Will it Float??
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With apologies to David Letterman, and without the pretty models, here is the answer to the age old question: will it float? Thanks to a TDPRI member for the dedication to learning the truth about everything Telecaster for this useful bit of information. |
One stock 1970′s Telecaster:
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Hold it just over the water:
Gently it let go:
It starts floating away. Its headstock just under the water:
Now you know the rest of the story.Photos submitted by former member 0le Fuzzy |
The Question I want to know is “Will It Work” after it has floated in water????
oh my……
total sacrilege………….
Bad, Bad, Bad, Bad !!!!
Do you know how staving guitarists there are in the world!
Leo will not let you have another!
I dont want to put my tele on any form or body of water!!
Wrap it up, I’ll take it!!!
If it floats, then it’s a witch (Monty Python and the Holy Grail) watch out for the ignorant and intolerant might want to burn your baby at the stake. Float, Float on!
Logically, it would follow that Telecasters weigh the same as a duck.
can you play anything by the Drifters on it?
So when I am on a ship and it starts sinking, I can just keep holding my tele and i will be safe?
Wow i wish i was their cuz i would have stole the tele and ran!
Incredible. is there anything worth doing that a tele cant do?
I’m just shocked people had to learn the wood floats all over again. Was this really nessasary?
“In the event of a water landing, you’re Tele can be used as a flotation device”
For years I’ve heard Teles referred to as boat paddles…now I know why!
now plug’er in and test her out!
baptism
why oh why would you want to know if it floats?
My question is “Can you do a proper J-stroke with it while canoeing, or do you need to use alternate strokes instead?”
phew. I can sleep now that I know the answer.
I had my car stolen and they thief drove it into the river off a boat ramp. My tele and strat were in the back of the car and soaked in water for about 20 hours. I sent them to have a service by a well known luther and they are fine now. This happened in 1995 and I still have both.
That’s Hilarious!! Is there ANYTHING a tele CAN’T do?
I agree with “nastycanasta” above. We all know that wood floats (with a very few exceptions like ironwood). There isn’t much metal in a Tele to weight down the wood. And a weigh-scale and a couple of simple middle-school-level physics calculations would be enough to show that the weight of the metal in a Tele is not enough to overcome the buoyancy of the wood.
As nastycanasta said, was this senseless cruelty to a guitar really necessary? Why would anyone expose a vintage guitar (now 40 years old) to severe water damage to prove a point that didn’t need proving?
-Gnobuddy
It must have seemed like a good idea at the time, after too many beers at poolside. As well built as they are, I am sure no damage was done. Unless, of course, it was plugged in right after the short cruise.
What else floats in water?
A duck!
Very small rocks…
How about a vintage trolling motor on that vessel?
Once I saw mine *walk* on water.
This little test reminds me of the second-best musician joke I’ve heard:
Q: What do you do when your bass player has fallen into the pool?
A: Throw in his amp.
Peace – Deeve
cmon its only a 70′s model — cant hurt a tele anyhooo
That’s funny! When I went to the NAMM Show in Anaheim some years back, that’s the very same question I asked a man who made replicas of the Vox Phantom guitar, and shared one of our client-endorsees (I was in MI PR, then) as he was showing me his latest gold’n'cream, top-of-the-range, Brian Jones model…’I beg your pardon?’ he replied. ‘I said: “Does it float?”‘ He stared back at me blankly. For a moment, I thought I might just have stepped over that little line…but then finally, to my relief he laughed! ‘That’s very cruel,’ he told me with a smile. ‘Well’ I said, ‘you’ve got to ask…’