Switching Guitars

[overdrive]

I am planning to buy a Gibson SG this summer. I've been playing a tele for about a year and I am used to playing it. When i go to try out the SG won't it feel wierd because I used to the tele. Then how am I suppost to know wether or not I like the guitars feel.
Is there any solution to this. Please Help!

[zepo]

The solution is to play around with it for about an hour in the store and then make up your mind if you like it or not. And an SG is just a pleasure to play.

[Raskolnikov]

The guitarist from Clutch goes back and forth between a Tele and an SG, I'm sure you can too. Both have great tones.

[PonyOne]

Funny this should be the issue... I own an SG and a Tele.

I've never had problems switching back and forth. The Tele has a nicer neck and the SG has a more accessable fretboard thanks to the double-cutaway body; physically, that's been the only issue.

They are most definitely two very different sounding instruments. Tele's tend to be higher pitched and twangier than SG's which are darker and get heavier distortion. My Tele is a 50th anniversary '52 Reissue Custom with a strat-style neck (it's one of a very limited amount made, i'm pretty sure under 100; real gold plated hardware, black w/gunmetal pearloid pickguard and binding) and the pickups were pecifically designed for this model to give a deeper tone than your average Tele, i don't know, maybe that has something to do with it. I tend to use the SG on the more heavy industrial style stuff we do and some of the hardcore as well, since that was more what it was intended for, and use the Tele for everything else. The Tele can still seriously crank though, and I've used it for the industrio-hardcore stuff as well; it gives it a very distinct sound over all the ESP's and LP's normally used for that stuff.

But it's still got 6 strings, still has a jack, and still has knobs and switches... you'll get the hang of it.

[Raskolnikov]

I saw a hardcore fest this weekend- I was amazed at the amount of Tele's I saw ripping it up. A lot of them were modified to have humbuckers, or shipped with stock ones, but they were a definate presance. Other than I saw a lot of Les Pauls and SG's. Of course a few off brands, odds and ends... an ESP Tele copy, you know how it works.

[PonyOne]

I've been thinking about getting a fat tele and putting in ome sort of supermetal pickup, but I'm looking more at guitars with bridge humbuckers at the moment. I'd actually like one of those double fat thinline tele's but don't feel like shelling out the $700 for one right now.

[Raskolnikov]

you can get a hot rails pickup that will fit in the bridge cavity of your tele. Also, you can get bridge plates that will accomodate humbuckers- then have it set up with a coil tap so you can still get a single coil sound. Though it won't sound like it does now. Have you checked under your pickguard? Their may all ready be loads of room for a neck humbucker.