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NTD (New Tele Day)

Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2017 5:19 pm
by Mini Forklift
Picked this lightly relic'd Tele up this arvo, just put some new .010's on her and she's sounding twangy...

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Body is a nice heavy piece of ash, plus the neck is pretty chunky which I like. Not 100% sure what the pickups are yet, except that they're in the lower output, vintage-style domain :thumbup:

Re: NTD (New Tele Day)

Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2017 5:24 pm
by Single coil
What would you call that colour? It’s cool as fuck.

Re: NTD (New Tele Day)

Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2017 5:25 pm
by Conway
Yellow.

Re: NTD (New Tele Day)

Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2017 5:28 pm
by Bg
definitely yellow. oh and badly sanded. but yellow.

Re: NTD (New Tele Day)

Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2017 5:30 pm
by AiRdAd
Bg wrote:definitely yellow. oh and badly sanded. but yellow.
I think if you relic-ed out quite a worn area where the elbow area is, it would put the rest of the relic-ing back into proportion.

Re: NTD (New Tele Day)

Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2017 5:38 pm
by Bg
Yes and no. The wear just doesn't look natural? It would never get wear marks like that naturally, chips on the bottom yes, but wear marks? nah. I'm sure its a well made tele but it looks so badly faked. No offence meant, but the whole point of relicing is to make it look natural, and pretty much 90% of that is wrong :) Still its twangy! So thats all that matters :D

Re: NTD (New Tele Day)

Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2017 5:42 pm
by Mini Forklift
Bg wrote:Yes and no. The wear just doesn't look natural? It would never get wear marks like that naturally, chips on the bottom yes, but wear marks? nah. I'm sure its a well made tele but it looks so badly faked. No offence meant, but the whole point of relicing is to make it look natural, and pretty much 90% of that is wrong :) Still its twangy! So thats all that matters :D
Yeah, it's just a 'pick up and play' one that sounds decent, to my ears anyway. The fat neck is good - and it has frets unlike my worn out Strat :-)

Re: NTD (New Tele Day)

Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2017 5:51 pm
by Bg
I do have a tele body thats being naturally relic'd down in my workshop. Nitro black. Its basically rattling around on my tool shelves lol. So everytime I go looking for something, it gets a new ding/chip ;) I reckon another year it will be almost a fifties custom shop model :D

Re: NTD (New Tele Day)

Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2017 5:57 pm
by Mini Forklift
Bg wrote:I do have a tele body thats being naturally relic'd down in my workshop. Nitro black. Its basically rattling around on my tool shelves lol. So everytime I go looking for something, it gets a new ding/chip ;) I reckon another year it will be almost a fifties custom shop model :D
Maybe I can buy that body from you in a year and throw this one away!

Re: NTD (New Tele Day)

Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2017 5:59 pm
by Bg
I'd have to spray it yellow, that is such a cool colour :)

Re: NTD (New Tele Day)

Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2017 6:01 pm
by Mini Forklift
Single coil wrote:What would you call that colour? It’s cool as fuck.
Yeah I'd go with that 50's Fender type yellow. Have a feeling it will look better with a black scratchplate, à la Danny Gatton.

Re: NTD (New Tele Day)

Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2017 6:10 pm
by philly
AiRdAd wrote:
Bg wrote:definitely yellow. oh and badly sanded. but yellow.
I think if you relic-ed out quite a worn area where the elbow area is, it would put the rest of the relic-ing back into proportion.
that's how it starts....

Re: NTD (New Tele Day)

Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2017 6:15 pm
by AiRdAd
philly wrote:
AiRdAd wrote:
Bg wrote:definitely yellow. oh and badly sanded. but yellow.
I think if you relic-ed out quite a worn area where the elbow area is, it would put the rest of the relic-ing back into proportion.
that's how it starts....
hahahah!!!! very true!!!!!

Re: NTD (New Tele Day)

Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2017 7:54 pm
by Mini Forklift
Don't know where the majority of Tele's sit in terms of weight, but just chucked this on the scales as it felt on the heavier side. 4kg, around the same as my Les Paul :eh:

Re: NTD (New Tele Day)

Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2017 8:32 pm
by Single coil
That’s heavy.

Mind, people pick up my tele and say it’s light (low 3s).