OT: jazz on tele's etc.

[Andreas Willers <a.willers@arcor.de>]

It's interesting how certain elements work together on specific  
guitar models. A Tele can be a great jazz guitar with the treble  
rolled off, a humbucker or P90 in the neck position certainly helps,  
but heavy strings even more so. Put some 12 or 13 flatwounds on a  
standard Strat and off you go!

I got that from a studio player friend of mine who is constantly  
changing instrument's setups, putting nylon strings on older  
Martin's, thin strings on a jazz box, heavy gauge stuff on a Strat  
just to see what he comes up with. Quite a bit of setup work there  
(also some cheaper guitars might start to go south under 13's these  
days), but probably more rewarding that trying out your 12th variant  
of a modded Tubescreamer clone.

On the other hand my luthier once as an experiment (no extra holes  
drilled) put a Tele bridge on my 1960 Gibson Melody Maker (the single  
cut LP shaped variant with P90's added) - and that small mahagony  
swampthing suddenly started to put out some serious twang, amazing  
difference. Too much twang for me, we put the Pigtail one-piece- 
bridge back on...

Best, Andreas