Teh sexiest Tele evah?

Tbh I gotta nominate my old Am. Deluxe. Fuckin a I miss this guitar. One of my few major regrets


Although I am aware its not a true tele because no ashtray :cop

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Ormsby from Australia. Used to drool over their customs on SSO. Crazy detail, people would jump on their wait lists. Can't imagine prices now.
 
The two things that make a tele sound like a tele - or the Les Paul's bastard cousin, is that lack of forearm and tummy reliefs (no body wood removed), and the 3 saddle bridge. Two strings per saddle = greater downward pressure against the bridge plate = better sustain and thicker tone.

If you want to really dive deep into all of what makes a Tele so freaking magical you gotta leave the basic recipe alone in my experience.

My last was a Kirn that I sold to a buddy in Jersey 10 years ago. Last I checked he was still gigging the thing. The body is 200+ year old pine salvaged from an old barn.

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Achilles said:
The two things that make a tele sound like a tele - or the Les Paul's bastard cousin, is that lack of forearm and tummy reliefs (no body wood removed), and the 3 saddle bridge. Two strings per saddle = greater downward pressure against the bridge plate = better sustain and thicker tone.

If you want to really dive deep into all of what makes a Tele so freaking magical you gotta leave the basic recipe alone in my experience.

My last was a Kirn that I sold to a buddy in Jersey 10 years ago. Last I checked he was still gigging the thing. The body is 200+ year old pine salvaged from an old barn.

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My parents have an old barn that is around 120 years old. I always wanted to send Ron a chunk of it and have him build me a Tele out of it
 
Forgot one, baseball bat neck! The Kirn measured a full 1" thick at the first fret. Thought it would be a bear to play but it was super easy to adapt to and being able to really grab and wring it felt great.
 
DrewJD82 said:
Man, on the outskirts of where I grew up in Maine it’s just farmland with a SHITLOAD of collapsing barns/farmhouses/sheds, I should salvage a few pieces. Actually, that’d probably make for a nice sentimental piece.
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The Kirn was such a great build cause Ron would provide updates with cool info and pictures. After the boards were glued, body shape cut, and routes done he submerges the thing for a couple days in this old drum of 'stuff' he's had for ages that fills all of the worm holes and cracks, etc. Then he finished it with really old 50s Fender nitro that he hoarded away decades ago.

Fresh out of the case it stunk to high heaven but it was the most broken in feeling new guitar I ever bought - by a huge margin.



Pine was the original wood spec'd by Leo for the Tele, and they only made a change to harder alder and ash after their dealers started complaining about their floor models getting dented and dinged too easily.
 
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