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Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2009 5:50 am
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Í've sold a Epiphone B.B.King, MIM classic '60s Stratocaster and my MIM
Baja Telecaster and now am the proud and very happy owner of a
American Vintage Series '52 Telecaster from 1997.
As for simple guitars, my only other electric is a PRS Se One (MI Korea)
One P90 pickup, one volume pot and wraparound bridge.
My acoustics are a Martin D16GT and a Cuenca spanish guitar (MI Spain)

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Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 2:47 pm
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I love my Tele, it's easy to play and very forgiving, but my heart belongs to my Strats.

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mthorn00 wrote:
I love my Tele, it's easy to play and very forgiving, but my heart belongs to my Strats.

...just got hooked on the tele myself. I wonder what will happen when I play a strat? I've been listening to Steve Miller lately, love what he does with his strats!

What's the best bang for the buck these days in the way of a strat at for under 1k? New or used or custom build!

If anybody's looking for the alter ego of the tele, checkout the Ibanez RG321MHO, humbucking, 24-fret, strat shaped, mahogany/maple/rosewoeed, flat necked, smokin' shredder. I didn't really appreciate the RG until after I got the tele. After playing the tele for a few weeks and I picked that one up, HFS, the alter ego of the tele came out quite nicely. Check it out, you'll see. ...they're ...300. I put sprezels on it, had the frets perfectualized, a graphite nut, then I set it up to perfection -- buttery and ungodly fast. It puts the PRS and Gibson/Epiphone crud to shame in anything under 1k, new or used. Of course, you gotta look through a batch to get the best one, this one's mahogany is poppy, rich, honky, clear, loud and it distorts creamy.

It's a toss up between the tele and the 321. Nothing else is really worth it in the Ibanez line under 1k, not to bash them it's just that this is the only guitar of theirs I felt was worth purchasing.

I'm glad I got the tele or I'd have never liked the 321 and I was about to sell it. After last night's sesh, NO WAY!

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Posted: Sat May 02, 2009 7:34 am
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darkstr0ke wrote:
All I need is the Tele and a good Tube amp!


Sounds like you've got it all figured out :wink:


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RCBGotTeleToo wrote:
mthorn00 wrote:
I love my Tele, it's easy to play and very forgiving, but my heart belongs to my Strats.

...just got hooked on the tele myself. I wonder what will happen when I play a strat? I've been listening to Steve Miller lately, love what he does with his strats!

What's the best bang for the buck these days in the way of a strat at for under 1k? New or used or custom build!



You can find all kinds of deals out there on all sorts of used guitars. The economy is causing a lot of guys to "thin the herd" a bit. Check out Ebay and your local pawnshops too.

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Posted: Sat May 02, 2009 4:34 pm
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I just can't get into playing Teles myself.
I do like what several guitarists have done with them--so this isn't an anti-Tele rant.

They just aren't the guitar for me.
Their bodies feel uncomfortable to me to hold and play.

I pick one up here & there, but nothing--no spark, no connection.

But then again, it would be boring if everybody played the same kind of guitar.

And when you consider we have different bodies, arms, hands, fingers that are different sizes & shapes--well that makes sense we'd like different guitars as well.

If Teles do it for you--great.

This isn't some sort of save mankind kind of thing or an issue of right & wrong.

It's about music--so lots of room for differing opinions.

We all have to find the guitar (or guitars) that do it for us.

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zontar wrote:
I just can't get into playing Teles myself.
I do like what several guitarists have done with them--so this isn't an anti-Tele rant.

They just aren't the guitar for me.
Their bodies feel uncomfortable to me to hold and play.

I pick one up here & there, but nothing--no spark, no connection.

But then again, it would be boring if everybody played the same kind of guitar.

And when you consider we have different bodies, arms, hands, fingers that are different sizes & shapes--well that makes sense we'd like different guitars as well.

If Teles do it for you--great.

This isn't some sort of save mankind kind of thing or an issue of right & wrong.

It's about music--so lots of room for differing opinions.

We all have to find the guitar (or guitars) that do it for us.


I thoroughly agree!

I guess I mus' b one of thoze tele-monkies! The thing just fits perfectly.

With respect to the comfortability, if you apply a pillow approach to the tele, that is, you gently hug it as opposed to leaning on it heavy, yah don't even feel the body, just the flaming freaking creamy neck.

I've got two contour bodied guitars and those guitars, I lean on heavy, but that produces a different sound. When I go pillow on those guitars, same thing.

It's technique.

Try a tele and don't bear down on the body, adjust to that technique for a bit and tell me what ya think!

There's a place online that explains the technique, guitarprinciples dot you know what!

tele-time, n' it's been a few days, been bearing down on my 321. Oh, and the 321, string thru nice contour on the top-bottom bout -- the absolute alter ego of the tele, particulary the MIM, same mother...differnt fathers!


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Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 2:13 pm
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If I understand what you're saying, I already hold a guitar that way. I started with classical and that's a wider body than a Tele. My first electric was a Les Paul copy, and my main guitar is a Les Paul, and I also play a full size archtop.

I don't lean into any of those heavy--and I find them all comfortable to play. But Teles just don't fit me very well.

But like I said--I'm glad we all play a variety of guitars--makes music & life more interesting.

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