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Oct 9, 2008 2:49 p.m. Pappy:

I seem to remember seeing someone post a picture of a tele with dynas in it.

I'd love to see this picture again, if possible. It sounds like it would be great sounding and very unique to bring to a jam.
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Oct 9, 2008 2:59 p.m. fws6:

The telesonic - a standard fender model available in crimson and butterscotch ?
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Oct 9, 2008 3:02 p.m. Charlie Vegas:

They're not Dyna's. They're 2K's in the Tele-sonic.
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Oct 9, 2008 3:11 p.m. GentlBen:

I'll have to post a shot of my "Tele". It has Tom Anderson pickups: tele bridge, strat middle and humbucker neck.
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Oct 9, 2008 3:14 p.m. GentlBen:

I also have a rocakabilly Epiphone Emperor Regent with 3 2K's mounted on it. It sounds great but I wonder if it would sound even better with Dynas?
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Oct 9, 2008 3:24 p.m. Danman:

I just thought I would post this, certainly as good as dyna's.
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Oct 10, 2008 10:37 a.m. Walter Broes:

Pappy, were you thinking of this?

It's a partscaster I used to own, with a 2K neck pickup.
Now belongs to my good fried Ruben Block of Belgian band "Triggerfinger". There's a pic of him with this guitar in Dutch guitar mag "gitarist" this month btw, for our Dutch/Belgian members!
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Oct 10, 2008 12:39 p.m. dignan:

Yeah, Walter's Tele from the Pics of Gretschized guitars thread popped to mind. There's also my 2K'd frankengit:
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Oct 10, 2008 12:46 p.m. Walter Broes:

Dignan, did you ever "finish" that guitar?
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Oct 10, 2008 12:56 p.m. Ratrod:

The Telesonic also has a chambered body.

I also remember a Melancon custom guitar (Tele or Strat) with Dyna's or DeArmonds. It was very pretty but I can't find a picture of it anywhere.
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Oct 10, 2008 1:00 p.m. dignan:

WB said: Dignan, did you ever "finish" that guitar?
Do I ever "finish" anything?
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Oct 11, 2008 7:13 a.m. Pappy:

Thanks everyone. The one I had in mind was yours Dignan, only I thought you had dynas (now clarified to 2Ks) in both positions.

Do you think in a standard cavity with a bridge like Danman's another DeArmond can fit in the bridge position cavity?

Walter and Dig, what are your impressions on the sound?
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Oct 11, 2008 7:20 a.m. Walter Broes:

The 2K worked pretty well with the overwound lead pickup I had in that guitar, balanced great.

But I wasn't crazy about the sound of either pickup, too midrangey for what I want from a telecaster, even with the 1 Meg puts I ended up putting in it. The guitar works a lot better for my buddy's rock stylings than my rootsy twanging.

I'm almost sure I'm building another partscaster next year, and I'll put a DeArmond 2000 in that one, more twang and transparency, I like the 2000's a lot more than the 2K's.

A "proper" dynasonic in a telecaster is somewhat of a risky undertaking : the poles on Dyna are so long, there wouldn't be an awful lot of wood left on the bottom of the pickup cavity.
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Oct 11, 2008 8:05 a.m. Pappy:

Hm. Good point. I was thinking in the future about buying a 5129 and replacing the pickups with P90s and putting the 2000s in a pine tele body.
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Oct 11, 2008 9:20 a.m. dignan:

Pap, see my reply to Walter above - I have never heard what that particular pickup sounds like in that guitar... or any guitar. In fact, I can't even remember where or when I got the 2K in the first place. The same is true for 90% of my parts projects.

In 40 years, I'm going to be an old cat-lady, I just know it.
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Oct 11, 2008 9:45 a.m. Pappy:

Nothing wrong with being a cta lady if you're, you know, a lady to begin with.

If that's the destination and you're a GUY, then that's a scary journey!
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Oct 11, 2008 10:09 a.m. Jeff O(n G-T now):

Sounds like a song I wrote:

All my exes Changed their sexes Now they got bigger dix than me
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Oct 11, 2008 10:54 a.m. dignan:

Telecasters -> Transgender operations in less than one page.
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Oct 11, 2008 11:10 a.m. Proteus:

I know I am stick in mud about Teles, but my sense is that when you yank out "traditional" Tele pickups and put in something else...you no longer really have a Tele. You have a Tele-shaped something else.

I make an exception for a Charlie Christian at the neck, because Tele neck pups vary so widely to begin with. But at the bridge...if you don't have some variation of a proper Tele bridgepup there, does it even still sound Teletastic?

Also remember, Pappy – the fact that the modded Tele you remember DOES exist doesn't in itself prove you're not nuts.

You could still be nuts.
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Oct 11, 2008 11:17 a.m. Jeff O(n G-T now):

He is nuts.

Buying a Gretsch for pickups to put in a Tele.

Just buy a guitar with parts you like.

Kids.

Oh, and modding a tele with pickups that are TELE-LIKE - i.e. bardens, fralin - designed to sound like a Tele only improved, less noise, etc, still render the guitar a tele.

so sez me
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Oct 11, 2008 11:24 a.m. Walter Broes:

As good a time as any to post a link to my little blog about my "WB" tele pickups. This is not a joke btw. I should really record some soundfiles on these.

My own "signature" telecaster pickups
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Oct 11, 2008 11:26 a.m. Proteus:

Jefforama said: Oh, and modding a tele with pickups that are TELE-LIKE - i.e. bardens, fralin - designed to sound like a Tele only improved, less noise, etc, still render the guitar a tele.

Of course.
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Oct 11, 2008 11:27 a.m. Proteus:

WB, you really should. They sound interesting. Sold any?
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Oct 11, 2008 11:29 a.m. Walter Broes:

Well, it's not like I'm selling them myself, but yes, apparently they're selling pretty well, and people like them.
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Oct 11, 2008 1:26 p.m. dignan:

Jeffo said: "Just buy a guitar with parts you like."
And if it doesn't exist?