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Post subject: Tele Body "Different Wood Types"
Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2010 4:56 am
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Hi,

I am a long time Fender advocate, but a relatively short-time Tele player. I only play Tele's now. They have opened my "Chanel" and it seems that learning mode is moving again quite well. I love it when this happens..

Now that I play the Tele, I want to know which woods are used for the bodies and what the the different wood does for sound quality.

Any Tele historians out there to shed some light on the subject?

Thanks,

TJ


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Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2010 1:56 pm
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Hey great choice on being a Tele lover !!

You have asked a very subjective question that has no real answer, but a lot of arguments because the subject gets beat to death. Kinda like weight relief vs. clambering over in Gibson Les Paul land........gets uuuuugly !

Some will say this or that about a type of wood tone wise.

Then again, you could have three guitars made out of the same wood and set them up EXACTLY alike and A/B them, someone could say they hear a difference, because density varies even in a given species.

So my take on it FWIW ( which is absolutely ZERO):

It's an electric guitar, not a acoustic.

The players style, the pickups and the amp make up about 98% of the tone.

The other 2% comes from a combination of some factual things, snake oil, and whatever B.S. people want to believe because maybe they spent 50 bucks on some gold plated jacks guitar cord.

:P

Anyway, the best thing a guy can do if you have the luxury is go to a guitar shop and play a bunch and pick you the one YOU like the best.

When people talk about SRV, Hendrix, Keef, whoever, you don't hear them mention if the guitar body was alder, ash or made for Lilac bushes, all they say is holy SH*# that was awesome !!


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Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2010 2:07 pm
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O.K. this is my post after I put my smarty pants hat away:

You asked about historians.

This is a good site that is interesting to read and talks about woods:

http://home.provide.net/~cfh/fender.html

Happy pickin' !

and like George Strait says...........'Cause I need a little twang !!!


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