Stratocaster or Telecaster preference

[Molly]

Ergonomically Strats but the right Tele, the best Tele, would win-out over the best Strat. Just more versatile and a far better bridge pickup sound.

IMHO.

[jeremyb]

I love them both but for different reasons. The Teles bridge pickup destroys the Strat, and the Strats neck pickup destroys the tele. For any other single coil needs, P90 & Goldfoil.

You should try my tele out, has the best of both worlds! Just arrange that lunch with the family!!

[Reg18]

Tele......but with 3 pickups and a 5 way selector!

[Zaulkin]

Used to always prefer strats. But after giving Teles a proper go, I may have been swayed. The tele is such a great backup instrument - Vintagey/twangish sounds on the bridge pickup, that weird middle position, a nice round sound on the neck pickup, and hardtail makes it solid as. Teles seem to do the jazz thing much better in the neck position, strats are just too thin...

On the other hand, nothing beats the funkiness of a strat. Gotta have both!

[Molly]

I wonder if the simplicity of the Tele focuses the player on the music rather than tones. You'd maybe see a Tele as a more common composition instrument. Well, maybe.

[Single coil]

Tele.

[KNNZ]

i prefer both

[StratMatt]

I like strats for noodling on at home, but teles kick ass when your jamming. Strats never punch through enough.

[Bg]

I want to elaborate. There is nothing more versatile than a strat - its the swiss army knife of guitars, especially with tappable humbucker in the bridge. It does a great approximation of every other guitar but no other guitar can sound like it, in 2 -4 positions.

Tele does tones no other guitar can do, even the strat. I came to that late in life. The neck pickup on a tele is a wonderful thing. And the bridge is such a great powerchorder.

so get both.

nb: my hearing is shot to shit.

[Slowy]

I've never owned a 'real' Tele. I've had one old Tokai and two I built myself.

The electric guitar I most regret is a Fender Nocaster I met nearly 20 years ago. Impossible price but I still think of it today. (Should have bought it; the marriage ended in divorce 2 years later anyway.)

Can't develop any real passion for Strats but I'd hate to be without a good one. As Bg says, Swiss Army Knife.

[MrDINO]

Strat for me ... I LOVE tele's if Jeff Beck is holding it but I have never really got on with them

I’ve always been fascinated with JBs playing technique. Whatever he seems to play comes to life.

[GrantB]

Telecasters are simple devices with less "stuff" to interfere with the sound.

[werdna]

My favourite guitar is a telecaster with a strat neck and two humbuckers.

[kwhelan]

My favourite guitar is a telecaster with a strat neck and two humbuckers.

so not a telecaster at all then

[kwhelan]

Telecasters are simple devices with less "stuff" to interfere with the sound.

yes but strats would outnumber tele on favourite sounds recorded by a long shot
David Gilmour hendrix,SRV or Mark Knophler on a tele?
I love tele for sure but apart from country they are a minority in the modern recorded world, which is probably why hipsters are switching to them