For the Love of Telecasters. -photos

[Mikey Mike]

Okay, I'll play.

Two workhorses;-

2007 Baja. Added Seymour Duncan Hot Tele pickups. Stripped finish and wearing and ageing well. This guitar comes to and is played at every gig, has been dropped, had beer spilt on it and has never let me down.



Ably backed up by this 2004 MIM Standard, modded with black guard, SD Hot Tele pickups, vintage tuner and vintage style bridge. Suffers and is relied on like the Baja, love the midnight wine colour. Had a tough life before me and it continues



I have a partscaster made from an MIM Std neck, a Squier Classic Vibe Custom body, Lawrence Keystone pickups and also vintage style tuners



Squier Standard Telecaster in Antique Burst. Added Bare Knuckle Boot Camp pickups and a four way switch



Recently acquired Squier Affinity, bought in poor condition in a local charity shop, only lightly modded, bone nut, 4 way switch, cream guard and a good set up.

Your "poor" condition is better than any of my "mint" condition guitars.

 

[Lanaka]

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What are the last two Teles? I like the pickguard & control plate! Enuff to start thinking of using something similar design for a Deluxe Tele. I never did liked the Fender/Squier Deluxe Tele pickguards that covered the majority of the top deck.

 

[Chainsawcharlie]

Heres my lump of Swamp Ash
Harley Benton TE-52 its real heavy 9 pounds

I used to love Les Paul's now I cant stand them
I used to dislike Telecasters....Now I absolutely love them.
I like the sound, but the ease of modding
Bolt on necks rule IMO
I really like the distorted tone one minute
But a nice chime the other
TELE is great for that.

 

[gridlock]

Current.



Past, and probably missing at least another 12-15 Telecasters where I don’t have photos handy.

 

[Mikey Mike]

Current.

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Past, and probably missing at least another 12-15 Telecasters where I don’t have photos handy.

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Very nice!

 

[Mikey Mike]

Heres my lump of Swamp Ash
Harley Benton TE-52 its real heavy 9 pounds

I used to love Les Paul's now I cant stand them
I used to dislike Telecasters....Now I absolutely love them.
I like the sound, but the ease of modding
Bolt on necks rule IMO
I really like the distorted tone one minute
But a nice chime the other
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That is a very nice H.B. looks wonderful!

Lovin' the round overs for sure, gonna buzz the edges of my
latest just like yours.

 

[MichaelD]

It’s got stupid neck dive but darned if it isn’t my best sounding guitar.

 

[Exhead]

Left to Right

2015 Fender Modern Player Telecaster Plus Honeyburst - Unmolested

2020 Fender Vintera 60's Modified Tele LPB - Unmolested

2004 Custom Shop Time Machine™ 1963 Telecaster Neck with 2001 Fender Deluxe Nashville Power Telecaster Body Arctic White
Neck pickup: DiMarzio DP192FN Air Zone Pickup, Nickel Cover Resistance: 17.49 Kohm
Bridge Pickup: "Joe Barden" JBE Pickups Modern Tele Style Bridge Pickup 12/13
Active hot pickups
4Way Switch
Tone Stack

2013 Fender Tele MIM Neck with Squier VM Telecaster Special body in White (Looks Pink)
Bridge - Duncan Designed™ TE-101B Pickup
Neck - Dragonfire Pickup
Bridge: Vintage Style Three-Barrel String-Through-Body Bridge
Aluminum Pickguard: Owl Mandala laser engraved aluminum from GraffitiGarageArt on Etsy



2021 IYV ITF 300 Spalted Maple Tele - Unmolested



1999 Fender Nashville Deluxe Power Telecaster - Unmolested



1997 KV97 CIK Standard Telecaster Black - Locking Tuners & Graphtec String Trees

 

[Las Palmas Norte]

I'm down to 4 but it's a comfortable number and suits me fine.
Three Squier and one Fender. There's some gorgeous Telecasters in this thread.

 

[Robb]

Telecaster guitars are sooooooo sexy, please read this in a low baritone voice .

 

[the_dude]

I'm down to 4 but it's a comfortable number and suits me fine.
Three Squier and one Fender. There's some gorgeous Telecasters in this thread.

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I had the same black one (Squire Vintage Modified - Made in India). Let it go a few years ago, great guitar.

 

[the_dude]

My turn....

My #2 - my 1991/92 Fender Japan TL52

 

[65refinyellow]

1965, 68, 78, and early ‘90s USA teles

Blonde 1990 Squier MIJ tele

Fernandes 1990s butterscotch tele

When I was growing up as a rock guitarist my town only had a few country players using them and they were preferably Pre CBS and butterscotch. I was that lone tele guy and the fellow rockers were all strat, LP, SG, or Ibanez copies and later Ibanez and Jackson/Charvel shredders.

The tele “country guys” were the real guys and if anything after Cash, Denver, or Nelson it was anything goes for country, including Floyd Rose and anymore country was Taylor Swift, Brooks, Alabama, or similar which while not at all bad wasn’t the country music I knew based on Nashville or Bakersfield. They were all closer to pop rock and for a few years I played country and folk rock and pretty much recycled Led Zep riffs as a lead guitarist in new country. No issues, lol.

Older grumpy country old school guys thought there was no difference between Metallica and new country. Musically they were more right than wrong.

In recent years I read Gram Parsons was most responsible for the tectonic change after Cash and I fell in love with the latter Byrds. Gram is the dude!

 

[65refinyellow]

Most recent one in the 1990s.

And while not versed in new country of the last few decades, Taylor Swift is amazing nonetheless whatever the music historian’s’ description of her.

These days I am a strat guy who might pick up another type of guitar as a backup but live pretty much in the strat universe. The tele I like most is the Nashville Deluxe tele, so yeah basically nit much different than a nice hard tailed strat functionally, lol.

 

[Las Palmas Norte]

I had the same black one (Squire Vintage Modified - Made in India). Let it go a few years ago, great guitar.

Ya, not see very often for sale. Only made in Black or Olympic white. Reverse control panel, stack humbuckers, maple fretboard only. I don't get it out for a run too often.

 

[Sollophonic]

Your "poor" condition is better than any of my "mint" condition guitars.

Ah, that pic is after I gave it a good clean up, filled the dings and put two bridge saddles back on. As well as giving it a good setup

 

[Mikey Mike]

Ah, that pic is after I gave it a good clean up, filled the dings and put two bridge saddles back on. As well as giving it a good setup

You gave it a good going over!
Not buggered up at all... matter of fact:
It looks good enough to shag!
You know an Edit is coming soon as you read this!

 

[65refinyellow]

I'm down to 4 but it's a comfortable number and suits me fine.
Three Squier and one Fender. There's some gorgeous Telecasters in this thread.

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Not doing teles since the 1990s, unfortunately, but that black Squier Nashville 3 pup 5x position monster is righteous.

How did you mod that?

I want to do a Mason 4 way or regular 5 way with:

1) three pickups with in a setup of bridge, bridge and middle in series, middle, and neck,

OR

2) wired like a 5 way strat.

 

[Las Palmas Norte]

How did you mod that?

I didn't. It was offered by Squier. Vintage Modified SSH Telecaster

 

[the_dude]

Ya, not see very often for sale. Only made in Black or Olympic white. Reverse control panel, stack humbuckers, maple fretboard only. I don't get it out for a run too often.

I gave it away to a friend on my last move.... it was that or my Epiphone Japan SG70 (that I bought new in 1999) and the SG won. Too bad, that Tele was the guitar I player more often - but my SG was (and still is) closer to my heart.