The Guitar Pron Thread

[JSB 677]

23 minutes ago, Celery Man said:

I pity anyone without this set 

 

 

I've got the tele, but still need the strat. Have pity on me and give me one

Edited July 8, 2022 by JSB

[Bogeywon 2548]

Listen I have fenders some are cool but Gibson and PRS are just more versatile  

[Deej 77840]

3 minutes ago, Bogeywon said:

Listen I have fenders some are cool but Gibson and PRS are just more versatile  

[AnotherUTFan 9990]

Listen I have fenders some are cool but Gibson and PRS are just more versatile  

You do you, boo.

[Handcruser 2815]

New drummer showed up at open mic tonight.

Who set that kit up?

[tbone_ 14451]

Who set that kit up?

That I do not know

[Deej 77840]

47 minutes ago, Handcruser said:

Who set that kit up?

I didn't even notice the kit.

[AnotherUTFan 9990]

If this was just one off the shelf someplace you'de shrug it off. This was missed, got past whatever QC they have at that plant, all the way to being featured on their website... a d its still there! If it was just a one off hanging on a rack somewhere you'd just suggest it off.

On the partscasters I've built, and for the replacement tuners I installed on a G-Force'd Gibson, I have a method. I install them with the bushings and nuts finger tight, then use this magnetic straight edge on a level I own to line everything up perfect before drilling anything. Im not mass producing or anything, but if I can come up with a simple idea like that you'd expect Fender to have a jig or something to line them up straight every single time. Its just a small off at the screw point, but transfers to a pretty significant off once you get to the actual bean tuner.

Or maybe its their calculated move to get you to spend the extra dough for a Fender USA.

[tbone_ 14451]

[G650 14438]

.... Damnit wrong thread

Edited July 9, 2022 by G650

[Bogeywon 2548]

16 hours ago, Deej said:

I can play anything on my PRS and LPS. Try dropping to D or playing metal on a fucking strat. 

[Deej 77840]

1 minute ago, Bogeywon said:

I can play anything on my PRS and LPS. Try dropping to D or playing metal on a fucking strat. 

Good luck with that crappy single coil sound on your coil split humbuckers.

Tele will handle metal. 

[tbone_ 14451]

I can play anything on my PRS and LPS. Try dropping to D or playing metal on a fucking strat. 

Dave Murray does ok, but still valid point

[G650 14438]

33 minutes ago, Bogeywon said:

Try dropping to D or playing metal on a fucking strat. 

[G650 14438]

I actually just scrolled up to see the original comment that Les Pauls are more versatile than Fenders. Man, that's a take I guess.

[Chad Fuck 18136]

This whole conversation seems like I’m taking crazy pills, coming from a bunch of guys who would gladly take all three. I mean the Tele, Strat and LP are the damned Holy Trinity of rock guitar.

[noharleyyet 2865]

[Bogeywon 2548]

1 hour ago, Chad Fuck said:

This whole conversation seems like I’m taking crazy pills, coming from a bunch of guys who would gladly take all three. I mean the Tele, Strat and LP are the damned Holy Trinity of rock guitar.

I Love them all. I just think you can do more with a LP or a PRS. Blues rock metal punk all that shit. 

[jimmyjazz 47219]

Arguably the two most influential, iconic rock guitarists of all time primarily played the following guitars:

Jimi Hendrix -- Strat

Jimmy Page -- Les Paul, Tele

 

[G650 14438]

50 minutes ago, Chad Fuck said:

This whole conversation seems like I’m taking crazy pills, coming from a bunch of guys who would gladly take all three. I mean the Tele, Strat and LP are the damned Holy Trinity of rock guitar.

 

Yeah I mean this covers the vast majority of the rock tracks everyone knows. I've owned all three almost from the time I started playing, they each have their place. I don't see why anyone would slag off any of them. I mostly was highly amused by the hot take that Strats aren't for metal, which flies in the face of like all empirical data, and the LP is more versatile than a Fender. The Strat has by far the most dynamic character of the bunch, and the Les Paul the least. Which isn't a knock. In my career I've probably played a LP 90% of the time, if not more like 95%, in studio and on stage. It fits my music better than the Strat. It pretty much does that one thing, and does it perfectly.

