I like telecaster becos it looks cool... so is it the right guitar?

[HunG]

OPPS seems like the picture is too big.SORRY!

 

[pcypert]

Nice find on the Keith Richards pic, but he's way more famous with the humbucker neck position tele than a standard style

 

[faizal_rocks]

pcypert: Yup I know that. Just randomly found his pic with a Tele. So I just decided to post it here

 

[fgl]

i have many teles on & off over the years - the most recent being about two years ago ..

I find teles incrediblly unforgiving instruments to play so I have one for specialised countrty gigs etc but always use strats or super strats as my weapon of choice otherwise.

 

[neuro182]

humbucking teles for the win!

 

[Breen]

Spankin' bright as hell bridge single coil on a traditional bridge with brass 3piece saddles and a minihumbucker on the neck with splitting option~ interchangeable for a P90.

Thats my winner~

And electrosocket! Orangedrop!, Capacitor/tone bypass switching for bridge pickup!

Brass ferrules getting a bit too picky?

 

[abstractguy]

Split it.

Well to me a fender aint a fender without it's single pup tone. Mayb wif extra cash could get one of those splitting pups u know?
Anywayz that huge tele Pic had soapbar pickups! never seen one on a tele b4. Thought it looks cool especially if one knows the history and how different a tone it has(never played one b4 though).

Anywayz im for original single Fender pup with its signature sound.

 

[neuro182]

I am swapping my Tele Custom neck for a big headswtock strat neck. Will post up pic later.

 

[faizal_rocks]

My custom Esquire Tele guitar, all done! This was what the early Teles looked like. Love the sound of the 3rd position, with the one and only bridge pup bypassing the tone, it has a tad more hair and twang than the one in the 2nd position which is the standard Tele bridge pup sound. 1st position is totally zero tone, cock wah setting with distortion sounds nice on it but doesn't sound useful for cleans.

For clean rhythm playing, I just flick to the 2nd position, turn down the tone slightly to get a warmer sound. On overdrive, its a tone machine. I find myself using the volume knob most of the time to switch between low and high gain. Oh, its actually made up a Fender MIM Tele body and a Squier Tele Custom II neck (thanks neuro182!)

Might wana add a humbucker or the traditional tele single coil pup at the neck position in the future but for now, its really fun playing this thing that has only one pickup

 

[Breen]

Keep it as an Esquire man~ Me gettin' one of those fo' sho.

 

[Plastic]

I want a tele, with only a neck humbucker.

 

[neuro182]

That reminded me of early Gibson semi-hollow bodies with the neck humbucking pickup.