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NTD (New Tele Day)

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Picked this lightly relic'd Tele up this arvo, just put some new .010's on her and she's sounding twangy...

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Body is a nice heavy piece of ash, plus the neck is pretty chunky which I like. Not 100% sure what the pickups are yet, except that they're in the lower output, vintage-style domain :thumbup:

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What would you call that colour? It’s cool as fuck.
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Yellow.
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definitely yellow. oh and badly sanded. but yellow.
So, is that low alcohol or no alcohol at all? mmmm, no alcohol, do you want to try it? Noooooooooo.

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Bg wrote:definitely yellow. oh and badly sanded. but yellow.
I think if you relic-ed out quite a worn area where the elbow area is, it would put the rest of the relic-ing back into proportion.
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Yes and no. The wear just doesn't look natural? It would never get wear marks like that naturally, chips on the bottom yes, but wear marks? nah. I'm sure its a well made tele but it looks so badly faked. No offence meant, but the whole point of relicing is to make it look natural, and pretty much 90% of that is wrong :) Still its twangy! So thats all that matters :D
So, is that low alcohol or no alcohol at all? mmmm, no alcohol, do you want to try it? Noooooooooo.

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Bg wrote:Yes and no. The wear just doesn't look natural? It would never get wear marks like that naturally, chips on the bottom yes, but wear marks? nah. I'm sure its a well made tele but it looks so badly faked. No offence meant, but the whole point of relicing is to make it look natural, and pretty much 90% of that is wrong :) Still its twangy! So thats all that matters :D
Yeah, it's just a 'pick up and play' one that sounds decent, to my ears anyway. The fat neck is good - and it has frets unlike my worn out Strat :-)

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I do have a tele body thats being naturally relic'd down in my workshop. Nitro black. Its basically rattling around on my tool shelves lol. So everytime I go looking for something, it gets a new ding/chip ;) I reckon another year it will be almost a fifties custom shop model :D
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Bg wrote:I do have a tele body thats being naturally relic'd down in my workshop. Nitro black. Its basically rattling around on my tool shelves lol. So everytime I go looking for something, it gets a new ding/chip ;) I reckon another year it will be almost a fifties custom shop model :D
Maybe I can buy that body from you in a year and throw this one away!

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I'd have to spray it yellow, that is such a cool colour :)
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Single coil wrote:What would you call that colour? It’s cool as fuck.
Yeah I'd go with that 50's Fender type yellow. Have a feeling it will look better with a black scratchplate, à la Danny Gatton.

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Bg wrote:definitely yellow. oh and badly sanded. but yellow.
I think if you relic-ed out quite a worn area where the elbow area is, it would put the rest of the relic-ing back into proportion.
that's how it starts....
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philly wrote:
AiRdAd wrote:
Bg wrote:definitely yellow. oh and badly sanded. but yellow.
I think if you relic-ed out quite a worn area where the elbow area is, it would put the rest of the relic-ing back into proportion.
that's how it starts....
hahahah!!!! very true!!!!!
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Don't know where the majority of Tele's sit in terms of weight, but just chucked this on the scales as it felt on the heavier side. 4kg, around the same as my Les Paul :eh:

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Re: NTD (New Tele Day)

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That’s heavy.

Mind, people pick up my tele and say it’s light (low 3s).
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