I don't like my Tele

My brother has that exact guitar. I keep telling him it's not a proper Tele because it's got humbuckers in it, but I secretly want it.

If we're all posting pics of our Teles now...

 

It'll make you a better player if only because there's nowhere to hide. Use it as a way to improve your playing. Be a shame to let a great guitar go.

 

If it's the sound that easily fixable with pickup swap. If you're used to LP's get a hotter set of Tele pups, or, hell..purists be damned toss a humbucker in it. You might find just enough difference in the tones to keep it for when you want something different from the LP...but not too much so.

I picked up a cheap(er) Michael Kelly with HB's, (a mini in the neck, full in the bridge), and am thinking of putting some Probuckers I got out of an Epi LP into it, if I can just figure out the wiring. Like yours, plays nice and nothing wrong with it, but I think the PB will make it sing!

have th figure something for the neck since that full sized PB won't fit the p/g and I'm loathe to cut it..but I might just try it with a ring mount.

 

So your a purist, eh?

 

I just don't like the look of them, no matter what they sound like.

 

Cast his eyes out! Heretic! How can he say that about the most beautiful guitar shape ever made?

Here's one I made earlier...

 

I just to play one through a cranked Hiwatt Bulldog 50. It came awfully close. Of course, my ears weren't very discerning back then.

 

I went through 4 teles b4 I found "the one"
Just happened to be an Ibanez
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…but good! I have. 1952 copy.

 

If you get a canoe or other small water craft you might appreciate it more!

 

My first tele was a Mim I grabbed at GC just cuz I wanted a tele. But yeah, I never bonded with it.

So one day I decided to use it as my first attempt to refinish a guitar, stripped it, lacquered it, put Highway 1 pups in it, vintage tuners, fret leveled. Then got a wild hair and decided to try my hand a relic-ing.

I ain't saying all that turned out great, but now it is my goto beater guitar. It plays nice, and stays in tune great. It is kinda like an old favorite pair of jeans.

So who knows ... maybe give it a little "love" and see what happens.

On the right in this pic.



It goes camping and traveling with me. Been to several Caribbean islands.

 

I'm right with you, s5uart. I had a nice Fender American Standard Tele - just couldn't bond with it, so it sat in it's case. I let it go. Then I saw a nice Fender MIM Thinline Deluxe Tele, and I thought maybe that was the sound I wanted. Nope, it sat in it's case, too. I let it go.

To date, I am Tele-less, and I just can't see that changing. I do have 4 Strat, though, so I'm happy.

 

I have a question.. I own two strats, so I have a good idea of how they feel under my fingers.
The last American Tele I played was really stiff.... is this typical?

 

I thought he said that about the Telecaster..? What am I missing?