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Telecaster shape, the perfect design?

celtaidd	Date: September 5, 2006 @ 9:39 PM I used to always drool over a "Superstrat" design, but maybe its an age thing. Isnt the "Tele Shape" perfect from the K.I.S.S. principal (Keep It Simple Stupid) ?
hate9wicket	Date: September 5, 2006 @ 9:49 PM I would love to have a tele w/ a Fender Twin deluxe setup....oooh, or maybe a Vox AC30? Then again, I could be like Kevin Shields, and just find the cheapest guitar (Jaguar?) and make up for it with a really effing loud amp and hard to copy, yet easy enough to emulate(if you get my meaning) effect setup. Yet again, then again, I thought I sounded pretty decent w/ a P.O.S Peavey w/ a tiny 15 watt Crate w/an overdrive foot switch, with just a phaser and chorus pedal.
LiQuidMetamo...	Date: September 6, 2006 @ 5:04 AM It's a matter of personal taste, but I personally prefer Strat shaped guitars, they just seem to co-habit with my body better - I have a Yamaha strat shaped guitar that fits well and sounds good with 2 single coils and a humbucker. Another guitar that 'fits' me quite well is the Gibson S.G. shape rather than the Les Paul (although I love the sound of Les Pauls).
EchoMinor	Date: September 6, 2006 @ 10:31 AM i love teles, i got into them after listing to alot of tom petty. petty loves using teles, and the sound is beautiful.
Rikki27	Date: September 6, 2006 @ 10:57 AM Im more of a strat man myself but i do find teles to have an easier reach than strats
GeneHilbert	Date: September 6, 2006 @ 11:40 AM Tele's are kewl..... it took a long time for me to appreciate them. The neck design and tone are unique to Tele's - they will cut through a dense mix like nothing else. My next guitar purchase will be a Tele....
EchoMinor	Date: September 6, 2006 @ 11:41 AM same here, well maybe a fender jazz bass.
zedsalt	Date: September 6, 2006 @ 12:03 PM I've always liked the Tele body, but I used to just absolutely HATE the headstock shape. Tele headstocks and the two most common body shapes for Rickies (the guitars. always loved the 4000 series bass shape) have all "grown on me" over the years. My fave Tele that I've ever actually played, though, is a '72 Custom Deluxe with its huge Stratstyle headstock, Thinline body, Wide Range 'bucker at the neck, and singlecoil mounted in the one-piece mounting ring/bridge/tailpiece. The range of tones..."classic with a twist" kinda tones...one can squeeze from that thing is really sweet.
BlackMage	Date: September 6, 2006 @ 2:29 PM I would love to have a telecaster-guitar some day. I just love the guitar shape and most of the necks I've tried are spectacular.
shouhei	Date: September 6, 2006 @ 2:34 PM I love the jazz bass body, it fits me pretty perfectly. I'd like to try one of those Rick 4000s, I've always had a soft spot for them.. however not for the ridiculous price. Would be cool to have stereo outputs though.
tsand19151	Date: September 6, 2006 @ 2:36 PM Although I consider myself a "Fender Man", I've never played a Tele in my life. Strats, Mustangs, Jazzmasters, P-Basses and J-Basses but never a Tele. Weird but true. Nothing against them, just never played one. If I were rich I'd have one in my collection for sure.....
LiQuidMetamo...	Date: September 6, 2006 @ 6:11 PM People regard Jimmy Page as a Les Paul man but the first Led Zep album was solely recorded using Telecaster (and he used Teles regularly in The Yardbirds) and he occasionally used them in later Zep recordings too but rarely used a Strat (he states the solo in Heartbreaker as a very rare time he used a Strat). One reason he moved from Tele as his main guitar was that a friend of his painted his Tele for him as a 'treat' and ended up wrecking it and then he famously bought Joe Walsh's vintage Les Paul and fell in love with that.
leflaw	Date: September 6, 2006 @ 11:59 PM I have 1960 tele. Cuts like a knife. A looks like a giant tooth.
GeneHilbert	Date: September 7, 2006 @ 10:19 AM LOL
Alecs	Date: September 7, 2006 @ 12:58 PM I personally can't stand the Tele body design. It may just be the naive teen talking, but it just feels like there's nothing there. They are excellent guitars, though
Snoogans775	Date: September 9, 2006 @ 3:07 AM yeah, tele's really do have "bite" oh I crack myself up.
celtaidd	Date: September 9, 2006 @ 3:22 AM Must admit, the Head does look like someone has tried to cut it square, but couldnt keep the sawcut level
petersadul	Date: September 19, 2006 @ 3:09 PM "Telecaster shape, the perfect design?" Yeap! It´s totally perfect. Beautiful, practical & sounds excellent. Only the original Fender broadcaster is more beautiful. It had that crazy "soapbox" thang. That looked awesome...
guitaroo	Date: September 19, 2006 @ 11:20 PM definitely a matter of opinion...I have never really liked tele or strat style guitars...love the Ibanez 'Wizard II' I really like the sound of les paul's but I can't stand the neck SGs are cool...if you find the right one...but definitely a matter of opinion
wailingmiserere	Date: September 20, 2006 @ 11:32 AM Teles are just beautiful. Such a perfect shape. The custom John 5 version is sexy as hell. http://www.fendercustomshop.com.au/images/0155500_md.jpg
Mojosnake	Date: January 6, 2007 @ 3:14 AM 57 thinline...oooooo thats a beauty semi hollow biting tone tab benoits pick who cold argue
JeraldHenry	Date: March 29, 2007 @ 11:50 AM Hmmm? Good question. I do love my Tele that I hot rodded but, then again I'm a real sucker for a good Fender Strat.

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