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Post subject: Tele for the Blues
Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2010 8:20 pm
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O.K. Iam a strat user and I am intrested in getting a Tele.I want one that will have a good blusey tone that will be played with my Fender Blues Deluxe Reissue and my Peavey Classic 30....Iam not up to date on them so I do not know mush about them.What can you all steer me to a 52 reissue~72~Or what.


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Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 6:12 am
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depends on how deep your pockets are.
i bought the guitar center exclusive ash body tele
from a friend. hes a gibson guy and didnt like the way it played.
he had it for about a month. i bought it for like $250 (1/2 of new cost)
took it and had it set up with 11's. that guitar quickly became my goto guitar even though i have several high end guitars to choose from.
yes its that good.
or if the pockets are deep and you simply dont believe that the MIM is your best bang for the buck, you can go buy you a MIA tele and pay 2X the price for 1/4 better guitar.

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Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 6:30 am
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Honestly? I bought a used Squier standard for $60, and had a custom set of pickups wound for $120. Straightened the neck, set it up, and it's phenomenal. Sounds like an early 60s Tele.

If you're not into replacing pickups, I love the American Standard Teles. They sound great, play great (assuming the store's done a decent basic setup), and look great. A really excellent guitar, especially given the price.

Realistically, any Tele is good for playing blues music. Anyone who says otherwise is trying to sell you something. :)


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Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 9:27 am
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Build your own with your own specs and parts. You'll spend about $1000-1200 (or less) and have a guitar that will slay the ones you'd buy from Guitar Center.

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Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 12:32 pm
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I really like the American standard. However, if you have extra money how about a American Vintage 52 Telecaster Reissue...the best production guitar Fender makes.


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Post subject: 52 Reissue
Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 1:31 pm
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I have looked into the 52 reissue and I have heard great things about them,What makes them dif from the standards?
I am also in the process in learning country licks and I want a Tele that will also give me a Twangy sound when I want it.


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Post subject: Re: 52 Reissue
Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2010 7:03 am
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snoprom8 wrote:
I have looked into the 52 reissue and I have heard great things about them,What makes them dif from the standards?
I am also in the process in learning country licks and I want a Tele that will also give me a Twangy sound when I want it.


Yep the 52 reissue will give you a twangy sound right out of the box. It is the original twang machine.

As for differences between the 52 and American Standard, there are too many to list. Take a look at each guitar under the "products" tab here and then click on the "specs" tab of each. Different neck shape, number of frets, fret size, neck radius, string tree, truss rod, finish material, pickups, tone control, tuners, bridge, saddles, etc etc etc. The 52 is made to be as close as possible to how Fender made the Tele back in 1952, obviously.

One is not "better" than the other. They are just different. Go to a shop and try as many Teles as you can until you find one that speaks to you. The Tele can be a good match for playing the blues. Just ask Muddy Waters and Albert Collins :wink:

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Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2010 9:15 am
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I use my Highway One Tele for blues all the time.
The only change I've made is that I put in Seymour Duncan Quarter Pounder pickups.

The Tele Custom is really nice too. Single coil pickup at the bridge and a humbucker at the neck.

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Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2010 3:39 pm
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You can use any guitar to play any style you want...

Ok, maybe not metal. Then you probably want something with humbuckers.

Listen to some tele blues players, Albert Collins, Roy Buchanan, Tom Principato, Kid Ramos... think about whom you want to sound closer to.. or do you want a more typical "BB" tone? Then maybe you want a tele with humbuckers. So, just listen to different players until you get crazy for one of them at least, and find out what gear they are using, specially pickups and amps and start from there to find your tone.


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Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2010 5:20 pm
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Iago wrote:
You can use any guitar to play any style you want...

Ok, maybe not metal. Then you probably want something with humbuckers.


hum......... cant join ya there with that.
two of the heaviest metal bands of all time used singles on the regular.
dave murry and adrian smith of iron maiden and kk downing and
glen tipton of priest were also known to use singles from time to time. :wink:
just to name two of several.

