hollow tele vs thinline

[dNA]

I could have imagined this, but I thought i saw someone saying something like thinline tele's are different from a standard tele hollowbody. Is that true, and if so, how?

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

The chambered Tele has several small chambers that aren't connected.  It's done more for weight than anything.  Tone wise, some report little or no difference.

The Thinline has 3 main chambers.  Tonally is it very different and closer to a semi-hollow type guitar.  The chambers under the controls and behind the bridge can be omitted per request.

 

[rightintheface]

if it helps, i have both a thinline AND  a chambered and the only real difference is weight. different woods too, which makes a diff.

really hard to go back to a full-weight guitar after playing a hollow/chambered  :tard:

 

[dNA]

ok, so the difference that I thought someone was talking about was totally my imagination.gracias.

 

[Unwound G]

With a hollow Tele, it can become neck heavy when you strap on standing up.  However, the choice of hardware may help it to balance out.

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

With the Teles, calling any of them hollow becomes confusing because there's more than one and there's a question of how hollow.  Calling either one chambered or Thinline, you immediately know which one anyone is speaking of.  Hollow?  Which one?

Between chambered and solid, the sound differences are debateable.  Between Thinline and solid....well.

 

[dNA]

yeah. i don't particularly care for the fact that none of Warmoth's hollow body guitars are actually full hollows - almost any other guitar manufacturer would call them a semi-hollow, because of the soundblock. But then to use a different terminology for one model (in this case the Tele) doesn't help the equation any.
I think what i was getting confused about originally is how the 72 thinline is only half hollow. which i found odd. I thought "hollow" would be the way any other hollow model is, and then "thinline" would be half.

 

[DangerousR6]

With a hollow Tele, it can become neck heavy when you strap on standing up.  However, the choice of hardware may help it to balance out.

My spalted tele was neck heavy without any hardware on it, once I put all the hardware on it pretty much ballanced out. But it also has a Floyd so that was a big part in the equation...

 

[dNA]

edit: nvm - misread