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How do changing bridges, saddles, and perhaps even tuners affect your guitar's tone? Today I take that on, looking at vintage style 3-saddle bridges vs heavy brass 6-saddle bridges, what to expect going from steel to brass saddles, and what happens when you install die-cast tuners. I close the show with a nod to one of the great Telecaster players in Nashville, Bill Hullett. I was reminded of him recently after watching Fender's release video for the Brent Mason Telecaster, where Joe Glaser refers to Hullett as "Mr. Telecaster." I also begin the show by playing Bill's fantastic intro to Radney Foster's "Just Call Me Lonesome."
Link to the AskZac website with more info on Bill Hullett.
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Gear used in Video:
2019 Danocaster Blackguard (1953 Telecaster Style) with Ron Ellis 52T (Bridge) and Julian Lage (Neck)
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Strings:
Ernie Ball 10,13,15,24,32,42
Pick:
Blue Chip TPR 35 RB
Amp:
1967 Deluxe Reverb amp with Celestion V30 speaker
Effects used:
TC Polytune
Mirage compressor pedal
Boss DM-3
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"I could do a whole episode on pickups." Yes please! 😊 Thanks for another great episode Zac .
Cody Hudman yes Alnico 2 and 3, 5, windings strength
My wife can tell that I’ve changed the hardware on my Tele. The dishes are still dirty when she gets home.😇
Omg! are you my biographer or something?
🤦🏼♂️
Zac, you gotta make a "Clangy-Doinky" t-shirt, with an ashtray bridge on it!
One word. Callaham. You’re good to go, just ask Joe G.
I just swapped out my ashtray for the modern 6-saddle. I’ve got an offset tele and the twang-doink is something I want a little less of, so I’m happy.
I'm using the Sire T7. It's my first Tele. It came with brass saddles, flat pole pieces on the bridge and the ashtray. I really like this guitar. It was set high out of the box and I just left it that way because it plays well.
I'd love a show on Nashville teles and middle pickup options.
I always think Nashville teles miss a 4 pole selector. A 4 pole switch opens up the strat factor, and allows the middle selection to be kept as the tele neck and bridge pickups together
See John Fogerty's early-80s Telecaster by Kubicki.
I have to stop watching your videos. I just ordered a Vintera Road Worn Tele.
You have a smooth, purposeful authority with words when sharing your stories! Easy Listening! Easy Learning! being educated while in a Recliner! Fantastic!
Thank you! 😃
Ever since I subbed a few months ago and watched your truetone lounge interviews I have started listening to a lot of older country artists. When I enlisted a decade ago, I hated country but my army buddies got me into artists like Kenny Chesney, Brad Paisley, Gary Allan and Eric Church. You have really opened up a rabbit hole for me with Merle Haggard and other classic artists and guitarists. I just wanted to thank you for all the content and I am super happy with my Ask Zac shirt!
Glad you are enjoying the Hag, and honored that you supported the show. Thank you!
I love a good doinky quality.
I really love t styles. Love your programme really helps 😎
I remember being shocked by the weight change I felt when I installed some modern style tuners on a neck for a project guitar. I'd been working on and handling the neck without tuners for several days. The heft that tuners like these have could very well be a tone factor.
Good stuff Zac. Everyone is chasing tone and the tone and feel can be the difference between being creative, going to new worlds in music, and playing with inspiration. 😎
That’s one of my favorite intros ever. You’re correct in that Bill is one of the nicest people you’ll ever meet.
Zach if you want to come to church sometime I’ll bet Bill would let you touch the Nachocaster. Those Ron Ellis pups in it are sweet.
A lot of older players have told me that late 50's Les Pauls (i.e., last of the Goldtops, early bursts) sound very very similar to Blackguard Telecasters and I'm inclined to believe that. Blackguards are way more mellow than people give them credit for. They are not bright sounding guitars (not even the bridge is particularly bright imo). I've used a 52 Tele+Princeton setup for a year or so now playing mostly classical and jazz (sometimes blues) and I have to have the Princetons Treble on 7 at the minimum!
Thumbs up for Philadelphia Luthier.
Zac, I installed a Jay Montrose "Vintique" bridge, many years ago on my main Telecaster. It performs well to this day, with no complaints. If it's good enough for Danny Gatton, it's good enough for me. Keep up the great work!!.
So what I heard was I need another Esquire I’m sensing Baskin Robbins syndrome, 31 flavors 😂 enjoyed this. !
