is putting a Tele neck heel into a Strat pocket where modification of one or the other would be needed.

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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]



Here it is being played by Clapton.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF7FAn8j6-s


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