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Tele-Meister
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Electra Tele Copies
Hi!
I'm new to the forum although I've been lurking for several months. Great info. I have a Electra Telecaster copy I purchased back in 1973. It has a humbucker in the neck and a single coil in the bridge, maple neck, maple fretboard, and top loading strings. Anyone else on the forum run into or own (or owned) one of these? The original name of the guitar was a "Rock and Soul" later renamed to "Rock and Blues." Thanks! |
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Friend of Leo's
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Old Hickory (Nashville), Tennessee, USA
Age: 41
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I had a friend who had an Electra Tele-style
It was dark, translucent brown (you could see the wood grain) with a black three-ply pickguard and a maple neck, and it had a humbucker at the neck and a single coil at the bridge. This was many years ago, but as I recall, it was a really nice guitar--it sounded great, was very comfortable to play, and it looked very cool.
Joel
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Tele-Afflicted
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Boise, USA
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Matt's guitars
You might find some good info here:
http://www.therathole.org/guitars/ggboard/index.php scroll down to find the electra discussion group. They seem to like your guitar!
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Friend of Leo's
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I saw one of those on Ebay a while back, man I wanted it bad, but it wasn't in the stars at the time.
Very cool looking tele copy.
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Tele-Meister
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: NWMO
Age: 59
Posts: 132
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Check out this web site
This link is to an Electra guitar info site.
http://www.herons.ca/electra/ I own a Rock 'N' Soul (2253w model) If you scroll down the list of models on the left frame, there are 6 'tele type' models you can click on. Pics of my 2253w model guitar are at the bottom of that page. Enjoy! |
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Tele-Holic
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There's a thinline-style in a shop here in town that's stripped of pickguard and pickups. Also, it looks like someone did a modification to get rid of a zero-fret. Does yours have the zero-fret?
The guitar I'm talking about looks like the Blues Rock Special 2270C on the page mentioned previously in this thread. |
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Tele-Meister
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I have the 2238WC (black). I don't think it has the zero fret.
I've thought about upgrading the pickups and electronics on it but the bridge is not a true tele bridge so it would take some conversion work. It's fun to play anyway and has a tight sound especially with a little overdrive. I own a squier standard strat, too but the electra is the one I pick up to play. Good intonation all the way up the neck. Flater radius on the neck than the strat so my first finger doesn't hurt in the joint after playing. |
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Friend of Leo's
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As a youngster my first 'leccy guitar around 1970 was a Electra Les Paul. I didn't know jack then and thought it was a cheapy. Looking back, it had a set neck and played not bad, and I am sure it was an Ibanez, a '58 Standard copy, which were sold under many names back then. I screwed the headstock up fitting Schallers to it, and traded it for a '73 Mustang I think.
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hey this is my first post on this awesome site for awesome guitars. I own three Telecasters, and one is an Electra "Rock and Soul" i just finished it a few months ago, and it is screamin'. I installed a GFS Hot Nashville Overwound in the neck position, the lead pickup is a GFS Lil' Puncher Modern Vintage. I really like this guitar. I think it looks awesome in the transparent brown, even thought the girlfriend disagrees.
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Tele-Afflicted
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Quote:
You can get an agreeable GF.......
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picture up now
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I put a pic up of my tele collection, all of the other pics are now missing, and the gf just thinks it looks too 70's, o well, she encouraged me to start playing again after 4 yrs of hardly playing at all... more pics of my guitars and i @ http://www.myspace.com/telecasterjoe |
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Friend of Leo's
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Indianapolis, IN
Age: 56
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Here's a link to a timeline and history of Electra guitars. I owned an Electra LP copy bought new in '75. Wish I had it back!
http://www.rivercityamps.com/electra/history.php
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Tele-Afflicted
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: springfield, missouri
Posts: 1,708
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had several of those that i kept for myself back in the 70's, but they were easy for me to get hold of, since i was a dealer and St. Louis Music (SLM) was my main supplier...also had an Electra Omega Les Paul all natural with a rotary switch like "Lucille" that i wish i STILL had....owned several of their 335 copies with the "tree of life" inlaid fingerboard....i didn't hang onto a single one of those guitars, my loss and idiocy......i didn't much care for their "Strat" copies, though...
will add, when Electra Les Paul and 335 "clones" first hit the market, they had the open book headstock design which looked really good, later on they went to a strange looking "wave" headstock design thingie that just absolutely turned me off to them, and i'm the first one to say now.."i don't play the headstock"..also tried a few of the Electra MPC Les Paul copies but for me the "built in" FX sounds were not too good; if i were to play one now, my perceptions might be different.... all in all, except for the later design headstocks and their "strat" copies, i thought they were better guitars than most out there at the time...
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bender-freak Last edited by bender-freak; August 26th, 2008 at 11:12 AM. Reason: more useless info... |
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