On Saturday, January 9, 2016 at 1:39:41 PM UTC-10, cibola de oro wrote:
> dsi1 wrote:
> > On 1/9/2016 9:48 AM, MisterDiddyWahDiddy wrote:
> >> On Friday, January 8, 2016 at 10:07:40 PM UTC-6, dsi1 wrote:
> >>> On 1/7/2016 12:46 PM, cibola do oro wrote:
> >>>> dsi1 wrote:
> >>>>> On Thursday, January 7, 2016 at 11:10:51 AM UTC-10, cibola do oro
> >>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>> dsi1 wrote:
> >>>>>>> On Thursday, January 7, 2016 at 7:56:20 AM UTC-10, cibola do oro
> >>>>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>>>> dsi1 wrote:
> >>>>>>>>> On Thursday, January 7, 2016 at 4:27:19 AM UTC-10,
> >>>>>>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>> On Monday, January 4, 2016 at 3:31:44 PM UTC-5, Janet B wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>>> Pizza war! Pizza Hut and Papa John's slash prices
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>> Too bad I wouldn't eat either.
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>> Janet US
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> There's an awful lot of guitarists around that could play better
> >>>>>>>>>> than guys like Clatpton or Page that will never make a dollar
> >>>>>>>>>> playing.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> I've always believed that the best players are people that
> >>>>>>>>> nobody's ever heard of. The reality is talent isn't enough - you
> >>>>>>>>> have to have the desire to make it playing music. I never had the
> >>>>>>>>> desire or the strength to be a performing guitar-monkey.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> A sound appraisal.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Drive doesn't mean great music, but drive may share great music.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> The worst part is that if you have some talent, people around you
> >>>>>>> will be trying to control your life. This happened to my guitar
> >>>>>>> buddy in high school. After college he moved to India and
> >>>>>>> disappeared for a while. My guess is that the idea of being a
> >>>>>>> performing monkey did not appeal to him either.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Under many radars:
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5Rfv0dQttM
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Sumpin' tells me you may dog this.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> I don't know why I don't have a Telecaster. It made the guitar
> >>>>>>> suitable for mass production and is responsible for our history with
> >>>>>>> the electric guitar for the last 60 years.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Yeppers.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> It's truly a brilliant design. I've got every guitar that I've
> >>>>>>> wanted since I was 18. The only one that missing is the basic
> >>>>>>> Telecaster.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> I'll always dig and respect guys that do their own thing. Thanks.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I had a feeling you might.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Maybe you add a 50s butterscotch one day?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Heck, I may just build my own. Any monkey should be able to - as long
> >>>>> as he's a very diligent monkey.
> >>>>>
> >>>> I yield to your "monkey grip", since it's not a bass...
> >>>>
> >>>> ;-)
> >>>
> >>> Speaking of "grip" I find myself in a most ridiculous situation. I have
> >>> small tubes of denture material that is no longer made. The $7 tubes,
> >>> which I thought was overpriced, is now going for over around $140 a
> >>> tube. If I sell all the tubes, I'd probably be able to buy a Telecaster
> >>> plus a dinner at Morimoto Waikiki. Now that would be funny as all shit!
> >>
> >> The first Tele I ever saw had a bridge cover. They are beautiful with
> >> the
> >> cover on, and while the cover restricts picking near the bridge (most
> >> folks
> >> don't do that much of that anyway, do they?), and adds a little extra
> >> work
> >> changing strings or setting intonation, the Telecaster with the bridge
> >> cover
> >> is so, so pretty.
> >>
> >> http://chasingguitars.com/wp-content...2013/07/03.jpg
> >>
> >> Speaking of pretty guitars, I've got a nice one, and I'm sure that real
> >> guitarists would think that some bang out 4 or 5 chord rock song hack
> >> like
> >> me doesn't deserve to play one of these, but I have small hands, and
> >> in 1st
> >> position the neck feels really nice.
> >>
> >> http://cdn2.bigcommerce.com/server30...0.1280.jpg?c=2
> >>
> >>
> >> If they made a little gold tone bridge cover for my Blueshawk, it
> >> would make
> >> the guitar even prettier. Like this one.
> >> http://www.12fret.com/wp-content/gal...ge_cover_1.jpg
> >>
> >>
> >> Electric guitar bridges are ugly. Look at these Telecasters.
> >> http://www.tdpri.com/forum/attachmen...r-p1000713-jpg
> >>
> >>
> >> --Bryan
> >>
> >
> > The telecaster bridge is a nice design that structurally makes a lot of
> > sense - it spreads the string loading forces over the widest area of an
> > other guitar bridge and has the mounting for the bride pickup. This was
> > a common practice with lap steel guitars. The cover provides some
> > electrical shielding for the early pickups which were prone to be noisy
> > from leaking transformer circuits and provided a palm rest for the lap
> > steel player's picking hand.
>
> But later pickups made that so much less of an issue, and the after
> market now?

A lot of the Telecasters sold these days still have pickups with a design Fender developed in the 40's. The pickups introduced by Gibson in 1957 were quieter, more fuller sounding, and stronger. The Gibson humbucker defined the sound of late 60's and 70's rock but I wanted a guitar to sound more like the Beatles and less like the Stones.

>
> Well....
>
> http://intl.fender.com/en-NL/guitar-...kups-set-of-2/

Those sound pretty good. Less tweet and more balls. They would be a good choice on a Tele - I think.

>
> > The cover proved to be impractical for guitar pickers and most of them
> > were pulled off right quick. I wouldn't want to play a Tele with the
> > cover on because that would pretty much mean I couldn't use most
> > dampening technique. OTOH, if I was buying a vintage Telecaster, the
> > original cover included would be a very good thing.
>
> Yep.