Forgot how much I love Teles, AKA Tele Appreciation Thread

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Post by Tweedledee » Mon Mar 19, 2012 5:23 am

I just finished this one: :)

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And here it is with my other "Tele"

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Post by BlixaFan » Mon Mar 19, 2012 7:39 pm

i've generally only ever liked Tele Deluxes, but damn i love Bertrand Cantat's tele
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Post by Empty Hills » Mon Mar 19, 2012 10:14 pm

gah, I want another Tele. I'm totally okay with having traded my old nice one for the '65 Jazzmaster, but now I have a big gap. MOAR TELE!

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Post by s_mcsleazy » Fri Mar 30, 2012 8:06 am

i just took some pictures of my beat up squier tele. its quite photogenic and a real workhorse.
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Post by Dok » Sat Mar 31, 2012 7:07 pm

s_mcsleazy wrote:i just took some pictures of my beat up squier tele. its quite photogenic and a real workhorse.
Do we get to see them?
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Post by lastlol » Sun Apr 01, 2012 9:52 pm

My Tele family
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USA Custom Guitars Tele with Mare pickups lacquered and built by a luthier, home built baritone Tele (Mighty Mite body, Allparts neck), MIM Tele Deluxe with original WRHB in the neck and Lollar Regal in the bridge position, and 1975 Tele with Joe Barden bridge pup and Don Mare neck pup (waiting for the Barden neck pup).

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Post by natthu » Sun Apr 01, 2012 11:44 pm

I've been mucking around with several different layouts and colour schemes for this one for a while now... but I finally think I'm happy with it.
Fender Highway One Body and Neck, Seymour Duncan Hotrails in both neck and bridge positions, Volume with no tone, 3-way toggle switch, Etched Bakelite Pickguard.
I had a Gibson LP I just couldn't get along with (I'm a Fender guy through and through) so I ditched it and assembled this Tele to replace it.
Of course, it's not the same thing as an LP, but for my purposes it's close enough. It's pretty grunty and you can get it to scream if need be...

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Post by s_mcsleazy » Mon Apr 02, 2012 4:09 am

Dokterrock wrote:
s_mcsleazy wrote:i just took some pictures of my beat up squier tele. its quite photogenic and a real workhorse.
Do we get to see them?
aye sure. here we go.
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Post by FancyMike » Mon Apr 02, 2012 8:51 am

lastlol wrote:My Tele family
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USA Custom Guitars Tele with Mare pickups lacquered and built by a luthier, home built baritone Tele (Mighty Mite body, Allparts neck), MIM Tele Deluxe with original WRHB in the neck and Lollar Regal in the bridge position, and 1975 Tele with Joe Barden bridge pup and Don Mare neck pup (waiting for the Barden neck pup).
Love that baritone. I've been thinking real hard about building myself a baritone tele lately.

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Post by magnificent studios » Mon Nov 12, 2012 7:02 am

Parts Tele:

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Squier Affinity body, pickguard, and control plate. 2009 MIM Strat neck, GFS vintage pickups, non-stock top load bridge. 2 CTS volume pots, no pickup selector switch.

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Post by 22danielp » Tue Dec 18, 2012 5:30 pm

I don't think i've ever posted on this thread before...
Here are my 2 Teles...

1. Fender Telecaster
- Ash body from a Baja Tele and a '69 RI Thinline neck
- '69 RI Thinline hardware
- Lollar VIntage T pickups
- CTS 250k pots with a greasebucket tone circuit (love those things)

This is my dream Tele, I tried to make it look like a 1969 (ish) one...
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2. Fender Telecaster Deluxe
- Lollar Regal WRHB pickups
- CTS 1Meg pots with greasebucket tone circuits

This is so F##KING loud as compared to my other guitars, but I usually run a compressor anyway, so it's alright. Those Regals are just amazing too... cost me $400, but they're worth it.
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Post by Dan. » Sun Dec 23, 2012 5:56 pm

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My tele is by far my favourite guitar. Weedy, compared to my Jag or PRS, but man, she can play.
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Re: Forgot how much I love Teles, AKA Tele Appreciation Thre

Post by Ex Lion Tamer » Sun Dec 23, 2012 6:53 pm

22danielp wrote:I don't think i've ever posted on this thread before...
Here are my 2 Teles...

1. Fender Telecaster
- Ash body from a Baja Tele and a '69 RI Thinline neck
- '69 RI Thinline hardware
- Lollar VIntage T pickups
- CTS 250k pots with a greasebucket tone circuit (love those things)

This is my dream Tele, I tried to make it look like a 1969 (ish) one...
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2. Fender Telecaster Deluxe
- Lollar Regal WRHB pickups
- CTS 1Meg pots with greasebucket tone circuits

This is so F##KING loud as compared to my other guitars, but I usually run a compressor anyway, so it's alright. Those Regals are just amazing too... cost me $400, but they're worth it.
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Nice guitars! I have a regal on the neck position of my MIJ telecaster custom, and I agree, that pup is amazing. I'm thinking of getting either a tele deluxe or a 72 thinline and modding it with regals.

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Post by Cameage » Mon Dec 24, 2012 6:41 am

My 2012 AmStd.

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Got it used, got it mint, it's definitely the nicest guitar I own (though not my favorite, that'd be my LP Classic or LP Studio 60's Tribute).
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Post by garyptaszek » Mon Dec 24, 2012 7:49 am

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