If Blackmachine made vintage Teles?...

[AndyR]

Hmmm...

:lol:

[impossible]

I like the concept but I think it's a bit TOO thin. Perhaps the neck could be thinner, taking the heel with it, as well as leaving *some* wood on the body so the neck pocket doesn't look so fragile.

The head is properly nasty, and I am someone who has very little aesthetic sense when designing guitar heads. My response to most new shapes is "oh yeah, that is different, well the strings still work so whatever".

So basically I would get a regular Tele and shave 5-10mm off the body :D

[BigB]

ISo basically I would get a regular Tele and shave 5-10mm off the body :D

Please leave my Tele body alone. It's perfect as is. Thanks.

[Twinfan]

So little wood between the neck plate and the neck - I would n't like to let it fall over (visions of SG type neck break).

Great point.  It really is a neck break waiting to happen...

[WezV]

here is one of the top twenty's i had, body was about 1" thick and looked just like that tele around the neck join




and yes, cracks around the neck join was a problem

[dheim]

oh my god, wez, what was that thing?

[WezV]

a very very cheap tesico made to be sold in woolworths under the 'top twenty' brand in the 70's.  i had two ot them when i was still into buying really cheap guitars to rip apart

that one actually got sold to a guy in northern ireland who had the same one when he was a kid.  He told me he was mates with gary moore and he used to play on it occasionally  - who knows :D



the point was - its exactly what that thin bodied tele made me think of, black machines never did that. 

[dheim]

a real nightmare. but i love that tesico bridge! seriously.  :)

[Philly Q]

Guys, isn't it Teisco, not Tesico?  :?

[impossible]

That whole guitar looks like it's made from lego or something!

I think it is Teisco not Tesico but to be fair I did just typo it "Tesico" twice and "Tesica" once. :P

[AndyR]

We just called them Woolworths guitars. :lol:

I remember drooling over one when I was young (never got as far as touching it though).

My Dad bought the amp that was always near them. That was a FABULOUS amp, he just didn't know (or value) what it could do. Plug in the second socket, turn the volume up full, it was instant Rolling Stones or Faces or Free, or ... all those tones ... with no pedals ... at just over living room volume (I'm sure it was quieter than my AC4TV is, or maybe I'm just getting old).

I tried for years to get that thing off of him (now-a-days I could afford to just get him a decent tranny amp and say "give me that old thing Dad", but back then I was a penniless turd). Anyway, I was horrified to find out that he gave it to some drug-addled twerp he met through church work some years ago, who managed to destroy it while "fixing" it.

[phlip]

My first guitar was a Woolies special like that but in a burst style colour. It was hideous, but better than no guitar at all I guess....

[dheim]

i was a very lucky guy.
when i told my parents that i'd have loved to play electric guitar they came up with an awful classical (worth 50000 ITL, today's 25€, but i'm talking about 1987, i think)... when i finally convinced them that an actual electric guitar could save me from drugs, unemployment and international terrorism (and not mentioning the obvious Satan worshipping that would have followed as a direct consequence), they bought me a used but nice Fender Stratocaster made in USA. cream with maple fingerboard. very hendrix. but we're talking about '92, and before that i was trying to play heavy metal (and to worship Satan) on one single nylon string at the time, using my first finger and with an absolutely free tuning (i had no idea of how the bar-steward was supposed to be tuned and, er... i followed a very personal method to do it).
it' fun to be 15, with no friend even loosely interested in music. and a pair of parents that would have better seen me with a kalashnikov rather than a guitar! :)

anyway when i finally understood how the guitar thing actually worked (gosh! that's why guitarists in music videos looked definitely different from my playing style!) i had a real guitar to learn on. also we had no pawnshop in italy, otherwise i believe my dad would have bought me one of those.

[Philosoful]

Blackmachine did a Tele shape, I'm sure he'd make one if you asked, there's a photo somewhere of a girl holding a Blackmachine tele. Jamie of Diezel UK has one too, might be the same one, I've actually played it when trying Diezels! It ruled...

[Tellboy]

So little wood between the neck plate and the neck - I would n't like to let it fall over (visions of SG type neck break).

Hmmm ...... looks like they had already noticed that too and stuck an aluminium plate inside  :)
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