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    My first Tele and I LOVE it!

    I've been playing guitar for 30 years (i'm an old fart at 61) and I have NEVER had a tele, I always thought that they were country guitars...twangy, however, I tried one and found that it does just about everything. It's amazing.

    I had seen a video called "your desert island guitar" and the guys on the panel chose a Tele because it's a do-all machine and it's very solid...you don't spend a lot of time tweaking it once it's set up...that's my kind of guitar!

    I got a player series Tele in the seafoam green color with a white pickguard. All I've done it is to install a treble bleed cap/resister circuit...otherwise it's stock.

    I bought a bassbreaker amp to go with it but accidently played through an Orange rocker 15 and found the match made in heaven! Wow...what a sound! It's just about perfect.

    the tele has grit WHILE AT THE SAME TIME being clear...it's strange..it's the guitar I've always been looking for and didn't know it. I've had literally a hundred guitars...10 of them at least were strats...some others...

    I also bought a custom relic'd tele from Reverb that's on it's way. :)

    I guess I'm a tele man now.


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    Re: My first Tele and I LOVE it!

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    thanks Old Strummer!

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    awesome. I played for the better part of 30 years thinking a Tele and I were just from different worlds and we'd never meet. Then I tried a beat up looking tele at my friend's store. From the first note that rang out, I was stunned. Plugged into a brown tolex Vibrolux Reverb 2x10 and I was hooked. Sadly that guitar was already spoken for. Not long afterwards, I picked up a Nash T-63 which I foolishly sold to acquire something else. GAS is a terrible affliction

    I have a CV50 Tele (my avatar) that I bought 11 years ago, and a CV50 Esquire that I bought new last year. Somewhere in my storage unit are parts to build another Tele. At the moment, I have no place to put it so I need to get another gig bag or case for it.

    I live in an apartment that my brother and I moved into a year ago. The walls are so thin we hear our neighbors talking on their phones. I haven't used an amplifier in over a year and I am jonesing so bad to play. LOUD. Headphones are how I survive but there is no substitute for an amp in a room. Enjoy your Orange for me, please.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DanTheBluesMan View Post
    awesome. I played for the better part of 30 years thinking a Tele and I were just from different worlds and we'd never meet. Then I tried a beat up looking tele at my friend's store. From the first note that rang out, I was stunned. Plugged into a brown tolex Vibrolux Reverb 2x10 and I was hooked. Sadly that guitar was already spoken for. Not long afterwards, I picked up a Nash T-63 which I foolishly sold to acquire something else. GAS is a terrible affliction

    I have a CV50 Tele (my avatar) that I bought 11 years ago, and a CV50 Esquire that I bought new last year. Somewhere in my storage unit are parts to build another Tele. At the moment, I have no place to put it so I need to get another gig bag or case for it.

    I live in an apartment that my brother and I moved into a year ago. The walls are so thin we hear our neighbors talking on their phones. I haven't used an amplifier in over a year and I am jonesing so bad to play. LOUD. Headphones are how I survive but there is no substitute for an amp in a room. Enjoy your Orange for me, please.
    Haha....what a great story! And yes, I'll enjoy that amp!

    PS: The little tiny 3W version can drive a small 1x8 cabinet pretty loud...and sounds amazing. Orange amps are the Tele of the amp world :)


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    Very nice @rpavich! Unusual colour combination but I like it - like two different flavours of gelato!

    Quote Originally Posted by rpavich View Post
    I've been playing guitar for 30 years (i'm an old fart at 61) and I have NEVER had a tele, I always thought that they were country guitars...twangy, however, I tried one and found that it does just about everything. It's amazing.

    I had seen a video called "your desert island guitar" and the guys on the panel chose a Tele because it's a do-all machine and it's very solid...you don't spend a lot of time tweaking it once it's set up...that's my kind of guitar!

    I got a player series Tele in the seafoam green color with a white pickguard. All I've done it is to install a treble bleed cap/resister circuit...otherwise it's stock.

