TDPRI, short for Telecaster Discussion Page Reissue, is the leading online community and marketplace for Telecaster guitars. Tue, 09 Jun 2026 11:10:39 +0000 Tue, 09 Jun 2026 11:10:39 +0000 Telecaster Guitar Forum https://www.tdpri.com/ Tue, 09 Jun 2026 11:10:37 +0000 https://www.tdpri.com/threads/closeted-silvertone-case-amp-still-works.1207347/ 1207347 invalid@example.com (Scottsgarage) Scottsgarage Hey all, so having lived in my house for 3 decades have a silvertone guitar and the in case amp. We use the guitar some but the amp has been untouched for all that time. I took it out yesterday and behold it fires up and works . With the guitar very twangy. It still has a footswitch that came in a compartment in the case. It now appear that it was hardly ever used. So a closet discovery that surprised me.]]> 4 Tue, 09 Jun 2026 11:07:29 +0000 https://www.tdpri.com/threads/steve-winwood-can-absolutely-rock.1207279/ 1207279 invalid@example.com (Vfc13) Vfc13 ]]> 32 Tue, 09 Jun 2026 11:06:28 +0000 https://www.tdpri.com/threads/longest-marriage.1207285/ 1207285 invalid@example.com (Fiesta Red) Fiesta Red I just read @Chester P Squier ‘s thread about 54 years of marriage, and I got to wondering…

Who’s been married the longest on this forum?

Next to @Chester P Squier I don’t qualify, even though we have 33 years under our belts…

Also—if you have any words of wisdom related to keeping a marriage together, share them here…

]]> 92 Tue, 09 Jun 2026 11:03:44 +0000 https://www.tdpri.com/threads/carmine-street-guitars-hacked.1207217/ 1207217 invalid@example.com (gwjensen) gwjensen Carmine Street guitars got hacked per below. They lost around 150k. I got to hang out with Rick Kelly last summer and bought a guitar from him. What an amazing experience! I've been planning on going back up there this summer. I hope they can get through this.

They set up a gofundme - https://gofund.me/fbaf658ad
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Carmine Street Guitars needs your help!
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Read more]]> 32 Tue, 09 Jun 2026 11:02:24 +0000 https://www.tdpri.com/threads/how-ai-just-changed-my-life.1207315/ 1207315 invalid@example.com (Lute and Codpiece) Lute and Codpiece Two photo images of a letter and it's envelope. Scanned, interpreted, translated. An appeal from my maternal grandmother directed to her husband through his mother's address. It's sent from a Soviet labor camp in Kazakhstan in 1940. It advised him of the deaths of 2 of their 4 daughters.

I have an incredible wealth of information regarding the literal epic tale of war, death, survival, rescue and heartbreak from my mother's side. Claude AI isn't a collaborator as much as a sophisticated...

Read more]]> 16 Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:55:36 +0000 https://www.tdpri.com/threads/van-the-man.1203259/ 1203259 invalid@example.com (Vibroluxer) Vibroluxer My 1981 Rolling Stone Album Guide refers to him as a guitar virtuoso. I don't know about that but I dig the guy.

Did he have a musical director? The arrangement in the following is wonderful, I just wondered if Van did this on his own.

]]> 82 Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:55:23 +0000 https://www.tdpri.com/threads/james-burton-telecaster-wiring-question.1207299/ 1207299 invalid@example.com (brenn) brenn I have a James Burton Paisley body (the one that uses 3 Strat pickups) I'm going to use with my next partscaster build.

I also got the James Burton wiring with the S-1 Switch. Can anybody tell me what the S-1 switch does in the Burton wiring? I bought the wiring harness before I realized that might be a problem, since I don't want to use an S-1 knob and since I don't know if it does anything useful.

Any help would be appreciated.

]]> 2 Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:54:45 +0000 https://www.tdpri.com/threads/advice-you-probably-shouldnt-have-followed.1206667/ 1206667 invalid@example.com (Vibroluxer) Vibroluxer I've only owned one house and when we bought it, I had no skills when it came to upkeep and improvements.

We enlarged the kitchen and the contractor started coming by less and less frequently as he moved on to a new job before ours was finished. It was mostly done and we decided to fire him and have me finish up the lose ends. That included laying the porcelain tile.

This was my first attempt so I asked a buddy what to use to attach the tiles to the floor and he said mortar but if you...

Read more]]> 58 Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:49:41 +0000 https://www.tdpri.com/threads/affordable-octave-mandolins.1207139/ 1207139 invalid@example.com (cyclopean) cyclopean i've been playing regular mandolin for about twenty years now, and i'm looking at octaves and getting sticker shock. like even the big muddy one is over $1k.

any other mando players get into tenor guitar/tenor banjo/octave mando/anything else with four strings/courses tuned in 5ths?]]> 11 Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:49:28 +0000 https://www.tdpri.com/threads/decal-nitro-over-poly-finished-neck.1207365/ 1207365 invalid@example.com (Dimitree) Dimitree Hi everyone, I bought an AllParts vintage amber finished tele neck, it is finished with poly. I’d like to apply my decal and the spray a couple of coat of clear of nitro over the decal to seal it. I’m wondering if I should sand the poly finish on the headstock a little bit before applying the nitro, and if yes, with what kind of sand paper/what grit. Thanks!]]> 0 Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:43:22 +0000 https://www.tdpri.com/threads/your-penny-pinching-tightwad-tips-verging-on-ridiculous.1207265/ 1207265 invalid@example.com (prairietelecaster) prairietelecaster My most recent: I looked at my overused gross squishy cheapo foam hearing protectors the other day and went eeeuuuw and thought chuck 'em and get out a new set ya' idjit!. As I was about to bin them I wondered can you wash these and reuse them more? Sure enough, soap and water clean up and they are virtually brand new! I guess I have saved a trout or salmon from choking to death on an earplug in a trash overflown river somewhere as well as saved a couple of cents.