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Post subject: A good Tele for the blues
Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2010 7:08 am
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I'm a guy who loves to play the blues and loves Tele's. The best Tele I've found at this point and my go-to guitar is a MIM 94 to 96 model with a humbucker on the neck and single on the bridge. I believe I remember these are the Tex-Mex pickups. This thing will go with anything from sweet blues leads to a really chunky growl. I'm playing through a Fender Blues Jr., a Peavey Classis 30 and have just aquired a Mesa Boogie express and it sounds awsome through any of these.


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Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2010 10:50 am
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way cool jr wrote:
Iago wrote:
You can use any guitar to play any style you want...

Ok, maybe not metal. Then you probably want something with humbuckers.


hum......... cant join ya there with that.
two of the heaviest metal bands of all time used singles on the regular.
dave murry and adrian smith of iron maiden and kk downing and
glen tipton of priest were also known to use singles from time to time. :wink:
just to name two of several.


Hmm, last time I saw Maiden, Dave Murray was using a black strat with 2 humbuckers and a cream strat with single-coil shaped humbuckers. Dave Murray used a goltop Les Paul and a few guitars more, all with humbuckers. There was also a white strat H-S-S, no doubt he used the humbucker all time. Hoewver Blackmore comes to mind now, at least in the 70's he had stock Fender single-coils on his strats.

I shall admit I never listened to a single Judas Priest album and I can only remember the guys holding monstrous Flying Vs and those sort of things, yuck. :D


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Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2010 3:07 pm
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Man, YOU GOT TO check out the Hot Rod 52 Telecaster for blues. Not cheap, but the only guitar you'll ever need. That mini-seymour duncan humbucker at the neck is amazing.


Check this guitar war between a Hot Rod tele and Jeff Beck signature Strat and hear how the hot rod sounds a lot fuller than the Strat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYHvaY6Scgs&NR=1

Other high quality vids:
http://www.youtube.com/user/GregsGuitar ... r3Lbh4WFLg

http://www.youtube.com/user/GregsGuitar ... r3Lbh4WFLg


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Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2010 7:25 pm
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Iago wrote:
Hmm, last time I saw Maiden, Dave Murray was using a black strat with 2 humbuckers and a cream strat with single-coil shaped humbuckers. Dave Murray used a goltop Les Paul and a few guitars more, all with humbuckers. There was also a white strat H-S-S, no doubt he used the humbucker all time. Hoewver Blackmore comes to mind now, at least in the 70's he had stock Fender single-coils on his strats.

I shall admit I never listened to a single Judas Priest album and I can only remember the guys holding monstrous Flying Vs and those sort of things, yuck. :D



you are correct about daves newer setups.
a lot of his older stuff DID have hot rails in the bridge, but like jake E lee
he was knows to switch around during his shows make in the early/mid 80s. some of the older footage you would see him switched up in mid and neck positions.
a very popular setup was/is the H.S.S setups.
singles can add a nice dimension to your metal playing.
again priest used the flying V guitars when they got real famous. go back and listen to the very early days. see if thats a single coil sound your heading.
for yrs i limited myself to humbuckers. yrs i tell ya. 20 plus. it wasnt until this yr that i actually experimented with singles.
now i love the dang things. wish i wasnt so hardheaded all those yr.
im way more open these days to the ideas of the folks on this site.
they are on to something i should have been on to yrs and yrs ago. blues, singles, and a clean sound with a bit of OD from time to time.
here is some guys talking about the same things we are here. i cant agree with everything they say, but what the hell do i know? lol
http://www.metalguitarist.org/forum/gen ... ckers.html

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Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2010 8:31 pm
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It will be interesting to see how the transition is going from a Strat to a Tele. I believe that the Tele is a more honest guitar and you will see how quickly you will learn how to make her sing. It can cover both the Blues and Country easily. Lots of blues guys like a hot pup, so try a tele with the Texas specials. I personally like the older vintage pups or the cobalts because I play a lot of places that have flourenscent lighting. One of my Teles has Jason Lollars with a third pup in the middle ala the nashville Tele, which should also be an option. it will allow you to have similiar variations as a strat with just one tone pot. Good Luck and let us know what axe you get!

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