Telecaster Vs Les Paul
- Thread starter MikeyisB999
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Which guitar are you talking about?
When I still had a Tele it was 7.5lbs.
My LP Classic is 7.25 lbs. For that matter my LP Classic Lite is a bit under 7.
Tele is like a boxer. A lean mean fighting machine without an ounce of fat. LP has more girth but not necessarily more power just thicker.You often hear that a good Les Paul is like a Tele on Steroids. Lets have a battle and see if that's the case.
ping-ping-clicka
Poster Extraordinaire
oh,oh, ohhhh, you bad! nice looking guitar. You got skills!
ping-ping-clicka
Poster Extraordinaire
nice work there, not your everyday tele type thingy sweet!
Skyhook
Tele-Afflicted
Nope! Those two are not gonna fight tonight! Not at my place they're not!
You need both really!
They're like a Phillips head and a flat head screwdriver. Ive got both of those in my toolbox, same as I've got both Tele and Les Paul working toward a common goal under the same roof here.
You need both really!
They're like a Phillips head and a flat head screwdriver. Ive got both of those in my toolbox, same as I've got both Tele and Les Paul working toward a common goal under the same roof here.
Some older guy handed me an expensive LP in a store in Jacksonville, FL. At arms length, so I wasn't expecting anything. The "Custom Shop" LP pulled me, and my buckling, no longer outstretched arm, and my whole body really, down to the (luckily plush) carpet. It must have weighed twenty pounds. I don't get this.
Some of the "Brass Era" guys were slow to change their opinions.
However I don't think a nine pound plus electric is an automatic no go. It just has to sound amazing, is all.
You often hear that a good Les Paul is like a Tele on Steroids. Lets have a battle and see if that's the case.
I have a different view. In fact I wrote these days on another thread, that I for many people (myself included) the Tele seems to be a perfect complement to the Les Paul.
I seem to notice there are really a bunch of guitarrists that use and/or combine both, and not only Jimmy Page would concur. Is the Tele sound more appealing than for instance the Strat sound to someone who plays also a Les Paul?
Dik Ellis
Tele-Holic
I have a CS Nocaster and a '79 Les Paul Custom. Love them both.
Chuck Stoat
TDPRI Member
It's easy to take this comparison a little too far I guess. But I played Strats all my life and then got a Les Paul and a Tele and I notice that I seem to "think" in a similar way when I play the LP and the Tele, whereas the Strat is different.
Interesting as I would think the scale length difference would make the LP the outlier, but not the case.
Interesting as I would think the scale length difference would make the LP the outlier, but not the case.
northernguitar
Poster Extraordinaire
Why would it break if the guitar is cared for?
ping-ping-clicka
Poster Extraordinaire
yeah you got a point there nothing like a beautiful L.P. Custom or a VINTUE s.g.
WITH THE HEAD SNAPPED OFF
TG
Doctor of Teleocity
ArdeliasTele
Tele-Meister
Buzzgrowl
Tele-Holic
You neend all three. A tele, a gold top with a wrap around bridge and p90s and a burst with pafs.
People say dumb **** all the time. You couldn't find two guitars that were more polar opposite.
vintagelove
Tele-Meister
Scale length + maple neck - way different top end/harmonics
