Got Teles?

I have a few working teles, plus one in renovation mode.

The Scrapcaster - homebuilt, set neck, stealth thinline cabronita-ish thing - came out of one of those TDPRI Telecaster build contests from 2012 or so, a few years back.
Builder was mad at himself. The first fret was mounted just a hair off on the Low E side. Said it bugged him every time he looked at it. Tunes up, plays and sounds just fine.
Hot liverpool pup, has a real airy/throaty quality. Doesn't really sound much like a typical tele should. He made the bridge out of heavy gauge diamond plate steel.

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The Rockin' Sixty-Nine Rangecaster, contoured, stealth p-90, rail bridge, 4way tone machine - it covers a lot of ground
but again, doesn't really give up that true tele twang too easy. kind of stratty and pauly with the P-90 added

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The Grüvcaster, fabric covered, plateflip, contoured 4-way tele - this thing should be in the dictionary, under the word twang. Sound like a tele is supposed to.

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TVvoodoo said:
I have a few working teles, plus one in renovation mode.

The Scrapcaster - homebuilt, set neck, stealth thinline cabronita-ish thing - came out of one of those TDPRI Telecaster build contests from 2012 or so, a few years back.
Builder was mad at himself. The first fret was mounted just a hair off on the Low E side. Said it bugged him every time he looked at it. Tunes up, plays and sounds just fine.
Hot liverpool pup, has a real airy/throaty quality. Doesn't really sound much like a typical tele should. He made the bridge out of heavy gauge diamond plate steel.

otp1ON5i_o.jpg


The Rockin' Sixty-Nine Rangecaster, contoured, stealth p-90, rail bridge, 4way tone machine - it covers a lot of ground
but again, doesn't really give up that true tele twang too easy. kind of stratty and pauly with the P-90 added

I2LyjjbL_o.jpg


The Grüvcaster, fabric covered, plateflip, contoured 4-way tele - this thing should be in the dictionary, under the word twang. Sound like a tele is supposed to.

5cYydkSd_o.jpg
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I've seen you post those on ST. I love them. :2Thumbs:
 
I've never owned a Tele because there are some features of them that I don't really like - mainly the fretboard radius - but there are other things I do like, such as the looks and the bridge pickup. They are also pretty heavy. So when I saw this model I was very tempted. I might end up getting one at some point. They have some wood missing under that pickguard, that is apparently how they kept the weight down. I also like the contouring they did


The Black Pearl finish is also very nice:


I really like the swamp ash with the open pore grain
 
Dave Sloven said:
I've never owned a Tele because there are some features of them that I don't really like - mainly the fretboard radius - but there are other things I do like, such as the looks and the bridge pickup. They are also pretty heavy. So when I saw this model I was very tempted. I might end up getting one at some point. They have some wood missing under that pickguard, that is apparently how they kept the weight down. I also like the contouring they did


The Black Pearl finish is also very nice:


I really like the swamp ash with the open pore grain
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Which fretboard radius? 7¼", 9½", 10-14" compound, 17".

As for weight, they're all different.
 
Dave Sloven said:
I've never owned a Tele because there are some features of them that I don't really like - mainly the fretboard radius - but there are other things I do like, such as the looks and the bridge pickup. They are also pretty heavy. So when I saw this model I was very tempted. I might end up getting one at some point. They have some wood missing under that pickguard, that is apparently how they kept the weight down. I also like the contouring they did


The Black Pearl finish is also very nice:


I really like the swamp ash with the open pore grain
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This one is 6 lbs, 13 oz. I don't think it's too heavy. And 9.5" radius works fine for me.

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This one is just a tad over 7 lbs. And again 9.5 radius.

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Those Schecters do look nice though. (y)
 
They are not too heavy. Some of the Teles with a 12" radius though are quite heavy, such as the Jim Root and John5 ones

I tend to prefer a pretty flat neck. I can play a 9.5" okay, the 7.25” radius though is totally foreign to me and I usually hand them back to their owner after fumbling around for a minute!
 
Dave Sloven said:
They are not too heavy. Some of the Teles with a 12" radius though are quite heavy, such as the Jim Root and John5 ones

I tend to prefer a pretty flat neck. I can play a 9.5" okay, the 7.25” radius though is totally foreign to me and I usually hand them back to their owner after fumbling around for a minute!
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Radius doesn't bother me much one way or the other. Provided that the guitar is setup correctly, I can adapt pretty quickly (within a couple of minutes) to different necks.
 
Dave Sloven said:
They are not too heavy. Some of the Teles with a 12" radius though are quite heavy, such as the Jim Root and John5 ones

I tend to prefer a pretty flat neck. I can play a 9.5" okay, the 7.25” radius though is totally foreign to me and I usually hand them back to their owner after fumbling around for a minute!
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My Tele is 9½". Most of my Strats are 7¼". I just pick them up and play them, or play this

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which reminds me that everything is relative.

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Ebidis said:
LOL.

Fender made something similar in the late '60s. They came to be known as "Smuggler's Teles".
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Put an F hole in the scratch plate and you have an acoustic. The guitars with huge cavities under there attract the "how good does it sound unplugged?" guys because they tend to sound so much louder.

Schecter do make some nice guitars.
 
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