Just a thought telecasters are just so pure

[Duncanpup]

A friend of our sons came over last night to jam, and he was playing a Michael Kelly 50’s model loaded with fralin pickup steel pole 42’s. Nice guitar kid got it last year used off Craig’s list $250 used made in Indonesia awesome player beautiful tone as is the guitar, Leo fender kept it simple two single coils then tone volume knobs and well with this Kelly it has four different tones with the switch.

[multigraincracker]

1. Had a G&L

I bought used. It was great.

[Duncanpup]

2. Most definitely on G&L great guitars.

[multigraincracker]

6. I thought, at the time that G&L

stood for Guitars by LEO. That's Leo Fender who started G&L after he sold all of his rights to Fender Guitars.

That would make them the REAL new Fender Guitars. Saw an ad for a local music shop that had new ones on sale for about $500., not a bad price.

[Duncanpup]

9. Saw some clones of strats

They were coming out of I think Spain it was awhile back. Yet it caught my eye cuz they were 62 reissue with slab wood fret and nitro finish.

[RainCaster]

3. I have an mik strat that I love

Twin buckers and a neck-thru design. Great sustain, but doesn't sound at all like the lipstick pups.

[Duncanpup]

4. I've been avid collector of mij guitars

Tokai Greco epiphone Les Paul and strats , did you swap out the pickups and if you did what did you swap them out for.

The bubble has burst on guitars the Indonesian or Korean manufacturers are putting out awesome guitars. This Michael Kelly is alder body with maple too dark roasted maple fretboard awesome, and have you seen the 59’s epiphone is bringing out of China just awesome carved top maple cap long neck tenon. I’m happy today people can buy decent guitars and not have to pay top dollar.

[multigraincracker]

11. I bought a nice, made in Indonesian acoustic

at a yard sale for $20. Put it in the mall for $55 and it sold the next day.

A few days ago I got a no name banjoele with no name on it. Did find a store sticker under the resonator that had music store from Toledo on it. That store had gone out of business in the 60s. Really solid instrument. New strings and tuner knobs and it'd be a great player.

First thing I ask at yard sales is "do you have any old instruments you don't play anymore". Lots of the time tell me they do but will have to look for it. So, I hand em my card and say call me. That has worked out great.

[Duncanpup]

12. I do same

Years ago I found a strat Like Ibanez had be basswood it was three single coils well I never knew Ibanez did single coil decent guitar I don’t know what happened to it may sold it.

[RainCaster]

20. I swapped out the original buckers, didn't like the sound

Tried some Tejas wannabes. It sounds better, but I'm still thinking of a change. I may go to a set of LPS pups with the switch and knobs wiring of the Gibson. This guitar is so thin and light, but the neck-thru design gives outstanding sustain. It's great with an eBow, BTW.

[Duncanpup]

21. Cool rain caster

Check out reverb.com they have selection of new and used pickups and sometimes the dealers will take a lower offer.

[RainCaster]

22. My only complaint w Gibson pups is the spacing

I like the closer spacing of the fenders, and I'd like to have a set that is wound like the LPS, but with the spacing of fenders.

[Duncanpup]

23. Like f space

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

5. Teles are tanks.

I've only had two, both 72 custom style. The first was a '75 that got stolen. I missed it for decades then Fender did a RI back around 2010 so I got one. Dang that thing sounds good. I think it's the best sounding guitar I have. I don't play it as much because my CMC arthritis in my left thumb doesn't allow me to play thicker necks anymore. This one is just on the cusp of being too thick. I can play it for a while but eventually the pain is too much. I mostly play my LP STD and Peavey Wolfgangs because the necks are nice and thin.

[Duncanpup]

7. Terrible they stole those guitars

Cool on Les Paul standard we only have one actual Gibby Les in the herd I love my tokai Les bought it in west Germany 85.

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

8. I've never gone wrong with MIJ!

Can't beat their craftsmanship and attention to detail.

