Question for Tele/Strat players

[Jammin'John]

I love G&L's too !
I play 2 of their Tele's and one of my partscasters has ASAT Classic pups in it.
Very powerful P-90ish pups that drive my amps hard and clean up nice when I roll back the volume.


JJ

[Structo]

Thanks for the kind words, It's a solid body, but not too heavy, western alder body w/ soft maple top. Cutaway on the back. Here's another I built a few years back, with the same maple plank on top. This one has a solid rosewood neck, and g&l pu's.

That is cool!

Quite a different take on the old Tele design.

I like it!

Those Quilted boards look deep as the ocean!

What brand of clear nitro do you like? HVLP gun?

[Ron Worley]

Hey Ron...... That sort of made me think?

Should I be asking a certain Surgeon for any useful looking "leftovers"?

Errr.... YES! Do you mean Dr. Andy T or Andy G?????

Ron

[butwhatif]

Quite a different take on the old Tele design.

I like it!

Those Quilted boards look deep as the ocean!

What brand of clear nitro do you like? HVLP gun?[/quote]

That maple is the best eastern curly I've ever had. Bought it 20 years back. Not quite quilted in my book, usually the quilted stuff has circular patterns, I have some nice western quilted. I also have some killer suuuper curly yellow birch. I use different nitro brands, behlen, star, mohawk, sherwin, I like to mix them -the nitro on those guitars was a mix of star, and mohawk hi solids laq. I use an old low press gun, and sherwin dye stains.

[Structo]

Yes I suppose curly maple would be a better descriptor.

It seems to be a locale thing, some areas call flame maple, fiddle back and others call the curly stuff quilt.

Yours is kind of in between, in a good way.

I'd love to make some bodys but am a little stretched for space.

The wife gets upset when I mount my drill press on the kitchen table.

[selloutrr]

If you get a chance try the nashville telecaster, they are very lite and hang comfortably all night. it's a telecaster body with a middle single coil pickup and can pull both strat and tele tones. they are resonably prices well under a $1000 w/ a case NEW. I bought mine for $300. they also make a nashville version with a fishman pickup in the bridge so you can do a fair acoustic tone as well. it's not all twang you can roll the tone back and loose the nashville!!!!

[stelligan]

If you get a chance try the nashville telecaster, they are very lite and hang comfortably all night. it's a telecaster body with a middle single coil pickup and can pull both strat and tele tones.

+1
I own one and rewired it to be a regular tele in the first 3 switch positions - then neck + strat, and strat middle alone. IMHO it was contrary to have the strat pickup wired in between the 2 Tele pickups. It robbed you of a classic Tele tone. Cool guitar - even cooler for me now