Show Us Your Black Teles With Rosewood Boards

[hooey]

87' MIA black on black (swapped out the white pickguard for black, ala Mellencamp!) This guitar has a great action.

 

[clydethecat]

i destroyed my buddy's american tele (black w rosewood board and snakeskin pickguard). i tried using his guitar as a template and my router slipped so many times it was toast. so now i'm trying to build him a special walnut tele to help stop his crying

Remind me to never loan you a guitar...

 

[jvin248]

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This is a Squier Tele Standard back when I was looking for an all-black theme (well, part of is I trade guitars and the highest selling guitar color is black so it's not too challenging to find them). Later on I realized how I just don't get along with skinny necks on the Squiers.

So this is the one that gets played all the time.
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A few things to keep in mind ... different woods on a neck will contribute to uneven humidity and temperature movements -- tuning instability and needed truss rod adjustments. Unfinished necks like rosewood are more susceptible to humidity changes where maple necks have a moisture resisting finish. And then you need to decide if you should create more demand for fragile rain forest lumber. Last three brand new factory guitars I bought came with maple necks.

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[Bob Womack]

Nuthin' fancy... 2013 American Standard Tele

It is getting a lot of business with me in the studio like the outro solo HERE. I've considered putting on a four ply pearloid pickguard for fun and a Gibson scale neck for comfort. I'm afraid to change the scale for fear of changing the sound, though.

Bob

 

[intensely calm]

Not a Fender, nor Squier... but a $75 black tele clone with rosewood, and a lotta love.
It plays better than I do - damn it.

 

[theprofessor]

Nuthin' fancy... 2013 American Standard Tele

It is getting a lot of business with me in the studio like the outro solo HERE. I've considered putting on a four ply pearloid pickguard for fun and a Gibson scale neck for comfort. I'm afraid to change the scale for fear of changing the sound, though.

Bob

Doesn't need to be fancy! And when you play like that, I don't think you should change anything. Not unless it's actually hurting your wrists and hands. Great work!

 

[Bob Womack]

Doesn't need to be fancy! And when you play like that, I don't think you should change anything. Not unless it's actually hurting your wrists and hands. Great work!

Thank you kindly, sir! BTW, I went to college up on Lookout Mountain.

Bob

 

[Guitarteach]

More Double bound with tort guards please....

 

[dannyh]

 

[MoHump]

My

very first good electric guitar, was a 1976 Tele. That was my only guitar for several years while I was playing bass. When I switched back to lead I invested in a deluxe with a maple board and noiseless pups. Looked nice but it didn't sound like a tele. In the meantime I traded the 76 for a 96 FotoFlame because it had the more comfortable body with both belly cut and arm rest. With an upgraded set of LACE pickups it had the tele sound just like my 76 did. Inscribed the pickguard myself.

 

[theprofessor]

Thank you kindly, sir! BTW, I went to college up on Lookout Mountain.

Bob

For real? Cool. I teach there.

 

[Bob Womack]

For real? Cool. I teach there.

Covenant? '75-'79.

Bob

 

[theprofessor]

Covenant? '75-'79.

Bob

Yes sir! You were there before my time.

 

[Big_Vig]

Here is a black with rosewood fingerboard Roncaster that I built in '93 with SD Trembuckers, custom circuitry with 1.5 H inductor and 0.04 uF cap and 500K pots, routed-out basswood body, roller bridge, weighs 7.4 lbs with Bigsby. Built two identical except the other used SD Hot Rails SC pickups on the one my son still has. Great playing guitars with perfect action and intonation, if I do say so myself.

 

[Bruxist]

Black with rw Esquire build for my boy (in progress).

I may paint the headstock to match and have been toying with the idea of hitting the body with some Duplicolor Effex.

 

[PigBoy]

Mr. Squires.

 

['58 Stiggs]

 

[Stax1]

Hi guys, long time lurker, new poster here - here's my Nash T63 tele - black, RW, black pickguard. Nash make great guitars!

 

[theprofessor]

Hi guys, long time lurker, new poster here - here's my Nash T63 tele - black, RW, black pickguard. Nash make great guitars!

Gorgeous! And welcome to the forum!

 

[henryp]

MIJ "50th Anniv" Teles.