The "I just had an idea" thread.

[alterbridgefan]

Champcaster. I love the G.E. Smith tele, and the idea is quite intriguing. I enjoy the sound of old lap steels, and the tele is a wonderful instrument. I've got a concept in my brain of a tele that looks normal, but sounds somewhat like a steel and has tons of hidden goodies. Push/pull pots, a vintage style bridge cover to hide a wood mounted SD antiquity for lap steel. one could use an esquire or tele pup, but the idea of a champ pickup is very tempting. Cutoff tele bridge?

Perhaps a cabronita with the same. Jazzcaster? Double bound? I saw a bound jazzycaster on tdpri one time, it was beautiful. Perhaps with a Bigsby...

Also, a contoured neck profile... A ridge to keep your thumb in the center of the fretboard and provide more thumb support for barre chords, stretches, etc. sorry for vaguness, I may post mockups later.

Post your ideas and comment on mine. I've made so many idea threads that I might as well contain them to one.

And a Bass XII- like the bass VI but with octave strings.

 

[AutoBat]

12 string basses sounds like the craziest thing ever, until the day I found out several people actually make them.

 

[swarfrat]

I saw a bound jazzycaster on tdpri one time, it was beautiful. Perhaps with a Bigsby...

The White Chicken?

http://blog.forevercaptive.com/post/6605600159/paul-wallers-fender-white-chicken

 

[Pelagaard]

12 string basses sounds like the craziest thing ever, until the day I found out several people actually make them.

I saw some behind the music type documentary on the making of Metallica's Black album, and that was apparently how Jason Newstead got the some of the sounds from the intro of "Wherever I may Roam"

 

[Xplorervoodoo]

You can hear one on Pearl Jam's "Jeremy".

 

[alterbridgefan]

I saw a bound jazzycaster on tdpri one time, it was beautiful. Perhaps with a Bigsby...

The White Chicken?

http://blog.forevercaptive.com/post/6605600159/paul-wallers-fender-white-chicken

No, it was an uncontoured jm shaped tele, double bound.

 

[duosonic]

That's one cool white chicken tele!

 

[mullyman]

I'm not even a Tele fan and that White Chicken is making me drool. That would be a nice companion to my Strat.
MULLY

 

[Cagey]

I'm not even a Tele fan and that White Chicken is making me drool. That would be a nice companion to my Strat.

I was never a Tele fan until I joined this forum and saw where they could go. Now, I can't get enough of them. I still can't get next to a Tele headstock, but lots of options exist for that so I don't have to suffer.

I remember playing one back when I was still a grasshopper and thinking it was surprising how incredibly good it felt, but it was just so freakin' ugly I couldn't imagine being seen with one. Plus, back then they had a very distinctive sound that you couldn't get away from and was definitely not rock 'n' roll (I didn't learn until years later that Jimmy Page used one extensively). So, for years I said "piss on 'em". But, they eventually invented aftermarket pickups, which solved that problem, and companies like Warmoth made decent finishes and other options available, so now it's not only a viable instrument, it's desirable.

You're missing out if you don't have at least one in your stable.

 

[mullyman]

I'm not even a Tele fan and that White Chicken is making me drool. That would be a nice companion to my Strat.

I was never a Tele fan until I joined this forum and saw where they could go. Now, I can't get enough of them. I still can't get next to a Tele headstock, but lots of options exist for that so I don't have to suffer.

I remember playing one back when I was still a grasshopper and thinking it was surprising how incredibly good it felt, but it was just so freakin' ugly I couldn't imagine being seen with one. Plus, back then they had a very distinctive sound that you couldn't get away from and was definitely not rock 'n' roll (I didn't learn until years later that Jimmy Page used one extensively). So, for years I said "piss on 'em". But, they eventually invented aftermarket pickups, which solved that problem, and companies like Warmoth made decent finishes and other options available, so now it's not only a viable instrument, it's desirable.

You're missing out if you don't have at least one in your stable.

I don't dislike the body shape, it's that damn headstock. I've seen them with Strat heads and that just looks silly. I don't know what type of head would be good on there. Maybe an Ernie Ball type head would work.
MULLY

 

[swarfrat]

The headtsock doesnt really bother me, but I miss the comftoable curves of the new and mostly improved model. Especially the functional balance lever.

I've had a couple tele moments the past year. One jamming with my nephew, me on his strat, him on his tele, through the same amp. Everything I thought I knew about the tele bridge pickup sound was more or less wrong. The other seeing one of my biggest influences live again after 25 years and watching him play basically nothing but tele's all night, when I never in a million years would have thought about teles just from listening to him play.

But I play a hardtail strat, which is basically an improved tele anyway, depending on pickup voicing.

 

[Jumble Jumble]

I have a tele body with all the available contours and I have to admit it's pretty nice. Next one's having the tummy cut but not the other two most likely - or do I want it double bound...?

 

[Cagey]

Last double-bound Tele I saw won guitar of the month, then guitar of the year, if that says anything.

 

[erogenousjones17]

I saw a bound jazzycaster on tdpri one time, it was beautiful. Perhaps with a Bigsby...

The White Chicken?

http://blog.forevercaptive.com/post/6605600159/paul-wallers-fender-white-chicken

Hot damn that's awesome. I'll take one in Cadillac Green. I need a Tele.  :sad:

 

[Cagey]

I don't dislike the body shape, it's that damn headstock. I've seen them with Strat heads and that just looks silly. I don't know what type of head would be good on there. Maybe an Ernie Ball type head would work.

Agreed on the headstock. The Warhead isn't too offensive, though...

 

[m4rk0]

I saw a bound jazzycaster on tdpri one time, it was beautiful. Perhaps with a Bigsby...

The White Chicken?

http://blog.forevercaptive.com/post/6605600159/paul-wallers-fender-white-chicken

Hot damn that's awesome. I'll take one in Cadillac Green. I need a Tele.  :sad:

the Green White chicken... isn't that the Bono signature tele?

 

[m4rk0]

not quite, but close...

 

[erogenousjones17]

Am I the only one who hates Bono? That can't be.

 

[Cagey]

Am I the only one who hates Bono?

No, not by any stretch of the imagination. In fact, if I were to go by an informal poll of my peers, I'd say there's no way he could have ever made a nickel in the music business. The fact that quite the opposite is true says some really disappointing things about the general population.

 

[erogenousjones17]

I've often thought the same thing. I don't know a single person who can abide U2's music, let alone Bono's personality, yet they're consistently one of thie biggest bands in the world. Who's buying those albums and going to the concerts? It's a mystery to me.