Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Guitars, Amps and Effects => Topic started by: badgermark on February 12, 2008, 12:58:00 PM
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Booya! After deciding Strats weren't for me and I have a love of telecasters I bought a MIM Tele and attacked it with a hand drill. Voila, one Holydiver later and it rocks like a beast. Two volume controls, a 500k for the HD and a 250 for the stock single. Neck pickup will either get BKP'ed or ripped out to make an uber-sexy Esquire.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v148/unsubtle57/12022008.jpg)
And it's opposite together. Racial harmony at it's finest.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v148/unsubtle57/12022008001.jpg)
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Nice one!
Love the two Teles next to each other. Looovely.
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Nice one mate, looks great! I've been wondering whether I should do the same or get a fat strat...
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Well I love playing teles. The controls are in the perfect place for me and the body is surprisingly comfortable for a flat slab of wood. Very tempted to put a black scratchplate on it, not really a fan of the white, especially since the body and scratchplate are different shades of white...
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Nice tele!
Here's mine, though you might not like my control layout (I have none, just an empty plate with a mini toggle).
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v723/TwilightOdyssey/BMF%2007/Ben2.jpg)
It's a total hack job compared to yours, though!
Sorry you can't see the humbucker in the pick. PDT_008
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Looking good.There is something so right about Tele's-good honest no nonsense guitars that you can depend on.
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Looking good.There is something so right about Tele's-good honest no nonsense guitars that you can depend on.
Agreed!
Mine are all a bit swankier, with binding and stuff - but I didn't really plan it that way, I just sort of ended up with them somehow.
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Looking good.There is something so right about Tele's-good honest no nonsense guitars that you can depend on.
Agreed!
Mine are all a bit swankier, with binding and stuff - but I didn't really plan it that way, I just sort of ended up with them somehow.
Mmmm binding! I want a few more I think. Something with binding and a rosewood neck and Baja styled rock tele. Gar! It seems boring but me I'd be perfectly happy with a collection of teles. Oh and something like Jeff Beck's Duncan tele, standard tele with two humbuckers and contours.
That saying, I do miss having a strat to noodle around with, might stick one together when I can afford it. Gilmour's black strat with Apaches. Yum.
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that actually looks quite nice! did richie kotzen have a signature tele a bit like that a while back? (maybe japan only... maybe even currently!)
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that actually looks quite nice! did richie kotzen have a signature tele a bit like that a while back? (maybe japan only... maybe even currently!)
The Kotzen Tele's MIJ, but you can get them in Europe too:
http://www.thomann.de/gb/search_dir.html?sw=kotzen&x=13&y=7
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I always wanted a tele to mess around on, but keep getting caught up in Strats. If I were to get one, it would be like Bens. Metal!
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that actually looks quite nice! did richie kotzen have a signature tele a bit like that a while back? (maybe japan only... maybe even currently!)
The Kotzen Tele's MIJ, but you can get them in Europe too:
http://www.thomann.de/gb/search_dir.html?sw=kotzen&x=13&y=7
thanks philly. i have vague recollections of seeing kotzen in some advert with a tele with a bridge humbucker, though... maybe an older model? of course, it's entirely possible i just imagined it... :lol:
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Ronnie's tele ?
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thanks philly. i have vague recollections of seeing kotzen in some advert with a tele with a bridge humbucker, though... maybe an older model? of course, it's entirely possible i just imagined it... :lol:
You could be right - before he switched to Fender he was using Ibanez then Starfield guitars which were sort of Tele-shaped, some might have had HBs but I can't find any good pics. Even the Ibanez "Tele" on the cover of Electric Joy has single-coils.
I've got an old DiMarzio catalogue with a pic of him with a Starfield - but he's in a pool(!) and most of the guitar is underwater! (can't have done much for the pickups... :roll: ).
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it's entirely possible i'm wrong. :lol: lol at the pool pic too. :)
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stratocaster => super strat
telecaster => terrific tele ??
nice job with just a power drill :)
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stratocaster => super strat
telecaster => terrific tele ??
LOL
I would still quantify it it as a super strat, but that's just me.
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super strat tele? :twisted:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Robin-Tedley-Tele-Scalloped-Fingerboard-Made-in-USA_W0QQitemZ200194473720QQihZ010QQcategoryZ2384QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQ_trksidZp1638.m118.l1247QQcmdZViewItem
then of course :P
(http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j279/DakineTX/DSC01426.jpg)
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It's not too tidy under the plate, and there is a little bit around the edges. I blame Tim for that though, the pickup mounting bits are a lil bit wider than the Gotoh bridge. All in all a good job!
Anyone think a black scratchplate would be better than the white? I'm torn.
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would stick with white meeself.
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Anyone think a black scratchplate would be better than the white?
No, not with the white pickup. I'd keep the white scratchplate.
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But this look sexual Ignore the cat. Kisakae is so much fun.
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(http://bloggbilder.aftonbladet.se/images/6642/img_466c506a0fd6f.jpg)
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Not overly keen on the John 5 teles. I love the traditional tele control layout too much. Might also go for a humbucker or Mississippi Queen though, alas I have no money and the stock pickup is good enough.
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Jim Root, not John 5 :)
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Aghhh don't! PRS is enough to think about.
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Jim Root, not John 5 :)
Balls. I always mix those two. Was never a nu-metal fan. Pah both have humbuckered teles. At least mine is a proper bodge job, none of this swanky custom nonsense. Plus mine has a proper tele bridge plate and control lay out :P
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'proper' tele = ashtray bud, don't kid yaself :P
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'proper' tele = ashtray bud, don't kid yaself :P
Damn you. It's close enough!
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saves cutting ya right hand ta bits anywhoo :)