    I bought a bassbreaker amp to go with it but accidently played through an Orange rocker 15 and found the match made in heaven! Wow...what a sound! It's just about perfect.

    the tele has grit WHILE AT THE SAME TIME being clear...it's strange..it's the guitar I've always been looking for and didn't know it. I've had literally a hundred guitars...10 of them at least were strats...some others...

    I also bought a custom relic'd tele from Reverb that's on it's way. :)

    I guess I'm a tele man now.


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    That is one good looking Tele. I like the Orange amp too. Cool combo.
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    Re: My first Tele and I LOVE it!

    Quote Originally Posted by rpavich View Post
    I've been playing guitar for 30 years (i'm an old fart at 61) and I have NEVER had a tele, I always thought that they were country guitars...twangy, however, I tried one and found that it does just about everything. It's amazing.

    I had seen a video called "your desert island guitar" and the guys on the panel chose a Tele because it's a do-all machine and it's very solid...you don't spend a lot of time tweaking it once it's set up...that's my kind of guitar!

    I got a player series Tele in the seafoam green color with a white pickguard. All I've done it is to install a treble bleed cap/resister circuit...otherwise it's stock.

    I bought a bassbreaker amp to go with it but accidently played through an Orange rocker 15 and found the match made in heaven! Wow...what a sound! It's just about perfect.

    the tele has grit WHILE AT THE SAME TIME being clear...it's strange..it's the guitar I've always been looking for and didn't know it. I've had literally a hundred guitars...10 of them at least were strats...some others...

    I also bought a custom relic'd tele from Reverb that's on it's way. :)

    I guess I'm a tele man now.
    I guess you are. Nothing like a Tele. It is a misconception with so many that feel a Tele is just a country guitar. I can understand that considering many country guitarists play them for that distinctive "twang" sound. But they don't realize that a Tele can be so much more. Whatever music genre, a Tele can be an outstanding performer. I've tried Les Paul's. Did not like them, and I've tried Strats. But in the end, I went back to a Tele. Like I said, nothing like a Tele. My new tele is the Sienna Sunburst. I was leaning towards the Seafoam Green, but my wife convinced me to get the Sienna because it resembles the cherry sunburst 60th anniversary addition I once had. If only I had extra $$, I would have got both. The Seafoam Green is a beautiful color. I hope you enjoy playing it. Here's my new Sienna.

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    Jimi Hendrix was my first guitar hero, so I always thought that the Stratocaster was the best guitar ever made by Fender. Why mess with a Tele?
    I was wrong about that. Telecasters are about as straightforward as it gets. Jim Campilongo proves just how much ground you can cover with only a Tele & a Princeton.

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    Re: My first Tele and I LOVE it!

    For a long time when i was a young player, |I thought the same thing about teles.
    |Then I found one for a good price where I was working. a MIM standard. I liked the neck and how it sounded unplugged, but not so much the amplified sound.
    |I replaced the stock pickups with Texas Specials, and it helped a lot. A couple years ago now, I replaced the rest of the electrinics with a 4-way switch and new pots. Holy cow did that open up the sound. I played it every so often before, but now it's in my regular rotation.
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    Re: My first Tele and I LOVE it!

    I did the same thing- I focused on Strats for years before discovering Teles. I had a couple and wasn't impressed. Then I built one and still wasn't impressed! Finally, I plugged the Tele I built into the right amp and it all fell together. Now I prefer a Tele over a Strat with any amp! I actually find Teles to be more versatile than Strats.

    I have never even tried an Orange amp! I'll have to do that soon.

    The combo that made it work for me-


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    I can’t do without a strat but I tell you what. The ONLY guitar I intend to buy as an addition to my gear is a tele

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    Quote Originally Posted by Don View Post
    I did the same thing- I focused on Strats for years before discovering Teles. I had a couple and wasn't impressed. Then I built one and still wasn't impressed! Finally, I plugged the Tele I built into the right amp and it all fell together. Now I prefer a Tele over a Strat with any amp! I actually find Teles to be more versatile than Strats.

    I have never even tried an Orange amp! I'll have to do that soon.

    The combo that made it work for me-


    A tele or a strat with a tweed covered amp... It doesn’t get classier than than, Don!

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    Yeah, that nat Tele with the tweed is GAS inducing.
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