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peerless monarch and epiphone premium 175 . switched to a Squier Classic vibe tele..Seymours..couldnt be happier
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11-16-2016 04:34 PM
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I've played several varieties of archtops over the past many years... Gibson, Heritage, Benedetto, Eastman, etc... All great guitars; however, since I only play at home and usually at night, my ~20 year old G&L ASAT Classic (T-style) is my main guitar that I lean to. Comfortable, sounds great, and stealthy to play at night (with Jam Up Pro and headphones) as to not wake up the family
I would still like to have an archtop or two just to pluck every now and then...
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I have X-155 Squier atchtop, but rarely use it, for exactly the reasons you mention I play my Squier tele 98% of the time.
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Yes. From a Gibson ES 16528 Road Worn. 2008 telecaster. … But then again what do I know.
Still trying to find the right neck pick up for the telecaster.
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I have both but never felt confortable playing jazz with my Tele (she's better at blues and rock), I don't know why, maybe just me.
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I have not switched exactly. More a case of splitting play time.
For the longest time, i always practiced on either Heritage, the H575 custom or an H525. Then fell into two partscaster teles. One I put together, spanish cedar body, two P-90s, RW board. The other somebody else built, alder body, big neck with brazilian rosewood board, Don Mare p/us. Didn't take long to realize just how useful these teles are for jazz. Especially the alder body one. The neck feel is real close to an archtop somehow, and with some tone rolled off on the neck p/u, it sounds just as good as a hollowbody. Not the same, but a beautiful sound.
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If I didn't play a fair bit of acoustic rhythm guitar, I think my Telecaster would get used more. I have a Japanese '62 Deluxe reissue with Bill Lawrence Micro-Coils - it has a very lush jazz sound. Would love to get another Telecaster with a CC neck pickup. Would also like an ES-175CC. And an L5 with a CC. There's a trend here.
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I have a couple of nice Eastman's and a Guild Aristocrat but I've just been gigging my Teles lately.
A funny thing, even though I carry a collapsable guitar stand to all my gigs I refuse to use it with a Tele. Tele's just need to be leaned up against the amp or a chair or the wall or something. Crazy!
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switched, no. in addition to? yes.
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Me too, it seems like great minds think alike :-)
Originally Posted by mad dog
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I haven't switched, because I love playing my archtop a lot. But I often use one of my Teles because they're great, and lately I've been really enjoying a Partocaster I put together 25 years ago- Warmoth alder Strat body, Warmoth heck with Gibson style headstock and a S-H-H pickup arrangement (Seymour Duncan Quarter Pound, JBJ and DDJ... of course, in those days the "J" pickups were just whatcha got from Seymour). Extremely comfortable and those pickups sound great for jazz.
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I enjoy my American Standard Tele for solo guitar or blues, but most of my opportunities for playing with others require an instrument with a woodier tone, attack and decay (sustain). Also, my favorite bass player lives in a high noise location where a single coil just won't work. When around the house, I often grab an acoustic to play unplugged. As a result, the Tele hasn't gotten a lot of use lately. That might change -- my favorite instruments rotate from time to time.
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It is a sign of the End Times when there are no True, Red-Blooded, All-American
jazz musicians left playing Archtop Guitars.
Ooops, just noticed that, on other fronts, the End Times have begun.
Proceed, Plucking Planksters, like there's no tomorrow.
Yes, I've owned a couple myself; too heavy now.
That is all.
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My Sadowsky J. Hall is safely in its case while my Tele is next to the couch in the front room by my amp.
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I've posted this before but I built myself a hollow body tele. Not a semi hollow with a center block, like an ES335 or a thinline tele, but a tele with a braced, flat spruce top and a hollow body. It has a standard tele bridge plate, no f-holes, and looks exactly like a standard tele, except with a spruce top. My goal was to have the form of a tele--which i love, for its simplicity, ruggedness and comfort--and the feel of an archtop, the attack envelope (a friend calls it the "bounce") of an archtop. To that end I gave it a thick spruce top, like a quarter inch, and braced it pretty heavily so there would be a bit of a damped quality.
It worked really well--I'm very happy with it, I feel like I get that body to the note that I like about my Guild Artist Award, without playing a huge soundbox. Obviously it doesn't sound exactly the same but I feel like I got what i wanted
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I enjoyed my Tele's sound for many styles; jazz, pop, commercial gigs, but decided to stay shorter-scale and got a Samick Royale 3, also very versatile and nice for jazz. A Tele is a wonderful thing, though, and attracts wonderful players with wide stylistic backgrounds, from a Frisell to a Bickert to a Gatton to a Green and Keith Richards and Brad Paisley and Roy Buchanan and Cropper and now Lage jumps in, beautiful stuff.
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Owned two Gibson and two Epiphone archtops over the years, but switched to a Tele early in the year. Never is a long time, but I'm not going back.
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I play a lot on my Tele style guitar-chambered body.
I did a lot of mods on my Tele I mean Jazz Tele...;-)
I've sold all my arch-tops and semi-hollow guitars.
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I've owned a lot of tele and t-style guitars over the years, and only a few archtops. This guitar with flatwounds has the best jazz tone of anything I've personally owned. I've always struggled to get a decent sound out of archtops, though I have another Kingpin showing up today.
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Curious what kind of humbucker you have in the neck position, thanks.
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I've always been a tele guy. I might stray, but I come back.
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Bartolini PBF-55 Great sounding pickup! Originally Posted by kevmoga
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Thought so - a friend of mine has one of those in a one-pickup Heritage H575, makes a great sounding guitar even better. Originally Posted by morroben
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Definitely! They're local and I have a buddy that works there. They're a good group and make a great product. Originally Posted by kevmoga
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