Stratocaster vs. Telecaster

I don't know what you paid, and I don't have your instrument in front of me. But this thing is a monster with breathtaking workmanship: http://www.schwarz-custom.de/cardinal.html

Isn't the Gibson company really shitty politically too?

as of late yep. read lots of stuff about disgruntled employees and management basically running the company into the ground

This is way too good to just talk about on IMM: Gibson Guitars supremely embarrassing Tea Party pandering "Government Series"

I refuse to vote in this until the options are changed to S-500 vs ASAT

Also yes Gibson is a horrible company both on the political side, and to work for.

I've played an American Standard Tele and it was the best guitar I played in my life. It's just so transparent - every tiny nuance of your fingers comes right through, in a good way. You can make it sound like anything you want. Strats never felt right to me and they sounded generic in comparison.

I don't know what you paid, and I don't have your instrument in front of me. But this thing is a monster with breathtaking workmanship: http://www.schwarz-custom.de/cardinal.html

That's an unfortunate logo. Who wants SCHVATZ on their headstock?

Shvar

Starting price on that thing is $4454 US, which by my estimates is around double what I've spent in my entire life on musical gear in total - and this includes my recent extravagant splurge (for me) on a 1978 Princeton Reverb.

man those things look NICE.

x-post: I believe it, joygoat, and there's no shame in that -- I'm just saying compare the Schwarz with a new Gibson ES 335 around the same price (and they make a couple that are more expensive) and the Gibson comes off looking very, very bad.

JC: I've only touched the guitars, but I've played the basses. They are all that.

That's an unfortunate logo.

Schwanz?

Yeah, Gibson is shit politically and environmentally, and I would have probably shopped around more if I knew what I know now. (I think the whole classical guitar industry is a little problematic environmentally tbh, as an aside.) The Schwarz definitely costs more than what my Gibson did, if I'm reading the price right, but I'm definitely going to want to check one out if you're saying it puts the 335 to shame!

Check this out, S: http://www.leonardo-guitar-research.com/

Whoa, thanks. I just bought one less than a year ago, and it was 40 years old so at least no new trees were cut down for it, but I'll definitely remember that.

I'd also take a serious look at Heritage as a modern Gibson alternative.

http://heritageguitar.com

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i play a tele. I've never liked strats. that's all.

i've heard nothing but good things about heritage but damn those headstocks are hideous

having said that, i've just acquired a prs s2 starla and totally fallen in love with it after previously regarding prses as the tools of ponytailed session men, rich assholes and carlos santana so my judgement may well be impaired

prses as the tools of ponytailed session men, rich assholes and carlos santana

so OTM. I just recoil at ridiculously colored quilted maple tops and those stupid bird inlays.

The starla isn't bad looking though.

years ago i saw a £5k prs on the wall of a guitar store that had a ridiculously ornate flame top covered with a turquoise-to-purple burst. it was genuinely traumatic

EBay and Reverb are filled with the broken dreams of partcaster builds. You can sometimes get $800 worth of parts for like $300. You open it up and realize the reason it sounded like a turd was soldered wrong.

Really like the new FSR Tele Standard in white opal, going for about 500

the site Adorama often has crazy deals on Standard USA Strats and Teles (esp Strats with 2 singles and a humbucker on the bridge, which tbh might be kinda nice)

I refuse to vote in this until the options are changed to S-500 vs ASAT

― Here, let me Danesplain that for you (jjjusten), Monday, November 28, 2016 12:36 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Shit, the S-500. And of course, add Marissa Paternoster to the "strat" players list.

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The correct answer!

Indeed.

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!

yesssss

Absolutely the correct answer.

While I voted otherwise, I understand and respect the outcome; further, I am not surprised given what I know of ilx0rz.

I own and love both, and I certainly have gone through Telemoods that lasted years.

You know both would lose to a Jazzmaster if polled so here.

The correct answer to that poll is Telecaster and Jazzmaster.
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The offset body with Tele-style controls looks quite righteous. Not crazy about the three-saddle bridge but I applaud the purity of vision.

hardtail offsets always look kinda wrong to me

needs a floyd rose tremelo obv

here's another hybrid thing fender did, kind of a stratotelecaster

http://www.multumguitars.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Fender-Classic-Player-Triple-Telecaster.jpg

amazing how much uglier that is than a regular tele when all they've done is angle the neck pickup and add a middle one

yeah it's odd...though i read some reviews that sounded cool, like it's a 5-way switch like a strat, the neck pick up supposedly sounds pretty "tele" and it gets more strat farther back could be potentially interesting but not a real pretty guitar

I love Tele Deluxes, probably the next guitar I'll buy.

i also love the Jim Adkins Tele. I got a prototype of the black one:
http://i.testfreaks.co.uk/images/products/600x400/92/fender-jim-adkins-ja-90-telecaster-thinline.4358492.jpg
mine has block inlays and the f hole sits a little further back. wish i had the red one tbf

How about the Televee, the monstrosity hanging on the wall behind my friend Dave in this picture?

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it's uh certainly a striking instrument

also almost certainly theft-proof

Last time I saw Springsteen he at one point played a Tele 12-string, which was ... weird. Also seen him with a Bigsby-affixed Tele.