Tele - Ugly or Beautiful?

[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

[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.

[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.

[just strum]

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.

[marnold***]

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.

[just strum]

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.:

[mrmudcat]

Only 3 barrels for me,but im OG like that

[just strum]

Only 3 barrels for me,but im OG like that

see someone did it again, gotta go Google.

[Brian Krashpad]

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.

[duhvoodooman***]

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

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!

[Bloozcat]

Ugly...?

Beautiful...?

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

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

[mechanic]

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.
Eric

[ted s]

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.

[just strum]

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.

[ZMAN]

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.
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...elefmthh-1.jpg

[Tone2TheBone]

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.

[just strum]

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

[Katastrophe]

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!:

[just strum]

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