Really interesting vid. I have a black guard LsL T Bone. It’s a really resonant guitar, sounds remarkably loud when played unplugged.
It’s so lively in fact that I’d like to try and just dampen the harmonic content a bit.
I was thinking that adding a bit of weight to headstock may do this and what Zac was saying about heavier tuners accentuating the fundamental over the harmonic confirms what I was thinking.
I might have to experiment with a fat finger first to see if that makes a difference, but I was wandering if anyone could recommend a set of tuners that would be weightier than the vintage style kluson’s, but wouldn’t look out of place on a black guard relic. Spertzel were mentioned, I wouldn’t mind trying a locking tuner, is that the way to go?
I notice quite a lot of tele’s have this sustained harmonic that rings out from the high e or b string after the fundamental note dies out. I hear it quite often on TH-cam videos so it’s not uncommon, but no one ever seems to discuss it.
If i wanted to swap to the gotoh bridge from my Fender vintera 60’s tele, would that be a long process? I’m just getting into swapping stuff on my guitar
I also want to switch to 6 saddles instead of 3
Not a long process. Just make sure the mounting bolts are in the right spot. You will have to set string height and intonation.
Great episode. And yes, your description of hardware and how it effects tone is spot on (from my experience).
I'd be very curious to hear your take on different woods and how they affect the Telecaster's tone.
I own only a pair of Telecasters, one with a Pine Body and Maple neck/fretboard and another that is 100% Rosewood construction.
While each has very different tonal/voicing profile they both are easily recognizable as being Telecasters when listening to them being played.
Thanks Zac, great content here.
I'll do one on woods soon
Really love your channel, and it can't be said enough. Cheers, and thanks!
A guitar tech will tell you to adjust your amp's tone settings and volume. No need to replace hardware except if the stock stuff is junk or it wears out.
I changed my Player tele steel with block saddles bridge to a vintage style with 3 brass saddles and now it sounds "like a tele to me" . Less authority? I guess I showed that Tele who's boss!
Was it a straight swap?
because the magnetic signature of each string is different (theyre different thicknesses), having a pickup with pole pieces all the same height should actually sound less even. the volume of each string will be different.
I love bigger steel saddles on a tele. Especially with a hotter Broadcaster style bridge pickup.
Does a belly cut affect tone on a Tele? I love playing my Tele Deluxe, so much more comfortable than a slab body.
Probably stupid but I'm always a bit hesitant to change the 'balance' of the guitar. I've put great PU's on a great guitar and the result wasn't there.
Great show. Plink,plonk, doing, flank and flink etc. I have this picture in my mind that the Tele is the child of the banjo.
All this time I thought "doink" was a football term. Maybe Madden played a Tele.
Wouldn’t it be more the saddles effecting the tone rather than the bridge plate itself? I feel like everything will make a little difference but the plate isn’t really connecting with the string. Pick ups make the most difference
Well, all original true vintage strats and teles sound how they should without swapping bridges...
“Telecaster” what a great guitar.
I love my tele. It’s a 87 mij squier with Joe Barden pickups. It’s the one that would be with me on a deserted island.
Please do a telecaster pickup video.
As always, great video.
I love Joe Barden pickups they make a tele punch above its weight for sure. I have an 87 Squire Strat made in Korea and it's a beast
caleshtcincredibles: those old 80’s squiers are so good. Cheers
staggered poles work best on teles with 7.25 radius because the D and G string are elevated due to the higher arc.
It is a great lick! I miss that 90's country sound on the radio these days.
Also, stewmac came out with a heavy steel plate/compensated 3 barrel brass saddle bridge for tele. If you’ve played a suhr tele, they have this bridge on them. Sam ash in Hendersonville has a suhr in stock right now. One of the best guitars I’ve ever played.
The brass saddles have a screw in the middle to lock the saddle in place as well, so your intonation won’t go out.
It would be nice if you listed the hardware you talked about and a source for getting them
Ha ha I have a classic bridge plate AND use a RC Booster, as an almost always on. Works great :-)
Such a cool episode. I actually have one of those 1982 Fender STRAT's. It is crazy heavy (but not uncomfortable) and has a big, brass, electroplated gold bridge/trem - with a big brass block.. In fact, all of the hardware is gold plated. It is an unusually great Fender that as from the CBS era. It has a bridge pickup called X-1 which is a bit hot. Anyway, to your point, there is a compression - and a hugeness about this one. While I am at it, it had odd wiring that allows for using bridge and neck together like a tele (in series?) and all 3 in series. There are two parallel settings (bridge/middle & neck middle). These are very humbucker but almost too dark for practical use. I have heard the Isley Brothers had one - and I have seen the Walnut one in old Tears for Fears footage. Last, John Lennon's Imagine has him pictured with the candy apple red one. I have read that it was going to be a Lennon signature guitar, but that was not to be as he was killed soon after. Anyway, that Buck Owens Tele had a similarly made brass bridge.
