indiobravo
Tele-Afflicted
i have never personally seen a tele with a snapped neck scar. i have seen very very many gibby snapped neck scars. teles are the toughest production electric guitar out there. period.
Timber...my Tele fell face down!
- Thread starter GregWV
- Start date
Twang Man
Tele-Holic
was the pedal ok?
GregWV
Tele-Meister
My Tim pedal survived. Paul builds 'em strong!
iowacarver
Tele-Meister
mimmo
Poster Extraordinaire
300 years from now after the nuclear holocaust or the comet hits all that will be left will cockroaches, Twinkies and Teles.
And Keef!
SackvilleDan
Tele-Holic
One day, my strap broke and my Tele fell to the floor.
It broke the floor.
The Telecaster is the Chuck Norris of the guitar world!
ricardo1912
Friend of Leo's
the hunting of the snark
"The rest of my speech" (he explained to his men)
"You shall hear when I've leisure to speak it.
But the Snark is at hand, let me tell you again!
'Tis your glorious duty to seek it!
"To seek it with thimbles, to seek it with care;
To pursue it with forks and hope;
To threaten its life with a railway-share;
To charm it with smiles and soap!
"For the Snark's a peculiar creature, that won't
Be caught in a commonplace way.
Do all that you know, and try all that you don't:
Not a chance must be wasted to-day!
Couldn't resist it! Good old Lewis Carroll
"The rest of my speech" (he explained to his men)
"You shall hear when I've leisure to speak it.
But the Snark is at hand, let me tell you again!
'Tis your glorious duty to seek it!
"To seek it with thimbles, to seek it with care;
To pursue it with forks and hope;
To threaten its life with a railway-share;
To charm it with smiles and soap!
"For the Snark's a peculiar creature, that won't
Be caught in a commonplace way.
Do all that you know, and try all that you don't:
Not a chance must be wasted to-day!
Couldn't resist it! Good old Lewis Carroll
Attachments
Phelonious Ponk
Tele-Afflicted
It's the plank, the ball bat and the huge wood screws, really. A tele is only marginally tougher than a Strat or jazz aster. But a LP, by contrast, is a girl. A fat girl. A hot, fat girl. Excuse me...gotta go shopping...
teleup
Tele-Holic
it was major surgery on that one.. the fret board de-lamated, the wood one the neck was splintered, very ugly but went back together fairly well, my bass player was super happy especially with the tone..I installed a black tusq nut so the bass was more "lively" sounding than before..it originally had a crappy black plastic one
teleup
Tele-Holic
I will say this, I`ve fixed a boatload of busted Gibon necks but never came across a broken Fender neck..gotta love hardrock maple
Yodhan
Tele-Meister
Played an outdoor festival show that was a train wreck of Greek tragedy proportions. Gear dying out, kick drum sliding around on the plastic coated stage, too much feedback because the sound guy was nowhere near the board. At the end of our set, I put my Esquire on my guitar stand so I could haul my amp of stage. Or at least I thought I got it on the stand. I missed completely and it fell over, skidding across the stage. Not a nick on it, but a scrape across the stage from my stamped Tele bridge. Served the stage right. Now I have a nick on the headstock that I can't place the cause of, but I really don't care. My guitar is a tank.
Bartholomew3
Friend of Leo's
Had a 12 string Fender electric solid-body in the sixties similar to a Jaguar, fell through a raised stage that drifted apart on a club gig - broke the 2 top E strings on the drummer's cymbal as I dropped out of sight.
Good chip out of the side of the fret-board but no damage that made any difference after I put a couple of new strings on.
Any time you can walk away it's a good thing...
Good chip out of the side of the fret-board but no damage that made any difference after I put a couple of new strings on.
