I’m not a Telecaster guy, but if I owned one I would want what are called “barncasters;” Teles cut out of salvaged wood, with all its imperfections and unique texture. [They get their name from the common practice of using pine wood salvaged from old barns.] I imagine that a tele made of pine would …
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Reverb Madness: Mary Kaye Stratocasters
My name is Milo, and I am addicted to — well, among other things, addicted to endlessly trawling for cool pictures and information about guitars and accessories on Reverb.com. I’ve been hooked for almost a year now, and I realized my addiction a few weeks after I started. I’m a 50-60-pages-of-gear a day man, ideally …
Stratocaster Vs. Telecaster: THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE.
Sometime in the late Crustaceous period, Young Tim asked me to lean back on my heels and bellow on about a topic that comes up surprisingly often when people find out I used to work as a [mediocre] luthier: What are the differences between Fender’s most popular electric-guitar models, the Stratocaster and Telecaster? And which …
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