Potential Heresy: I don't like binding on telecasters...

bsman

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I always think of a telecaster as the ultimate utilitarian machine -- just what you need, nothing you don't. For some reason, when builders start gilding the lily, adding fancy accouterments that provide no performance enhancement just for the sake of style I find it rather jarring.

I vastly prefer this:

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Yeah, I've only recently come to accept this frilliness on a Tele, but ONLY with certain colors. Specifically, it's okay with Sonic Blue and Seafoam Green. My one concession to three color sunburst are two bound Teles:

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and

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And that's because they both have maple boards and sounded amazing...especially Andy's.
 
I understand the logic of the OP, but I still like bound Teles. I like rosewood Teles, too, even though that shouldn't work.
 
bsman said:
I always think of a telecaster as the ultimate utilitarian machine -- just what you need, nothing you don't. For some reason, when builders start gilding the lily, adding fancy accouterments that provide no performance enhancement just for the sake of style I find it rather jarring.

I vastly prefer this:

tele98-vi.jpg


750-TeleJ5SQGld_angle.jpg
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IMO, the relic process is just as unnecessary as binding and gold hardware.
 
bsman said:
I always think of a telecaster as the ultimate utilitarian machine -- just what you need, nothing you don't. For some reason, when builders start gilding the lily, adding fancy accouterments that provide no performance enhancement just for the sake of style I find it rather jarring.
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I remember reading an article with one Paul Reed Smith years ago wherein he stated that figured maple doesn't add anything to the sound of the guitar that plain maple doesn't. He even stated that plain maple may sound better, but guitarists are drawn to what they find aesthetically pleasing and lots of guitar players like the look of figured woods.

So one could argue that no matter which guitar you're talking about, anything but the basic materials fastened together is frivolous. Most of my favorite guitars have been bare bones aesthetically (not necessarily the ones that have or do own, mind you).

But, yeah, Leo nailed it with the butterscotch blackguard tele.
 
Help!I'maRock! said:
IMO, the relic process is just as unnecessary as binding and gold hardware.
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Don't know if that was reliced or a real, old guitar. I was just using it as an example of a strictly utilitarian tele (which of course it isn't if it was produced as a relic!)
 
I like Teles, with or without binding.
Maple board only, however.
 
double bound teles are super hot.

you just picked a really ugly example for the OP but the others in the thread are very fapworthy.
 
Like jelloman, I've given up on Teles. Having said that, though, if I played a Tele, either with or without binding is fine with me.
 
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