Show us your Tele's

[Blast9]

Yes, improved tone, harmonics and sustain. I certainly found that to be the case.

Extra bonus: black saddles!

[tomdarude]

danocaster....that´s just wow!!! I only can imagine how she plays and sounds, but that´s one of the most beautiful guitars I have ever seen!!! sooooo jealous

Originally Posted by danocaster

wow... you resurrected an OLD thread !!

so here's my latest - and it's so killer that it's caused me sell nearly all of my other teles over the last few months

a real deal '56 tele - my desert island guitar - and the baddest tele I've ever held in my hands !!

I just re-fretted and plek'd it - and everybody who plays it just looks at me in disbelief

[aquay_s]

Originally Posted by Blast9

Have you considered graphtech saddles? They have lots of diffrent saddle types

oh great man!!! thanks alot for mentioning Graph tech. Now i had to see all the goodies they have to offer.... like ghost saddles... Damnit! now i have to save 300 bucks for a ghost system, cuz now i cant live without it after seeing it in action on youtube. soooo sweeeet! that is the best acoustic sound i've heard from an electric guitar.... and you can run it mixed with your normal pickups....
Graph Tech's ghost Pickup System Introduction - YouTube

[johndykstra]

Originally Posted by Jim Williams

Here's my "Let It Be" rosewood Telecaster. You can start drooling now.

I normally despise gold hardware. This is a rare exception where it works

[thezebralad]

Some absolutely stunning Teles on here! This is my humble offering - a '93 MIJ Squier Silver Series with Tobacco Sunburst finish and stock pick ups. Bought off the Bay for £285 around five years ago. I've got pretty small hands and short fingers so the thinner neck really helps and it plays beautifully. The stock pickups are pretty good too, the neck has a really 'dark' quality but the bridge is nice and bright as it should be in a Tele!

I was going to drop an SD Hot Rails in there since I play a lot of punk/90s emo but I found out that using a Big Muff and a Boss SD-1 in front of my Blackstar with Palmer cab/Greenback speaker gets me a tone I'm really happy with.

I wish I had more money and was in a band so I could justify more Teles! I want to get another MIJ and drop some fat humbuckers in it.

[3waytie4last]

MIJ '69 Thinline. Motor City Pickups "Detroiter" neck and Harmonic Design Super 90 bridge. 4-way switch added.

G&L ASAT Deluxe. Mahogany body w/maple cap. Ebony neck w/no fret markers. Sustainiac neck and Motor City Pickups "Detroiter" bridge pickups.

Fender Custom Shop 60s tele. Light relic, double bound.

[WKG]

Here's mine...

[crosscutred]

Here's one I made

[tstrahle]

Originally Posted by chetatkinsdiet

Here's all in one pic:

1st is a MIJ 62 RI Custom with a maple neck.
2nd is a real 69
3rd is a 52 RI
4th is a partscaster that I put together with mostly fender parts and antiquity pu's

Really Nice!

[psychedelictrip]

Picture is a little blurry, was too tired to set up a tripod. It's a Wildwood Fender '52 RI custom Telecaster. I love it. Maple boat neck(my big hands love it) and board, jumbo frets, CS pickups, ash body, thin skin nitrocellulose finish, 3 way switch.

[kennybro]

Probably put it up before, but it's my favorite. '59 Slab.

[Ragan]

RI 72 Tele Deluxe that I put P90s in. Nothin fancy but I really like this guitar.

[DerekJ]

2001 USA - Solid Ash. Added Bigsby, Joe Bardens (Nashville config), Klunsons. Amps are 1963 Vibroverb PTP copy & real deal 1962 Fender Deluxe.

[The Real MC]

"Parts" Tele I found in a store for $400. No serial anywhere, neck has a 1997 date and is from a 52 reissue (string tree is a giveaway). Bridge pup is a Texas Special, neck is a Jerry Donahue. Body had been crudely stripped but that butterscotch stain is stuck in the grain - kinda neat as a road worn mojo. The thing is featherlight at 6.9lbs and the body is very resonant. Neck plays like a dream. Middle position on pickup switch is a cool honky sound.

