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.

[ashstralia]

[Diamondjimi]

Kick ass, bro!

[ashstralia]

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

[jhale667]

Nice! 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 , but they do have their own very distinctive tone, that I actually dig.

[ashstralia]

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

me too!

[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.

[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!

[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.

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

[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!

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