Fat Strat? PAH! Meet a Fat Tele...

[badgermark]

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.





And it's opposite together. Racial harmony at it's finest.

[sambo]

Nice one!

Love the two Teles next to each other. Looovely.

[Nolly]

Nice one mate, looks great! I've been wondering whether I should do the same or get a fat strat...

[badgermark]

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...

[TwilightOdyssey]

Nice tele!

Here's mine, though you might not like my control layout (I have none, just an empty plate with a mini toggle).



It's a total hack job compared to yours, though!

Sorry you can't see the humbucker in the pick. PDT_008

[38thBeatle]

Looking good.There is something so right about Tele's-good honest no nonsense guitars that you can depend on.

[Philly Q]

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.

[badgermark]

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.

[dave_mc]

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!)

[Philly Q]

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

[Stevepage]

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!

[dave_mc]

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:

[Dakine]

Ronnie's tele ?

[Philly Q]

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: ).

[dave_mc]

it's entirely possible i'm wrong.  :lol:  lol at the pool pic too. :)