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Hi,
Has anybody use hollow-body Tele?
is it sounding more acoustic?
Thanks
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03-30-2013 02:24 PM
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I used one for a while (well, semihollow, not too different from the one you show)
It had a brighter tone than my other tele. But that could have been the pickups too. Nothing particularly "acousticy" about it...I'd say even less difference compared to a solid tele than say, a Les Paul to a 335.
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I think it's more of a difference you feel, the guitar resonates more against you and is also lighter. I'd really like a hollow tele at some point.
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Originally Posted by mr. beaumont
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Originally Posted by Gabe
Is it easer to get "jazz sound" on it?
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Good friend built a chambered Warmouth walnut tele with duncan tele 59's on it. VERY warm, jazzy and comfortable. Light and balanced. The combination of hollow chambered body, thin humbucking alnicos and 10's or 11's make it really clear, good for chording and defined in the single line runs. But a lot of that comes from the player too.
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I've often played, but never owned a thinline, but the tone seemed the same as a regular tele, and the difference was more about weight. Of course a thinline or any type of tele with HB pups is a whole 'nuther story.
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Originally Posted by Gabe
The magic ingredient is an old orange tolex covered cube 60 amp - jazz tele nirvana!
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I think the pickups, the amp and even heavier, flat-wound strings could each make more a difference as far as a jazzier sound goes. That said, I like the lighter weight.
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We've built a bunch of them. It does make a big difference but it's also a lot easier to get a classic jazz tone if it has a 24.75" scale length.
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Originally Posted by Jim Soloway
I recently bought a very inexpensive import semi-hollow tele clone from G&L with a 'bucker in the neck position. I'm in the process of changing out the electronics, but it does have a nice feel and weight and I like the neck. I have a vintage humbucker to install along with upgraded pots, switch, wiring and output jack (Stewmac tele rewire kit w cts pots) and I'm fairly confident that when it's done I'll have the sound I want in a very playable platform. Flatwound strings on a Rosewood board should help too.
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Originally Posted by AlohaJoe
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Originally Posted by Jim Soloway
Alder body and the shorter scale, nasty bridge though......
Now I always post this up when the words jazz and telecaster come in the same thread. It's a humbucker and single coil set up with switching mods. It's a solder less system with resistors to be able to match the different pickup outputs without muddy sounding h/b or shrill s/c.
The guy waffles a bit and yes the guitar player is a bit 'Rock' but interesting none the less.
Check it out.....
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Originally Posted by mr. beaumont
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Another thought about this topic ... Because the Tele shape is not designed well to balance at lower weights, the interior design of the body can be really important. When we built our first couple, we used the same basic interior design as we had used in our original body shape and our larger Single 15. That design uses a small block directly under the bridge. Achieving neck body balance with the design turned out to be almost impossible and on later bodies we ended up running the block all the way from the front of the bridge to the back of the body. The 24.75" scale length also helped in this regard.
Here's a look at the interior of one of the first bodies with the small block. Getting more mass behind that block turned out to be critical
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Thanks Jim,
Nice pic.
Can you say it is hollow or chambered body?
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Originally Posted by kris
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Thanks Jim,
Thanks for the sound clip.
I have a qustion:
is it possible to make hollow tele with neck thrubody/similar to center block in semi-hollow guitars/?
Best
Kris
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Originally Posted by kris
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Originally Posted by Jim Soloway
You have big experience with Tele style guitars.
I am sorry that I can not touch one of yours beautifull made instruments.
Best Regards
Kris
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Hi Jim.
I came across this thread while researching a build for a hollow body tele and was very happy to find someone who had already paved the road so to speak.
I'm planning a hollow tele with a spruce lid, 24,75" scale and filtertron pups.
I hope I'm not too forward in asking, but: When you build your hollow t-style guitars, do you float the whole lid or do you let it touch with the "centre block" under the bridge?
I was planning to let the lid rest on a part of the rear block as support for the bridge and also have the strings either go through the body or hook then into ferrules fastned in the lid itself.
Also, was thinking about mounting the pups directly into the back wood, completely free of direct contact with the vibrating lid to minimize feedback.
I don't want you to give up any secrets, but if you have any insights to share on this I'd be very grateful.
Originally Posted by Jim Soloway
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I currently own both. I would say the chambering on a thinline is (see story below) more about weight relief than about tone.... I would never put my thinline into the category of a centerblock guitar like a 335, it might as well be a solid body tele, just a lighter one (and the f-hole does look cool).
So, the story with the Fender thinlines is, at that time, they were buying very heavy wood (we assume to save money), and developed the thinline concept as a way to weight-relieve those guitars at the time. Of course the put in the f-hole as a marketing tool, but in reality it was about taking a boat anchor piece of wood and lightening it so people wouldn't be put off by the excess weight.
Sometimes, my solidbody tele (8.75 lbs!!!, with single coils), sounds more hollow than my thinline (7.4 lbs, has had several different pickups in it, both single coil and humbucking).
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Hi Ruger9
The idea here is closer to a trad hollow body, hence the 24,75" scale and so on. I'm not really trying to build a tele, but thats the template i have at hand....
Originally Posted by ruger9
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Here's one I built last year. Regular Tele scale, 1-3/4" nut. DiMarzio 36th Anniversary PU. Very lightweight. I'm thinking the pickup has more to do with the tone than the hollow body. Haven't played it for a while so I don't really remember. I have a bad habit of building things and not playing them much - there's always another idea lurking in the wings to try out .
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