GuitarJim
TDPRI Member
My MIM Standard that I have had for the last 8 years. I try others but keep going back to my first...
JC
JC
If you could play only one Tele, what would it be?
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WaylonFan76
Poster Extraordinaire
My tricked out 52 AVRI ( SD, Duff, Glendale ).
bigp7099
Tele-Holic
Deluxe
paulitik
Tele-Meister
The black Baja I ordered over a week ago. Still waiting...
fjblair
Tele-Afflicted
If I could only keep one guitar, this would be it.
Wow that is beautiful! Give up some details please.
hwy145
Tele-Afflicted
AndrewG
Friend of Leo's
The Relic Nocaster I sold to pay the bills would be my first choice. Currently my Baja is favourite. My others are a 2001 AmSer and a 2011 MIM Standard.
Northerntele
Tele-Holic
A Sherwood green bound baja.
Radspin
Friend of Leo's
A real '63--like the one I owned and should never have sold back in the early '80s.
Yodhan
Tele-Meister
I really like my Classic 50's Esquire. I want to put some new tuners on it and maybe upgrade the pickup, but I like it more than my other two Teles
James J LaRue
Tele-Meister
If we're talkin only ONE TELE in a collection of various guitars, I'd probably go with something ultra-vintage and traditional, very "tele" sounding.
But if we're talkin ONE GUITAR that happens to be a tele...
Probably Warmoth. Ash body, probably blueburst or 2-tone tobacco burst. S/S (strat size) configuration with Wylde or Hotrails strat pickups (has to cover jangly cleans all the way through heavy gain, those style pickups, to me, are the best compromise between singles and hums) Pretty much standard 3 way, master tone/vol, but with coil splitter switch (or maybe series/parallel) for both PUs. Maybe some kinda goofy 5 way superswitch that does this without any mini toggles. Tele control plate but no pickguard. Kahler tremolo (vintage 80's style baseplate with brass rollers) set up for "down only" (easily floatable with a minor allen adjustment, doublestop bends still work with this) Kahler recessed into body so no neck shims, no angled pocket.
Schaller strap locks.
22 fret Warmoth neck, maple/maple quartersawn, Thick U, forgot what they call it. Headstock-side truss adjustment. Kahler stringlock behind nut, so no trees needed. not sure which tuners. Compound radius, 6105 frets. vintage tint oil finish. standard black dots. Earvana compensated nut. perhaps metal inserts with bolts instead of neck screws.
With a good treble bleed cap on the volume pot, I would think this guitar would cover all kinds of country, blues, fusion, rock, jazz, funk, shred, rhythm & blues/motown, metal.
But then, if we're just talkin pure tele...I'd probably go with tobacco burst or butterscotch, black guard, maple neck, noiseless version of vintage-sounding pickups. 3-compensated saddles, otherwise '52 specs for the most part. nothing too crazy.
But if we're talkin ONE GUITAR that happens to be a tele...
Probably Warmoth. Ash body, probably blueburst or 2-tone tobacco burst. S/S (strat size) configuration with Wylde or Hotrails strat pickups (has to cover jangly cleans all the way through heavy gain, those style pickups, to me, are the best compromise between singles and hums) Pretty much standard 3 way, master tone/vol, but with coil splitter switch (or maybe series/parallel) for both PUs. Maybe some kinda goofy 5 way superswitch that does this without any mini toggles. Tele control plate but no pickguard. Kahler tremolo (vintage 80's style baseplate with brass rollers) set up for "down only" (easily floatable with a minor allen adjustment, doublestop bends still work with this) Kahler recessed into body so no neck shims, no angled pocket.
Schaller strap locks.
22 fret Warmoth neck, maple/maple quartersawn, Thick U, forgot what they call it. Headstock-side truss adjustment. Kahler stringlock behind nut, so no trees needed. not sure which tuners. Compound radius, 6105 frets. vintage tint oil finish. standard black dots. Earvana compensated nut. perhaps metal inserts with bolts instead of neck screws.
With a good treble bleed cap on the volume pot, I would think this guitar would cover all kinds of country, blues, fusion, rock, jazz, funk, shred, rhythm & blues/motown, metal.
But then, if we're just talkin pure tele...I'd probably go with tobacco burst or butterscotch, black guard, maple neck, noiseless version of vintage-sounding pickups. 3-compensated saddles, otherwise '52 specs for the most part. nothing too crazy.
backalleyblues
Friend of Leo's
Of all the guitars I've had, probably my original telly, a '67 that had been hacked to bits long before I got it...
Current guitars would be my '83 telly that I've had since new, and has been played on a bunch of records, and over 1,000 gigs... still comes out on the big gigs and recording, but stays home and relaxes when I play bar gigs...
Franc Robert
Current guitars would be my '83 telly that I've had since new, and has been played on a bunch of records, and over 1,000 gigs... still comes out on the big gigs and recording, but stays home and relaxes when I play bar gigs...
Franc Robert
KC
Poster Extraordinaire
I was up to 5 at one point, down to one now: 69 thinline RI with a big fat neck, Lollar / GVCG pickups and 250k pots. Sold some "better" ones but this one does it for me.
fezz parka
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Any one of these:
Stubee
Doctor of Teleocity
My AV62RI Custom. I love it.
Big L
Tele-Meister
Gotta go with the CV50
if I could play only one Tele, which one would it be?
Why, the one in my hands, of course.
So long as I can play the one in my hands, I do not care if I can play the one next to my feet.
Why, the one in my hands, of course.
So long as I can play the one in my hands, I do not care if I can play the one next to my feet.
