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  1. February 13th, 2007, 08:06 AM #1
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    So who makes that control plate? That is EXACTLY what I've been talking about.

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    Interesting, I've never had any problems with this myself. One of my students has strat, and he is constantly turning his volume knob down by accident - tragic to see!

    I love those chrome knobs on the Tele!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Robert
    Interesting, I've never had any problems with this myself. One of my students has strat, and he is constantly turning his volume knob down by accident - tragic to see!
    That's what torques me about the volume pot on my Charvel, although it's not as close as a Strat's is.
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    As far as I know, the main source of these control plates in Europe is Goeldo.

    The Greek distibutor of Goeldo's products is Stavros Ntukas: www.guitars.gr
    and the German main distributor is Rockinger: www.rockinger.de

    Unfortunatelly, as far as I know, they both don't sell overseas...

    Here is the page with Goeldo's other international retailers:
    http://www.goeldo.de/gshop.php?p=haendler

    Also, why don't you check out on Stew & Mac's site? Maybe they have something similar!
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    I just saw on Stew & Mac's site, that they sell only typical Tele control plates...
    http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Hardware...ol_Plates.html

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    fendermojoman must be onto something! The Squier Vintage Modified HS and HSS tele's have a flipped control panel too.
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    I would put the tone control a bit closer to the volume pot also..

    I still think that a strat's volume pot is easier to put your hands on and make quick changes, but last month I played my friend's strat (the first I play after probably 3 months) and I was hitting my hand on the volume pot all the time. The way my hand now rests on a tele makes it a bit more tricky to play a strat. the bridge pickup, so as the saddles are further away from the neck on the tele.
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    Smile Knob dodging

    I guess Fender thinks anyone who can shred faster than the speed of light,
    chicken pick behind their heads, palm mute the E-D-B string while bending the other
    3 simultaneously shouldn't have any problems dodging the volume knob!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    My favorite guitar is a Yamaha 302s, Yamaha's take on the Tele. It's the feel and the tone(s) of the guitar, of course, that are the main reasons I like it as much as I do, but I also prefer the Yamahas diagonal Strat-like (though just a three-way) pickup selector to the standard Tele vertical selector switch. Also, the volume knob's location makes it easy (ier) to do volume swells and final chord tremolos.
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