What would a Tele Tune-o-matic sound like?

[Lincoln]

I was about to punch the string holes on a new tele body tonight when my mind wondered away on me.

If I was to mount an LP style Tune-O-matic bridge setup with dual humbuckers on a custom shaped pickguard.......what would I end up with? Fire wood?
Would I be violating any unwritten laws?
Anybody done this one? How did it sound?

:confused:

[martyb1]

I'm thinking it is going to sound like a Les Paul.I have not done it with a tune-o-matic bridge,but with dual humbuckers.Even that way they sound more like a Les Paul than a tele.It really depends on the sound you are looking for.I had a Contemporary telecaster,twin humbuckers.It was actually a real nice guitar.Didn't really sound like a tele though.:smile:

[Edutainment]

Yea it might be more Les Paul than Tele, but I don't think it violates any unwritten rules. I like seeing something different on a Tele. It's simplicity allows for a lot of modification.

[shoretyus]

Humbuckers would sound LP ish with out the advantage of 24 3/4" scale.

But it's your board cut it how you want. I love mini buckers in the neck position.

Why a tune-a- matic bridge? so you don't have to drill holes? Go top loader.


http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a365/shoretyus/guitar%20build/IMG_3915.jpg

[Lincoln]

Thanks for your thoughts guys :smile:

I'm gonna go with a strat hardtail style (thinline) bridge instead, and make a pickguard somewhere between a standard tele, a thinline, and ????
If it keeps raining, that will be today's project.

[Hamm Guitars]

A TOM bridge is a little taller than a standard Tele type bridge so you will have to pitch the neck back to compensate for it - unless you like high action. You could also get around it by countersinking the TOM bridge.

[hoser]

you'd wind up with a tele deluxe basically, minus the tune-o-matic.

http://leblog.exuberance.com/images/Fender-Telecaster-Deluxe-2790.jpg

[Milkman]

Humbuckers would sound LP ish with out the advantage of 24 3/4" scale.

But it's your board cut it how you want. I love mini buckers in the neck position.

Why a tune-a- matic bridge? so you don't have to drill holes? Go top loader.


http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a365/shoretyus/guitar%20build/IMG_3915.jpg

Looks like Wilkinson compensated bridge. I have one on a Franken Tele I built.

Nice bridge.

[Milkman]

I think humbuckers on a Tele are, well, undesireable.

Tele custom players would naturally disagree.

Give me singles on a Tele.

The TOM bridge could be made to work and I think it woukld have less of an impact than the pickups.

Just my opinion of course.

[Tarbender]

This is what a Telecaster looks like with humbuckers. It's a limited production model that Fender only offered for 2 or 3 years, the Fender Telesonic. It originally came with DeArmond pickups which have been swapped out. Lots of fun to play but sounds more like an SG than a Telecaster.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3036/2605116518_553ddf17c6_o.jpg

[Paul]

I think humbuckers on a Tele are, well, undesireable.

Tele custom players would naturally disagree.

So would Ed Bickert also disagree, but what the H&!! does he know?

I've never been a Tele guy, but most of the ones that caught my ear had a PAF at the neck. That seems to work to my tastes.

[Milkman]

So would Ed Bickert also disagree, but what the H&!! does he know?

I've never been a Tele guy, but most of the ones that caught my ear had a PAF at the neck. That seems to work to my tastes.


What would Ed know? How to play Jazz for one thing.

I could live with a mini bucker in the neck but I prefer two singles.

Did you know that single coils are cleaner than humbuckers?:banana:

[Lincoln]

This is what a Telecaster looks like with humbuckers. It's a limited production model that Fender only offered for 2 or 3 years, the Fender Telesonic. It originally came with DeArmond pickups which have been swapped out. Lots of fun to play but sounds more like an SG than a Telecaster.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3036/2605116518_553ddf17c6_o.jpg



Shameless copy of an LP in tele shape, but I like it. lofu

[shoretyus]

Looks like Wilkinson compensated bridge. I have one on a Franken Tele I built.

Nice bridge.


Yeah works great put one on my 66' to . A heck of a lot cheap than the Glendales they keep pushing over @ TDPRI ...

I love that mini. I was trying to replicate the 66' I have which also has a mini. The build I did of all those Tele's gave my my first a single coils.
:smile:

[Lincoln]

Well, I did finish it. Took everyone's advice and stayed Tele-true but with a humbucker in the bridge. Sounds fantstic!! Thanks everybody :bow:

http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o48/Davistator/blacktele2.jpg
http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o48/Davistator/blacktele1.jpg
:banana:

[shoretyus]

Sweet. Shiney too :smile:

[Lincoln]

Sweet. Shiney too :smile:

Thanks. :smile:

The sustain just seems to go on forever. Is that a trait of the "string though body" guitars?