Just call me lonesome,heartbroke and then some.I ain't got Noone since you been gone.You call me baby,well I gotta a new name.
You fool around with it too much with the wrong components, you will get a strat sound. I want the parts that give it more Tele twang.
The neck is THE factor in telecaster tone. Body tone wood is rather far down the list.
i know this- a trapeze tailpiece sounds 'warmer' than a stop tailpiece. (i know this isn't applicable to the telecaster.)
Great Jac. Im gonna make a bridge out of copper to match my pick guard and control panel. See how that sounds.
Thank you Zac, I've been watching you now for a couple weeks and just subscribed. Honestly I like the way you explain things and your easy-going nature, you bring a good understanding to just exactly what's going on. It all makes sense on the technical level of materials, your way of explaining slowly and thoroughly is very easy to digest and grasp the overall concepts.
Awesome, thank you!
Bill H is a great guy! When I was younger, Dad and I used to meet up with the Hulletts at Guitar Shows in town. We once got to go to his studio and playing his original Nocaster. One of the coolest gear moments that I’ve ever had!
As you know, I'm just getting my feet wet with the experience of the Tele--I recently did a partscaster Tele with a Joe Barden bridge (with compensated brass saddles), and I'm in love with it. I feel like I'm at the apex of a possible deep dive into the tonal possibilities of Teles. All of a sudden I want to do a Tele with a rosewood neck, a Fender bridge, and notched steel saddles. It's in fact a sickness, but in a good way.
Really hard to tell, as for some reason you used a different pick up each time 😂
The beginning of that just call me Lonesome riff reminded me of Ernest Tubb and Loretta Lynn's sweet thang.
I put an Australian tiger maple neck on my tele and it greatly changed the tone . It became very creamy tone rather than that trebley twangy tone . I have to say I really like what the new neck did for my tone . I have a modern bridge , Fender locking tuners ( they are quite heavy )and Fender SCN pickups. It's a great sounding guitar that can twang or rock with a Les Paul growl . Cheers Zac
The Gotoh 'in tune' saddles are nice. They make them in brass and titanium.
If you have a Tele with a relatively flat neck radius (14"), would a staggered pole bridge pickup cause the middle strings sound strange?
Perhaps.
Everything changes the tone. Try this. Soak your guitar in the bath overnight. Exact time varies depending on the type of glue that may have been used. Experiment. This is not talked about much outside of the industry.
So right
Also can you or have you already done an episode on "What's The Big Deal With Blackgaurd Telecasters?"
Soon
Telecaster Territory...a suburb of Televille, I mean; Nashville, Tennessee..click the TH-cam prompt and, in seconds, after Teleportation...u can’t help, but, know you are there! 🎸👻📱☕️🌎🙈 .. U might bump into Billy Gibbons, go down Telecaster Avenue, into a club, and there Joe Walsh, JohnFogerty, Arlen Roth et al friends,..Brent, Eric, John,...might be there Choppin’ sways...u are transfixed,..u only saw that on TV,..paralyses u stand @ door,...jaw droppin’in unbelief,...but, is not make believe, you’re just in Nashville,...👍🏻
Given the fact that you were Brad Paisley's guitar tech, I tend to think that you know what you're talking about when it comes to Telecasters. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
Cool, thanks!
Love going back to old episodes. Different days really affect my tone.I have a Tele Deluxe with two TV Jones Filtertrons and it really blisters on rainy days .Maybe all in my head but I spent the whole day playing it and it was awesome 👌 Love this channel Like to hear your thoughts on dual humbucker Telecasters. I love mine it really rings out.Also have a Seafoam Green one USA 2003 with a Nashville setup and a Hipshot Bender.Think I'll go Play it now...
Going to do a dual hum Tele episode soon.
Please show us all your guitars in one video!!!
This was a very interesting episode! It’s great to be armed with the information of how these parts will change the sound of a guitar, and even how the weight of those parts make a difference, in addition to the design materials they are made from.
