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Goran
Double Platinum Member
Sweden
2203 Posts |
 Posted - 01/09/2009 : 20:41:40
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And now for the tele!
Roy Buchanan, a great tele player, used to put a coin (50 cents I believe, but any coin of reasonable size will do it) under the middle saddle to get the lenght of the screws a little shorter. This improves sustain and tone, and looks cool too  |
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red_riviera
Bronze Member
United Kingdom
111 Posts |
Posted - 01/09/2009 : 21:07:15
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| I like the four-way switch and out-of-phase circuit mods. |
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zerksies
Double Platinum Member
USA
3406 Posts |
Posted - 01/10/2009 : 00:42:41
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| you can do the wood to wood sanding thing on the tele too. it works almost as it does on the strat |
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Goran
Double Platinum Member
Sweden
2203 Posts |
Posted - 01/10/2009 : 09:04:42
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Replacing the steel saddles by brass ones, preferably intonated. The brass ones improves sustain and take some of the ice picking out of the bridge pickup.
Taking tne cover of the neck pickup, brighten things up. If you are brave enough to do some wood work replace the neck pickup with a strat pickup. You of course get that lovely strat neck tone out of a tele.
Replace the tone capacitor with one of higher quality, like an Orange Drop. Better working tone control when used.
The four way switch mentioned above is really great with some pickups.
Lower the pickups a bit,, improves tone and sustain, but reduces output (you could compesate that on the amp).
If the bridge pickup howls like crazy when played at high volumes some Blue Tac under the bridge can make wonders.
Oh, and use as heavy strings as you can stand! |
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jack
Platinum Member
USA
1418 Posts |
Posted - 01/10/2009 : 14:06:12
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| I like neck HBs on Teles, and Electrosocket input jacks make Tele jack issues pretty much obsolete... |
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redundant
Silver Member
Turkey
247 Posts |
Posted - 01/10/2009 : 19:20:42
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Switch the plate around, the arranged as follows from left to right as you look down @ your guitar: tone, volume, then pickup selector.
This avoids unwanted pickup changes & sudden volume drops due to aggressive playing.
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Tweaks/mods for telecaster
