Tele neck on Strat

Has anyone put a Tele neck on a strat? Seems like it might be a close fit. My Tele neck is sooooo much faster and easier than my Strat neck that I am thinking of trying it. Just wonder if anybody ever did.

here ya go crossroads46 yup believe it or not there is a Strat in this video and she has a Tele neck


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QBQmfXZrr0

I can't watch vids at work - so apologies if this is it, but Allen Collins in Lynyrd Shynyrd played a strat with a tele neck.

I've come across them several times over the years - and the owners thought they were excellent. The look has never grabbed me though, I love strats, I love teles, but swapping headstocks looks a little funny to me.

Practicality though - the ends of the fretboards are different shapes, and therefore the heels. Tele necks have a flat end, Strats a curved end. It's do-able either way, but I understand it involves some creative work to make it fit?

Yep, you'd need to round off the heel of the Tele neck or remove some wood from the Strat neck pocket to make it squarer.

I remember seeing a photo of Tommy Bolin with a Strat that had a Tele neck, looked pretty good!

i've wanted to do the same thing, cause a tele neck on a strat is very strange-cool looking, but i have never tried. i do know that warmoth warns that a stock tele neck on a stock strat body is not intonate-able. so you might want to consider buying a body from them with the neck pocket already cut for a tele neck.

[QUOTE=andrewr;2071415]I can't watch vids at work - so apologies if this is it, but Allen Collins in Lynyrd Shynyrd played a strat with a tele neck.

Yes he did. I am pretty sure that a guy named Jay Rhine in Atlanta Ga. put it on there for him. Jay was doing alot of work for Skynyrd and 38 Special at the time.

I own a mahogany hardtail I've had for 25 years that has a Tele neck on it. The neck is about 35 - 40 years old....maybe even older. The plate # is 32585. Never had the neck off it to check the date. Sadly, I had a roadie move the B and high E string tuners under like a "four over two" Music Man and the excess headstock rounded off which of course ruined the authenticity. But the neck plays beautifully on the Strat bod which has the best low E sustain of any Strat I've ever played.

I think Ian Moore played one of these also

Hmmm... I have a DR Parts Strat body and a Squier Tele neck. I feel a project coming on!

I can't say for sure with Fender Stats and Teles but it worked great with my G&Ls. No mods needed, just swap.

I haven't seen too many but I like the look. I've seen quite a few strat necks on teles though.

Got an E series 86 Bullet that is basically that set up,its agreat guitar.

Page 77 of the first issue of Guitar Aficionado Magazine shows Joe Perry with two left handed Strats that have Tele necks . I have a Cherry Tele neck here and a '93 Strat that is very reliced . Could use a re-fret . Hmmm. D#%n you ! I could swap the tuners and cut a nut .

A Strat neck will screw right onto a Tele body (leaving gaps), but to put a Tele neck on a Strat some wood will have to be removed, either from the neck or body. I'd recommend alter the least valuable of the two.

Pretty good discussion in this thread: Forgive me, I put a Strat neck on my Tele (http://www.tdpri.com/forum/telecaster-discussion-forum/127285-fogive-me-i-put-strat-neck-my-tele.html#post1459549) (that links to my post, but you can scroll up to the OP).

http://www.deaf-eddie.net/tdpri-drawings/neck-swap.jpg

A Strat neck will screw right onto a Tele body (leaving gaps), but to put a Tele neck on a Strat some wood will have to be removed, either from the neck or body. I'd recommend alter the least valuable of the two.
That would be the neck .

That would be the neck .

Well, there ya go then. FWIW, a Strat body pocket requires a neck with the heel rounded off at a 5" radius, with the corners rounded to 1/4" radius.

I just might use the original to make a template . It plays great and is naturally scalloped , but the frets are very worn . Flat and grooved . This Strat was played a lot and loved as much from all indications . I'll post when done .

Sadly, I look like this guy. I wear boxers, however.

http://assets.mog.com/pictures/0000/0006/7609/images/1215706741.jpg

Fender has had several stock guitars with the Strat heads on Teles and vice versa, they've been out for decades.

mine`s a Fender Japan and says order made in the pocket...

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i198/shot-glass/fjtelestrat001-1.jpg

The neck that I was referring to is a custom done USACG made from my Cherry . I received it undrilled . I drilled it and mounted it on a Tele body that I had here . Apparently , when I drilled the body and neck , I must have located the holes closer to the body than Fender does . I can't say if it is right or wrong , but it fits the neck pocket of my "93 Strat like a glove . Yes , there are gaps in the corners , but the butt end of the neck could not fit better . I think that this was just meant to be . YES ! I just hope that I can intonate it in the end .

The Squier 51 is a Strat body with a Tele neck. I am not sure if Squier modified the neck or body to make the fit.

I don't know if it's been mentioned, but USACG will take any style neck (Tele, Strat etc...) and put either a Tele or a Strat heel shape on it. And of course rout either pocket into your choice of body. So you could have a Tele neck and Tele body with a rounded Strat heel! See if anyone notices that!

Way too subtle for me . Maybe sometime in the future . :twisted:

I had a 1997 MIK Squier Tele neck on a 1997 MIC Squier Strat body with no issues.

I'm playing it now and I like it . Pics when the sun comes out .

OK , the sun isn't out . http://i549.photobucket.com/albums/ii389/otterhound1/PA170002.jpghttp://i549.photobucket.com/albums/ii389/otterhound1/PA170003.jpg I'm liking it .

Here you can see the clone of famous (RIP) Finnish guitar player Albert Järvinen's "Roadrunner-Strat":

http://www.monsteramps.fi/site/?lan=3&page_id=70

[QUOTE=andrewr;2071415]I can't watch vids at work - so apologies if this is it, but Allen Collins in Lynyrd Shynyrd played a strat with a tele neck.

Yes he did. I am pretty sure that a guy named Jay Rhine in Atlanta Ga. put it on there for him. Jay was doing alot of work for Skynyrd and 38 Special at the time.

This is what I love about TDPRI, reminds me of things i haven't remembered in decades. :lol: Yeah, Jay Rhine was the real deal. He put a Dimarzio super distortion in the neck of my Tele about '76. Rhine was on Glenwood avenue if I remember right. That was the first replacement pickup I ever had, and wasn't about to chisel it in myself.

Hendrix played one a bit - Newport, 1969.

http://www.electric-guitars-rock.com/images/jimistrattele.jpg