[Jules]

My Keith Richards Mcawber tribute guitar.

Blond Fender 50's Road Worn

+

Custom wound (Monty's) pick ups

+

Black reliced scratch guard

+

White Strat pick up selector


Plays great, still "new" for me.

[Arthur Stone]

Special Custom Tele FMT HH, made in Korea; great range of tone and comfortable to play. Seymour Duncan Pearly Gates (Bridge) and a '59 (Neck)...nice coil tap.

[erikdrink]

Great stuff!

[Travst]

Tweed and rattlesnake:

[dirtykeys]

my favorite guitar was a Fender HMT
seymour duncans (2) humbuckers
ive yet to find anything like it(even pictures)
...

[Brandon Krueger]

My Tele!

MIM Telecaster, with Seymour Duncan Antiquity II and an S1 routing switch. This thing is hot -- especially through my Blues Jr.

[Led]

'78 wine red transparent finish that is coming off a little here an there.
All stock. Should get a new bridge at some point. Heavy weight, sounds good.

[Inca]

Originally Posted by Arthur Stone

Attachment 300881

Special Custom Tele FMT HH, made in Korea; great range of tone and comfortable to play. Seymour Duncan Pearly Gates (Bridge) and a '59 (Neck)...nice coil tap.

I've got the same exact one!! Isn't is a sick guitar? I love the thing. Who would have thunk it. So many sounds out of that guitar and sounds great through so many different amps. It's awesome to be able to tap it too. It does play like a dream too.

[Arthur Stone]

Originally Posted by Inca

I've got the same exact one!! Isn't is a sick guitar? I love the thing. Who would have thunk it. So many sounds out of that guitar and sounds great through so many different amps. It's awesome to be able to tap it too. It does play like a dream too.

Glad to hear you struck gold too! I didn't want to harp on about how good it sounds as I suspect many of the Tele's on show here sound outstanding...but it just blew me away. I wrote a review here: Fender Special Edition Custom Telecaster FMT HH
I'm not a particularly competent guitarist but the FMT is the best guitar I've ever played...both for comfort/playability and sound. The guy in the guitar shop said they were sad to see it go...this time I believed him.

[Musiclab]

here's a not so great pic of my GCustom Tele w Fralin PUPs and Earvana nut

[Inca]

Originally Posted by Arthur Stone

Glad to hear you struck gold too! I didn't want to harp on about how good it sounds as I suspect many of the Tele's on show here sound outstanding...but it just blew me away. I wrote a review here: Fender Special Edition Custom Telecaster FMT HH
I'm not a particularly competent guitarist but the FMT is the best guitar I've ever played...both for comfort/playability and sound. The guy in the guitar shop said they were sad to see it go...this time I believed him.

Sweet review. I will check it out. I don't think Fender even makes that one anymore, which makes it even cooler to own. Rock on brother.

Peace.

[pan60]

Originally Posted by Jim Williams

Tele's are like potato chips, you can't just have one.
So many Telecasters, so little time!
Sometimes you need a darker tone

Amen!!!!!
One can never have to many tele's!!
i love love love em all: )

[bluzkat]

Okay, I'll play!


Here's my AV '62 RI that slowly worked its way to being my #1 (after playing Gibson's for forty plus years).

[MikeyOD]

1973 Tele

[Larry Mal]

Here are mine, both American Standards. The black has a lot of Hipshot stuff, a B bender, a G bender, and a bunch of drop tuners. With those I can get into open G tuning in a heartbeat, or that's the theory... in reality I spend a lot of time fine tuning this stuff.

Which is why the sunburst one was started to be outfitted with Hipshot stuff, but I stopped that project.

The black model has a Callaham bridge, which cost me $200, and it's worth every single penny. What a great bridge. You will go on the website, and see a lot of claims. They are all true.

[Ergo]

Originally Posted by Musiclab

here's a not so great pic of my GCustom Tele w Fralin PUPs and Earvana nut

How are you liking them pickups? Been thinking of pimping my MIM telecaster and I'm leaning towards Fralins.