Jimmy Page telecaster

JohnnyGoo said:
jtcnj he wasnt like a slave driver or just make me play but he would ill say have me play alot of the time after dinner. After i got to be a 14 or 15 years old i didnt pic up a guitar for years. My Dad is the reason i love guitars .Its takin me 50 years to come to love a Tele and Strats. My dad didnt like Strats either. Volume in the wrong place. Gibsons were to heavy. although he did own a original Barney Kessel for awhile.
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I never understand this Volume in the wrong place thing...
I started on a LP, next came a Strat. I just play the controls however they are.
I must say, I prefer a Switch where the LP Switch is over the SG position on Gibsons, but I also like where the Strat or Tele switches are.
 
I have no problem with the control placements but at first when I pick up a strat it takes a little for my pick hand to settle to the right places for strumming vs. picking riffs or licks.
The body shape fitting to my body and overall balance feel like home right away though.
 
Chili--

The volume knob placement being RIGHT UP ON the bridge pickup is "crowding" -- I to started on les pauls-- and -- I (according to a guitar instructor almost 4 decades ago) was doing it LAZY by wresting the "meat" of my right palm on the bridge---helps with string muting IMHO-- anyway that position on a strat means your banging into the volume knob..

luckily I came upon --- after many years of hating on them-- though trying-- a strat that feels/plays sounds so good-- I ADJUSTED MY PLAYING -- so I dont hit the knob--
funny though when I grab a Lester --- right back to the old "lazy" habits lol
 
Session is the bridge pup stock ? What is it like a Duncan Lil 59 ? That button might be a coil split there Smitty.
 
eSGEe said:
Chili--

The volume knob placement being RIGHT UP ON the bridge pickup is "crowding" -- I to started on les pauls-- and -- I (according to a guitar instructor almost 4 decades ago) was doing it LAZY by wresting the "meat" of my right palm on the bridge---helps with string muting IMHO-- anyway that position on a strat means your banging into the volume knob..

luckily I came upon --- after many years of hating on them-- though trying-- a strat that feels/plays sounds so good-- I ADJUSTED MY PLAYING -- so I dont hit the knob--
funny though when I grab a Lester --- right back to the old "lazy" habits lol
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I knew and presumed this about you, Adrian. RE: resting on bridge/muting style. Myself, being mostly one who strums up closer to the neck pup rather than ham fisting the actual tailpiece/bridge to do my muting; I never accidentally hit my volume knobs.
 
I'm all for Canadian and US jobs. I won't support Mexico. When Fender first released the neck specifications it was a small D
not a C Now on the US made mirror or Mexican dragon it's a C neck.
 
I have heard both C and D. I don't really care either way. As far as jobs go that doesn't really bother me either. I work for Canada's last independent pleasure boat builder painting their boats and make less than a first year labourer on a construction site and I have been in my industry for over 25 years. No matter what someone gets rich and it isn't the workers.
 
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eSGEe said:
Chili--

The volume knob placement being RIGHT UP ON the bridge pickup is "crowding" -- I to started on les pauls-- and -- I (according to a guitar instructor almost 4 decades ago) was doing it LAZY by wresting the "meat" of my right palm on the bridge---helps with string muting IMHO-- anyway that position on a strat means your banging into the volume knob..

luckily I came upon --- after many years of hating on them-- though trying-- a strat that feels/plays sounds so good-- I ADJUSTED MY PLAYING -- so I dont hit the knob--
funny though when I grab a Lester --- right back to the old "lazy" habits lol
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Strats in general make me adjust my playing in weird ways. The knob placement is all wrong for me, the bridge moves when you rest your palm on it, which is where I naturally want to put my hand, despite the curves the bodies feel unwieldy to me, the scale length throws me off. I mean I have gone through periods in my life where I made accommodations for what I feel are the ergonomic issues with the Strat because I wanted that sound and couldn't get it any other way but now I don't mess with them any more. I can get 90% of my Fender tones out of my Firebirds and do it much more comfortably.
 
shreddy bender said:
Hi guys! Now I wait some more!
Got a phone call this week and my Dragon has arrived! Figures, I am sitting in Southern Ontario on holiday.
Oh well... I get back to B.C. on the 4th of August. I will be heading to the music store on the 6th after work (the 5th is a holiday dammit)!
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Where in "Southern Ontario" are you hanging out Shreddy?
 
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