Thanks Jay!
Is it worth putting Kluson tuners on a modern neck? I heard for modern necks you need to use "conversion bushings" to fill in the larger holes of the headstock where the modern tuners go to. Wouldn't this add more weight to the tuners than they should?
I would leave it alone
Extremely informative video. As usual, you capture attention and are very generous with details. Thank you :)
Thank you very much!
I know Bill he lives out by you in Nashville
Angled saddle plus no groove = string moving around...YESSS!!! THANK YOU!! I've been saying that for YEARS and people act like I'm crazy! 🤦🏻♂️🤪 I frigging HATE those saddles! They drive me nuts!
Great video! I’ve just ordered that gotoh bridge just before finding this video. But, I’m not a country guy, and it’s going on a squire offset tele… blasphemy I know 🤣
Zac, what about the bridge (ashtray) cover...do notice a tone difference?
I have never used one, because I palm mute. I can see where it could absolutely change the tone though.
As ever Zac, well presented - interesting and educational
Thanks Bob!
Sounds like I'm on the right track with my Esquire project. Ashtray bridge, brass saddles and a Twang King pu. I remember going to Bill Anderson's City lights show at the high school here in Commerce back in the 90s. There was a young man there that could tear up a Tele. I said " I don't know who this Brad Paisley kid is but he's good."
Very nice video, BUT I have to express my huge disagreement, for you heretic talking... A Telecaster was created perfect from day 1, and you MUST follow Leo's amendments (addenda to Mose's Laws) :
11- B-bender and Bigsby are for sissies. Weak fingers players should try playing harmonica.
12- No drilling (of any kind) is allowed in the perfect Tele body. A router is a pagan tool.
13- The original bridge plate is here forever. You never change the corner stone on a building.
13bis The barrel brass saddles are for ever : a Tele is never out of tune; whenever you feel so, it's because you're not gifted enough to compensate the tiny discrepancies.
14- No unwound 3rd string is allowed. Weak fingers players should try playing harmonica.
15- the tuners are so graceful and modest, you couldn' just IMAGINE any others.
16- a 2 pups set is the ultimate sign of ostentation.
17- Strap locks are only for players who move obscenely on stage.
18- A Tele should never be refinished, as the Duco lasts forever.
any other change (like a discrete decal on the scratchplate) is allowed...But when heresy starts, you never know where it will go (3rd PU, belly cut, right arm cut, built-in trem, 3-ply plate, surf finish, jumbo frets...) and no one wants this to happen.
“Esoteric materials”
?Zac is there a ap on the internet that we can lookup guitar serial numbers and parts to find age etc. Thanks
Not that I know of
Where can I get a set of solid brass tuners that will fit a 2019 American Professional Telecaster? I would really like to try this out with my stock brass saddles & I have no clue where to start. Like does anyone make them? If so, who makes the highest quality solid brass tuners that will fit a stock 2019 American Professional Telecaster without having to drill the peg holes out or make new screw holes? Like I want to just pop the stock one's out & pop in a set of solid brass tuners. I don't want the vintage style tuners & I don't want any type of locking style tuners. I would prefer solid brass tuners made by Fender that are staggered like the stock ones I have right now. Do you know of anything like that?
Never seen brass tuners
@@AskZac Looks like we just made someone a ton of money then. lol
My 2011'52 reissue Tele came with a vintage 6 saddle ashtray bridge in with the "case candy" which I've never had the inclination to fit. Anyone had experience of this type of bridge?
What does a maple body do, because I'm building a telecaster and bought a maple body from eBay from China, that said it feels really light wt. For maple and maybe maple is better as fire starter instead of a telecaster body. I've made so many mistakes and expensive ones to, just learning about tuners,, and I've been busy many hours a day searching for clues to tone. Like I was looking at classical tuners some costing 3,000$ I thought there's something I'm missing and here you are explaining weight, damn I replaced some , what I thought were tiny cheap tuners on a 200S silent guitar with some 510 super machine heads Grover's and well another mistake as the 510's needed screws F another reminder of my gold mining in the dark. Many years searching and tonight 1:57 am June 1st 2021 it becomes clear, because the price of those hand made tuning machines told me that tuners are a major factor in tone but how. Thank you.