Any time you can walk away it's a good thing...
xtrajerry
Doctor of Teleocity
J. Hayes
Friend of Leo's
Hey PS..........
at a gig recently I took two Teles, my regular B-bender and my '72 reissue Tele Deluxe. I'd brought a double guitar stand and put 'em both on that. I tuned up the Tele Deluxe first and put it back on the stand. I then picked up my bender Tele and the guitar strap caught on the piece of the stand that sticks out to brace the guitar. The stand went immediately over and the Deluxe went face first onto a concrete tiled floor with a loud smack... I thought it'd be trash but I picked it up and one of the four plactic knobs was broken and the D string was buzzing but other than that it'd survived... I'm glad I'm a Fender picker because if that'd been a Gibson Les Paul the headstock would've been broken off for sure............Here's a shot of the guitar which fell...........JH in Va.
at a gig recently I took two Teles, my regular B-bender and my '72 reissue Tele Deluxe. I'd brought a double guitar stand and put 'em both on that. I tuned up the Tele Deluxe first and put it back on the stand. I then picked up my bender Tele and the guitar strap caught on the piece of the stand that sticks out to brace the guitar. The stand went immediately over and the Deluxe went face first onto a concrete tiled floor with a loud smack... I thought it'd be trash but I picked it up and one of the four plactic knobs was broken and the D string was buzzing but other than that it'd survived... I'm glad I'm a Fender picker because if that'd been a Gibson Les Paul the headstock would've been broken off for sure............Here's a shot of the guitar which fell...........JH in Va.
Attachments
El Boricaster
TDPRI Member
Reviving this post almost a decade later because I cannot explain how my beloved MIM Tele, on which I’ve been learning setups, developing soldering skills, wiring and such, fell from my stand front faced to the floor and it barely laughed it off. Not a scratch, not a dent, no loose neck, no breaks; just detuned.
Had to check the guitar more than a couple of times because I just couldn’t believe it.
Had to check the guitar more than a couple of times because I just couldn’t believe it.
Wound_Up
Tele-Afflicted
You have my initials. Nice.
I had that happen with my Goldtop. The new style Schaller strap lock button with the built in screw unscrewed itself and I just happened to grab the guitar right as the strap let go so I avoided any damage since it didn't hit the floor. Talk about shocked!
Was the floor okay?
A tale of two Ibanez guitars:
Ibanez #1
I have a Roadstar II Strat copy that is my first guitar. Around 1991, I leaned it against a car (no case, I was a kid), and asi was unlocking the door the guitar slid down the car and slammed full force into the front of the guitar on concrete. I freaked out, but the only damage was road rash on the nut itself, though it did not break. This guitar has a long story (that I have told here before). A few years later I gave it to my brother, and a few years after that he did manage to break the neck on it. It had an Allparts neck for a decade, then my cousin/best friend got his hands on it. He knew it had sentimental value for me, so he found an original Ibanez neck that matched the body and gave it to me as a gift. So probly 20 years after I gave it away, it came home.
Ibanez #2:
A 'friend' bought one of the cheap 90s Ibanez EX series and learned to play on it. We were practicing to play at a high school pep rally when the singer moved the guitar amp that the EX was leaning against. The EX slid almost exactly like my Roadstar did and landed on its face. The headstock cracked. His dad later did a pretty competent job of gluing it back together, but it was a rough day, and the guitar was never the same.
No pics of that one.
Ibanez #1
I have a Roadstar II Strat copy that is my first guitar. Around 1991, I leaned it against a car (no case, I was a kid), and asi was unlocking the door the guitar slid down the car and slammed full force into the front of the guitar on concrete. I freaked out, but the only damage was road rash on the nut itself, though it did not break. This guitar has a long story (that I have told here before). A few years later I gave it to my brother, and a few years after that he did manage to break the neck on it. It had an Allparts neck for a decade, then my cousin/best friend got his hands on it. He knew it had sentimental value for me, so he found an original Ibanez neck that matched the body and gave it to me as a gift. So probly 20 years after I gave it away, it came home.
Ibanez #2:
A 'friend' bought one of the cheap 90s Ibanez EX series and learned to play on it. We were practicing to play at a high school pep rally when the singer moved the guitar amp that the EX was leaning against. The EX slid almost exactly like my Roadstar did and landed on its face. The headstock cracked. His dad later did a pretty competent job of gluing it back together, but it was a rough day, and the guitar was never the same.
No pics of that one.
archtop_fjk
Tele-Afflicted
Basses give you more leverage when you want a good smash…
Did it put the Tim pedal out of its misery?
