Electric Guitars

erik · Post by **erik** » 17 Sep 2000 5:59 pm

Most people play/own a 6-string electric. What is your preference?

I would suspect most own a Tele of some sort. It is certainly best suited for Country picking. My personal favorite is the Les Paul Special. I love those P90 pick-ups. I tried one out yesterday. The action and playability was very good. No fret buzz anywhere. It's tone and sustain was excellent. The price is right too... $460. Yes it is a genuine Gibson not Epiphone. Marked for clearence. The problem is it is black on black, which looks ugly. I can't understand why they would make it that way when cream pick-ups would look much better. Maybe i could buy it and swap out the covers. I *do* like that guitar.

JB Arnold · Post by **JB Arnold** » 17 Sep 2000 7:38 pm

I have a 70's blonde Telly that I'd never part with. I have a Les Paul as well, but you have to have both, cause you can't get anything to really sound like a Telly. I use a Squier Strat tuned the same as my Dobro for slide. Gives ya a real swamp sound, when use with fingerpicks.

John

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Jude James Shiels · Post by **Jude James Shiels** » 18 Sep 2000 6:14 am

My main guitar is a plywood Jap Squier Strat which I use for slide mainly, I've never had to change a thing since I first got it about 10 years ago, it tunes great, the sound of the pickups is as good or better as any Fender I have played. I am not the only person I know who thinks this about Squiers, as JB would agree with I am sure.

I also have an old Silvertone which I love, and a reissue Danelectro, both guitars are very similar due to being designed by Dan Armstrong, but there is something about a hollow body I feel that gives a beautiful mellow tone.

I have recorded with a Les Paul and a Marshall and after playing my strat on the road for a few years through a fairly battered tranny amp it was like not playing at all, the guitar played itself. I could get used to that if a Marshall wasn't so heavy and a Les Paul wasn't so tempermental

JB Arnold · Post by **JB Arnold** » 18 Sep 2000 6:47 am

Yeah, you can't beat those Squiers fro slide guitar. Set 'em up and they stay that way forever, and get great tone for a great price. I doubt I'd use one for normal play, but for slide, it's killer.

John

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Donny Hinson · Post by **Donny Hinson** » 20 Sep 2000 6:47 pm

I want one of those new "Stratacoustic" or "Telecoustic" guitars. I don't know why, I haven't played straight guitar in 30 years. I haven't heard or played one, it just looks like a neat guitar! By the way, I still have my old original '62 Jaguar. Anyone for "Surf Music"?

Jack Stoner · Post by **Jack Stoner** » 21 Sep 2000 2:32 am

My favorite was the 61 Gretsch PX6120, that I stupidly sold in 85. I have an old Grammer acoustic and a new Fender Nashville Tele. The tele has the tele sound and the out of phase strat sounds, without the hassle of the vibrato tailpiece. I have .009's on the Tele and it feels and plays good.

RickRichtmyer · Post by **RickRichtmyer** » 21 Sep 2000 2:38 am

I have a Strat that I bought new in 1958. I almost traded it once, but I won't ever consider that again. I had a Tele for a while, but it was too shrill for my ears.

I also have a Les Paul Deluxe. It's a pretty nice guitar, but it stays in the case unless I want a really mellow sound for a recording project.

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Chris Walke · Post by **Chris Walke** » 21 Sep 2000 4:58 am

I have a Mexican Tele as my primary guitar, a reissue Danelectro U-2, and also play a reissue Danelectro U-1 for slide.

The Danos have a great sound, and have a huge dynamic range (the whisper to roar potential is fantastic), but they don't feel as good or sustain as well has my Tele. Fun guitars though, and the U-1 set up for slide is a blast. I also have a Jap Strat from about 1986 that I need to get set-up again to include in the "rotation." Its early retirement is over.

Bill Terry · Post by **Bill Terry** » 21 Sep 2000 8:36 am

#1 '62 Strat
#2 '62 Tele Reissue (the bound body Jap one) with Seymour Duncan pickups.

without the hassle of the vibrato tailpiece

C'mon Jack, that's the half the Strat tone

You just gotta get it right....

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Bob Carlson · Post by **Bob Carlson** » 21 Sep 2000 8:00 pm

I have a Sept 59 Jag and I love that long tremalo handle. It actually sounds like you're rooling the bar like it's supposed to. A Manual Tele (Made in Mexico) that I bought around 92 and a Sigma flat top.
Along with my Emmons SD-10 I now wonder how I ever had time for work.
Bob Carlson

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Matt Hutchinson · Post by **Matt Hutchinson** » 22 Sep 2000 1:14 am

The only electric guitar I play now is a weird thing by a Californian company called Lindert. It's a Tele shape & has a 50s style radio grille on the front (!?) & the back of the neck is shaved so you can get your thumb way over to play the bottom strings. It's got a weird thick tone & I absolutely love it. For anybody looking for something different I'd definitely check 'em out.

