NGD! Finally..

[AndyR]

OK I'll join in :D

I love LPs, Strats, Teles, SGs, Explorers (funny that, I have at least one of each!)

I can see how someone might think an LP is feminine, but for me it's the one with the least male/female character. It's more like a well made piece of furniture.

To look at, for me, the strat has the sexiest curves. But although I always think of guitars as "she", the strat never reminds me of a woman when I play it - it's more like a very well designed weapon that I have learnt to use and maintain, and that fits me like a glove.

SG I don't bond with so much, no real opinion on it.

Explorer, to me, feels like a great big version of the strat, I've got to be in the right mood, but in essence I feel the same when playing them.

But the tele... it actually feels like a woman when I'm playing it. Never as cuddly as it looks, has a wide range of voices (from shrill bitching to sultry, smokey, "come and get me" tones), is quite moody, doesn't always cooperate, but really rewards you when you put some effort in.

And I never see this "bulbous" thing Roo is always harping on about - I do see what you mean, but I always see the gorgeous curved line from the top bout through to the lower cutaway, there's one (very satisfying) continuous curve there.

[Philly Q]

And I never see this "bulbous" thing Roo is always harping on about - I do see what you mean, but I always see the gorgeous curved line from the top bout through to the lower cutaway, there's one (very satisfying) continuous curve there.

Exactly.  Leo Fender may have "just" been an accountant who turned his hand to electronics and guitars, but he had a hell of an eye for design. 

The shapes, lines and curves of the Strat and Tele are perfect, and - I don't care what anyone says - none of the later designs based on them* have improved on them in any way except tweaking the playability.

(* which, lest we forget, are all the bolt-on-neck solidbody guitars in existence. )

[TheDev01dOne]

I'm so glad like my first thread on here has been well recieved..

After 5 pages and like 3 days the honey moon period is over so..

Guitar still sounds great but definitely needs fiddling with the action and intonation some more. Could use a fret dress on the first 3 frets aswell as they have some deep gouges in there, I guess the previous owner did a lot of open chord work?

Have ordered a tophat switch tip and gonna swap the knobs for some flat top 60s style knobs to keep it looking more correct, I alredy have the knobs and the switch tip was like £1.50 so I figured why not. Might even splash out and get a 3 ply wbw pickguard for it, but I think it'll look stupid with a brand new shiny pickguard and I don't wanna buy one and then ruin it by relicing it or anything. Am undecided on that.

Apart from that minor stuff though it is a great guitar, different twangier tone to my other 2 esquires so very useable aswell.

[Kilby]

However, if you were to attribute the specific qualities of the LP to a woman, you would have the epitome of the female form and its inherent beauty.

In that case her arse is too fat.

I'm not getting into Freud or Jung thank you very much

[Roobubba]

  If you were to attribute the qualities of a telecaster to a woman, you would have, just as with the guitar itself, a very ungainly looking female. 

Exactly, for a start "her" breasts would be UPSIDE DOWN!

And I really don't see the relevance in the penis comment - in what way is, for example, the top horn of an Ibanez RG series ANYTHING like the male appendage? It just isn't.
I've no comment on strats, and no beef with Leo Fender other than the diabolical design of the telecaster, which is so utterly far from perfect it's untrue.

And in your comments answering my suggestion to change the bridge, headstock, control plate and top horn, you have just proven beyond all reasonable doubt that telecasters are in fact rubbish!

Just don't blame me when people come up to you and tell you that you look like a **** when you're playing ;)

Roo

[Jonny]

I say we cut the cr@p (not literally) and let's face it. We love women. And guitars. Whatever woman/guitar that may be.

Case closed!

[PhilKing]

Maybe I'm too literal, but the only guitar that reminds me of a woman is Manson's mermaid guitar!  I like my women to be able to bend and move - sex with a piece of wood went out many years ago. 

Having all sorts of guitars I've stayed out of this pointless argument.  If you restrict yourself to only some types of guitar, you are also restricting your tone.  Perhaps that doesn't matter because the guitar you like is perfect for the style you want to play, in which case that's great for you.  However, if you want to keep an open mind, then you should be willing to play anything to see what it gives you. 

