The Telecaster thread

[micwalt]

The Black Tele Brigade:
MIA Standard
Squier Custom II
MIM Nashville Deluxe
MIA Standard HS

 

[gtrjunior]

Here's my one and only:
2013 MIM FSR

The only mod I've done is replacing the saddles with a compensated set from Callaham and reversing the control plate.

 

[xStonr]

My first Tele now long gone. It was MIM but modded as you can see.

My 2 builds, The Tele Twins.

I gave one away and modded the other one. Which now has the black p/g back on it. Still in my possession.

This is the Nashville Tele I won from TDPRI. No mods but I"m thinking about getting a push/pull switch to get neck and bridge cause a Tele has to have neck and bridge tones.

 

[Dexter Inferno]

The Black Tele Brigade:
MIA Standard
Squier Custom II
MIM Nashville Deluxe
MIA Standard HS

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Can't believe you haven't changed the pickguard on the one on the left.

 

[jaxn slim]

Chad, who's going dictate the nomenclature so know what is and isn't a Tele?

I mean, these all work for me and so would Gordon's Yamaha Pacifica super-Tele (like this one):

...but I don't want to be wrong.

A proper tele has a three barrel vintage style bridge, two singles, and a maple fretboard.

 

[smurfco]

Here is one of mine

Another

And

 

[Peen Simmons]

nah, we're not that nitpicky.

You just wait until @Flamencology and @Kerouac get here.

 

[Dexter Inferno]

OMFG.

 

[Chad]

A proper tele has a three barrel vintage style bridge, two singles, and a maple fretboard.

The best Teles have 2 saddles

 

[Dexter Inferno]

The best Teles have 2 saddles

Considering a Mastery for my P90 Tele, when I get around to modding that.

 

[jelloman]

My limited and inauspicious history of the Telecaster...

Tele #1 (no pics) was a MIA Fender Telecaster, natural ash body with maple neck...had it for a few months, never played it, traded it on something I can't remember and probably no longer have...

Tele # 2 was a parts guitar, Red Dirt Guitarworks (no longer in business) ash body, MightyMite neck, GFS pickups...



...heavy as hell, sounded like crap...parted it out and sold it off...

Tele #3, the "Zemmycaster", another parts guitar, resulted from an aborted project for the late Zemmy, who died before I could finish it...



...also parted out and sold off, except the bridge...

"Tele" #4...



...finally, a "Tele" I like...

 

[Rick 381]

Here is one of mine

You still have it?!!

 

[Tig]

The trusty Squier CV 50's is still completely stock:

And the offset body Hell No. 2 with Bare Knuckles "Boss" pickups:

 

[telecaster911]

 

[micwalt]

Can't believe you haven't changed the pickguard on the one on the left.

Gotta have a little variation. And the Nashville is a tort.

 

[Chad]

Considering a Mastery for my P90 Tele, when I get around to modding that.

On my 2 Mastery guitars, they were built with Masteries so I don't know if it changed the tone. I am building something now that will have standard hardware that I will upgrade to Mastery somewhere down the road so I will be able to tell if it changes it.

 

[Flatspotter]

'52 Reissue

Warmoth Cabronita

 

[Dexter Inferno]

Gotta have a little variation. And the Nashville is a tort.

Oh, bummer.

 

[Deep Eddy]

I don't have a Tele, but I want to get a black double-bound body with maple neck and a B/W/B pickguard. I thought someone here in Weindom has one, but maybe I'm mistaken.

This isn't mine, but the middle one would be it.

 

[Dexter Inferno]

On my 2 Mastery guitars, they were built with Masteries so I don't know if it changed the tone. I am building something now that will have standard hardware that I will upgrade to Mastery somewhere down the road so I will be able to tell if it changes it.

You'd expect the bridge plates to be fairly interchangable with the "regular" ones though, in most cases. If not, let's drill.