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    Hey Vood, how come you got away from the original 6 saddle bridge ?
    Pros/cons ?
    I've always thought I would leave my Nash bone stock but I could be persuaded.

    thanks

    Ted

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    DVM, I was curious about that too. I have the three saddle set up and I was thinking that setting intonation would be difficult since two strings occupy one saddle.

    This being new to me, I was curious if I was missing something.
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    Hit the TDPRI forums and search for three compensated saddle. You will find more information than you ever cared to know. Many will claim that it can't be a Tele without it. I'm not smart enough to know the difference, but then again my favorite bridges are made by a guy named Floyd.
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    Quote Originally Posted by marnold
    Hit the TDPRI forums and search for three compensated saddle. You will find more information than you ever cared to know. Many will claim that it can't be a Tele without it. I'm not smart enough to know the difference, but then again my favorite bridges are made by a guy named Floyd.
    Thanks. You guys throw stuff out like TDPRI and other terms and/or places and I am clueless. However, I Googled and found it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by just strum
    Thanks. You guys throw stuff out like TDPRI and other terms and/or places and I am clueless. However, I Googled and found it.
    Good call. Sorry. For future visitors to this thread, this is the TDPRI.
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    Quote Originally Posted by marnold
    Good call. Sorry. For future visitors to this thread, this is the TDPRI.
    No need to be sorry, but if you haven't heard I've been living in a cave the last few years. I get on here and people talk about product and use terminology I never heard of, but that's why I'm here - to learn and be motivated. Oh, and have fun.:
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    Only 3 barrels for me,but im OG like that
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    Quote Originally Posted by mrmudcat
    Only 3 barrels for me,but im OG like that
    see someone did it again, gotta go Google.
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    Quote Originally Posted by marnold
    Good call. Sorry. For future visitors to this thread, this is the TDPRI.
    Believe it or not, you can also get there via: http://www.telecaster.com

    It's such a better URL, I can't understand why they don't use it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ted s
    Hey Vood, how come you got away from the original 6 saddle bridge ?
    Pros/cons ?
    I've always thought I would leave my Nash bone stock but I could be persuaded.

    thanks

    Ted
    Quote Originally Posted by just strum
    DVM, I was curious about that too. I have the three saddle set up and I was thinking that setting intonation would be difficult since two strings occupy one saddle.

    This being new to me, I was curious if I was missing something.
    Just a matter of personal preference, really. I always liked that classic & distinctive Tele 3-saddle bridge look, and the brass saddles do give a slightly rounder tone to take a little harshness off the edge of the Tele twang, esp. on the bridge p'up. I went with compensated saddles specifically because of the potential intonation issue, and they seem to address it pretty well; not quite dead-solid-perfect intonation by tuner measurement, but certainly close enough by ear for my modest needs and the type of music I play. Heck, if it was good enough for titans like Roy Buchanan, James Burton, Albert Collins, Danny Gatton and countless others, it's good enough for the likes of me!
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    Ugly...?

    Beautiful...?

    Hang one around your neck, plug it into a good tube amp...

    ...and let your ears decide...:

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    I never really liked or hated them.
    Whenever I saw someone else playing one it was "oh, so and so plays a tele"
    and I never gave it much more thought.
    Then I played one myself and I'm hooked!
    My cheapest guitar is now my "go to" that I find myself playing all the time.
    I can't explain it, it just IS.
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    Before I got my Tele I was convinced I was going to get a Strat. I went in one day and A-B'd a bunch with no wow factor, then I tried my Tele.. Like Eric said, it just is.

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    Just so the newcomers know, the butt-ugly comment wasn't done in a serious manner. Those that found the guitar unappealing and weren't drawn in commented about it being unattractive. Eventually it was commented that they are butt-ugly, but the desire to get one grows on you.

    Now as for the Tele body style, I am surprised how comfortable it feels. I thought it would feel uncomfortable or awkward when compared to my other guitars, especially the Strat. I still feel it's a fun guitar and I grow comfortable in using the sound to it's fullest I see no reason to feel positive about it. Someday I may feel so positive I'll splurge on a G&L, but that's a long ways off.
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    This is the closest I have come to a tele. It was the Fender Tele FMT HH in Black Cherryburst. It was a sweet looking guitar Set neck with a 15 inch radius, medium jumbo frets, and two hbs with a push pull pot for single coil or hb modes. It was very light and very thin and was almost toylike. I eventually traded up to a 50 Anniversary Deluxe Strat. It was a very pretty color though.
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    Quote Originally Posted by wingsdad
    That's what early Tele players said, so they created the Strat. And added a 2nd cutaway, a 3rd pickup, more tone control and the misnomered but effectively revolutionary 'tremolo' integrated with bridge system.
    That must be why I love Strats so much. Only thing is that you don't get the same sounds out of a traditional Strat as you do on a Tele with the 2 pup combo, vintage bridge and string through back design on an ash body. Well you could but you'd have to modify a hardtail ash Strat I suppose.
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    Have you ever purchased a car and then suddenly you seem to notice that make and model everywhere.

    Same is happening with the Tele. I hear more people talk about them, meeting more people that own them or hope to someday. The other day I received my copy of Guitar Player and read an article about stomp boxes. Today I was sitting at the kitchen table and grab something to eat. I grab that same mag and notice on the cover "Twang Seminar - Learn Some Burnin' Hot Tele Licks" Short history about the guitar and then lessons from various artists.

    Here's a little something from the website.

    http://truefiretv.com/index.html?req...twang/dbtintro
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    Teles - I love 'em. Funny thing is, I didn't appreciate how cool they were until a few years ago. Up until that point, it was all pointy guitars and tons of distortion all the time.

    I guess I've matured a bit as a player. There's something about the design and the inherent "Tele-tone" that speaks to me. I also have fun playing Teles every time I pick one up.

    Now if I could make one speak like Danny Gatton that would be something!:
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    Quote Originally Posted by Katastrophe

    Now if I could make one speak like Danny Gatton that would be something!:
    Here's a start

    http://guitarplayer.com/article/10-t...u/Oct-07/31617
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