Strat or Tele?

I like the 70s Strat. Its got a real nice vintage look about it.

Originally Posted by: arska007I havn't played either of them but i think most beatiful of all strat's and tele's is the '69 Telecaster Thinline. :D

LOOK AT THIS BEATY!!

I dunno, I didn't like the pickguard, and I don't like sound holes (for reasons unbeknowest to be.. I just don't like em)

Originally Posted by: guitardude99i aint want nun od those i want a les paul
:D

I deleted that to stop the controversy, and say to guitardude that im sorry for being rude.

Originally Posted by: FenderallthewayHey, if ur gana talk about les pauls go somewere else

hey, keep it nice... this is a GUITAR message board... and les pauls are still guitars...

see, I'd make a good moderator :D

hey, i understand what you mean, but i mean, this specific thread is about teles and strats, there are more threads out there about les pauls. So im just saying, your welcome to talk about strats and tele, but this is not the place to talk about laspauls, well whatever do whatever you want, this is awsome im gettin so many posts, i dont care.lol

Originally Posted by: 6strngs_2hmbkrshey, keep it nice... this is a GUITAR message board... and les pauls are still guitars...

see, I'd make a good moderator :D

See previous post! :D

(this is a guitar forum, but this THREAD is about strats and teles)

I like 'em both. I end up playing my tele more often, almost exclusively, 'cause I like the no excuses of a tele....what I mean is, if you see a guy tearin' it up on a tele, you know they got the goods....there just isn't anything to hide behind like whammy bars, splitable coils, fancy switching, batteries, mid boosts, etc....
But that's just me...
I play InstruMENTAL rock, classic rock, country, blues, rockabilly, jazz, anything I want on my tele.

If you don't like the twang on the bridge p/u, all you have to do is roll off the highs a little with the tone control.

Play whatever you like is a good rule! lol

Originally Posted by: PRSplayaSee previous post! :D

(this is a guitar forum, but this THREAD is about strats and teles)

when have we ever stayed on topic before???

plus, the guy was just putting in his opinion that he would take a les paul over a strat or tele.

i aint want nun od those i want a les paul

While this was quite moronic in the sentence structure and spelling....

Hey, if ur gana talk about les pauls go somewere else

And this was a bit rude.

We should try to stay on topic as much as possible. If you must go off topic, choose one of the many "multi topic" threads in the Open Discussion section.

[QUOTE=3fingeredblues] 'cause I like the no excuses of a tele....what I mean is, if you see a guy tearin' it up on a tele, you know they got the goods....there just isn't anything to hide behind like whammy bars, splitable coils, fancy switching, batteries, mid boosts, etc....


Hmmm...On my Tele I put a bigsby Trem on along with 2 humbuckers both with series/parallel switching....guess I'm cheating.....

[QUOTE=PRSplaya]While this was quite moronic in the sentence structure and spelling....

Hey, if your gana talk about les pauls, go somewere else

And this was a bit rude.

Its not rude, come on, I'm saying that this isn't the thread to talk about les pauls.

Originally Posted by: FenderallthewayHey, if your gana talk about les pauls, go somewere else...[/QUOTE][font=trebuchet ms]RUDE![/font]



[QUOTE=Fenderalltheway]This isn't the thread to talk about les pauls.

[font=trebuchet ms]Not rude.


See the difference?[/font]

ladies...ladies....well I just realized that i can post a pic of my Tele on here. So for all you Tele guys(and girls) out there.....

Originally Posted by: Tele Masterladies...ladies....well I just realized that i can post a pic of my Tele on here. So for all you Tele guys(and girls) out there.....

sexy... (I'm talking about the guitar btw, I swear I'm straight)

The only thing stock on that guitar is the body and neck....its got strap-locks, the bigsby, DPDT 500K pots, both switching for series/parallel on each pickup...and soon to come...LOCKING TUNERS!!!!

That's a sweet lookin' Tele you've got there! What kind of pickups are you running?

Seymour Duncans....59 in the neck and Hot Rails in the bridge....O ya, I also switched the pickgaurd from white to black.

Could you try to describe the Hot Rails? What is it best suited for? Can you still get a Tele tone with it?

I'll try my best. The only way to get a Tele tone out of it is if you split it. Do not coil tap it because it will be extremely noisy, make sure to use Series/Parallel switching. This will give both single coil and humbucker sounds.

This is an extremely high output pickup. It can play anything. It will overdrive a tube amp into beautiful tube overdrive quite easily. It packs alot of punch and I find it is very versatile.

Sounds great clean and dirty. This pup can handle the dirtiest dirty and won't make a sound unless you want it to ( provided you ground it properly ). The single coil mode will give you a very close original Tele tone. It has that nice Tele snap on the bass strings and is nice and thing on the solo strings.

The humbucker sounds great for recreating Green Day or Metallica when dirty has a beautiful clean tone. ( sounds great for clean parts in songs like "Simple Man" by Skynrd or the opening riff for "Enter Sandman" ) I could go on all day about this pickup. If you have a tube amp then this pickup is definetly something to consider. However if you are playing a solid state you may want to get something a little less hot, because solid state distortion sounds disgusting and this pickup will sen your solid state into an ugly state.

I play in a pop/rock-rock band and I can get any tone that I need with it. However since I've acquired my Les Paul I tend to play the Tele less. Just because I love the sustain of the Les Paul and the weight and feel, yadda yadda. I use the Tele now mainly as my backup/studio guitar.

http://www.jacquieinthekitchen.com/music.html

That is my band's website. Listen to "Vamp Tramp". That is the Hot Rails distorting my Deville on the clean channel(in humbucker mode). Listen to "Growing Up" to hear the Hot Rails in single coil mode.

That's a sweet tele. Red teles seem pretty rare these days.