Fender Telecaster in jazz

**kris** · 06-29-2013, 04:12 PM

**jazzbow** · 06-29-2013, 04:53 PM

Ah, nice!

Kris, I posted up a clip of Schofield playing this Tele through a Vox amp on the players section of this forum.

If you can find one there is a little interview with Schofield in the June issue of Guitarist UK magazine. That Tele of his is a custom shop piece.

I love his tone, Stern too.

My next project is a Jazz Tele. I have a Vintage Vibe Charlie Christian Humbucker sized pickup for it. This project guitar has already got a name, a 'Jazzaster' (pun intended).

**kris** · 06-30-2013, 07:36 AM

Larry Coryell with Tele.

Larry Coryell 70th Birthday w Muryel and Jullian Coryell @ O'Donoghue's, Nyack, N.Y. 2013 Part 11 - YouTube

**Jazzman301** · 06-30-2013, 11:35 AM

This is more of a "traditional" jazz sound from Ted Greene:

Enjoy some solo guitar from the master.

'Mike

**kris** · 06-30-2013, 11:46 AM

nice sounding Tele!

**Encinitastubes** · 07-01-2013, 01:01 AM

If I knew how to post vids, I'd post some Ed Bickert.

**kris** · 07-01-2013, 02:12 AM

King of jazz Telecaster!

**kris** · 07-01-2013, 05:38 AM

Kurt Rosenwinkel

06b Sestetto Succi Ferris Rosenwinkel Friedman Leveratto Hart - YouTube

**kris** · 07-01-2013, 05:49 AM

Adam Rogers

**Doctor Jeff** · 07-01-2013, 07:57 AM

Nice guitar Adam, but where's the whammy bar?

This is what I'm taking to my next gig...

**kris** · 07-01-2013, 08:22 AM

Nice!

**Keira Witherkay** · 07-01-2013, 08:26 AM

yep tele's are very capable of doing jazz tone very nicely

at the moment i too gig with my modded tele (p90) in neck

but the oddest thing ...and quite understandable it took me forever to get over the "mental" idea of using a tele for jazz.... i used to strongly believe people listen with their eye's ...so if you play traditional jazz ... play an archtop or semi hollow and you 'look" the part ... however after years of back and forth and agonising over it ... i have decided to keep collecting those wonderful,beautiful archtops but to gig with my tele

another quick point ...and this happened only on saturday afternoon, i had a gig the fri evening with my jazz duo and played the tele, but decided on saturday to try some lighter strings on it to see if i could make it easier to play and also reduce tension on the neck ......... so i slapped on some 9's as an experiment.... and wow was i shocked to how tinny and twangy my tele felt through the same amp and obviously with the same player (me) .... so after leaving them on a few hours i thought my ear would "adjust" to the sound and tried tweaking the tone to get a fatter jazz tone.... but to no avail and only about an hour before my evening gig that saturday , i restrung the tele with 12 d'addario flatwounds (chromes) and that "jazz goodness" in the tone returned....

so really i was blown away at just how much the shift in a heavy flatwound string can change the sound dramatically and yes same guitar same amp same player .... the thinner strings was not even a usable jazz tone.... or at least one i would gig with..... so a huge lesson learnt .....

anyway tele's are way cool, bullet proof and with the right pickup and strings can sound very jazzy ,

**ronjazz** · 07-01-2013, 08:30 AM

It's in the hands and heart anyway. I did a jazz gig yesterday using my Samick Royale 3, a semi-hollow with humbuckers that I usually save for pop/rock/blues projects. It sounded great, very much in the Bickert-Greene camp, and so easy to play!

**larry graves** · 07-01-2013, 11:16 AM

Put chrome 12s on any guitar and you have the stereo typical jazz tone favoured by those hell bent on sounding like everybody else! I think the lesson learned here is, light strings are fine for those who prefer a more modern sound, listen Steve Kahn!........L..

**jazzbow** · 07-02-2013, 06:51 AM

Back to Tele clips.....

Just gotta luv dat 'Wobbly widdle' maan!

**kris** · 07-03-2013, 02:50 PM

+1

**markesquire** · 07-03-2013, 08:01 PM

This is maybe one of the best tele-jazz tones that I've heard. Very well done!

**Marco2728** · 07-10-2013, 01:14 AM

This is not a jazz tone. Ed Bickert.....that's a tele Jazz tone.........

