Question: Hey guys, anyone have a pine bodied Tele?

I have one that I built myself. I bought the unfinished body on ebay, sanded it by hand, and finished in with Tru Oil. It has a set of Bill Lawrence Keystones in it. The body is lighter than my alder Tele and dents more easily. But I like it a lot. I plan to build another at some point.
 
my primary stage guitar is pine with a carved maple top. get compliments on its tone quite often from sound guys, guitarists in the audience, etc. its my only telecaster so i can't easily compare its pros/cons to traditional tele bodies made of ash or alder.
 
I have one. It’s probably the guitar I play the least. Even with a full upgrade on electronics and hardware it doesn’t get the job done.
 
We've made some pine bodies at the shop recently. I like 'em. Nice and light, reasonably attractive grain, and no complaints about the tone. Yeah, the wood is a bit softer than most other woods and will get dinged up a bit, but how many Ibanez basswood guitars are out there that are still killing it with some battle wounds?
 
Kerouac said:
We've made some pine bodies at the shop recently. I like 'em. Nice and light, reasonably attractive grain, and no complaints about the tone. Yeah, the wood is a bit softer than most other woods and will get dinged up a bit, but how many Ibanez basswood guitars are out there that are still killing it with some battle wounds?
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The battle wounds won't be an issue here. Considering the pickups going into it. I might as well upgrade the body wood.
 
Every pine Tele I've played has a sweetness in the midrange I definitely like. It's not as flat as alder, tonally. I'd rock a pine Tele if I had the money to get one.
 
Mark Wein said:
I nicely made pine guitar might be really nice but this one is a $300 MIC Squier.
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I do idly wonder sometimes what it is that makes the difference. By the time you've changed the hardware and the electronics, you're pretty much down to unsatisfactory tree-woods and/or the SUPER THICK layer of plasticising gloop they do on the Squiers.

(Other candidates -- trussrods of tonesuckium alloy, insolent fret-wire, deliberately broken CNC patterns, geopolitical anomalies -- don't really seem that tempting.)
 
go with a redwood body if you can find one .... they sing, they ring AND they ding

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While not a trad Tele, a friend of mine picked up a roasted pine Serus T. He said it is easily one of the most resonant and lively guitars he's had....and he has had a slew of Teles.

 
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