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Post subject: Anyone use a Tele for slide?
Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2010 4:48 pm
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I've got a California Series Tele (HB in the neck, single in the bridge) that doesn't get regularly used. I'm thinking about setting it up as a dedicated slide guitar. Anybody ever done this?

Also, any preferences as to string height for slide playing?


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Yeah I use my tele for slide. Infact I don't slide on anything else. Brass saddles, brass slide and a brass pick (yeah excessive brass).
I tune it to open G and keep the action low enough to play with my fingers too. The best thing you can do for any slide guitar is keep a flat string radius and keep the nut slots high. It helps a lot with clear low fret sliding. The flat saddle radius is just common sense.

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Yes, but my Esquire is even better. Brass saddles on that, for sure

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I suck at slide, but my 52 RI with the mini-humbucker in the neck makes me sound like a pro (Until I screw up of course.) As for preferences to string height, I play with a decently high action (haven't measured but it's higher than factory) with heavy strings.

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Albert Collins-"The Iceman" used nothing but Teles for slide.

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just did this a few months ago... i find that having the strings just about a quarter inch above the fretboard is comfortable for me... but its all preference


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Nikininja,

Do you tell people to kiss your brass? lol Brass is good, though I haven't tried a brass pick. I use a Blue Chip pick. It is made out of some space age material that is dreadfully expensive. It costs $35 for one pick. The material gives you quick action because it glides over the strings faster and it has a leading edge. You have to choose right or left handed because of the leading edge. They make them around Knoxville where I live and all the Bluegrass guys in Nashville use them. People are getting concerned about using Tortoise shell picks because they are becoming endangered, so Blue Chip is filling the void. I love this pick and if I lost it, I would buy another. I am about to buy another one soon to keep as a backup.

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i play slide occasionally on my tele, though i like to use a glass slide. seems to be "lighter" on the strings and i don't have adjust the action. like the sound as well.


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I had my Baja set up for slide playing, this is new territory for me. I'm having a blast though, experimenting with glass, metal, bone, and a slide from V picks.


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it was the only reason i bought a tele :D cheers
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Yes, I use my Telecaster almost exclusively for slide...usually Open G or Open D for tunings, but that's subject to change at any minute.

I have modded mine with a four-way switch, a Fender "No-Load" tone pot and a Mighty Mite P90 in the neck position...sounds awesome.

Something I learned long ago is to keep the action as low as you can on a slide guitar, not just so you can "finger" it, but also it makes you go a little lighter in your touch for the sliding hand...more nuances, etc. will be evident in your tone.

I use either Dunlop Pyrex slides or my own T-Bird Jones Socket Slides...they're made from modified deep wall sockets...

I keep the action very low on all my guitars, the Telecaster/slide players included.

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Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2010 11:36 am
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guitslinger wrote:
Albert Collins-"The Iceman" used nothing but Teles for slide.


Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't remember Albert Collins playing slide...he did have a stinging, sustaining tone that might be mistaken for a slide lick, but I saw him play live twice and have seen/listened to many videos, songs, albums, etc., and I never saw him play slide guitar.

I might be wrong, though... :?:

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