 

At the end of the day, there's essentially two solid body electrics, the LP glue necks, and the Fender slab body bolt necks. Everything else is just a derivative. Jackson, Kramer et al are just hot rodded Strats, ESP makes LP clones, etc... There's oddballs like Ricks, but they are not really a significant market share.

[jimmyjazz 47219]

2 minutes ago, Bogeywon said:

I Love them all. I just think you can do more with a LP or a PRS. Blues rock metal punk all that shit. 

Most good, experienced guitarists would say that the Tele is probably the most versatile electric guitar ever made.

[G650 14438]

1 minute ago, jimmyjazz said:

Most good, experienced guitarists would say that the Tele is probably the most versatile electric guitar ever made.

Eh, somewhat. You can't get the front/mid pickup sound on a Tele that you get on the Strat.

 

Jimmy Page also played a Strat by the way.

[Celery Man 21098]

I do know that if I had to choose between single coils and humbuckers to live with for the rest of my life, it’d be single coils.

[jimmyjazz 47219]

3 minutes ago, G650 said:

Eh, somewhat. You can't get the front/mid pickup sound on a Tele that you get on the Strat.

. . . as a counterpoint, I'd argue you can get much better overdriven crunch with a tube amp using a Tele on the neck pickup.

[G650 14438]

6 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

. . . as a counterpoint, I'd argue you can get much better overdriven crunch with a tube amp using a Tele on the neck pickup.

You can, but that's not a counterpoint.

[G650 14438]

9 minutes ago, Celery Man said:

I do know that if I had to choose between single coils and humbuckers to live with for the rest of my life, it’d be single coils.

My heart agrees with you.

[Bogeywon 2548]

49 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

Most good, experienced guitarists would say that the Tele is probably the most versatile electric guitar ever made.

Play the deftones on it. You can’t. I’ve tried. They do a lot but not everything. My PRS Custom 24 covers everything except a tele sound. The tele is a league of its own when it comes to blue grass country that I’ll admit my PRS can’t get that twang. 

[jimmyjazz 47219]

39 minutes ago, G650 said:

You can, but that's not a counterpoint.

Pedant much?  I'm just pointing out something the Strat can't do, much as you pointed out what the Tele can't do.

Personally, I find the Strat excels at that bluesy-lead guitar thing, where most of the work is picking as opposed to strumming.  I have always felt full chords, particularly open chords, on a Strat have an odd ringing harmonic that I call the 'piano tone", and I don't like it.

Hasn't stopped me from owning a half dozen Strats, though, even though I'm a shitty lead player.

[Celery Man 21098]

Without weighing in on whether a tele is more versatile than a strat, you can’t get the 2/4 position quack sound on anything but a strat, including a cu24

[G650 14438]

5 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

Pedant much?  I'm just pointing out something the Strat can't do, much as you pointed out what the Tele can't do.

Personally, I find the Strat excels at that bluesy-lead guitar thing, where most of the work is picking as opposed to strumming.  I have always felt full chords, particularly open chords, on a Strat have an odd ringing harmonic that I call the 'piano tone", and I don't like it.

Hasn't stopped me from owning a half dozen Strats, though, even though I'm a shitty lead player.

You misunderstand me. Yeah, you "can" make a Tele have a "better" crunch on neck, but you also "can" make a Strat have a "better" crunch. Better is a nonsensical word, it can only be more appropriate for what you are doing or less appropriate.

 

I'm definitely not telling you what to like or anything. Whatever tickles your ear is it man. I'm certainly not gonna downplay a Tele, a Tele through a '59 Bassman is instant orgasm.

 

17 minutes ago, Bogeywon said:

Play the deftones on it.

The important thing is what does your music sound like on it? The Deftones, or any other dudes sound is from that guys fingers. Gear is a distant second on tone. I play through an almost copy of Slash's rig live but fuck if I sound like Slash.

