Tele Love

[Stike]

I love Badger's Tele's, here's mine.

 

[eightyfour]

 

[belgian]

21 posts and no T51's yet ?

 

[JohnnyB]

My modified G&L ASAT Classic Semihollow:

I managed to wangle a FWFP G&L neck pickup (they normally are RWRP, and weren't sold separately at the time) and had Mike Lull do the routing and wiring. The volume knob is a push/pull, enabling this jangle baby to give me all 7 pickup combinations. It does the Tele thing and it does the Strat PU combos as well, but with Tele jangle and tankiness.

For all that, the middle PU alone is great for OD, and the neck PU alone is great for blues overdriven, or jazz clean.

 

[ArnieZ]

My first Hamer, retro-fitted with a Fishman bridge in CT shortly after the move from IL. 1 piece ash body!

ArnieZ

 

[adgc]

Do you have to know Morse Code to operate that Telegraph thingy behind the bridge?

 

[burningyen]

I ran the racks at my local stores before I found this one, a MIM Muddy Waters:

 

[Feynman]

Come now, surely there are many more 'teles' among us...

 

[mc2]

Kubicki 81 neck on an 80s double-bound Chandler Thinline Body w/o f hole

Fender Jorgenson

Aluminum Tele (body AND aluminum neck) mostly from parts I got from friends at Fender

Hamer Esquire, TLE and T51

Three longscale TLEs

 

[sixlicks]

1996 G&L

 

[pesocaster]

Rio loaded Warmoth Tele my current #1....

One I had for a while.....

Screaming Yellow Meanie (Back living with BruceM)

 

[bondedbybrick]

1992 USA Peavey Generation Series 3. Chambered Alder body, flamed maple cap, Bill Lawrence pickups and HAS Sound electronics. A mighty fine, Tele-looking guitar! Just not a Tele.......

 

[stobro]

Here's my T-51. Ash body, dark indigo blue that looks black under all but the most intense light.

 

[Sam]

Custom Shop Nocaster Thinline

CIJ '55

 

[santellavision]

Here's a Warmoth Tele that I put together. Kinda' cool.

 

[Sam]

Hey santellavision, is that an uncovered Fralin Blues Special in the neck position? I love the clarity of that pup.

 

[mirrorimij]

The first two T51 prototypes. Mine (#2 prototype formerly owned by Bill Kaman) is on the right and Dave B from Hamer owns #1 on the left (formerly owned by Frank Untermyer). I believe Dave's was the one used in the Modern Vintage ads.

 

[Disturber]

I've been playing these two all week. That broadcaster pup sounds so good when going into a cranked Super Champ. It has a booth edgy & creamy overdrive that just kicks butt.

 

[cspot]

Does this count? My first "tele" plays fairly good for $100.00!

 

[velorush]

Does this count? My first "tele" plays fairly good for $100.00!

Is that an Affinity Tele? Bought my daughter one for her first guitar a couple of years ago - think it was $179 new. I was blown away with the bang for $. Nice solid (three-piece) plank of ash. Only issue on the whole thing was the fret edges were a bit sharp. She doesn't play it - I've been considering getting it out and tweaking it a bit - pickups, through-body stringing, maybe a Warmoth neck...