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Post subject: humbuckers=real tele?
Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 4:27 am
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as some of you know i have a blacktop telecaster (which for those of you who dont know, have humbuckers). i love it, but i thought i'd ask you this; is a telecaster with humbuckers a real telecaster?

i think the key to that tele snap you get, is the single coils. i dont consider my blacktop a real telecaster, hence why i call it a blacktop more than a tele. thats just my opinion though.

so do you?

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Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 4:37 am
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rileymcc wrote:
as some of you know i have a blacktop telecaster (which for those of you who dont know, have humbuckers). i love it, but i thought i'd ask you this; is a telecaster with humbuckers a real telecaster?

i think the key to that tele snap you get, is the single coils. i dont consider my blacktop a real telecaster, hence why i call it a blacktop more than a tele. thats just my opinion though.

so do you?


To me, it is an SG, shaped like a Tele.

FWIW, you could always coil tap the pickups if you want the option of single coils in it.

As always, this is merely IMO where YMMV.

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Post subject: Re: humbuckers=real tele?
Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 4:54 am
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rileymcc wrote:
as some of you know i have a blacktop telecaster (which for those of you who dont know, have humbuckers). i love it, but i thought i'd ask you this; is a telecaster with humbuckers a real telecaster?

i think the key to that tele snap you get, is the single coils. i dont consider my blacktop a real telecaster, hence why i call it a blacktop more than a tele. thats just my opinion though.

so do you?


To me, it is an SG, shaped like a Tele

you'd think, wouldn't ya? slight tone differences on the bridge pup, not much on the neck. must be cause of the position, or the wood or some technical reason i dont look into.

and yes, i'm considering getting a split coils. not cause its not twangy enough (which it is), but just for more sounds.

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Post subject: Re: humbuckers=real tele?
Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 4:59 am
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I've been wrestling with this in my head for a few months now myself.

If it says Fender and Telecaster on it, it's a Telecaster. Just not a traditional type.

My dilemma is, I converted one of my copies to have a SD little 59 and Blacktop neck pickup. Now it's not a whole lot different than my other guitars, just a different shape and look. If I change it back to be a traditional type, I can't really use it live, it would only be a studio guitar.

Since I have another one that has the traditional setup, I decided to keep it the way it is for now. But I can't help but feel the same way sometimes. I'll talk myself into changing it back, then just before doing it I'll tell myself I'm trippin' and keep it where it is.

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Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 12:42 pm
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Jah Soldier wrote:
If it says Fender and Telecaster on it, it's a Telecaster. Just not a traditional type.

+1. Its a Telecaster with humbuckers.

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Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 12:56 pm
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It's a TeleBlaster! 8)


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Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 1:13 pm
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Yes it is RCB!! Of all of the new models Fender put out recently, the Blacktop Tele and Pawn Shop '72 were the ones I liked the most.

I'd swear that the Blacktop Tele sounds different than the Strat version. Not really sure why. But Blacktop pickups are awesome!!

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Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 4:33 pm
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Definitely on my wish list is the Classic Series 72 Thinline which I think of as being one of the traditional models. It has two humbuckers and is also fairly popular.

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Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 4:35 pm
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I have 72 RI thinline. I like the way it sounds.


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Post subject: Re: humbuckers=real tele?
Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 5:41 pm
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Telecaster is more a state of mind than it is a pickup configuration.
It's a guitar your going to pick up and have a no nonsense experience on, when it's a good tele.
Just you, a simple guitar and some noise.

I recently got a mosrite copy that reminds me more of a tele than it does anything else. Though it looks like an upside down strat.

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Post subject: Re: humbuckers=real tele?
Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 7:31 pm
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Take a Telecaster with humbuckers, add a bound solid mahogany contoured body, coil tap and then throw in a set neck to really make it crazy. This is one sweet guitar and yes, it's all Telecaster in my book.

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I'm so glad I bought this FSR guitar when I had the chance - should have bought another in amber.

And I bought this one back in 1994 - another great purchase!

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Post subject: Re: humbuckers=real tele?
Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 10:37 pm
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CRGuitarMan,

if you're gonna hijack a thread with guitar porn, that is the way to do it!. But still, you're making a good point. That red set neck with the two dimarzios is flat out one of the sickest teles I've seen.

Back to Rileys question: its totally a tele buddy. 'Keef played a buckload of teles with humbuckers in the neck. John 5, the latest in a long line of tele-slingers, chicken-picks and twang-bangs with the best of em. Teles as much about 4 to the floor rock n roll as it is about country and Izzy Stradlin used one on the Illusion sessions and many live. The list is endless. Pickup configuration has nothing to do with it, its how ya feel when playing it, which is why niki's comment is pretty much spot on: Tele is a state of mind man.

Enjoy it :)

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Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 10:50 pm
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CRGuitarMan,

if you're gonna hijack a thread with guitar porn, that is the way to do it!. But still, you're making a good point. That red set neck with the two dimarzios is flat out one of the sickest teles I've seen.


...that would be a TeleMaster! I've been gassin' over the thin-line tele and the Hwy 1 tele for a while now!


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Post subject: Re: humbuckers=real tele?
Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2012 1:04 pm
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I actually prefer the less standard looking teles. I would never be interested in a standard tele, But ive got a 72 custom, a 62 custom and im getting cash together for a JA-90 thinline. Even the 62 custom, which looks almost std, i only brought because i was pretty much given it. I wouldnt have gone to a shop and brought it new.


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Post subject: Re: humbuckers=real tele?
Posted: Tue May 01, 2012 5:28 pm
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moochy13 wrote:
I actually prefer the less standard looking teles.
Well, Moochy, I agree with your interest in the JA-90 Tele, those are very sweet. Myself, keeping the cost a little lower, I've been thinking pretty seriously about this current FSR Tele:

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I don't know if it's good or bad, but I am really into humbuckers these days.

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