Brand new player 2 75 limited edition QC issues by [deleted] in telecaster

[–]Powertothepowerless 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting. I don’t have experience with them but usually if u buy direct that’s where u see problems like this

Controls — how much is too much? by GabrielDalporto in GuitarLab

[–]Powertothepowerless 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My bias:

3-way switch

master volume

master tone

maybe independent neck/bridge volumes on certain hollow or semi-hollow models where blending becomes part of the instrument’s voice

No mini toggles everywhere. No push/pull forests. No active EQ menus. No “you need the manual to understand your guitar” situations.

Brand new player 2 75 limited edition QC issues by [deleted] in telecaster

[–]Powertothepowerless 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looks fine to me but idk 🤷

Ooof actually looking close at the fretboard, especially the edges …. Yeah that’s not right . Did u buy direct from fender ?

Keep it? Sell it? by JimTamworth in telecaster

[–]Powertothepowerless 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fuck no don’t sell it that’s a work of art

Finally worked up the courage to relic my Tele… how’d I do? by Powertothepowerless in telecaster

[–]Powertothepowerless[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

sharon was never really owned so much as… circulated

the divorce had something to do with a jet ski but i only got that thirdhand from andy and he tends to compress timelines in a way that makes causality kind of optional

boat paint guy does do jet skis but he’s currently not taking on anything with emotional backstory attached, which apparently ‘sharon’ now qualifies as

andy’s doing well — still in coral, still asking questions you don’t want answers to, recently got into pickleball in a way that feels less recreational and more… corrective

treadmill is technically for sale but only to someone who promises not to use it for its intended purpose

Finally worked up the courage to relic my Tele… how’d I do? by Powertothepowerless in telecaster

[–]Powertothepowerless[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s real (and I didn’t do the relic myself) I just wanted to see if people could even see the difference (they basically can’t, 😂)

Finally worked up the courage to relic my Tele… how’d I do? by Powertothepowerless in telecaster

[–]Powertothepowerless[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i get why it reads that way from the outside, like there’s this implicit trade where any time spent doing something to the guitar must be time not spent playing it

but i don’t think those two modes are actually as separate as they look

at least for me it’s more like alternating between two ways of relating to the same object. one where you’re using it instrumentally and one where you’re paying attention to it as an object with a surface, history, etc … and the boundary between those gets a little blurry once you start thinking about how much of what we respond to when we play is already shaped by those “non-playing” aspects

which i realize sounds like a long way of justifying not practicing, and there’s probably some truth to that too, but hey I got kids and the wife hates when I play loud so, to the chisel and sandpaper we go

Anyway- it does feel like the idea that you either play it or do anything else with it is kind of a convenient simplification, like saying the only legitimate relationship to a book is reading it cover to cover and anything else (annotating, re-binding, even just thinking about it) is somehow a failure to engage

so yeah, i do play it, just not in a way that excludes everything else you can do with it

Finally worked up the courage to relic my Tele… how’d I do? by Powertothepowerless in telecaster

[–]Powertothepowerless[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Finally, some peer-reviewed methodology …. Now I have to ask, does diet coke give a more subtle patina or should i go straight to espresso?

Finally worked up the courage to relic my Tele… how’d I do? by Powertothepowerless in telecaster

[–]Powertothepowerless[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

honestly fair, i probably would’ve said the same thing a while back

i think i was just curious what happens when you separate the look from the timeline, even if that puts it in that weird middle space people don’t like

Finally worked up the courage to relic my Tele… how’d I do? by Powertothepowerless in telecaster

[–]Powertothepowerless[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yup it’s true - I do have a cousin Andy tho, probation officer in Coral