[Closed] this guitar looks fab 🙂

Looks alright

Squire teles are quality instruments, the neck on my classic vibe 50s is a delight. I don't know what sort of music you play but most tele users prefer the single coil pickups and ash-tray bridge which give the characteristic tele sound.

tele's are awesome, i have one of these
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Does your ibby have a floating trem?

If so, you are changing one string at a time aren't you?

...and how often are you changing strings?

....admit it - you just fancy a new guitar 😉

The vintage modified series kicked ass when they first came out, I don't know if the standard's been maintained- ages since I picked one up- but they were a cut above the normal Squier range (either not-very-good affinities or too-expensive Standards). Very nearly bought the Tele Custom when it came out.

More or less stopped playing these days but definitely not selling my old korean squier tele, love it, better than a modern american tele. (prefer it to the CS tele I played!)

I have a vintage modified strat which is nice but its like a toy compared to my Gordon Smith which was about the same price albeit 2nd hand

Unless you specifically want a horrible cutting jingly-jangly sound with no body to it I'd avoid a Tele. I guess they look cool though. 🙂

Edit: ok it has humbuckers so I'm probably talking shit.

Unless you specifically want a horrible cutting jingly-jangly sound with no body to it I'd avoid a Tele. I guess they look cool though.

Google Roy Buchanan

Played a tele for years, regret selling it - I had a humbucker in the neck to balance the sound out a bit and get to more distinct voices, but the single coil neck has a charm of it's own for sure.
If you want simple, it's got it. I find it unfortunately highlights the gaps in my ability 🙂

I'd love a Gordon Smith, but I have vowed to stop looking at guitars as there's only one outcome once you start...

It's a three trick pony without any tone circuits. If the tone floats your boat and you like the neck then £225 ain't to be sniffed at. It depends on what type of music and tone you're playing.

Personally I wouldn't buy another guitar without playing it first, some people can pick anything up and it doesn't bother them. I'm a fussy bugger.

yeah... I tried one of these recently and wasn't keen, I don't know specifically what it was about it, it just didn't feel right to me. Maybe its the look? I have a Korean squire tele in black which has new electrics and new pickups in it, sounds awesome, but keeps breaking 🙁 mostly due to my shoddy solder work i think! I tried a few new teles for my birthday and settled with a baja in obvious blonde/ black configuration, thogh was quite tempted by the graham coxon signature model

Edukator - Troll

Squire teles are quality instruments

The Classic Vibe one's certainly are.
I keep popping into music shops and playing the 60's Strats, which have all been nice.

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Vintage Mod Telecaster Custom II.

The neck is great, one piece maple with an old fashoned radius.
Nice frets, lovely finish, nice headstock.
Mine's even got a bit of flame to it.

I think you buy the neck and they give you the rest free, tbh.
Pickups are fine, but the switches are a bit crap and the screws holding on the pickguard on have been fitted by a gibbon.

horrible cutting jingly-jangly sound with no body to it

Take me back 'ome - Slade (the intros to all the early hits too)
Stairway to heaven orignal - Jimmy page
Welcome to the Future - Brad Paisley
Elvis from the mid 60s on with James Burton on Tele
All the early Stanglers
Chrissy Hinde (now that is jangly)
Keef Richards

I love the tele sound.

Teles rule!

I'd like ago on one of those - but not sure it would be for me. I'm always fiddling with the tone controls on my guitars

CaptainSlow yes my ibanez has a zr trem system (double locking).i do change the strings one by one also 😉

have owned 2 squier teles in the past a tele custom (like rusty spanners,but with humbuckers) and a classic vibe 50's tele vintage blonde.

i do like my ibanez but want something simpler tbh (string changing especially).

i do love the look of the cabronita tele,but would like another cv tele again (as i did like my one a lot).

i may well go for the cv tbh and basterdize it a bit (fit a humbucker to it 😉

grum - Member

Unless you specifically want a horrible cutting jingly-jangly sound with no body to it I'd avoid a Tele. I guess they look cool though.

grum - Member

Unless you specifically want a horrible cutting jingly-jangly sound with no body to it I'd avoid a Tele. I guess they look cool though.

Jim Root from Slipknot and John 5 (Marilyn Manson, Rob Zombie) do not agree 😉 Keelar reeeefs!

^ They're not exactly regular telecasters - use active humbuckers which leave zero space for the rest of the guitar to affect the sound.

I have a Charvel 'telecaster', but to be honest, it's not really a telecaster

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Google Roy Buchanan

Oh and Gordon Smith eh? Got one of those. Very nicely made and not that expensive.

yourguitarhero - Member

^ They're not exactly regular telecasters - use active humbuckers which leave zero space for the rest of the guitar to affect the sound.

Nah, John 5 uses allsorts but generally not actives... Jim Root's signature model uses EMGs I think but that's a pretty recent development, he used to just use a bunch of pretty typical double fats. Always thought that was pretty cool, everyone else trying really hard with cliched ibanezes and accidentally cutting themselves on their specially sharpened BC Riches and that and he just carried on making a noise like satan's arse using a guitar that looked like your granddad's.