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Post subject: Putting a Tele neck on a Strat . . .
Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2010 9:05 pm
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Can a Tele neck go on a Strat without intonation or other issues?
As in, is there enough adjustment in the bridge to allow for the Tele neck switch?

Why? I love the sound of a Strat. But play Teles a lot better. I have a MIM Strat. Only reason I bought a MIM is the built in midi pick up.

Don't like playing it, although it sounds fine. If a Tele neck would work, I'd change out the pups for better ones.

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Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 5:09 am
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I recall Joe Perry have a strat with a tele neck. I am pretty sure there are some alterations that need to occur to the tele neck to make it fit the strat body. I think the tele neck needs to be planed down to fit the strat body.

I think they have referred to Perry's guitar as the Telerat. Did a little searching and found a couple of photos.

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Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 7:02 am
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Why don't you just get a Nashville Tele?? It has the 3rd pup in it for the Strat sound. To me it just isn't natural to mix parts like that..LOL :D
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Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 1:22 pm
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A couple of years ago, we dicussed this in the Strat forum and some pics of Clapton's Strat with Tele Neck (Blind Faith era) were posted.

Also some pics of him with a Tele and Strat neck.

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Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 3:06 pm
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If I remember correctly when I was looking for a neck for my Tele, I went to the Warmoth website, and they said you could put a Strat neck on a Tele but not a Tele neck on a Strat. They said there would be issues with intonation that would basically make it not something you would want to do. I think it had something to do with the contour of the neck were it fits in the pocket. I think the Strat is rounded and the Tele is flat.


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babalooga wrote:
If I remember correctly when I was looking for a neck for my Tele, I went to the Warmoth website, and they said you could put a Strat neck on a Tele but not a Tele neck on a Strat. They said there would be issues with intonation that would basically make it not something you would want to do. I think it had something to do with the contour of the neck were it fits in the pocket. I think the Strat is rounded and the Tele is flat.


You need to perform some alterations to the body and the pickguard in order to properly fit a Tele neck into a Strat body. Same thing for the Tele body and Strat neck.

Not all Strat necks have rounded heels.


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Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2010 7:11 pm
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I have several posters of Jimi Hendrix playing an Olympic white Strat with a Tele neck.I believe it was at the Atlanta Pop Festival anyway it was an outdoor venue and he was using Fender amps in his back line.The story went that he loved the sound of this particular Strat but snapped the neck at a previous performance.Apparently Eric Barrett(his equipment mananger) went to a local music store and the only spare neck they had was a Tele but it seemed that the neck just fit with no major adjustments at least he didn't mention any in the interview.

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Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 9:13 am
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I tried that years ago: a regular "classic" Tele neck wont fit a "classic" Strat body - the end of the Tele neck is different, squarer than the Strat's, so it will need a little shaving there, otherwise it will show a terrible gap (and maybe won't intonate right, I didn't get to this part cos the gap was enough to me to not go further). A Strat neck will fit a Tele with no mods as far as I know (that's not much :roll: ).


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If I remember right, Brother Duane had a "hybrid" also.


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