What do you get when you cross a Tele with a Strat?

Brutalblues · August 12th, 2003, 06:34 PM

Here's another one of those "everything to everybody" kinda deals...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...category=38083
Wierd, ain't it?

jimmiboots · August 12th, 2003, 06:37 PM

It looks pretty well done, but I'd have left the bridge pickup alone...

Raymond · August 12th, 2003, 09:40 PM

Maybe I'm to conservative, but I just don't like the "other" fender guitar getting in the way of a Tele...
If I recall correctly, I think Fuzzy just built one himself recently....

nasonm · August 13th, 2003, 11:59 AM

Both scares and interests me!
Hmmm, how could I utilize such a strange configuration?

eryque · August 13th, 2003, 12:29 PM

i don't mind it so much. it still looks like a tele, just a little more comfy to some folks. it's still got the classic tele styling, and i think that's hard to beat.

as far as guitars go, i think there's great tools, tools, and ugly tools. this one's tools.

great tools is that 1950 broadcaster. tools is just about every other tele, including those with humbuckers or added middle pickups. this one's ugly tools. probably plays and sounds great, but they ruined the looks. that pickguard uglifies what's great about a tele, not because it's a half-strat shape, but because the lines are all wrong.

August 12th, 2003, 06:34 PM	#1 (permalink)
Brutalblues Tele-Afflicted Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: New Jersey, USA Posts: 1,122	What do you get when you cross a Tele with a Strat? Here's another one of those "everything to everybody" kinda deals...http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...category=38083 Wierd, ain't it?

August 12th, 2003, 06:37 PM	#2 (permalink)
jimmiboots Tele-Meister Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Jacksnoville/RIVERSIDE Posts: 361	I like it.... It looks pretty well done, but I'd have left the bridge pickup alone... __________________ "BoJack, Wrist Wrap. Wrist wrap, BoJack."

August 12th, 2003, 09:40 PM	#3 (permalink)
Raymond Friend of Leo's Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Herndon, VA Posts: 2,417 3 Photos	Not for me! Maybe I'm to conservative, but I just don't like the "other" fender guitar getting in the way of a Tele... If I recall correctly, I think Fuzzy just built one himself recently.... __________________ "That's a hard pill to swallow, buddy; when you find out what the blues is all about"

August 13th, 2003, 11:59 AM	#4 (permalink)
nasonm Tele-Afflicted Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Bangor, Maine Age: 31 Posts: 1,690 16 Photos	The three knob control plate..... Both scares and interests me! Hmmm, how could I utilize such a strange configuration? __________________ "i have learned to just grit my teeth, change the subject, consider their deep total ignorance, fondle the thumb picks in my pocket and go on my way" - bender-freak It's been lonely in the saddle since my horse died

August 13th, 2003, 12:29 PM	#5 (permalink)
eryque Poster Extraordinaire Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: albany, ny [not chicago] Posts: 7,090 44 Photos	i don't mind it so much. it still looks like a tele, just a little more comfy to some folks. it's still got the classic tele styling, and i think that's hard to beat. as far as guitars go, i think there's great tools, tools, and ugly tools. this one's tools. great tools is that 1950 broadcaster. tools is just about every other tele, including those with humbuckers or added middle pickups. this one's ugly tools. probably plays and sounds great, but they ruined the looks. that pickguard uglifies what's great about a tele, not because it's a half-strat shape, but because the lines are all wrong.