Telecaster mod suggestions?

[Bg]

You're not really thinking of routing the bout are you??? I have a belt sander here and a decent rasp. Oh even better, I have some carving disks for my angle grinder, makes short work of it!

Also, can bypass your tone on the neck control, pretty quick fix for the price of a kilkenny.

[jimi]

I'd keep it stock, flick it on and get yourself a HSS strat

haha! no!


And why an HSS strat? What in all I posted makes people think I want a humbucker, a middle pickup, or more switching options for me to not use because I'm still going to knock the switch on a strat?

[sizzlingbadger]

Reverse the control plate (and swap the pots over) and learn to love the neck pickup. Stand up and you won't need the forearm relief.

[jimi]

You're not really thinking of routing the bout are you??? I have a belt sander here and a decent rasp. Oh even better, I have some carving disks for my angle grinder, makes short work of it!

Also, can bypass your tone on the neck control, pretty quick fix for the price of a kilkenny.

definitely wont be taking a router to it... maybe a replacement body with a contour in the distant future, but just tyre kicking ideas for now.

Might take you up on the soldering job though if I go that way! Cheers!

[robthemac]

You're not really thinking of routing the bout are you??? I have a belt sander here and a decent rasp. Oh even better, I have some carving disks for my angle grinder, makes short work of it!

Also, can bypass your tone on the neck control, pretty quick fix for the price of a kilkenny.

definitely wont be taking a router to it... maybe a replacement body with a contour in the distant future, but just tyre kicking ideas for now.

Might take you up on the soldering job though if I go that way! Cheers!

Give it a fair few hours play before making too many decisions! I was not a Tele fan for the first ten years of playing guitar. Weird ergonomics, controls in the wrong place, didn't dig the tone, etc. I fell in love with one (now in Voxshall's clutches), spent months playing it and now I am seriously considering replacing most of my guitars with a fleet of Teles. I've adapted my playing to suit them, and none of the stuff above bothers me.

But YMMV and all that.

[Bg]

I'm surprised you want to carve it with you coming from an LP background anyway Nothing in a tele that isn't in a LP, hard edge wise.

[Slowy]

Cut the body contours, no point in being uncomfortable.
Add a middle pickup and 5-way switch, you can always use more options.
Get a headstock with a bit more meat on it, it will help with sustain.
Add a trem, a bit of wobble is nice.
Extend the upper bout a little, it helps with the balance.
Move the jack socket to the side, it is easier to see what you are doing with the plug.
Add a third pot to give you more tone options.

Perfect Tele.

I'm trying to work out if this is a banning offence.

[Slowy]

I regularly knock the switch on my Teles. Just get good at flicking it back.
Neck pickup: I have 2 that are very satisfying. A Lollar Special T and a Twisted Tele. You're welcome to come round and see if they work for you.

[jimi]

Might take you up on that at some point! Cheers.

Quite tempted by the Black sand / Cruel Mistress combo. I see that guitar shop with My Glyn's demo guitars has moved about 5mins from work, so thats going to blamed for a few long lunch breaks.

[olegmcnoleg]

Cut the body contours, no point in being uncomfortable.
Add a middle pickup and 5-way switch, you can always use more options.
Get a headstock with a bit more meat on it, it will help with sustain.
Add a trem, a bit of wobble is nice.
Extend the upper bout a little, it helps with the balance.
Move the jack socket to the side, it is easier to see what you are doing with the plug.
Add a third pot to give you more tone options.

Perfect Tele.

I'm trying to work out if this is a banning offence.

It’s a fair cop

I’ll post a picture of my Tele in the Show Us Your Tele thread as penance.

[olegmcnoleg]

Cut the body contours, no point in being uncomfortable.
Add a middle pickup and 5-way switch, you can always use more options.
Get a headstock with a bit more meat on it, it will help with sustain.
Add a trem, a bit of wobble is nice.
Extend the upper bout a little, it helps with the balance.
Move the jack socket to the side, it is easier to see what you are doing with the plug.
Add a third pot to give you more tone options.

Perfect Tele.

Oh, and the tiniest dot of superglue on the switch tip, it will stay put, but you will still be able to pry it off when you need to

Well I never, there is such a thing

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[hamo]

Cut the body contours, no point in being uncomfortable.
Add a middle pickup and 5-way switch, you can always use more options.
Get a headstock with a bit more meat on it, it will help with sustain.
Add a trem, a bit of wobble is nice.
Extend the upper bout a little, it helps with the balance.
Move the jack socket to the side, it is easier to see what you are doing with the plug.
Add a third pot to give you more tone options.

Perfect Tele.

Oh, and the tiniest dot of superglue on the switch tip, it will stay put, but you will still be able to pry it off when you need to

Well I never, there is such a thing

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[jimi]

Well I never, there is such a thing

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Thats just a mutant Strat. I don't see much Tele DNA in there. Like just a great grandparent or something.

[The Scarecrow]

My old Thinline didn't have the traditional control plate. The 3-way angled blade switch swapped out for 3 way LP style toggle - waaaaay better.
Forget the tone knobs, and just have two volume knobs instead. Make sure one is a coil-tap so you could add a bridge humbucker in single-coil size if you want to get that LP chunk back, but retain the tele sounds - the SD Lil '59 will achieve this with a lot of dynamics. Change the neck pickup for a strat bridge pickup to match output, and you're away.

[bender]

Flipping the control plate around is such an easy (and excellent) mod. If BG can wire it so that the tone pot only affects the bridge pickup, it sounds like 2/3 of your problems are solved!