Favorite/ Best Modernized T-Styles?

spudmunkey · Jan 13, 2024

Zelinsky Dellatera

Kiesel solo

Kiesel also has their Retro Solo model which is pretty traditional, but with a few modern appointments:
Flatter radius options
Stainless med jumbo frets
Bent forearm contour, belly cut, and sloped neck joint
While it has an ashtray bridge with 3 saddles, the saddles pivot so you technically have per-string intonation, but with the traditional looks of the ash tray.

Tom Anderson has a bunch of t-style models, some more modern than other:

Ibanez AZS2209

Ibanez Talman (Yvette Young sig pictured)

Grosh ElectraJet VT

Dean USA Tracii Guns Signature NashVegas

Vola Vasti

HeHasTheJazzHands · Jan 13, 2024

ESP Throbber (eyebrow wiggle)

Yamaha Pacifica-S. Oddly it doesn't have it's own model name, it's just still called a Pacifica with an S after the model number (In this case Pacifica 1230S). So it'd be like Pacifica 120S, 311S, 1221MS.

BlacKat Leon/SC/whateverthefuckitscalled

Music Man Axis. Especially the rare ones with a pickguard.

Ibanez FR

Heretick · Jan 13, 2024

Thanks all for the replies so far, a lot of really cool guitars to check out, keep 'em coming!

Hollowway · Jan 13, 2024

I always dug the Ormsby TX

Heretick · Jan 13, 2024

@HeHasTheJazzHands Good call with the Axis, one of the things I was already considering was getting one of Warmoth's Axis-style bodies specced for a tele bridge and pups and then making my own pickguard for it. I had never seen the pickguard Axis, it's for sure making me think more seriously about the Warmoth option!

protest · Jan 13, 2024

Anderson Teles are awesome. They play incredibly well. Mine is petty standard, but it's great at what it does.

I might get something more modern though in the future

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Crungy · Jan 13, 2024

@HeHasTheJazzHands good call on the Ibanez FR. I need to get one of these someday.

ZLE · Jan 13, 2024

This is the ultimate "modern tele".
Early 90s Fender HMT. I have been trying for years to find a blue one in decent shape...

HeHasTheJazzHands · Jan 14, 2024

ZLE said:
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This is the ultimate "modern tele".
Early 90s Fender HMT. I have been trying for years to find a blue one in decent shape...

I always thought it was funny Fender was trying to make a contempory (for the time) Tele what ith the 24 frets, humbucker, streamlined headstock, floating double-locking system, and call it the "Heavy Metal" Tele...
...then make it semi-hollow with a traditional F-hole lol. I mean, if they were gonna go for the semihollow thing, shoulda did something that seemed more in-line with the theme, like a diamond or something sharper like the F-hole on this

ZLE · Jan 14, 2024

It's not semi-hollow. The hole is just big enough for the F. There are acoustic variation of this tho. And yes they were late for the party. That's why this and it's big brother the HM Strat failed. Fender purists saw it as an abomination, and the superstrat fans saw it as a Fender, a. k. a. grandpa's guitar. And they missed out honestly.
P. S. When the auto-complete changes Fender to Gender by default it means that the things aren't going in a good direction....

spudmunkey · Jan 14, 2024

Fender.

ZLE said:
P. S. When the auto-complete changes Fender to Gender by default it means that the things aren't going in a good direction....

Mine changed it to Feeders. I assume it's because I've recently written a fair bit about the horror/alien movies "Feeders" and "Feeders 2: Slay Bells".