Teles or Strats

dez · Apr 17, 2016

I do more gigs on Strats, but when I get in a Tele mood it can last for months.

Cogswell · Apr 17, 2016

Exactly!

les strat · Apr 18, 2016

El Gringo · Apr 20, 2016

imho you cannot have one without the other ,God bless Leo Fender !!!!!!!!

Elmore · Apr 20, 2016

Cogswell said:
A Tele IS a Les Paul in an alternate universe.
These days I'm playing my Strat more often, but every time I hear something wild from Jim Campilongo or Bill Frisell it's a Tele & I get to wanting to play mine.

Good one!

sonar · Apr 20, 2016

El Gringo said:
imho you cannot have one without the other ,God bless Leo Fender !!!!!!!!

I went a dozen years in-between Strats. For some it can be an extremely frustrating guitar.

latestarter · Apr 20, 2016

sonar said:
....For some it can be an extremely frustrating guitar.

This is my experience with Strats. I really want to love them, but I can't.

Tele it is.

CBRmatt600 · Apr 21, 2016

My first electric was a Jackson Dinky, and my second was a USA made Strat. I thought that I loved strats, until I got into Teles and Les Pauls. Now I just can't find anything to love about Strats, and don't even own one. I've had this lingering feeling that I should own one, and should add one to the collection, but every time I sit down and play one I just don't ever find myself really loving anything about it.

Standard Tele's and single dogear Juniors are my jam. I love those two styles of guitar moreso than any other.

latestarter · Apr 21, 2016

CBRmatt600 said:
My first electric was a Jackson Dinky, and my second was a USA made Strat. I thought that I loved strats, until I got into Teles and Les Pauls. Now I just can't find anything to love about Strats, and don't even own one. I've had this lingering feeling that I should own one, and should add one to the collection, but every time I sit down and play one I just don't ever find myself really loving anything about it.

Standard Tele's and single dogear Juniors are my jam. I love those two styles of guitar moreso than any other.

I relate to all of that :dude:

goldtop0 · Apr 21, 2016

I came across one strat about '93/'94 at a store here in Auckland, a refinished (Fiesta Red) '63, now that was some guitar. The pups were mellow and round with good output and the neck was to die for(fat but not U shape). If I'd had the spare $$ at that time I would have bought it, I think it was at NZ$2500 back then.
That is the only strat I've ever liked!!

latestarter · Apr 21, 2016

Hmm...I wonder...I've got a '63 sitting at home right now that sounds just like that. Used to be Fiesta Red...now natural :##. If there was a Strat I could like, it would be this one...the neck is excellent. But again, that weedy sound *runs for cover*

jb_abides · Apr 22, 2016

Prince => Tele. :hank RIP

:salude

goldtop0 · Apr 23, 2016

latestarter said:
Hmm...I wonder...I've got a '63 sitting at home right now that sounds just like that. Used to be Fiesta Red...now natural :##. If there was a Strat I could like, it would be this one...the neck is excellent. But again, that weedy sound *runs for cover*

No, my one was a big sounding gutsy mother of a thing, it sounded different to any other strat I'd played.

Wilko · Apr 23, 2016

I was very much a Strat guy since the early 80s. Dabbled in Les Pauls but found them heavy and "muddy" until I discovered the magic of "Burst Tone" (actually it was Snowy White on hid goldtop--but you get the idea). Watching Princes Superbowl show reminded me what a strat does that a Les Paul or tele just can't do when he dug in to All Along the Watchtower.

toxpert · Apr 23, 2016

I recently acquired a Tele modded to a single pickup 3-way Esquire format.
I took the stock Esquire setup a step further and rewired the guitar to the Mike Eldred mod and WOW!

The Eldred mod transforms the 3rd position from treble rolled off to a midrange voice with a "half-cocked wah pedal" sound. All position run through volume pot.

I am not missing the neck pickup!

DMartini · Apr 24, 2016

the Stratocaster - really is Fenders ES 335 (most versatile guitar) IMO

eace2 - now 1. 2. 3. FIGHT ya buggers!!!

no really, when all the old guard played Gibsons they sounded the same when they played Stratocasters they got the voice that is instantly recognizable as theirs, and goes in the history books the quintessential electric guitar sound (also IMO

eace2)

on a lighter note, 67 black cherry, you have all those stunning Stratocasters in all those magical colours made by the guy that Fender masterbuilt guys wank on about as being the ducks nuts... and you chose a rotten TELE!!! :dang let down pal! :roflhaving ya on mate, you have a great collection! ... drooling ... real bad :biggrin:

renderit · Apr 24, 2016

I doubled down. But I still haves me the second.

redisburning · Apr 24, 2016

DMartini said:
the Stratocaster - really is Fenders ES 335 (most versatile guitar) IMO eace2 - now 1. 2. 3. FIGHT ya buggers!!!

no really, when all the old guard played Gibsons they sounded the same when they played Stratocasters they got the voice that is instantly recognizable as theirs, and goes in the history books the quintessential electric guitar sound (also IMO eace2)

on a lighter note, 67 black cherry, you have all those stunning Stratocasters in all those magical colours made by the guy that Fender masterbuilt guys wank on about as being the ducks nuts... and you chose a rotten TELE!!! :dang let down pal! :roflhaving ya on mate, you have a great collection! ... drooling ... real bad :biggrin:

Im not sure what 67BlackCherry's teles are, but the first guitars Vince took to shows were blackguards. I believe the market on those is quite a bit higher than most of the strats, but they only made the nocaster.

Good guitars, but not so good for collecting like all those custom color strats which can quickly empty your pocket book after you hear and play one :wah

Red Baron · Apr 25, 2016

To me the Tele is the most versatile and inspiring guitar ever ...if you can't do it with a Tele then you're all out of excuses :hank

slater529 · Apr 25, 2016

I like my Tele just a wee bit more than my Strat.

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