to buy or to modify

[nasum]

I've got a strat, but I think I'd rather have a tele. So, buy a tele, or get a maple/maple neck for the strat, a replacement pickguard (as I'd like to kep all of the original stuff handy since the strat is a custom shop) and put a lipstick tube in the neck, a filtertron in the middle, and a tele bridge pup in the bridge. The 5-way blade would be bridge, bridge-neck, neck, neck with no tone knob, filtertron.

 

what do you think?

[nasum]

a second pup configuration option would be a coil tap capable stacked humbucker like blackmore or malmsteen use in the bridge. while on bridge only mode it would be a humbucker, but when used with the neck pup it would be SC.

[k4df4l]

Here's the problem...work on that strat all you want and it will satisfy you for a month or so cause it will still be a strat. Tele fever will be back and in full force.

Seriously though, what makes you think you want a Tele more?

[Clyde42]

Buy a Tele. All those mods could be cool, but the differences in body and bridge will keep you out of true Telecaster territory.

[nasum]

Originally posted by k4df4l Seriously though, what makes you think you want a Tele more?

 

 

I really dig the lipstick tube sound, put that into a nice clean fender tube amp and I'm in tone heaven. The strat has a nice tone to it, but it just doesn't go all the way to what I want.