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says…  I’ve got a capacitor across the "Hot" and "Out" treminals of my volume pots in all my guitar …thanx for the info…hmm…cap mod is something I will keep in mind. My tele is far from "vintage correct" anyways. …Gareth

Mine are all pretty much stock except for that, oh, and the pick guards, but I still have the originals. I don’t even Know what the cap value is – I sat in a tech’s shop years ago with my rig – he put in a capacitor with alligator clips, I’d try it, and say – "brighter" or "it’s too bright" and he’d try a higher or lower value accordingly.   We got it after about 10 minutes and 10 capacitors, and i bought a whole bag of them off him. there is no value written on them, they are green, and I’ve about 40 of them left, in the bag in my basement !

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 I’ve got a capacitor across the "Hot" and "Out" treminals of my volume pots in all my guitar

…thanx for the info…hmm…cap mod is something I will keep in mind. My tele is far from "vintage correct" anyways. …Gareth

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should really add that the video is 30meg – so you might not want to bother following the link if you’re on dial up.

…I almost streamed through….I stopped and re-buffered at 4:20 ….hmmm….maybe it was tellin me something. During the "hat jam" sections….what were you running gear wise? Very nice tone…something I have been chasing (aren’t we all) and getting steadilly closer to with my 70 tele. …Gareth

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says… should really add that the video is 30meg – so you might not want to bother following the link if you’re on dial up. …I almost streamed through….I stopped and re-buffered at 4:20 ….hmmm….maybe it was tellin me something. During the "hat jam" sections….what were you running gear wise? Very nice tone…something I have been chasing (aren’t we all) and getting steadilly closer to with my 70 tele. …Gareth

  The "Country playing clips" (The all maple 59 tele – TV show clip that starts with the dobro player) was the 59 telecaster – a guitar cable – and a 1955 tweed Fender bassman amp.   The Red shirt – wool hat jam sessions – was the telecaster – blues driver – volume pedal – danecho – (the danecho was only turned on in one of the clips)   I’ve got a capacitor across the "Hot" and "Out" treminals of my volume pots in all my guitars, keeping it bright, and not "Muddy" when I turn the guitar volume down – so – when my overdrive is on, the volume on my guitar acts more like a gain control then a volume control – being quite clean – to full out gain – just by manipulating the guitar volume – without losing that "bright single coil sound" David

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Love my Telecaster! I think I’ll always have one.Wish I hadn’t waited so long to get one.   Jon Neet

Teles are great, my guitar are here http://webpages.charter.net/danacraft/stuff/stuff.html Of what you see, the best I have is that Mexican Deluxe Nashville Tele, the pickups are all Bill Lawrence 280’s …. into the 73 SFDR (it now has the black faced mod) For a distortion pedal, I have a Keeley modded Boss DS-1 with the ultra mod And a Keeley modded Boss TR-2 tremelo pedal just as a clean boost or as tremelo for the Ampeg (the speaker in it is a Kendrick black) That old SG with the P-90 into the SFDR is great too…. I hardly touch any of the other stuff anymore and may start selling it off or giving it to my sons who both play guitar as their second instrument (one is a drummer, the other an outstanding sax player, his college major) I had a band prospect a year ago that fell through for me because of health issues I have, I bought the Ampeg, the DC LP and modded the pedals in anticipation of that. I wanted to leave the Deluxe & SG home. The Dano-12 would’ve been the gigging 12-string instead of the Rick. I had planned on having the nut reslotted so I could reverse the string pairs a la Rickenbacker, not really expecting to do a whole lot of 12-string work anyway. The Dano is easier to drive when under the influence because of the narrow neck characteristics of the Rick. Dana

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  Part of the fun of playing a telecaster, is the fact that they "fight Back"   I am a neandrathol barbarian of a player, and the thing I like about telecasters, is you can hit them REALLY hard, and they don’t give in.   When I take Tele’s out to play – I plug em into a 1955 bassman – crank it up, and hit the guitar really hard.   Here’s a video compilation of such barbaric said adventures. http://www.kalmusky.com/telereel.html

I should really add that the video is 30meg – so you might not want to bother following the link if you’re on dial up.

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(I ruined my Strat neck by overtightening the truss rod. The neck is splitting up the middle, starting from the bridge end.) Tom ( Are u going to part it out/etc. ?

It’s a tough call for me. I like the guitar a lot, but besides the neck being broken, the body has a crack in it. On top of that, it was once routed for a Kahler trem bridge. Now there’s a plug of wood where that routing was done and a regular Strat trem bridge. I was at first going to buy a new neck for it, but my wife preferred that I buy a new guitar instead of putting money in this old one. She also likes the tone of the Tele over the Strat.

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I don’t like tele’s they rea my worst guitar, I thought it would be a challange to play; I am actually getting into it now. Sounds great through my MXR! Oh