Stratocaster vs. Telecaster

this is an oddball

https://minneapolis.craigslist.org/hnp/msg/d/osseo-fender-pawn-shop-color-sunburst/7315840263.html

i actually really like that one!

thread inspired me to put strings on my electric guitar for the first time in 13 years. I've been playing a larrivee L-05 the whole time, and this feels like a game controller. started searching for larger neck teles and most people point toward...road worn models.

my wife and kid are out of town so I took my 1978 Princeton Reverb and pedalboard out of the tiny room upstairs and set them up in the much larger living room and it sounds so unbelievably good while sitting on the couch and playing and drinking beer and watching marvel movies with the closed captioning on like the slovenly adolescent that I really am when my true self is revealed

it's been all telecaster so far though I really should try my knockoff japanese strat while i have the chance

the pawn shop 72 is a sweet guitar. i have a prototype of one and its a personal favorite for sure:
https://i.imgur.com/newmWfW.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/6aHp5IG.jpg
mine has binding around the front of the body and is only rounded in the back and mine has two wide range humbuckers and a 4 bolt neck.

that's nice, looks cooler in your pictures than the craigslist one

Spottie that kills the production model. And Sufjan the meaty-neck standard seems to be the Baja Tele, there are a few models which vary in colour and 50s-vs-60s setup. Getting harder to find at a good price tho.

at a certain point you could think about a replacement neck too

thanks, matthew. but yeah, I might need to just find a tele I like first and swap necks. no bajas nearby on craigslist.

warmouth has a ton of options, however you do lose the fender logo on the headstock obv

https://www.warmoth.com/guitar/necks/backcontours.aspx

this is an odd one

https://reverb.com/item/38884514-g-l-espada-clf-research-sonic-blue-with-case

https://media.rainpos.com/9068/1_espada_org.jpg

huh, basically a Sabre II in Tele cosplay

the P-Bass style split pickups really take it over the top

Yeah, but G&L has had a similar thing on the Comanche and ASAT Z-3 for some time.

https://✧✧✧.shop✧✧✧.com/s/files/1/0916/0836/products/33098__1_3✧✧✧@3✧.progress✧✧✧.j✧✧?v=1571458285

https://media.rainpos.com/9068/1_z3_hnb_copy.jpg

https://images.reverb.com/image/upload/s--m1nn8TJe--/a_exif,c_limit,e_unsharp_mask:80,f_auto,fl_progressive,g_south,h_1600,q_80,w_1600/v1508194888/wjtit2dp9avmjd1oseux.jpg

always liked the look of those staggered pickups

i kinda love how G&L became Leo's 2.0 versions of Fender models

yeah some of them really work, some are super ugly to me tho

G&L lots of times look a bit "off"

but it's cool just from his thought process point of view, like what he perceived was wrong or could be improved on all these iconic guitars he made

i almost pulled the trigger on this a few months back... turns out my friend ended up buying it lol.
https://reverb.com/item/33527574-g-l-skyhawk-1984-natural-finish?show_sold=true

a few months = over a year ago

That's awesome, never seen that model before

all these iconic guitars he made

... not to take anything from the genius of CLF who turned a musical instrument into an engineering challenge, and ended up with the best of both!

it really is perfect that the guy who revolutionized how we make music was an engineer who couldn't play and whose favorite style of music was dead by 1955

that G&L espada is dope btw

I've thought about/wanted to get a cheapo Squier Tele for a long time, but something else always came along instead. Now I'm thinking I want to set a few bucks back for a while and pick up the Isbell Mexican Tele that just dropped. Hope it's not a super limited run and they're still around in 2022, because that's the one!

xxp yeah he was really just building radios and speakers which happened to pick up string vibrations instead of AM waves

and Johnny you'll always be able to pick up a used sunburst Fender Japan TL62B and put a black pickguard on it, those guitars are awesome.

I have a Squier thinline tele (70s vibe)

It is lovely and I like it

Now a part of the Telecaster* club

Refinished 1974
https://i.imgur.com/V4P65f6.jpg

oh wow that's gorgeous

I'm really wanting a tele bad lately. I'm getting my old strat back so I can finally sell it, at which point I will buy one.

that thing is sweet btw milo

thats a dream guitar right there milo

Damn, milo. Congrats!

how long ago was it refinished?

Just a few years, the refinisher reliced it. Apparently someone along the way had taken out the wide ranges in favor of EMGs (kept the originals luckily). The guy I got it from fixed the metal mistakes, had it refinished and refretted.

thats cool. looks great.

So cool, Milo. I always dug the look of those big-headstocked ‘70s Teles.

Some day I'd like to build a big-headstock Strat in Olympic White like Michael Karoli's.

Milo is that Inca Silver? Beautiful Deluxe. Would love to try those pickups.

Really like the color on that guitar, milo.

Cool guitar Milo

Yeah it's cool to see an old one that isn't natural/black/mocha. I looked at a bunch of those when I was looking to buy a guitar from 1974 (when I was born).

I feel like you don't see that style pickguard in white a lot - it's kind of an interesting look with the chrome screws and chrome pickups, something a little bit industrial or DIY about it in a cool way

Just a couple of cool clips I came across recently:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnQYoRYedF0

And this one I posted somewhere else, but don't want it to get lost in the shuffle:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DpIUdFFr3w

so this is the 1985 Fender Japan Tele from upthread - what colour do you think it is?
https://i.imgur.com/vYmbFn0.jpg