And as for the argument of looking gay or a w**ker playing a tele - take a look at the 80's when everyone was playing superstrats and tell me people look good then!  I think if you look gay playing a tele or any other guitar, then that must be the look you are striving for.  Personally, the guitar I play doesn't do anything for my sexuality, it all comes from within, and since I am a pussy magnet, I can play anything I want!

[Will]

I am sure Jonathan will post his woman guitar soon

[WezV]

and since I am a pussy magnet, I can play anything I want!

well put phil :)

I like spangly guitars... and i am proud!

[sambo]

I've no comment on strats, and no beef with Leo Fender other than the diabolical design of the telecaster, which is so utterly far from perfect it's untrue.


Roo

You mean far from how your ideal guitar would look?

[opprobrium_9]

To look at, for me, the strat has the sexiest curves.

I would have to agree with you there, there is just something unexplainably perfect about those curves.

But the tele... it actually feels like a woman when I'm playing it. Never as cuddly as it looks, has a wide range of voices (from shrill bitching to sultry, smokey, "come and get me" tones), is quite moody, doesn't always cooperate, but really rewards you when you put some effort in.

That is an amusing and interesting interpertation, and even though i am generally opposed to Telecasters, it almost makes me want to try it out (and, who knows, i have some year ahead of me - i hope).

In that case her arse is too fat.

I love women with curvy bodies, not to mention a big ass here or there.  I am not in step with all of this super thin model celebrity bullshitee.  But this is a separate issue of course.

I've no comment on strats

Do you not like strats?  I mean for me the traditional strat could use some tweaking (especially that unsightly headstock) but generally i think, as i have said before it has some of the most beautiful curves of any guitar.

O, by the way, what is your favorite guitar type while we're at it?

And as for the argument of looking gay or a w**ker playing a tele - take a look at the 80's when everyone was playing superstrats and tell me people look good then!

LOL.  Yeah, i would not disagree with you on that one.  The 80's were fvcked except for some of the music produced, i generally think the 80's was a mistake, and if there is a god, i am sure he was laughing at humanity's folly and wanton idiocy.  However, *SOME* of the music, which given all music can be effectively taken out of materiality, can be seen as a thing, or the only thing, of good from that period.

However, unlike Roo, i do not think that a guitar determines one's sexuality.  I think Teles look queer as fvck, but i think it ends there.  People who play them, well that is their own business, though i don't think it necessarily looks good.  Though, I think the general garb of the 80's defiled the guitars those musicians used with the amount of gayness that they sported.

[AndyR]

I'm not sure Roo actually does think that a guitar determines one's sexuality (correct me if I'm wrong here Roo :lol:) - but then again, this general misapprehension is his own fault: the language he has used so far to express his disapprobation of the telecaster might well lead one to that conclusion. :D

[roland_rat]

Great looking set of guitars there.  Enjoy!

[AndyR]

I'm so glad like my first thread on here has been well recieved..

After 5 pages and like 3 days the honey moon period is over so..

Guitar still sounds great but definitely needs fiddling with the action and intonation some more. Could use a fret dress on the first 3 frets aswell as they have some deep gouges in there, I guess the previous owner did a lot of open chord work?

Have ordered a tophat switch tip and gonna swap the knobs for some flat top 60s style knobs to keep it looking more correct, I alredy have the knobs and the switch tip was like £1.50 so I figured why not. Might even splash out and get a 3 ply wbw pickguard for it, but I think it'll look stupid with a brand new shiny pickguard and I don't wanna buy one and then ruin it by relicing it or anything. Am undecided on that.

Apart from that minor stuff though it is a great guitar, different twangier tone to my other 2 esquires so very useable aswell.

Yeah, my first thread only got a couple of replies :lol:
Glad we've made you feel so welcome!

Good to hear it's bedding in nicely though - there's always that "have I really spent that money, and was I right?" period of doubt after the initial "oh yeah...", isn't there? :D

[WezV]

i think i like the squire best... beat up like a tele should be

Hi Wez, the black one in the middle is the one that I emailed you about the new nut and stuff fixing..

you know, somehow i missed this when the thread went way off topic.  Thats a cool looking esquire.  I'm a fan of esquires.  Years ago i built a tele kit that i later converted to a semi hollow esquire with a spalted maple top... it was a great little guitar after that conversion


although in the name of mucking about i did route it all out and put a resonator cone in it recently... never did finsih that little project