Saw a Tele in a shop - for a string change!

XKnight · #1 08-21-2011, 10:35 AM

I was blown away. I had no idea strings needed to be changed on a Tele. Those things are built like tanks and you would think for the price you pay the damn strings would last forever.

Muzzy · #2 08-21-2011, 10:43 AM

I broke a string on my tele and had to throw the whole guitar away!!!

jpervin · #3 08-21-2011, 11:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Muzzy

I broke a string on my tele and had to throw the whole guitar away!!!

You didn't have to throw the Tele away. Just put a string shim in the nut slot and keep going!

Cody · #4 08-21-2011, 05:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Muzzy

I broke a string on my tele and had to throw the whole guitar away!!!

I didn't even wait for a string to break.

pigman · #5 08-22-2011, 05:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Muzzy

I broke a string on my tele and had to throw the whole guitar away!!!

That's just silly. The guitar comes with plenty of wire wrapped around those magnet thingies. You could've just used some of that.

peskypesky · #6 08-21-2011, 11:05 AM

i broke a string on my tele and just soldered it back together.

goodwater · #7 08-21-2011, 10:16 PM

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Originally Posted by peskypesky

i broke a string on my tele and just soldered it back together.

I actually tried to "weld" a string back together when I was a kid (with a Bic lighter). It didn't work.

ant_riv · #8 08-21-2011, 11:53 PM

I just picked my air guitar up from a string change.

They had a special this week only!

Man does it play nice now! Fortunately it didn't need any intonation work.

Check out the pics below.

900z1 · #9 08-21-2011, 11:20 AM

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Originally Posted by XKnight

I was blown away. I had no idea strings needed to be changed on a Tele. Those things are built like tanks and you would think for the price you pay the damn strings would last forever.

it was probably made in Mexico

XKnight · #10 08-21-2011, 01:37 PM

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Originally Posted by 900z1

it was probably made in Mexico

Now that you mention it I think it may have been a Squier Tele and the owner figured with all the money he saved he could afford to pay someone else to change his strings.

narad · #11 08-21-2011, 11:42 AM

The guy who owns it must be a rich lawyer that rarely does pro-bono work, and when he does I bet it's probably the kind where there's ulterior motives and he boasts about it to pick up women in fancy nightspots. And when you're driving and someone passes you on the right - that's that guy too! And when you buy a bag of potato chips and it says "35% more!" on it, and you open the bag and it's already half empty? It's that guy again! Who else would bring a guitar into a guitar service shop for a service they offer like a string change?