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Telecaster vs stratocaster headstock overlay10/28/2022 ![]() My Squier Bullet Telecaster is a thru-body. The majority of Telecasters made by Fender and Squier are thru-body where the strings are installed from the rear. #TELECASTER VS STRATOCASTER HEADSTOCK OVERLAY PROFESSIONAL#The Fender American Professional Telecaster, of course, has easy access to every string from the rear: ![]() You get the same not-quite-big-enough cutout crapola whether it's a cheap Squier or top of the line Fender. Seriously, how difficult would it be to enlarge that plastic cutout by a few millimeters?Īnd if you think getting a more expensive Strat like the Elite Stratocaster gives you a better rear plate cutout, you'd be wrong. Absolutely nobody would complain if they did that. I've never quite understood why Fender doesn't just make the hole cutout slightly larger. Thousands of players over the years have tried to get along with installing strings through that plate, only to just remove the thing out of frustration and leave it off. The reason most Strat players leave the back cover removed is to make for easier string changes.Įven to this day, such as seen on the Fender American Professional Stratocaster, the rear cover somewhat blocks the 6 string hole: And of course you can lower the top half of the pickup just like you would on a Strat. And being the front pickup is a mini-single with a cover that has smoothed edges, even if you do whack that pickup from time to time, it's easier to recover since you're not hitting a sharp edge. The Tele doesn't have a middle pickup, which for playability is a plus. With a Strat, it's very common that players will bash their picks into the middle and front (neck) pickups, which is why some Strat players will lower the top half of those two pickups almost flush to the pick guard just to get them the hell out of the way. Playability ease from pickup configuration The 3-way Tele blade selector isn't angled at all and is 100% horizontal, proving to be slightly more difficult to get along with. The 5-way Strat pickup selector is easier to use because it's smaller and angled towards the player. Telecaster wiring has always had tone control for the rear pickup. Traditional Stratocaster wiring has no tone control wired in when only the rear pickup is selected, and yes that is by design. Maybe with super-aggressive play you'll hit the pickup selector blade, but not the knob. The Tele volume knob position is exactly correct. This is the reason so many Strat owners purposely rewire the guitar so it is one-volume/one-tone for the two lower knobs and either take the top knob out completely or leave it there unwired as a dummy knob just for appearance. It will get hit during play and the volume will get knocked down accidentally. Volume knobĪrguably, the most annoying and most infuriating thing about a Strat is its volume knob position. Much easier to get to compared to the side mount output jack of the Telecaster. This is sometimes referred to as the "football" or "teardrop" plate. Often overlooked but nonetheless a very cool thing is the top-mounted Stratocaster output jack plate. ![]() Tele and discuss the positives and negatives of each. Now that I have a genuinely good Tele guitar I can finally talk about Strat vs. I'm telling you this so you know that it took me a very long time to come around to even thinking about trying a Telecaster guitar, much less actually buying one. But it did stick out in my mind because seriously, how often do you see a hot pink Tele? This is genuinely the only instance I remember seeing a Telecaster on MTV. In fact, one of the very few instances I can distinctly remember seeing a Telecaster just because it stuck out so much is one that Elliot Easton was playing in the video for the song Magic by The Cars: Music videos of the day on MTV almost never showed that guitar. I saw that guitar as something only country guys played, and at the time that was largely true. Telecaster and which I personally think is the better guitar.īack in my teens, I wouldn't think of even touching a Telecaster. This is my take on the rather old argument of Stratocaster vs. ![]()
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