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Give me ideas for this SX Tele I no longer play
Posted: Wed May 08, 2013 10:12 am
by colossus
Just built up a baritone esquire telecaster (I should probably post a build thread...) and my main "normal" range guitar is an SG with p90s, so now I just have this stripped down SX tele sitting off to the side. What would ILF do? It is routed for a single coil in the bridge and a p90 soapbar in the neck. Right now, I have a GFS mini humbucker in the neck with nothing in the bridge. I tried piezos but wasn't into the sound. I basically want the thing to be a noise/feedback/fuzz machine. What are some crazy, awful, sputtering, plain nasty pickups I can put in it? Anything else fun I can do?
Re: Give me ideas for this SX Tele I no longer play
Posted: Wed May 08, 2013 10:55 am
by Achtane
Danelectro 30"-scale bass neck + two tuners = Tele Bass VI
Re: Give me ideas for this SX Tele I no longer play
Posted: Wed May 08, 2013 11:38 am
by colossus
But I just build a baritone! :-)
I need something that occupies a new sonic range.
Re: Give me ideas for this SX Tele I no longer play
Posted: Wed May 08, 2013 3:18 pm
by kosta
Short scale conversion neck -> 6 string tenor tuned to fifths? Gonna try CGDAEB on one of my shorties now!
UPDATE : Tried this and broke my high E string trying to tune it up to B (like a jackass.) Played the remaining 5 strings tuned to fifths and it was really fun and easy to riff on. Then I read up on
New Standard Tuning (C-G-D-A-E-G) and discovered that folks tune the high E to a G instead of B to play in fifths on a six stringer. Gonna try that on for size here soon.
Re: Give me ideas for this SX Tele I no longer play
Posted: Thu May 09, 2013 11:40 am
by dubkitty
get some weird PUs off eBay...Teiscos, Hofners, Framus, or something of that nature.
Re: Give me ideas for this SX Tele I no longer play
Posted: Thu May 09, 2013 11:42 am
by Chankgeez
Expensive, but put a Fernandes Sustainer pickup in it.
Re: Give me ideas for this SX Tele I no longer play
Posted: Thu May 09, 2013 8:39 pm
by colossus
The sustainer idea is great. I've been reading up about diy options but they seem like a pretty big deal
Re: Give me ideas for this SX Tele I no longer play
Posted: Wed May 15, 2013 12:09 am
by Greenfuz
make it into a fashionable hat
or turn it into an electric guitharp

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Re: Give me ideas for this SX Tele I no longer play
Posted: Wed May 15, 2013 12:14 am
by Chankgeez
What do you get when you cross a hockey stick with a mangled slice of pizza?
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