Clarify this for me please.

[Telecaster?]

I've heard numerous quotes such as:

'I've gota say that a tele is pretty much indesturcatable (indestructible)'

'Get a Fender......Strats and Teles will take a beating and still play great'

'a Telecaster will survive a nuclear holocaust'

'when they drop the atomic bomb, only roaches and telecasters will survive' lmao

Is this true?

[andy__woods]

What about Twinkies? Those will last forever too

[sidneystreet]

It's pretty much true. The body is a solid slab of hardwood, virtually impervious to damage. And the neck is one-piece with a straight headstock design which isn't as vulnerable to being snapped off as a tilted back Gibson-style.

[Mark Davis]

Watch the SRV video LIve at The El Mocambo on 3rd stone from the sun SRV just tortures his Strat zero damage except for broken strings. He stands on the body and bends the neck as hard as he can.

[cvansickle]

Originally Posted by Telecaster?

I've heard numerous quotes such as:

'when they drop the atomic bomb, only roaches and telecasters will survive' lmao

Is this true?

I've heard that two things will survive a nuclear bomb - roaches and Keith Richards.

Is it any wonder why Keef plays a Tele?

[mark norwine]

I've heard it said that Tommy Tedesco once used his tele to dig his car out of a snowbank...

[cacibi]

Was reading book on Fender recently which talked about how Leo resisted putting truss-rods in the neck at first and would demonstrate how tough the necks were by standing on a neck that was supported off the ground at the headstock and heel.

[slack]

I never hear others talk about this, but perhaps 15-20% of the vintage and RI Teles I inspect have cracked bodies. In most cases it's one of the narrow blocks between the neck pocket and pickup. If someone goes to remove a tight fitting neck and simply lifts the neck up, often the body will crack there.

A substantial neck blow, from the back, will also sometimes crack that spot, and a neck blow from either the front or back can send a crack through the body visible from corners of the neck pocket and into the back. I've seen lots of cracked Tele bodies. Most still play on though. I have several examples.

[Telecaster?]

Lol, ive heard that story about Keith. There was also a joke on that robin williams dvd, when anthrax was the big scare:

-everybodies running around being scared of anthrax-
Then Kieth sniffs a whole line of it, laughs and goes-
'Anthrax..cool. Well, it doesn't go with cola..'

Lol

[Ben Harmless]

This is the best picture I could find of this, but as the story goes, this is a Fender rep, and he's standing on a Fender neck...

[john s]

This Pic Says It All....!

[Lost_N_Austin]

His drummer fell asleep at the wheel sending him and band mates rolling over at sixty-five miles an hour, finally landing upside down on the shoulder of the highway. His prized ’87 Bahama green Fender Strat landed in the median about a hundred yards from the wreckage. When Heatherly finally crawled out from the demolished Chevy Suburban, he ran to his workhorse guitar, pulled it out of the splintered hard shell case and strummed a chord expecting the worst. "I could not believe my ears," Heatherly says, "My hands were all bloody and I was dizzy and dazed but my Strat comforted me when I strummed that G chord and she still played in tune! I’ll keep her ’til the day I die." :D :D :D

[Roli]

Originally Posted by john s

This Pic Says It All....!

Hell yeah, the pic says that jockeys are on a hard diet.