Hard Tail Strats?

[PUCKBOY99]

But Telecasters are ugly as sin.

BLASPHEMER!!!!!!

There is something extremely appealing to me in the simplicity of the Tele....ESPECIALLY with a transparent ash body!

Look at the beauty in my link below & tell me it isn't gorgeous!!!!!

[Robbiedbee]

BLASPHEMER!!!!!!

There is something extremely appealing to me in the simplicity of the Tele....ESPECIALLY with a transparent ash body!

Look at the beauty in my link below & tell me it isn't gorgeous!!!!!

I agree, I think that that blonde Teles with a maple neck (duh) and a black pickguard is just sexy. Blonde Tele

I'm GAS-ing over one really bad. Curse this forum and it's GAS-inducing conversations.

[PUCKBOY99]

I bought a black guard for mine a while back but haven't had the time to throw it on there.

It's a fancy carved leather one & I have the matching hardware, so I just need to sit down & do it.

Then I'll DARE ya' to tell me a Tele is ugly !!!!!!!

[ToshDog]

i like the sound of the tele, but i think they are kind of ugly. that's why i'm building a hardtail strat.

[shredaholic]

But Telecasters are ugly as sin.

i dont know about ugly (maybe the headstock), but they really dont do anything for me whatsoever

[Hoss]

a 3 pickup tele...not a bad idea

if i ever bought a strat that "block" idea would probably be the route i'd go as well...i like hardtails much better than trems!

[ErikH]

Blashphemy! Teles are beautiful. (However, colors that look great on strats just don't do it for me on teles... I tele needs to be black, burst or blonde)

or butterscotch.

One color that I love on both a strat and tele is the midnight wine. I have a MIA strat in that color and saw a tele a few weeks ago in the same color. It was beautiful and a perfect match to my strat, except is was MIM.

[ErikH]

BLASPHEMER!!!!!!

There is something extremely appealing to me in the simplicity of the Tele....ESPECIALLY with a transparent ash body!

Look at the beauty in my link below & tell me it isn't gorgeous!!!!!

Very nice Tele. I've been gassing for one for a while now. Can't buy one just yet but I'm either going to hunt down a used MIA or build a Warmoth Tele and stain the body a really dark stain and load it with the Jerry Donahue bridge and Hot Rhythm neck.

[Blue Calx]

Hardtail Strats are pretty sweet! The fixed bridge and the rosewood fretboard (and the pretty reasonable price) are the reasons I bought the Delonge model when it was still available. Sold the Invader and fixed it up but good! :-D


buuuut, I do believe y'all're talking about American Strats, so I'll bow out here.

[Kamanda~SD]

Doesn't everyone man? That is the alltime classic guitar. Whether it's Clapton, Dave Murray, or the guy playing at the bar it's just a timeless looking guitar. I mainly use the trem for feedback which is why I like having it there. It offers more possibilities than a hard tailed instrument.

I got one!

Although if I was buying new, I wouldnt get it just because of those 2 and more artists. But it was used...and I couldn't be happier.

[ArtieToo]

Hardtail Strats are pretty sweet! The fixed bridge and the rosewood fretboard (and the pretty reasonable price) are the reasons I bought the Delonge model when it was still available. Sold the Invader and fixed it up but good! :-D


buuuut, I do believe y'all're talking about American Strats, so I'll bow out here.

I'm not positive, but I don't think the Cray is American. The price just seems too low to be MIA. (I don't mean the signature, just the "standard".)

btw - I'm in the process right now of converting my 3-pup Tele-clone to a more conventional configuration, with a JD and an AII Pro.

[PUCKBOY99]

Very nice Tele. I've been gassing for one for a while now. Can't buy one just yet but I'm either going to hunt down a used MIA or build a Warmoth Tele and stain the body a really dark stain and load it with the Jerry Donahue bridge and Hot Rhythm neck.

Thanks Bro....can't wait to get the free time to throw the El Dorado stuff on it!



Artie, they've got both an American & Mexican Robert Cray.....bit of a price difference though:

http://www.music123.com/search/?src=robert+cray+strat

[PUCKBOY99]

After reading that more, the MIA is actually a Custom Shop Signature model

[PFDarkside]

or butterscotch.

One color that I love on both a strat and tele is the midnight wine. I have a MIA strat in that color and saw a tele a few weeks ago in the same color. It was beautiful and a perfect match to my strat, except is was MIM.

Yeah, that's what I mean. The color of all the old 50's teles and the '52 reissue. I need one I think.

[pinto79]

I had an ESP Jake E. Lee signature that was a Hardtail. I dig the hardtails, because if I wanted to wammy, I'd use a Foyd.

[theodie]

BOO!!! Hardtail Strats are just sexy Tele's...I think that they are just goofey, the only reason I started playing Strats is so I could use the bar...that said I do relize that mosr people (at least on here) do not use the bar...

Thats sooooo GAY!!!!!!



Hardtails RULE!!!!!! If ya want to wank a bar, get a Floyd!!!!

[Empty Pockets]

My hardtail Strat resonates more and has more mids than my trem-equipped fender. just sayin.

-X

[Baltar]

i'm currently building a hardtail-strat on my own.
the body is going to be natural (oil-waxed) ash. i bought a schaller 3d bridge
and am going to use a tortoise pickguard.

i post pics when it's done (hopefully in sept)

[Jonny R]

a 3 pickup tele...not a bad idea :laugh2

I got me one of em, with SD stacks in it, and a pull-pot to get the bridge-neck combination:

[Baltar]

Johnny Hiland is playin a 4 pickup-Tele.
I like the Idea too