The Jazz Telecaster

[KNNZ]

Discuss

[robthemac]

Discuss

I'm a fan.

I'm contemplating making a series of Telecasters with non-Fender specs. E.g. '55 Goldtop Tele (TOM bridge, P-90s, gold finish, block inlays), Gretsch Tele (hollow-body, Filtertrons, Bigsby, sparkly finish, matching headstock), maybe a PRS with carved maple top and a 3+3 headstock. This Jazz Tele has given me some further inspiration.

[GrantB]

So, is a set-neck mahogany bodied, flame maple topped, rosewood board, humbucker x 2, 6 a side peg head guitar a Telecaster if the body is shaped like a Telecaster?

[quyet]

more mutt guitars

[mrmofo]

Dentists; put down your Drills

[robthemac]

So, is a set-neck mahogany bodied, flame maple topped, rosewood board, humbucker x 2, 6 a side peg head guitar a Telecaster if the body is shaped like a Telecaster?

Yep.

[robthemac]

But I'd do bolt-on.

[GrantB]

So, is a set-neck mahogany bodied, flame maple topped, rosewood board, humbucker x 2, 6 a side peg head guitar a Telecaster if the body is shaped like a Telecaster?

Yep.

The world has gone to heck.

[WellyBlues]

The world has gone to heck.

Where have you been?! that happened a long time ago.

[GrantB]

The world has gone to heck.

Where have you been?! that happened a long time ago.

[Lawrence]

So, is a set-neck mahogany bodied, flame maple topped, rosewood board, humbucker x 2, 6 a side peg head guitar a Telecaster if the body is shaped like a Telecaster?

My take is that If its made by Fender and named aTelecaster then its a Telecaster. This is a brand name after all.
If its not made by Fender then at best its "telecaster Shaped"

If Fender released a 24.5 inch scale strat shape with a mahogany body, figured carved maple top with two humbuckers and a hardtail...if they called it a Stratocaster then it is.

An exact to the millionth of a mm strat copy made by anyone other than Fender...is not a strat....its "strat like" at best...and a copy at worst.


my 2c.

[MogwaiBoy]

Not a Telecaster

[Slowy]

So, is a set-neck mahogany bodied, flame maple topped, rosewood board, humbucker x 2, 6 a side peg head guitar a Telecaster if the body is shaped like a Telecaster?

This is a deep philosophical question which has kept me awake many a dark night.

[GrantB]

So, is a set-neck mahogany bodied, flame maple topped, rosewood board, humbucker x 2, 6 a side peg head guitar a Telecaster if the body is shaped like a Telecaster?

My take is that If its made by Fender and named aTelecaster then its a Telecaster. This is a brand name after all.
If its not made by Fender then at best its "telecaster Shaped"

If Fender released a 24.5 inch scale strat shape with a mahogany body, figured carved maple top with two humbuckers and a hardtail...if they called it a Stratocaster then it is.

An exact to the millionth of a mm strat copy made by anyone other than Fender...is not a strat....its "strat like" at best...and a copy at worst.


my 2c.

See, I see a Telecaster as an object. An object that has specific characteristics that time has allowed us to own, by name, and to frame up what might be expected from something called a Telecaster.

[Jay]

I like the simplicity of this Jazzcaster, the covered metal tailpiece, the wooden bridge, pickup ring and pickguard. I like the headstock shape and its Waverley tuners. I like its construction, the angled neck and its 21 frets. What is there not to like about it? Only one thing, it should have been a set neck. So there!