Jude James Shiels · Post by **Jude James Shiels** » 22 Sep 2000 2:32 am

I agree with Chris about the reissue Danelectro's, I have a U2 also and it was very cheap but it has an amazing tone. I am going to try pick up the electro-acoustic model soon, for slide they are great.

ebb · Post by **ebb** » 22 Sep 2000 3:27 pm

i always loved that es335 stuff on Twitty's records.

Tommy Mark · Post by **Tommy Mark** » 22 Sep 2000 4:54 pm

Hey Guys, A Tele or a Strat is the thing- A Les-Paul is too heavy, Name any one of those guitboxes and then go back and compare it to a Tele or Strat, American,Mexican etc... even no name, they still work the best for all around utility guitars.I think if I could have (and could afford )a "dream guitar" I think I`d get me a 335 Gibson ,or a
Country Gentleman.I`d be afraid of scratching those suckers tho. So lets go back to Teles and Strats.......

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Bill R. Baker · Post by **Bill R. Baker** » 22 Sep 2000 5:16 pm

I play a Gibson Chet Atkins Tennessean. Great guitar!!

Mario Cuppetelli · Post by **Mario Cuppetelli** » 23 Sep 2000 11:12 am

I play a American Strat 50th ann. edition, I waited ove 25 years to get a Strat. My flat top in a Taylor 614ce and I just love it. I will pick up my Sho-Bud 8+4 in Nov and I am going to try to play it.

I am truly blessed, is this a great country or what?
Mario
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erik · Post by **erik** » 23 Sep 2000 12:50 pm

Rick,
What year is that Deluxe, and what finish do you have?

Bill,
Was the Chet Atkins Tennessean originally a Gretsch model?

Blane Sanders · Post by **Blane Sanders** » 24 Sep 2000 7:23 pm

Made in USA "TELE" W/Hipshot, 1956 ES-175, Simon & Patrick accoustic, USA "STRAT" (for sale), to pay for this used D-10 Siarra, that I'm buying to play while I add 11 changes, & 2 knee levers to my D-10 P/P.

Tim Harr · Post by **Tim Harr** » 25 Sep 2000 8:48 am

Fender Telecaster - B Bender
Dan Electrro Baritone Guitar
Gibson ES 175

Tim

Tele · Post by **Tele** » 25 Sep 2000 11:35 pm

I had a couple of 50s Teles but my main guitar is a 56 Gibson Switchmaster. Kinda big and heavy but it also twangs with the best.

Andy

RickRichtmyer · Post by **RickRichtmyer** » 26 Sep 2000 6:23 am

Erik,

I'm not sure of the year of the Deluxe. If you have a serial # listing, I could tell you what the number is. I would guss that it's an early 80's or late 70's. I bought it used in the early 80's and it was like new. Still is! It has a blond top and dark (maybe rosewood or mahogany) sides and back. It also has the mini-humbuckers. I guess that's standard on that model.

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Bill Findlay · Post by **Bill Findlay** » 26 Sep 2000 8:23 am

I Sure like my American Deluxe Telecaster with 2 Fender noiseless Tele Pickups and 1 Fender Noiseless Strat Pick up and 7 way switching. I haven't had it long but it serves as a Tele or Strat sound for the most part. I also have and like the Takamine LTD 99 with the DSP AD-1 system for the flat top you sure can get some nice sound out of it and it is especially great for solo work..I've been looking and thinking about a purchase of a Guild F65CE thin body flat top, it has the action of a solid body but still the sound of an acoustic electric...I play a Martin D35 for Bluegrass playing also a Dobro. But my main stay are my Emmons LG D-10 and LG III SD-10. Too little time and too many guitars...///// [This message was edited by Bill Findlay on 26 September 2000 at 09:25 AM.]

Jerry Hayes · Post by **Jerry Hayes** » 27 Sep 2000 6:01 pm

I've got a thin body cherry red Gibson Trini Lopez model with a Keith/Scruggs banjo tuner on string 6 and a Bigsby Palm Pedal to raise strings 2 & 3 a whole tone, also two Telecasters (and early 70's with a B-bender and a new Mexican Nashville Deluxe 3 pickup job which is really a great guitar! But my favorite of all is my 1980 Ibanez Artist solid body. It's as heavy as a Les Paul but in my opinion is a better guitar. I have both of the humbuckers tapped and also a strat pickup added in the middle. I had a set of Palm Pedals on it but Sleepy John gave me a Gibson fine tuning stud tailpiece so I put that on. The only other people I ever saw play these were Steve Miller and Jimmy Seals from Shenandoah.

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