Stratocaster vs. Telecaster

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.

Gah, if you're going to have a trem on a Telecaster I guess it may as well be that one. Bigsbys are the enemy of intonation IME (as is the 3-saddle bridge). Therefore much beloved by retro difficulty/impractability/simplicity fetishists. If that's how you roll why not just go all the way and get with the Sears Roebuck/Silverline/Airline plastic Jack White type thingy.

But the B-Bender Tele, now that is a work of genius and I will not speak ill of it.

i've seen bigsbys on teles before, was that a model or would those all be aftermarket?

Therefore much beloved by retro difficulty/impractability/simplicity fetishists.

tbh there are times that i guiltily fantisize about getting one of those weird boutiquey brands that are made of a koa wood and graphite and look like ergonomic space dildos, i bet they play really well and weigh like 12 oz.

If guitar porn isn't out of the question, this is my Tele. Not for that price, though, jeez.

that finish is really pretty

Reminds me of molten lava (and a '70s basement). Humbucker at the neck and single-coil at the bridge.

Yeah, that's the price point where new Fenders make no sense. You can get a handmade-with-love-and-skill custom job for that price.

yah get like pearl anarchy signs inlayed on the fretboard and shit

No, like have decently dressed frets and a finish with no holes and shit.

i hope $2k fender custom shop jobs comes with at least decently dressed frets!

this guy is local to mpls if i were to spend a lot i would love one of his, so gorgeous

http://www.whalehazard.com/

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$2000 Fenders are factory and don't always have decently dressed frets, and Gibson's even worse. Those Whalehazards are pretty cool and look like good value for money, daft name aside.

I never gave a shit about Stratocasters but somehow in the last year (maybe thanks in part to this thread) I've been sort of enamored of them - like I've literally never played one before but they're basically THE standard electric guitar so maybe I've been too contrarian about it.

I moved to a much bigger town in the last year, with several million people within an hour and have been looking at Craigslist a lot for used strats. There are constantly MIM ones between $300 and $400 so I was waiting for something odd or a great deal and the other day found a 1981 Tokai Silver Star 48 for $350 - it's a copy of a 1976 Stratocaster, with the giant headstock, bullet truss rod, and three-bolt neck and I think I'm going to buy it. I know it's not technically a strat but they seem like cool guitars that are pretty damn close, especially if I swap the pickups at some point.

Kind of stoked about this:
https://i.imgur.com/doHYeeP.jpg

wow that must be from the infamous "lawsuit era" of Japanese guitar making, that logo is particularly brazen

I bet that will be great, I passed on a Univox lawsuit P bass copy recently that I regret

sweet!

Joygoat, buy without hesitation, you will not be disappointed. My 1977 Greco “Super Sounds” is a midrange model from the other major factory and it is one of the best made and nicest sounding guitars I’ve ever played (and I own several nice Fenders etc).

These are also climbing in value as people realise how good they are. $350 is cheap for a Tokai.

Unexpectedly...

https://youtu.be/_vPK8LVdf5I

― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, November 5, 2016 (one year ago)

Yeah, Page gravitated toward the Strat towards the end there, which iirc is why Zeppelin had to break up.

― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, November 5, 2016 (one year ago)

I wouldn't go that far. He used a strat specifically for "In the Evening," specifically for the part of the riff you hear at 1:17. Trem required for that one.

btw I prefer a Les Paul with low-output pups and a tele after that, but I've been messing around with the strat again. there really are some things only a strat can do.

I got an American Standard Telecaster this year via a Facebook gear trade/sell group and frankly I can't imagine playing any other guitar now.

Might not need to swap the pickups. Some that era of Tokai,Greco and Ibanez actually had DiMarzio pickups. They were an early customer.

i had a 70s burnt orange strat that was super sweet, but the bandleader encouraged me to trade it in because it wasn't vintage enough for him / the band. it's sort of visible here in the upper left next to david johansen. in subsequent years i learned to make my own decisions.

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That's pretty.

TSF you look cool as hell in that pic btw

Yeah, if it sounds funky, I would maybe just upgrade the electronics and pots. There are these guys in Winchester KY called RS Guitarworks who are local to me that are wizards with guitar electronics and some of their kits really do make a difference. Don't have to use them, but sometimes playing with the capacitors and/or the pots can really change the sound as much as swapping pickups. If it is an older guitar, it is also an option to just get them re-wound so the pickups are original instead of putting in some new pickup.

haha, thx. (xpost) that was taken at cbgb, where i suppose i thought it was the greatest of ironies to wear my columbia shirt, though to be honest most of the people who hung out there were nyu students. i'm paying now for having had all that hair then. my alopecia leaves me without a stitch of it.

browsing through the spectator, i notice that suzanne vega was playing on campus the same night we were, 3/24/79. that was our last gig ever, and maybe one of her first?

http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19790323-01.2.12.2&srpos=2&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-%22suzanne+vega%22+%22postcrypt%22------