Tele for heavier music...

[engage757]

Any recommendations? Prefer HH. Trying to find a Go-to guitar for just about anything. Post your favorite teles/tele builders!

 

[Invidious]

I own the Jim Root (not a Slipknot fan though) and it's actually a really nice playing guitar. My Son has the Stephen Carpenter 7 string tele and I really liked it apart from the terrible middle pickup positioning. I dunno if you wanna spend a little or a lot but those seem nice. A friend of mine also has the Halo built tele in 7 and 8 string and they both actually played and sounded pretty nice.

Carvin also makes or made (not sure if they do anymore) a really nice tele shaped guitar. Or you could also go the custom way and just buy whatever. For what it's worth, the Jim root plays and sounds great for the buck.

 

[richedie]

I have a 2012 American Standard Tele with Duncan Lil 59 in the bridge and it is one ofmy favorite guitars, in over 25 years of playing. It can easily do clean to metal with the right amp.

 

[glassjaw7]

The Cabronita can do hard rock and classic metal. For heavier there's always the Fender baritone teles or something like lowman's 7 above. (Sweet guitar btw!)

 

[yngzaklynch]

Did you see the Tele Andy Wood played at this past Suhr NAMM party?

 

[gibson08]

My favorite Tele builder is,,,, wait for it,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Fender All joking aside, play one with the wide range pickups thru a higher gain amp,, those are def smoking for that, yes even a Thinline,, smoking!

 

[Phil M]

what's this? Looks cool.

Ohhhhhh yeahhhhhhh!!!!!!

 

[kasperjensen]

Have you ever heard a standard US Telecaster through a heavy amp, mixed in with heavy drums and heavy bass? It can sound ridiculously heavy. Especially in a 2 guitar situation...

 

[Spaceboy]

I play teles in heavier music and dislike HH "teles". It doesn't sound like a tele anymore with a bridge humbucker, so there's nothing separating it from any other guitar besides a body shape.

 

[Spaceboy]

what's this? Looks cool.

Stephen Carpenter LTD

 

[Shiny_Surface]

I did that in the 90's when classified ad's for guitarists explicitly said "No pointy guitars" or don't bother showing up to the audition. Bought a standard Tele and had the bridge replaced and a full 'bucker installed and the volume pot changed out.

Sounded and still sounds great today, and was cheap.

To be honest looking back I could have kept the stock bridge single coil that Fender was putting in them then for what I was doing.

Of course now there are many more options then I had...

 

[Spaceboy]

my bad

 

[bonedarrell]

Bolin Supermodel

 

[garey77]

Um, hellooooo… Luxxtone much?!!

 

[cardinal]

Soundgarden and RATM used drop-tuned, stock Fender Teles for some pretty heavy stuff.

 

[nevusofota]

It doesn't have a humbucker but the bridge pu can get way heavy. It plays very well with my 5150III's, and the cutaway is great for shredding. This line of Tele's were made by Stephen Davies, he's the guy who designed and built the original Washburn N4's. They can be tough to find but come up for sale on ebay on occasion. I agree about the earlier comment about pu's, Tele's are made for single coils.

 

[bpetersen]

Tee Fender Jim Root Tele is awesome.

 

[tfridgen]

Bolin Supermodel

Where's the doob go?

 

[byrdparis]

i just bought a few weeks ago a RK signature tele from 1995, that the formal owner changed her a bit for 2Xhumbuckers instead of the singles. he was a jazz player and puts a classic 57 on the bridge and seth lover on neck position.
i changed that a bit and puts some BK (rebel yell steve stevans HB) on her and she is ripping!!!
the neck is huge! and with the super jumbo frets and 10" radius she play like butter!

 

[Junk Yard Dog]

Schecter PT Standard. I just replaced the pups with a Duncan Custom and AP2 in the neck. It's a monster. Great neck, but I replaced that with a Warmoth.

LOVE mine!