What's your recent...

Read more]]> 109 Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:38:01 +0000 https://www.tdpri.com/threads/comtemplating-a-studio-re-wire.1202829/ 1202829 invalid@example.com (raito) raito Hi all,

Lately, I've been thinking about re-wiring my equipment. This is partly to reduce space, partly to reduce complexity, partly to lean into my workflow better, if possible.

As those of you who have read my stuff know I am not primarily a guitar player, but a keyboardist. My current setup has about 112 mono outputs (some are stereo, but I'm counting the channels individually). The number of inputs is far less, as I just need a couple for monitors, earphones, and to send/return from...

Read more]]> 15 Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:37:37 +0000 https://www.tdpri.com/threads/new-van-morrison-album-s-day-tupelo-honey-his-band-and-the-street-choir.1207361/ 1207361 invalid@example.com (Highway 49) Highway 49 I originally bought these secondhand at the end of the seventies, packaged as a two LPs joined together (like a double album with gatefold).
As a romantic teenager they meant a lot to me but I’d drifted away from Van Morrison by the end of the century. I bought them again on CD this week following a bit of Van Morrison chat on TDPRI.
They’re not his great albums but I’m quite drawn to patchy works, where maybe things don’t always come off right.
I think Tupelo Honey and Wild Night are...

Read more]]> 4 Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:31:51 +0000 https://www.tdpri.com/threads/so-have-you-switched-to-a-different-kind-of-guitar-recently-if-so-why.1207341/ 1207341 invalid@example.com (Blazer) Blazer In my own case, yes, after playing Strats and similar guitars, I adopted the Jaguar as my main Axe.

Me in the studio recording my band's upcoming album. On which I played the Jag on 90% of the tracks.

With my strat as back up. And this ancient Welson as character adding guitar.

As for why, chalk it up to me wanting to expand my horizon, but another part is pure mid-life crisis. When I was young I saw so many people play Jaguars, and when the opportunity came up...

Read more]]> 12 Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:23:40 +0000 https://www.tdpri.com/threads/talk-me-back-from-the-precipice-or-shove-me-over-the-edge.1207241/ 1207241 invalid@example.com (cometazzi) cometazzi I started a new thread instead of bumping my previous one, because I have sussed most of those questions and it would just cause confusion. However, over the last 10 days or so I've been having analysis paralysis about the build, and I would appreciate some outside, non-emotionally tied insight, or even just a slap and shove into some direction.

The Plan:
I was going to build RobRob's Bassman Micro as a JTM-45. However, after much machination and iterative tweaking, realized...

Read more]]> 24 Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:17:37 +0000 https://www.tdpri.com/threads/ok-sanded-through-amber-neck-lacquer-need-ideas.1207269/ 1207269 invalid@example.com (Valkyrie) Valkyrie Started to sand out and polish this neck that has been drying for over a month. All going well untill I went through the nitro at the heel just at the part that transitions to the neck carve. Stark white maple against amber lacquer covered in clear lacquer.

I tried to use a small brush to dab on some amber and blend in but it melts I to the surrounding nitro making a dark ring that can’t be sanded out. I let it dry and sanded it back to untouched lacquer and ordered a SM touch up one in...

Read more]]> 16 Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:07:52 +0000 https://www.tdpri.com/threads/need-recommendation-for-oversea-gig-amp-setup.1206247/ 1206247 invalid@example.com (JoM) JoM Hi all,

I got the honor to make some music at a wedding on June 6th in New York. I already built a guitar to take with me on the plane ( am living in Germany) but have no amp to take with me.
There is a DJ on site, I can use their PA, they will provide a mic and a stand and reverb.
So I was looking for a preamp pedal with IR or the like, as I cannot transport an amp (no car).

I need slight crunch and reverb ( I will bring an electric guitar), doesn't need to be world class, should be...

Read more]]> 29 Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:05:04 +0000 https://www.tdpri.com/threads/lifes-short-get-the-thing-right.1207323/ 1207323 invalid@example.com (buster poser) buster poser An ES-175CC was up for consignment sale locally at a fair price. I've mentioned the model here as one of two electrics I care about at all, and these don't come up often (internet says ~500 of them exist?). The likelihood of finding another to even play is basically nil.

This one's marked a "second" on the back of the headstock, but I understand this is common and typically meant minor finish blemishes; I couldn't find any that didn’t look like age. I’d probably allow for a couple at the...

Read more]]> 40 Tue, 09 Jun 2026 09:53:48 +0000 https://www.tdpri.com/threads/free-online-mastering-sites.1207053/ 1207053 invalid@example.com (Telecaster88) Telecaster88 I've lately been having an old buddy of mine master my tracks for Bandcamp, but I have a bunch of old demos etc that don't need the most focused job done on them, more just a little EQ'ing and adjusting of volumes. Not gonna be real picky with these. So I was thinking about looking into the online options that are often free. A simple search brought up a bunch. Just looking for recommendations or experiences you all might have had with those sites.

Landr, Bandlab, Waves etc

I'm not very...

Read more]]> 14 Tue, 09 Jun 2026 09:35:45 +0000 https://www.tdpri.com/threads/%F0%9F%91%87let%E2%80%99s-see-the-last-guitar-you-got-%F0%9F%91%87.1135797/ 1135797 invalid@example.com (Guithartic) Guithartic Whether it’s a New Guitar Day, or it was a long time ago, share a photo or three of the last guitar you got, and tell us what do you think of it?]]> 1398