 

Anyway there's plenty of heavy Tele. Jim Root plays a Tele.

[Celery Man 21098]

I play a danelectro through a pignose and sound like Jeff Beck 🤷‍♂️

[G650 14438]

3 minutes ago, Celery Man said:

I play a danelectro through a pignose and sound like Jeff Beck 🤷‍♂️

Need a guitar tech to pickup your cast off groupies?

[dcbc 14644]

Are you guys trying to argue that we should settle on one guitar?  Because I'd rather have a bunch.

[Butch Had Not 3061]

I saw a cheap lefty squire tele at GC yesterday.  I should buy it and settle the debate. 

[G650 14438]

1 hour ago, dcbc said:

Are you guys trying to argue that we should settle on one guitar?  Because I'd rather have a bunch.

This is the way

[jimmyjazz 47219]

54 minutes ago, Butch Had Not said:

I saw a cheap lefty squire tele at GC yesterday.  I should buy it and settle the debate. 

Uh, yeah.

[Butch Had Not 3061]

1 hour ago, jimmyjazz said:

Uh, yeah.

It gone.

[AnotherUTFan 9990]

Slacker

[tbone_ 14451]

Dumbest argument of all time. Because there is a very simple solution that has been implemented by a vast number of guitar players since the beginning of time (well the 50s at least)

[dcbc 14644]

I believe balance, at least in my music room has been achieved with the following formula:  3 teles, 1 strat, 1 LP, 1 ES335, 1 SG, and a PRS Hollowbody II.

[tbone_ 14451]

I believe balance, at least in my music room has been achieved with the following formula:  3 teles, 1 strat, 1 LP, 1 ES335, 1 SG, and a PRS Hollowbody II.

Great logic but so many words

[jimmyjazz 47219]

23 minutes ago, Butch Had Not said:

It gone.

Way to go, asshole.  Now we don't have a new guitar.

[dcbc 14644]

1 minute ago, tbone_ said:

So many words

I have littered this thread with pictures, and I will again.  But there won't be any family portraits tonight because I try to avoid my wife's seeing them all out at once.  It leads to questions.

[tbone_ 14451]

I used to have all 9 of mine hanging on one long set of hangers in my office for the whole world (wife) to have to deal with on a regular basis.

But I’m divorced now so don’t go by me.

Although come to think of it the main living room is my practice area now, while I stare out the window at the mountains.



So on second thought, maybe do go by me.

[dcbc 14644]

My older son got his wall hangers up.

[tbone_ 14451]

My older son got his wall hangers up.

Oooh. That’s a nice little collection.

[dcbc 14644]

I used to have all 9 of mine hanging on one long set of hangers in my office for the whole world (wife) to have to deal with on a regular basis.

But I’m divorced now so don’t go by me.

Although come to think of it the main living room is my practice area now, while I stare out the window at the mountains.



So on second thought, maybe do go by me.

Mine are in cases in the bedroom with the strat in the stand. It's obvious enough.

[dcbc 14644]

5 hours ago, tbone_ said:

Oooh. That’s a nice little collection.

He's on a hunt for a tele or an LP Jr./Special.  That little Epiphone LP Special was his first electric, and he's keeping it.  The strat is an 89.  The Jag is a 2010 Japanese import refinished.  I like the humbuckers on it. 

Edited July 10, 2022 by dcbc

[G650 14438]

7 minutes ago, dcbc said:

He's on a hunt for a tele or an LP Jr./Special.  That little Epiphone LP Special was his first electric, and he's keeping it.  The strat is an 89.  The Jag is a Japanese inport refinished.  I like the humbuckers on it. 

I was gonna ask about the Jag.

 

My '72 Les Paul and my early 60's Melody Maker literally sit in the corner leaned against a wall. I keep the rest of them in the cases

[DougO 5266]

10 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

Arguably the two most influential, iconic rock guitarists of all time primarily played the following guitars:

Jimi Hendrix -- Strat

Jimmy Page -- Les Paul, Tele

 

 True, but Jimi had to play his upside-down to make it work and Jimmy slapped his guitars with a violin bow.