Manny Tele Build #1 - The Pine and Oak Tele

Manfred-Klose · 2012-05-20T11:49:03+00:00

ok, #1 means this is my first tele build and i will be building alot more over the next few months(for myself and for some friends) no i am going a bit wild...

Manny Tele Build #1 - The Pine and Oak Tele

Manfred-Klose

depending on the cad program you can import PDF's as well

Attila

Friken hell Manny - you guys are talented .... nice work-horse you have there

Manfred-Klose

Thanks attila.

i played two songs with it at my last gig at Die Boer in durbanville, stayed perfectly in tune all night and really cutted nice into the mix, i am really falling in love with my ugly telecaster ?

Wizard

Manfred Klose wrote: i played two songs with it at my last gig at Die Boer in durbanville, stayed perfectly in tune all night and really cutted nice into the mix, i am really falling in love with my ugly telecaster ?

It's not ugly!
It's the Rainbow Tele ...

Attila

Wizard wrote: It's not ugly!
It's the Rainbow Tele ...

Ditto !!!

Neon-Gecko

Manfred Klose wrote: Thanks attila.

i played two songs with it at my last gig at Die Boer in durbanville, stayed perfectly in tune all night and really cutted nice into the mix, i am really falling in love with my ugly telecaster ?

Just one problem with that pic Manny, where's the 'guitar mouth'? ?

Manfred-Klose

this was a pretty chilled song ?

Styles

That Tele's got some character to it ?

singemonkey

Important necropost:

Folks, EZ and I went and saw Manfred's band, The Stone Jets, last night. Do yourselves a favour. This is an incredibly well-rehearsed band playing GREAT songs. Sort of a live '80s pop feel of the funkier kind. I felt at the show that if I heard them 3 times, I'd have those songs imbedded in my head. Their singer, Given, is fantastic. He's got a Tracy Chapman meets Michael Jackson thing going on. Go see them and you will be entertained.

But I'm posting here because I want to talk about this Telecaster. We heard the band before The Stone Jets with a Tele through a modern Marshall 100Watt. It might have been any guitar. Dull, lifeless. The moment Manfred strummed this Telecaster through a Peavy combo it sounded like an absolutely classic Telecaster. It chimed. Cut through the mix like butter while still sounding warm. It looks fantastic on the stage with no pickguard too.

After the show, he came and showed us the instrument. I think he thought we were maybe being kind for the sake of it. But in fact I have literally never played a Telecaster with such a resonant neck in my life. And I've played many. I've played a 1958 Telecaster. The neck vibrates so strongly you almost expect to see it blur. I can confidently say that it's the best Telecaster I've ever played. Oak is clearly a very viable neck wood. The neck is also wide and fat. Very comfortable.

Manfred knows how to make a Tele folks.

Wizard

Agree on many, many fronts.

Manny's playing.
Manny's guitar building skills.
Given's voice.
Stone Jets songs.

That colour scheme is pretty cool too. ?

Keira-WitherKay

we love telecasters ?

and Manny builds em well ......great thread

and interesting use of oak .......