[Duncanpup]

10. ? Was the reissue tele nitro finish

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

13. Yes.

It's a beaut. The only difference from the original was the color choices and the humbucker was not like the original "wide-range CuNiFe" pickup, but the one they used sounds terrific. I understand that the release they did during the past couple of years does have a pickup like the original. I bought an after marked CuNiFe to put in but I've never gotten around to it. The sound is so sweet and clear I don't think it would make much difference.

[Duncanpup]

14. Probably not on tone with pickup

One I’m 55 have hearing aid and yet over years the arguments of Les Paul long neck or short tenon or poly or nitro , can you really tell tone difference between neck tenon on Les or nitro or poly on guitars I can’t friend.

Then I’ve re wired with cts and orange drops and yet tone yes when you put a set of Seymours in say a Chinese epi you’ll get different tone upgrade. Yet can a person really tell in high end with capacitors I can’t So I just enjoy guitar jamming with our son.

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

15. Yup.

I've always been a proponent of "tone comes from the hands."

I have played guitars that just don't sound good. I had a "poplar" MIM Strat that wouldn't sound good no matter what components I changed. I ended up giving it away. I've played MIC guitars that sound and play fantastic. I had a student who had a MIM Tele that was as nice as any USA guitar I've ever played.

I'm not concerned in chasing fairy dust for tone. As long as the controls work and it stays in tune fairly well, I'm good to go.

[marble falls]

16. Of course you meant Les Pauls. But Telecasters'll do in a pinch.

[marble falls]

17. Then again, that old bar magnet pickup Dan Electro I had was pretty sweet. No one ...

... ever though of stealing it. Put a used humbucking in it and ruined it.

[Duncanpup]

18. Was talking on here with raincaster

His Korean strat has buckers and it seems he’s knowledgeable of the lip stick pickups marble falls. In all the years of exploring the fretboard of many guitars i can’t remember coming across a lip stick pickup then of course I used to drink heavy

What comes to memories several years back I was looking at a reissue set of tv Jones I think for a friends firebird don’t hold me on that like I said memory is foggy.

Yes Les Paul’s great guitars I love my Japan Tokai I think used in 85 I paid $350 then. I love my Greco strat also se 700 check em out that slab wood fretboard friend , and was never a fan of coil tap a humbucker it’s kind like you want that sparkle strat tone get a strat, coil tapping a Les is like using your old mans rambler station wagon as kid to go on a date. 😂

[marble falls]

24. I also enjoy shooting the poop with you! There's just no way to beat a strat's mellow ...

mellow sustain.

I like Les Pauls because I had a crush on Mary Ford.

[Duncanpup]

19. ? Did you

Take out humbucker and put original back in.

[marble falls]

25. I butchered it. Ruined a perfectly good guitar. Every once in a while I see one in a junk ...

... store, sometimes with a tube amp built into the case. The prices are about $125 - $250. I can tune 'em. Can't play for beans. I'm a good roady, was: in my 70's now.

[JTele]

26. I've owned a few Teles in my day.......

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While I love nearly all guitars, Telecasters do it for me most of the time........

[Duncanpup]

27. Awesome jtele

Can I order a blonde with 12 inch radius ebony fretboard.

[JTele]

29. If I had one with a 12" radius.......

......I'd be happy to sell you one. but.....

[Heartstrings]

28. One of those Teles looks very familiar.....

🤔

[JTele]

30. Ya think?

Although, I don't believe that this one was a part of that group:

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[Heartstrings]

31. On closer inspection I stand corrected....

Prolly dazzled by all those other beauties! 🎸

Where was Mystic (I think that was it’s name) for this group photo I wonder?

[JTele]

32. Truth is.....

......this Tele hadn't been born until a few years after the family photo was taken. The Tele family is actually much smaller these days.....

[ProfessorGAC]

33. Every Guitar Player Worth His/Her Salt...

...has a Tele.
There are tones that can only be gotten with a Tele.
I've got 2 Strats, (different body wood, different neck wood, different wood on fingerboard, different pickups), an Ibanez superstrat, a Jazz master, a Schecter Blackjack...
There are still tones I can only get on Tele.
I've got an American Standard in wine red with vintage noiseless pickups on it. It's not my main axe, but having it is not optional.