Bye bye Tele

[onioner]

Yup, LP and Tele for me. I've got vague interest in a few other styles, but not really.

I had the opposite experience though. I'd always played LPs, then finally really tried a Telecaster, and loved it. I didn't get rid of the LP though. Gotta have both now. I guess, at the end of the day, I prefer the LP, but not by much. Telecaster's a great guitar. More of my favorite guitar players play Teles than LPs. Anyways... Congrads. Still, I betcha the day will come you'll get another tele, even if it is lower end. While I like a nice Telecaster, the price point for quality is less significant than with LPs. You really want a nice LP. A mediocre tele is pretty darned good.

 

[PeterJ]

... While I like a nice Telecaster, the price point for quality is less significant than with LPs. You really want a nice LP. A mediocre tele is pretty darned good.

Agreed. Because it's so basic and slabby, a Tele has to have serious flaws to be significantly less of an experience than a higher price point model. Plug the average one in and it will still sting like a bee.

I've just gone through a few pieces I wrote on the Tele on my LP and I'm finding things in them that weren't there before. This has to do with the scale of the LP as well as the tone. Again, I don't think I've graduated from the Telecaster (would that mean Jim Campilongo is still an undergraduate? I've just sought a different tonal character. And I've found it.

Also, over the years I find I'm not so sentimental about my instruments. If something doesn't work for me I'd rather someone else use it who can work with it. The closest I've come to really bonding with a particular piece was that Tele, though. But que sera sera. I hope the person who buys it finds a fraction of the pleasure I got from it.

PeterJ

 

[onioner]

Tele's try to isolate the tonal properties to strings, as much as possible (though the bridge and nut are significant components). The body is designed to have a minimal effect. Les Pauls are the other end of the extreme. Take any old Tele body, get a decent neck, strap some good hardware on their, drop in a great pickup, and you're done. Les Paul starts with a great piece of wood, is carefully crafted (and then is sadly often stuck with lousy hardware, and an awful nut). That's a lot more expensive to really get right, and anyways, you gotta have the whole thing put together before you even know how good it's gonna be. There are more ways that they seem to be at the extreme of the classic models, but the points made. It's just not as expensive to build a great Telecaster. I can't imagine ever payin' much more than a grand for a Tele, but there are several LPs out there that could I actually come up with the cash, I would be willing to drop a few grand.

The upshot is I have a Tele that I love, and a Gibson that I am perfectly happy with. There's a Gibson out there that I'd love, but short of hitting the lottery, I'm gonna have to settle for perfectly happy.

 

[Overture]

Congrats on the new Paul! Every now and then when i'm bored I start to stray and look at some PRS stuff, but then I pick up my paul and it's just like going home. It just fits.

 

[sapi]

Congrats on your new guitar and hope it helps you make some wonderful music. I found out I needed horses for courses, and kept my tele and strat. The tele is an AV '52 RI Hotrod and can't think of selling it. It is too good