bluesypicky
Enlightened Member
I have owned both
I thought it had to have at least a 3" box for you to call it a guitar?..... :distracted:
I have owned both
Maybe I need to stop mocking inanimate objects... <embarrassed>You need to calm down Steve. Keep a soft wrist and a smile. :biggrin-new:
I thought it had to have at least a 3" box for you to call it a guitar?..... :distracted:
That's because you naturally just want to ROCK!!!I have a Strat and I just can't help hitting that pup selecter switch, m ocking it into the bridge pickup. :-/
That's because you naturally just want to ROCK!!!
Pascal, what you say about strats is true, but it almost goes for teles too. Thanks to guys like James Burton, all the Bakersfield guys, and the people they inspired, they have a chicken pickin' country image, but they're the archetypal R&B and Soul guitar too : Steve Cropper of course, and Cornell Dupree played a tele most of his career too.
And it's a hell of a blues guitar too, just think of Albert Collins, there are pictures of Johnny Guitar Watson, Guitar Slim, even B.B. King with one, and there was Roy Buchanan of course, a hard guy to fit into a category.
And Keith Richards, Bruce Springsteen, Status Quo, Wilko Johnson, etc... are not exactly hiccuping greasers or chicken pickin' country twangers either, are they?
Strat or Tele? I think you need at least one of each!
GET BOTH! :victorious:
Well, I've just finished cutting a new bone nut for my frankentele, put on a fresh set of strings & played it hard for awhile. I really like the P90's on it with the 5 way switch!
I found a local guy with a Godin Artisan ST with maple neck & we're talking turkey on some potential trade items. That may satisfy my GAS for awhile....if nothing else, it's a new toy to tinker with!
You familiar with these guys in new Hampshire?
Don't think I've run across them before. Since I've been doing side work on guitars for a number of years, I had set up a handful of dealer connections (have had a retail license, but let it lapse), so I tend to be on the cheap side when it comes to buying pieces parts as I can get most things at dealer cost.
Here's my frankentele. Think my total into this one is right around $200, not including my time.
strat or tele? Kinda like choosing between air or water.
I'll just keep one of each, TUVM.
Bottom line is personal taste. Teles work for me in so many ways. The strat does too. I'd be lost without it. Good thing I don't have to choose.
MD
I spend lots of time with both, have been thinking about this for years. My strat is a '61. Stripped of finish long ago by the idiotic original owner. No matter, it's a special guitar. I use it most often now in open tuning, open A, with and without slide. Came to teles later, now own three. One - an orange partscaster with spruce topped, chambered body and Don Mare pickups - is pretty much number one for gigging.
Very different instruments. The strat has two significant downsides for me. I keep turning the volume down by mistake when I play, and the tone knob is basically useless. On the upside, nothing sounds or feels like a strat. One of the most versatile guitars ever. And due to the springs/tremelo, it has a unique feel. Not every amp agrees with a strat, but when it does ... this '61 and my Gibson GA40 are truly something special together.
Teles are so remarkably versatile, they make strats seem like specialty instruments. Not sure why, but teles beat everything else. Something about the feel of it, how the right hand position works with that bridge. Teles are also versatile as a form. My three teles are all very different, in construction, pickup type, other details. They end up being quite distinct tonally, though obviously more or less the same model. I really cannot think of any tele downsides. The tone knob is an essential part of this design, extremely useful. Teles are completely promiscuous with amps. I've yet to come across an amp I want to play that doesn't work with a tele.
Bottom line is personal taste. Teles work for me in so many ways. The strat does too. I'd be lost without it. Good thing I don't have to choose.
MD