So I went for it, got it yesterday afternoon for $1,299 on sale at Tom Lee Music, $1,599 at every other guitar shop in Southern BC. This is the one I'll be taking to the grave, without question the most comfortable guitar I've ever felt, and so damn beautiful in person. Ash body, maple fretboard, Custom Shop single-coils, chrome hardware, every inch of this guitar is just gorgeous.

Showed up to practise eager to break it in, a bit of uncertainty lingering in my mind regarding the pick-ups holding their own in a metal setting. It handled everything we threw at it no problem, the bridge pup especially handled thick distortion very well. I can't imagine a swap-out being necessary, totally exceeded our expectations, and I'm so glad.

Completely satisfied and madly in love. Proud to be reppin' the Telecaster family.

http://i.imgur.com/wSGXflP.jpg?1

My God, thats beautiful.

Sweet!

Acoustic
 

Martin acoustic guitar

A few months back the Martin D28 I bought new about 4 years ago suddenly opened up (broke in) and its true voice appeared. I haven't touched an electric since.

Tip if you buy a new acoustic. Every time you play it spend the last few minutes of every session strumming full bar chords pretty hard and letting them ring. The only way to break in an acoustic is to get everything really vibrating a lot - and over a period of time.

All I've really played is strats and teles. I like strats with light, warm-tone strings, set in the neck pickup. Put on a short delay and some fuzz, amd the guitar doesn't matter anymore as long as it's of some minimal quality.

What even is that thing? It's like a Jaguar knocked up a Strat in a junkyard...

It's a Vox Invader:

Vox V262 Invader Guitar | Andy Babiuks Fab Gear

Is that a bottle opener between the bridge and the faux bigsby?????

Holy **** lol, it has a hand-controlled wah built into it.

Not sure what the heck that thing is. I just use a lighter. :D

I kind of want one now. Here's a vid:

Looks like in the video he pushes down on that bottle opener to control the wah effect.

That was my original thought, but I didn't catch that in the vid, so I didn't mention it. Nice catch. Reading through some of the reviews, it seems that if the components go out, you're screwed since they stop making replacement electrical components 20 years ago, unless you're an electrical engineer. Then you'd at least have a prayer.

Even then, all of the effects are sealed and encapsulated into a single module:
But regardless, if anything that just makes the remaining working models rarer and even more valuable. I wonder how many of these are out there, I've never seen one before now.
I'd love to try one.

Thats the exact statement I read. Unless I was exceedingly rich, using one in a live situation wouldn't be an option (because of the many unforeseen factors that it entails), but yeah I'd love to take one for a test drive.

I love all these weird '60s guitars with the in-built electronics. I think they look mega. Undoubtedly a pain to uphold though.

Plus they end up hogging out a lot of the body's wood to fit everything - which often times ends up negatively affecting tone.

So, I'm visiting relatives in Spokane, and it turns out my (super rich) aunt just bought the most expensive strat she could get. It's ****ing insane, I swear to god.

Can she play it?

I think kinda sorta, but not while I was there.

Guitorgan!

Thats cool. I'm thinking of getting one of these very soon.

Awesome! The Farfisa Compact Organ effect sounds really Psychedelic!

Favourite guitar for me is a telecaster....In looks, sound and how it plays. I love mine, I'm so used to it now it's weird to pick up a different guitar....I use it pretty much exclusively over my others (epiphone dot, epiphone sg)

Telecasters RULE. The perfect middle ground between a Strat and Les Paul.

Mine.

http://donniebshawn.com/pics/kbb3.JPG

Is that an ash Tele? Very nice finish there.

I succumbed and ordered a Squier Classic Vibe '50s Telecaster just the other day. Relatively reasonably priced and the reviews of it were excellent.

280 year old reclaimed pine.

http://donniebshawn.com/pics/kbb5.JPG

Very impressive -- must give great tone.

My humble Squier Tele is just plain ol' pine body. But it's nice to have a Tele-ish guitar again (the Tele I had as a teenager was a real American Tele).

http://www.dolphinmusic.co.uk/shop_i...e/50squier.jpg <-----Expecting the guitar, not the amp (although I'd love that amp). I purchased a used Fender 25R amp.

Sweet. Glad you went with the 3 saddle bridge which is the foundation of the telecaster's signature tone IMO.

I have the 52 rele with 3 saddle bridge. Worried about keeping it in tune before I bought it but that thing is solid.

[QUOTE=Chula Vista;1537141]Telecasters RULE. The perfect middle ground between a Strat and Les Paul.

Mine.



That's beautiful-I want that colour combo-Mine's a Mexican, wine red with white guard. I've swapped out the bridge for the Wilkinson 3 brass saddle one though....

Tele's stay in tune through anything...mine will stay in its case inbetween rehearsals (if I leave it at our room) for a few days, pull it out the case and it's fine.

Every time I see Chula's Telecaster I wake right up, it's absolutely gorgeous. I'm quite jealous of how pronounced the wood grain is, and especially of the knot in the wood. I do love my ash body American Std. Tele to bits, especially the wavy grain pattern, but I'd kill for a knot somewhere.

But of course that's the great thing about natural finishes, they're all quite unique.

http://i.imgur.com/KS2p5yv.jpg?1

Yeay, ribbons! At last you'll have a Tele-ish guitar again!

I remember you were wanting a Tele several years ago, when your dream guitar was the inca silver American made Telecaster with a rosewood fretboard and, ideally, a silver pickguard.

I'm delighted to learn that you'll soon have a Squier Tele so you can again make pleasantly jangly guitar tones *and* so your new acoustic guitar will have a friend. :)

Chula's 280 year old reclaimed pine body Tele and EPOCH6's ash body Tele (even without knots!) are beautiful. This thread threatens to reignite my little guitar obsession phase I went through several years ago. ;)

More Tele porn.

http://donniebshawn.com/pics/kbb8.JPG

http://donniebshawn.com/pics/kbb2.JPG

http://donniebshawn.com/pics/kbb6.JPG

Thanks, Erica! It was you who inspired me to dream about Teles again. Thanks so much for that. I went for the Squier Classic Vibe because at $380 it seemed a good deal for a Tele whose reviews seemed uniformly excellent. It’s supposed to arrive on Monday and I’ll post a pic although I suspect it will be KNOT-less and pale in comparison with Chula’s glorious 280 year old reclaimed pine body Tele and EPOCH6’s beautiful ash body Tele! ;)

I received the Guild M-120 acoustic, by the way, and absolutely love it. Such a nice woodsy sounding guitar. I had a used ’62 Gibson Hummingbird as a teenager, and although I loved its ringing tone and was tempted to go for an Epiphone Hummingbird now, I decided against it remembering that I had felt a little encumbered by the Hummingbird. The parlor sized Guild is perfect and very comfortable. Anyway, now that I have an acoustic and an (expected) electric, I feel set for the rest of my life! I’ll be an old lady in a rocking chair with two guitars and a 25 watt amp. :)

That is one beautiful Tele sir, and I love the strap too!

This thread has turned into a porn-ucopia of Teles! :laughing:

These look like they would be a bit awkward to play, but I dig the futuristic look...

http://i1058.photobucket.com/albums/...ps8d0b061e.jpg
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