Lots of new guys here so..if you could only have one guitar

[chabby]

What would it be?

For me it would be my GE Smith Tele with a refret to larger wire (though I now notice it;s fret wire is larger than I initially thought), a possible Pleck job and maybe brent Masonize it with a 3rd coil and minibucker and 5 position switch and a 3rd tone knob. I'd have to take it a step further than Mr. Mason though and add a trem system to it as (even though I don't use it often), there are certain things and times in which I must have a whammy bar.
So a router would have to ravage the body of the GE Smith.

That's the only way I could live with one guitar and it be a Super-Tele.
In fact, I'm surprised Fender hasn't come out with this very model yet.

Bubbanov would be rich if he could only keep one.

[Tritone]

If my answer isn't some species of Tele, will you guys ban me?

[boneyguy]

"..if you could only have one guitar"

You're talking nonsense and I'm no longer listening to you.

[pchilson]

Out of the guitars I have, for me it has to be my Hwy 1 Strat. I give time to all my guitars but the strat is the one that sounds right the most of the time. Every day is different playing wise and the sound differs from day to day. I call it "ear of the day". More days than not the Hwy 1 pleases my ear.

[Ironwolf]

I would want a Gretsch Brian Setzer Signature 6120SLVO Nashville.

[Michaell]

fender stratocaster

can't you only play one at a time anyway?

[davie blue]

Like potato chips, you can't just have one!!!

I'd say when my parts-tele is finished I'd be okay with that in a desert island scenario. It's a MIJ Foto-flame body in cherry sunburst, with a worn-in-just-right MIM rosewood neck refretted with jumbo wire. Still needs electronics, but I can't stop playing it acoustically!

[chabby]

Blaspheme!!!!! It should be e Tele, I tele you.

No, seriously I understand the strat idea which is why I had to provide the mods I listed to the Tele - but maintain the spirit of the Tele still.
Okay, everyone has to live with one I guess so it should be the one and one only, of your dreams - yet function in every capacity you will need it too.

That could be easier for some, harder for others depending upon how many types of music you play.

[kludge]

An acoustic.

Specifically, my Running Dog mini-jumbo, which is both an amazing guitar and has tremendous sentimental value.

One electric? At this point, a Tele. I really like the one I have, but any good Tele would probably do. As it is, though, I only own two electrics at the moment (the other is a recently-purchased vintage Schecter Strat), and rarely have more than two at any given time. I honestly don't feel I have any gaps that aren't covered between those two electrics right now, although I still want a Gibson ES-135 on general principle.

[rhinocaster]

Just give me a classic Tele with a maple neck, 3 barrels and medium output pickups. A body made of ash, alder or pine would be just fine.

For me, a vintage style Tele is the only "Must have" guitar.

[morroben]

My '72 Tele Custom RI

-It feels and plays great.
-It can cover both single coil and humbucker territory.
-It's a great slide guitar.
-It's slightly more unique than a standard tele, strat, or LP.

[woodman]

i'd take the rainbow poplar i just built ... it's still got some rough edges, but on a desert island, i'd have time to work all the kinks out.

[getbent]

Clarence White's tele (that marty has)


that was friggin' one second of thinking.

[petebradt]

This one. Good thing I own it.

[petebradt]

Originally Posted by Tritone

If my answer isn't some species of Tele, will you guys ban me?

No, but we might shun you.

[getbent]

Originally Posted by petebradt

No, but we might shun you.

shun? no. Mock? maybe Tease? certainly.

[boris bubbanov]

Either the NOS No-Caster or this lil sweetie I guess:




You might think I'd be rich if I could own only one guitar, but then I'd have 10 SF Twins and 10 SF Supers, then I really would be stepping on some toes, as there really aren't enough of those to go around. Until we're all 75, I guess.

[esteban]

Actually, my guitar...



But I'm fantasizing about a full size humbucker in the bridge and rosewood fretboard.

If I picked a non-Tele, it'd be a hollowbody, but I have no idea which one... I like the Gibson ES-339 but I've never played one.

[chabby]

That is a cool Tele Esteban as I am a real fan of Red tele's - especially with maple necks. That looks like a 70's neck, but not sure about the body. And those saddles look like custom shop maybe - are they?

That neck's got a fast look to it too. That axe just scrweams "Play Me!"

[bluesmannepa]

One guitar? It would be the Nocaster I have now. It's the sweetest playing of all the "tele's" I've had, although about twenty years ago there was a tele I'll always miss. Every time I do a gig with a Paul or a strat, about halfway thru the first set, I'm kicking myself. If the tele is there, it'll be in my hands for the second set.

[pengipete]

I'd be a happy little bunny if I had Francis Rossi's battered old green Tele. I would love it and cuddle it and treat it real nice and then I'd get my head down and twang the sh*t out of it cos that's what it likes.

the end

[octatonic]

Would be a fight between one of the Kinman tele's or my Gibson ES295 reissue.

[wierdOne]

An Estoban Acoustic

[Doug Ferguson]

One telecaster.
One stratocaster.

[Captain HiTop]

Originally Posted by boneyguy

You're talking nonsense and I'm no longer listening to you.

+1

[bigou]

I have to go with an acoustic. Takamine EF341c