what about the telecaster

I hope to get to guitar center soon but until I do, what should I expect from the telecaster as far as uniqueness in sound and playability?

They are very nice breezy twangy sound.

If you like Fenders they are a nice choice.

Telcasters are the laid back, cooler, bothers of Stratocasters.

They dont have the punch as the strat, but they are very warm and mellow.

So are Tele's more expensive than Strats since they're probably not as common? Also, Do they have levels of quality like the Strats have (e.g. Mexican, Japanese, American)?

Originally Posted by: PonyOnethey generally cost within $50 or so dollars, up or down, from their comparable Strat cousins.

the nationality has little to do with quality. I prefer Japanese Teles to American ones 9 times out of 10. new, most of the Japanese Teles will be artist models.

they aren't as comfy to play or as graceful as a strat, but they have very endearing personalities and and a very distinct, twangy tone. very vintage sounding, but, they also have found use with the likes of Marilyn Manson, Fugazi and Filter as well as old standbys The Rolling Stones, Muddy Waters, and half of the 50's rockers.

You've gone over 2000.

Originally Posted by: PonyOneholy crap, you're right.

Perhaps we should post short quips for no apparent reason?

But I rule all of y'all in here...


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Well every 6-months to a year or as other mods leave, we discus the current state of the forum and ask people who we think would do a good job at moderating to take the wheal.

Both PRSPlayer and PonyOne have proved there metal on numerous occasions and are helpful, informative and have a habit of not not starting arguments with people.

I think they will both be excellent mods.

Originally Posted by: Dr_simonI think they will both be excellent mods.

What about meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!?

hahaha, I guess that may answer my own question...

[FONT=Georgia]Telecasters are smooth and easy playing guitars. My opinion they are a softer playing guitar then the stratocaster[/FONT]

yea I got to play a few at guitarcenter a couple days ago. One of them was not getting really any sustain or sensativity to my hammer-ons. It had 2 single-coil pickups and one of the managers thought I was crazy. Another one I played was awesome, 3 pickups, had some real "spank" in one of the employees words.

Also, I'm used to my epip so going to the bright maple top was exciting. I definitely want to get one in a few months.

I'm also going to get the 30W Line 6 spider II. That thing is amazing for your buck. $200, you get delay, chorus, flange, some others and great sound. Plus, there's a built in Distortion Boost and Noise Gate, and 4 preset buttons you can manually set.

Thank you for your post it was very very inciteful. So if I buy a Tele with HB's equipped like my epip, does that pretty much defeat the purpose of buying a Tele? Also, what's the main diff between the "nashville" Tele with 3 single coils and whatever the standard Strat w/3 single coil pickups as well? Also :P, is the Nashville used by many country bands as opposed to blues/rock guitarists or how is that distributed as far as who uses what?

WOOOOOHOOOOOO TELECASTERS RAWK!!!!....hence the name...

So Pony, I've gotten a lot of info since my last post, thanks for your posting as well. really helps to know as much as you can about a guitar before you really consider getting it.

So now, the low output metal, single-coil pickup I think is called a lipstick pickup. But since it has the low output on it, it's used for rhythm and the traditional bridge pickup is the lead pickup. I messed around on that Nashville like I said and it had that middle Strat pickup. Needless to say, now I really want a Nashville Tele :P. Although it's not going to have near the range of a strat, I'll still be able to get a strat sound with brilliant sounds at the bridge and neck characteristic of Tele's. Now all I need to do is wait out Guitar Center and see if I can get something like a used American made Nashville Tele for like $350 (and don't tell me better deals don't exist because I'll find them ;)). I'll probably wait till the end of summer to get a new guitar. Gosta save that $$$$

Originally Posted by: Tele MasterWOOOOOHOOOOOO TELECASTERS RAWK!!!!....hence the name...

they sure do, i recently got my telecaster, its my number 1 and i think it always will be

Originally Posted by: PonyOnewell, be sure to hit up mom and pop places, ebay, and if you live in or near a major city, craigslist.org it will probably be cheaper there than at guitar center...

...and the Tele may not have the same range as the Strat but the Strat can't sound like a Tele, so, they're even :)

Well I live in Oklahoma City and the only place really willing to make good bargains is Guitar Center. We used to have a Mars Music and I hear that was pretty good, but everything else around here pretty much just sucks. Also, I don't think I could ever bring myself to buy a guitar off ebay just because of the warrenty issue and you never know who you're dealing with. Same goes for craiglist, I just want to play the guitar before I purchase it (even if that means I gotta pay a little more).

I would say the Nashville Tele is more than even with the Strat in my biased opinion :p

thanks man I appreciate it. So if it doesn't say where it was made on there, are they probably MIM?