**The Count** · 07-14-2013, 12:17 PM

I'm actually in the process of doing a chambered mahogany build for a jazz tele with a mahogany neck. Going the Warmoth route. I'm a Strat-based bluesman and have guitars that handle everything from jazzy to funk to rock fairly easily. So, I'm not concerned with the tele being a one-trick pony if need be.

My goal is round, warm sound that doesn't sacrifice articulation. I'll have the Lollar CC (neck) and single-coil (bridge) as humbuckers. I've heard good things about both. But I have two questions about wood selection:

1) How advisable is it to break up some of that mahogany with, say, a maple or spruce top and/or an ebony fingerboard (instead of my planned rosewood one)?

2) Or would pickup selection and amp settings be enough to keep an all-mahogany & rosewood tele from being mushy?

I have read a number of jazz tele threads here (among others), and have come to value the expertise displayed here. I'd appreciate your input.

Thanks.

**docbop** · 07-14-2013, 12:38 PM

Originally Posted by The Count

I'm actually in the process of doing a chambered mahogany build for a jazz tele with a mahogany neck. Going the Warmoth route. I'm a Strat-based bluesman and have guitars that handle everything from jazzy to funk to rock fairly easily. So, I'm not concerned with the tele being a one-trick pony if need be.

My goal is round, warm sound that doesn't sacrifice articulation. I'll have the Lollar CC (neck) and single-coil (bridge) as humbuckers. I've heard good things about both. But I have two questions about wood selection:

1) How advisable is it to break up some of that mahogany with, say, a maple or spruce top and/or an ebony fingerboard (instead of my planned rosewood one)?

2) Or would pickup selection and amp settings be enough to keep an all-mahogany & rosewood tele from being mushy?

I have read a number of jazz tele threads here (among others), and have come to value the expertise displayed here. I'd appreciate your input.

Thanks.

You might like this video Fender Custom Shop talking about combining woods for tone.

**kris** · 07-14-2013, 12:49 PM

My Tele sounds exelent.
It has chambered mahogeny body,mahogeny neck with ebony fingerboard.
This is neck thrubody hollow construction.
This is my the best sound Tele I ever played.Great sound and great sustain.
SD Hot rails pickups and KTS tytanium saddles.
Best
Kris

**BigDaddyLoveHandles** · 07-14-2013, 01:50 PM

Originally Posted by The Count

I'm actually in the process of doing a chambered mahogany build for a jazz tele with a mahogany neck. Going the Warmoth route. I'm a Strat-based bluesman and have guitars that handle everything from jazzy to funk to rock fairly easily. So, I'm not concerned with the tele being a one-trick pony if need be.

My goal is round, warm sound that doesn't sacrifice articulation. I'll have the Lollar CC (neck) and single-coil (bridge) as humbuckers. I've heard good things about both. But I have two questions about wood selection:

1) How advisable is it to break up some of that mahogany with, say, a maple or spruce top and/or an ebony fingerboard (instead of my planned rosewood one)?

2) Or would pickup selection and amp settings be enough to keep an all-mahogany & rosewood tele from being mushy?

I have read a number of jazz tele threads here (among others), and have come to value the expertise displayed here. I'd appreciate your input.

Thanks.

What you describe there sounds like my dream T-style! (Minus the bridge pickup. I don't use them.) On the fretboard, I love the feel (and look) of ebony so much, that I'd take it over rosewood. Be sure to post some pics when you put it together! What sort of paint job are you considering?

**The Count** · 07-14-2013, 05:04 PM

Originally Posted by docbop

You might like this video Fender Custom Shop talking about combining woods for tone.

Thanks, it was helpful. It might pay for me to include notes about wood selection when I submit my parts orders.

**The Count** · 07-14-2013, 05:06 PM

Thanks for that, kris. I tried a cheap Fender chambered mahogany tele with a maple neck recently, and it put me enough into the ballpark that it made an ebony on a fatter mahogany neck seem a safe bet.

**The Count** · 07-14-2013, 05:11 PM

I was considering doing a neck-only number also. But I like the in-between cluck and the occasional bridge sound. I figured putting something in the bridge (and I might ultimately put a hotter humbucker there) would give it a little range. But, I anticipate using the neck 90% of the time.

Most of my other guitars have rosewood -- ebony might be a safe bet.

As for finishes, just might do a clear gloss.