A sound comparison would be nice. Im in the Gotah solid brass bridge and fender locking tuners camp. Grew up playing a 83 telecaster, so I am used to the mass. Like to build what I call vintage ultra parts Teles. Cause I like slightly hot vintage output pups, nitro finish, CTS pots, vintage tone wood and color schemes. No body contours or contoured heel (though that could be a way to compensate for the extra mass) after that it is ultra modern, locking tuners, solid brass bridges, tall narrow frets, compound radius, c shape necks, copper shielding, twisted light gauge modern wire, orange drop capacitors. Suppose your are right. Just a Tele with some umf and a faster feel. But still has some of that Tele twang and vintage sound? Probably in the Keith Richards camp. Maybe a little smoother sounding.
I have the same hardware preferences as you, Zac- lightweight tuning machines and bridges, saddle material to taste. There is a ton of minutiae in saddle metals (as you almost surely know). Fun stuff!
I used the vintage style for many years with brass saddles, but I really like the vintage Rutters bridge! Just what I want to hear. Im a Strat guy so I like Broadcaster saddles (cold rolled steel), Rutters bridge, vintage tuners and A3 flat pole pickups in the bridge (no real preference on 43 or 42 wire) and a5 in the neck with nickel silver cover. 4 way switch. Swamp Ash and Maple!
Crystals for guitar dads.
So all of my hardware is super light except the brass saddles but my bridfe pickup is 13k. I dont know what I've done.
But does it sound good?
@@AskZac yes! But I'm still looking for more
Hi Zac. Quick question, does the Brent mason use brass or steel saddles on his 6 saddle 67 tele. I know the bridge is brass but wanted to confirm the saddle material. Thank you!
His are brass
Thanks so much for the reply!
3-saddle bridges are my preference when playing Telecasters. I've swapped my 6-saddle bridges on a couple of my newer teles for 3-saddle bridges
I'm going to say this to give you an idea of the massive amounts of research I've been through to get to you, carpal tunnel effects searching on my phone on TH-cam and around, sober, no drugs, hell bent searching 7 yrs, I really didn't have the questions in my head to ask, do tuners have anything to do with tone? I took them for granted and advertiser's had me convinced those 130$ Grover' s and others were the bees knees in strings not slipping, and that's all I thought they're function was until the 3 to 5000$ classical search told me that there's definitely more to tuners than meets the eye, well excuse any bad grammer as my finger and hand are distracting me some, that said thank you man you generous a Prince and a no B'S explanation of tone all others are >
My brass-saddled, flat-bridge poled Tele (Original 50s with stock Pure Vintage 52s) sounds pretty mellow, and the neck pickup gives me something like the rolled-off Jeff Buckley-ish sound that I was looking for. Very surprised to learn about the effect of tuners & general mass on harmonics vs. fundamental - one of the things I like best about mine is its ability to get long, airy sustains, with just enough compression to make it sizzle and gorgeous harmonic feedback that never turns to noise. Maybe reducing my tuner size will bring out even more of that. Great clip, I'll watch the pickup and wood episodes too
What are your thoughts on stringing through the body vs bridge? I assume body adds more sustain and warmth?
Less stiffness with bridge, stiffer thru body.
@@AskZac Thanks! And major difference in tone between the two?
Once I heArd Brad P Say he liked his tele to weigh approximately 6.6 Lbs in that area , so I wondered what a great Swamp Ash Tele should weigh in at , complete neck hardware & all ??? Knowing that swamp ash is lighter than northern Ash .
A 6.6 pound Tele would have to be swamp (southern) ash, not northern.
Thank you !!!
My money maker...blonde nitro refin Highway 1 body, Warmoth rosewood compound radius neck (birdseyes, nitro), kluson -style "slotted" tuners, Fender vintage bridge with three brass Wilkinson compensated saddles (no notches), black single ply guard, Earvana compensated nut and....Lace pickups. When we built it this tele had a Wilkinson 6 saddle vintage bridge, soon changed to the Gotoh unit you have there. Then the brass saddles on the Fender vintage bridge...the guitar came alive!
Wonderful episode, Zac, glad TH-cam put it in front of me. I finally found myself wanting an instrument but being unable to afford it, so getting one that feels great but doesn't have quite the sound - not growly enough ... so now I am thinking, do I need to modify it? Am I now ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE???! lol
58 RI with rumplestiltskin white ropes.....Steel saddles As good a tele as anyone I know has ever been around...
When I bought my new 2014 American Standard Tele I was horrified to find that a beautiful premium guitar was fitted with a very cheap and nasty even dangerous Bridge. The danger lay with the installment of 12 seriously sharp saddle height adjustment screws. It angered me more to find videos on youtube of guys wearing safety goggles while using a drill to file off sharp edges of screws. I can't even believe I'm writing this comment. We are talking about, probably the best electric guitar ever made here. These guitars cost a lot of money only to be fitted with cheap nasty saddle screws and cheap nasty bridge plates.
