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tubeswell wrote:

synchro wrote:

I'm going to invert the question. How is a Jaguar for Country?

Not sure about Jag but here's a JM for Caintry

https://youtu.be/rT2PTetKMU8

Fantastic! Of course, Roy Clark could play anything and make it sound good.

The artist formerly known as: Synchro

When Surf Guitar is outlawed only outlaws will play Surf Guitar.

Fun thread! Here is my surf standard Tele with a couple of my JMs. This Tele has a Seymour Duncan 1/4 Pound Jazzmaster neck pickup, Seymour Duncan Broadcaster bridge pickup, chunky D All Parts neck (the stock neck is a maple neck with matching surf green headstock), and a Vibramate/B5 Bigsby.

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Here with the JMs, a now sold American Standard Strat, and my '57 RI Precision bass (refin'd in Daphne Blue).

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Definitely handles surf tunes fine. Cool

The doofus formerly known as Snorre
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Lovely and colorful collection.

The artist formerly known as: Synchro

When Surf Guitar is outlawed only outlaws will play Surf Guitar.

Thanks! I have a few more guitars to round up for my annual spring photo shoot. I'm hoping to get either a AV 59 or AV 65 Strat before then...need to try them out first! Big Grin

The doofus formerly known as Snorre
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I love the choices of colors in your collection. It has a great '50s/'60s vibe.

The artist formerly known as: Synchro

When Surf Guitar is outlawed only outlaws will play Surf Guitar.

Thanks! I love the classic car colors - still have a few more to add down the road.

The doofus formerly known as Snorre
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A Tele for surf? This, being a Tele lover since about when I first stopped playing in surf in the mid-`60s, has been a question I have been pondering since I returned to it a year or so ago.

Two thing, to me, stood in the way. One, the lack of a fullness in tone to meld with the Tele's 'twang.' The other, lack of a vibrato system.

Both of these were resolved for me with Squier's Vintage Modified Cabronita w/ Bigsby model. Here's a quickie video of made right after getting the guitar. Since then I have replaced the slightly thin sounding stock bridge PUP with a custom one from Rose Pickups which improves its surfability significantly...

-don

Still rockin' after all these years!

One can play anything on a Tele. The tremolo bar isn't mandatory, it helps but it's not necessary.

Enjoying the surf,sun and sand!!

I guess I never put a pic of my surf Tele in this thread so here it is -

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MIM '69 Thinline, Vibramate/Bigsby, Churchill Custom pickups

Bill S._______
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Telecaster suits in for almost every genre of music there is! Versatile guitar and I wish I had me one!!

Twang & Bop til You Drop!

The Phantom Operators use a Tele

http://www.reverbnation.com/q/5ojkvf

My main guitar for may years and its offspring)))

Very surfy as for me. Bigsby and twang kings)
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Waikiki Makaki surf-rock band from Ukraine

New Single is out!

https://waikikimakaki.bandcamp.com/album/rhino-blues-full-contact-surf-single

Waikiki Makaki

https://linktr.ee/waikikimakaki

Lost Diver

https://lostdiver.bandcamp.com
https://soundcloud.com/vitaly-yakushin

Hi!Of course Tele can surf!The best surf band from Greece,The Invisible Surfers use a Tele.Check this out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vc9hEpUyhzs

https://www.youtube.com/user/jamess1400

Samurai wrote:

My main guitar for may years and its offspring)))

Very surfy as for me. Bigsby and twang kings)
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Very nice!!!

https://www.youtube.com/user/jamess1400

Seeing a lot of Teles with Bigsby vibrato tailpieces here and raves from their players. Closest I've come to the experience is with a Japanese copy from the 60s. I wasn't trying to play surf then so I have idea. I was told country players didn't like my guitar because it didn't sound like the Tele it appeared to be.
Anyhow, to my question: what is the break angle at the bridge like on these guitars? How does it suit the whammy action & do many players significantly increase the neck angle with a shim?

A guitar I built from a Teisco (thin piece of plywood in the 'tulip' shape) is flat as Kansas and the Wilkinson Tele 3-saddle bridge installed is also very low-profile. I even put a 1/4" block of rosewood under the bridge to raise its profile, but still the Teisco knock-off whammy tailpiece needs to be waggled really hard to get much vibrato out of it. Another build (Teisco again) has a tall Mosrite knockoff bridge+tailpiece, which generates lots of string-tension change with very little muscle. I wonder if break angle across the bridge is a big factor in the differences I experience.

Squink Out!

Bigsbys come in several forms. The ones commonly used on Teles have a 2nd cross bar under which the strings pass on their way to the bridge. This give a good, steep, break angle. Steep enough to even work well with light strings on the Jazzmaster/Jaguar type bridge with the multiple shallow string grooves.

-don

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Still rockin' after all these years!

Here's one I have (unstrung in this picture).
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Half of Dirty Fuse leads are played with a tele. Our tele guitarist had one of the best tones I've ever heard, he just sounded huge and cutting through nomatter what amp he played through. He sounded huge even through a miked 10W solid state Marshall. Often during soundchecks people come to see what pedals he's using and see how he gets that sound but it's all in his fingers and in the telecaster.

Maybe it's not a 100% classic surf tone but it's one of the best I've heard and it fits instrumental rock perfectly imho.

https://zakandthekrakens.bandcamp.com/
https://www.dirtyfuse.com

Here's a shot of my surf Tele...Its from my Instagram...

A photo posted by willmwilson (@willmwilson) on Feb 14, 2014 at 8:58pm PST

Last edited: May 13, 2015 14:18:19

Duce,
Great detail pic of the B5 for Tele. I see it's an all-in one kit with Mustang bridge, plate and tailpiece.
Duceditor wrote:

Bigsbys come in several forms. The ones commonly used on Teles have a 2nd cross bar under which the strings pass on their way to the bridge. This give a good, steep, break angle. Steep enough to even work well with light strings on the Jazzmaster/Jaguar type bridge with the multiple shallow string grooves.

-don

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Maybe I'll go this route and swap out the Teisco/Hofner tailpiece for a more expensive Bigsby.

Squink Out!

Last edited: May 13, 2015 20:05:38

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