Teleblaster

[ashstralia]

just got the old tele back from my luthier, dr.c. this guitar is now extensively modded. it has original vintage bridge, new jumbo frets, new nut, dimarzio fast track t, '95 u.s. neck pickup. the scratchplate is actually a dr.c. custom... compare it to a 'real' one you'll see what i mean. i've wired it up jeff beck style with a 5 way switch. it is now the ultimate shreddy tele tone beast. i fucking love it. sorry the photo's not that great.:)


http://i1234.photobucket.com/albums/ff418/davej253/tele.jpg

[ashstralia]

http://i1234.photobucket.com/albums/ff418/davej253/TELEBR.jpg

[Diamondjimi]

Kick ass, bro!

[ashstralia]

the thing fucking sounds amazing.... i'll put up a recording soon.

[jhale667]

Nice! :baaa: How does the bridge pickup sound, never heard a Fast Track?

[ashstralia]

i've got a pro track in my strat j, to my ear about the same... not as grunty as a full size humbucker, a little more upper mids. in single coil mode, very bright and twangy.

[ashstralia]

update; the tele has spent the last week or so with its neck overly relieved. in my experience, this speeds up the settling in period for the fretwork and makes any potential problems more apparent. i changed the neck pickup, cause i had another old one lying around which i thought would sound better. and it does. so today, i've been making little setup adjustments, tuning, then bashing the shit out of it.:) over and over. it's bedding in nicely, sounds phenomenal, and my fingers are very tender.

[Hardrock69]

Right on! Cool looking Tele. Though not my fave guitars, they are still classic guitars nonetheless.

[jhale667]

Right on! Cool looking Tele. Though not my fave guitars, they are still classic guitars nonetheless.

Yeah, they've never been my fave visually either, always thought it looked like an embryonic Strat :hee:, but they do have their own very distinctive tone, that I actually dig. :baaa:

[ashstralia]

they do have their own very distinctive tone, that I actually dig. :baaa:

me too! :biggrin:

[Hardrock69]

My Lead II has a pair of single coil EMGs in it....and when I plug it into my Marshall I get that same rabid, foam-at-the-mouth, snarling dog sound you get when you plug a Tele into an overdriven amp. :D

[VAiN]

Right on! Cool looking Tele. Though not my fave guitars, they are still classic guitars nonetheless.

Funny, I don't really dig strats, but I think a tele is super cool. I have a 91 (i think) Jap model and love it! Feels awesome and sounds great through the 5150 half-stack...

The teleblaster is a beauty! :baaa:

[ashstralia]

My Lead II has a pair of single coil EMGs in it....and when I plug it into my Marshall I get that same rabid, foam-at-the-mouth, snarling dog sound you get when you plug a Tele into an overdriven amp. :D

those lead II's are sweet axes too HR, love your description of the sound...:biggrin:

[ashstralia]

share the tele love, vain! :)

[Nitro Express]

Funny, I don't really dig strats, but I think a tele is super cool. I have a 91 (i think) Jap model and love it! Feels awesome and sounds great through the 5150 half-stack...

The teleblaster is a beauty! :baaa:

Wow. 5150 amps hate single coil pickups. That must be a mini humbucker in the bridge position.

[ashstralia]

Bump!

Just re wired the beast with best quality parts, and spent time making the wiring superneat.
Now The thing sounds almost impossibly huge!!

[jhale667]

Details, please....:bigwink: what'd ya get, CTS pots? Got a shot of the wiring cavity, per chance?

[ashstralia]

All U.S. gear J, yes! I shall show you when I get my lappy working again.

We get used to the sound of a humbucker with a locking trem; when you hear a couple of heavy slabs of wood with a different pickup arrangement, it's just a unique tone. I like that you have to fight it a bit to get a sound. But what a sound!

[jhale667]

True...I even have necks made to the exact same specs as my other guitars on my S/S/S non-Floyded Strat builds and they still feel and sound like completely different animals than the others with humbuckers and Floyds...

[ashstralia]

Yup. :biggrin:

[ashstralia]

Bumpola;

I slammed the beast for eight sets this weekend, With 11-49's on it. In standard tuning.
God my hands are sore. :)

[78/84 guy]

Right on! Cool looking Tele. Though not my fave guitars, they are still classic guitars nonetheless.

Watch Roy Buchanan play one on You Tube ! You might change your mind. Danny Gatton could rip on one also. But then again I never loved em myself. The Van Halen Music Man I have reminds me of a modified Tel.

[ashstralia]

so here she is 22 months later, with some miles on the clock and smiles in the rearview. by far and away my favourite solidbody, she shrieks, growls, barks, but can also sound like a choir of virgins sticking to C major.

10388

[ashstralia]

i discovered a serendipitous fuck up i did.

whenever a neck pickup combo is selected, if i touch a string to the metal cover of it, it acts as the cleanest quietest cut out i've heard.

i discovered this demonstrating 'neck pickup as 24th fret' to a fella.

so i've raised the pickup to make it easier to do. :first:

[ODShowtime]

My mid 90s tele' looks a lot like yours but it has plain white a pickguard and a rosewood fretboard. I have some quarter pounders in there. She's a good bitch. I like playing open G on her. Not the best for leads but awesome for chords, especially open ones.

[ashstralia]

cool man; put up a pic, OD!!

[flappo]

i discovered a serendipitous fuck up i did.

whenever a neck pickup combo is selected, if i touch a string to the metal cover of it, it acts as the cleanest quietest cut out i've heard.

i discovered this demonstrating 'neck pickup as 24th fret' to a fella.

so i've raised the pickup to make it easier to do. :first:

that almost sense , faggot

almost

[ashstralia]

^^^ lolwut?? almostsense

[Hardrock69]

I discovered Roy Buchanan back in 1978 when his album "You're Not Alone" was released. KISW in Seattle played the title track constantly.

Though even he cannot change my mind about Teles. Flying V's are my favorite axe. No Tele or player of a Tele can change my mind. :D

Glad you got the beast roaring there, Ash! ;)

[pogba]

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