Shame on you Fender for allowing some money grabbing executive to cheap out on the playability of our much loved Fender Telecaster. Everything about my guitar is class except for 12 little 2 cent screws that cut into you hand . Would not happen in Japan or even China.
So what would the difference be between the heavy 6 saddle bridges in brass and steel? They make a heavy steel plate bridge also not just a brass plate. For example, Fender makes it in steel (not the ash tray)
Steel would be brighter
@@AskZac Which would be better for sustain?
I have a tele with 6 saddle bridge it does ok but I have previously played teles with a three saddle bridge, and that one had more treble (I would refer it to more like a "zing", and a bit more snarl rather than a doink). I noticed it would sound a bit more syrup-y in the middle position too (Though I can still get one with a six saddle). It also sounded more phase-y sounding in the middle position too (now THIS I can't get on my six saddle). Also very bell-like sounding in the middle position. (To some agreed I can get it with the six saddle design but it's still doesn't sound clear enough than the three saddle design). It too also had vintage styled tuners compared to the modern one on my current tele. The pickups were alnico and were lower wounded than the stock pickups in my tele (which I replaced with brighter sounding pickups. The stock pickups had too much low end for me). This change was a night and day difference!
So even with updated pickups I still wasn't able to get a satisfying live-y sound from it unlike I got it from the other tele that had the three saddle bridge design and vintage-styled tuners. So you have inspired me to replace the bridge on my current tele with a three saddle one. You have also inspired me to replace the tuners on my current tele with the Kluson tuners! I want my zing, snarl, bell-like, and phase-y sounds back!
Thank you for this video. You did a awesome job in explaining the details about how hardware does affect the tone but you also went to further detail about pickups too. Which you also gave great advice on as well! Keep up the great work!!
I tried a set of Magnesium bridge saddles and didn't like them. The tone was thin and too bright. Replacing them with brass saddles fixed it. I also tried a set of Tusq saddles. Same as the magnesium, thin and too bright. Brass, compensated, Bensonite saddles are on all my Teles.
Zac?I have 3 guitars with P90s in them. I saw a picture of Danny Gattons old 295. he had the screws backed way out on some strings, and others not so much.I knew enough to make shims out of P90 covers to level everyhing out, and they work great, but I was alway afraitd to turn those screws. Its got to ruin the potting ...right. were they built to back out. Love all your stuff.
bought a "63 bridge pickup and ashtray bridge, but realized the ashtray would not fit my standard tele (left a hole). had to keep the stock bridge.
Do you really think playing guitar is an illness,a sickness,zac have you thought that through,it's a beautiful gift sir,
I believe everything you say! 100%😉👍🏻
Thanks!
Thanks Zac for your take on Tele tone.
Let me ask you this, do you think that the tone that comes out of the Tele you’re playing in this video is what you like and want? To me, it’s the tone that I would want. A lot of players discuss tone but don’t say “this is the tone I want” and here it is and how I achieved it.
It is indeed a sickness
I put the Schaller bridge on my 67 tele in the 90's because... that's what Keith was doing so... And because you can adjust each string separately and be more precise. A few months back I put the original bridge back, because I have a few guitars and the tele was becoming a collector item. Now I just love the way it sounds. That guitar is fantastic. The question is" is it in my head? Did the bridge really make a difference? A new guitar is always the best guitar it seems. I play better it sounds better.
What would be great would be to hear the same lick with the same amp and the same settings with both bridges... I am not going to do that, but maybe someone should... LOL
I just ran through all the data on tone woods and soft maple is used on high dollar classical and acoustic sides and backs with expensive tops because soft pretty maple acts like a muffler allowing the true voice of that rare top to ring like a bell and not be drowned out by a chatty tone wood on the back and sides. That said I made yet another mistake and found the answer at 6:30am this June 1 2021 fire starter, I can however use classic fender light weight hardware but it will never compair to the classic tones of Alder, Ash, or swamp ash. Well I thought we don't have to go through that again do we, no I said but we do need another body, and I agreed, you've really helped me sir, I think I'll just carve this body into something pleasing like a nude mermaid or something and visit warmouth or StewMack or somenody.