Solid or Hollow Body Tele?

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Which guitar? hollow or solid?

  • Hollow Body Xavier Tele

    Votes: 6 54.5%

  • Solid Body Xavier Tele

    Votes: 5 45.5%
  • Total voters
    11
I bought the black metalflake XV-650 earlier this Spring and I like it a lot. I wanted a Tele with humbuckers and didn't want to rout out one of my other Teles-plus it's a very lightweight guitar & the price was sure right for it. I customized it by adding 2 push/pull pots for dual volume controls-it's a really versatile tone machine now. By the way, they ship with a .009 set of strings-I prefer .010's for the beefier sound and the feel.
The other Teles are solid-1 is ash and the others are basswood-ash is definitely the most twangy as far as tone. The solid body Xaviere in natural sure looks great, with the vintage bridge with 3 barrel brass saddles and the black pickguard.
The GFS pickups are fine pickups, I'm using them in quite a few of my guitars-I would advise that you should change the stock 3 way switch though. They are not very durable in the long run and I installed 4 way switches in my Teles in place of them. It gives a series sound-which is louder with more bass-as well as the standard parallel Tele sound.
I would say the solidbody may be a good one to go for-hope this helps.
 
Anfontan said:
I bought the black metalflake XV-650 earlier this Spring and I like it a lot. I wanted a Tele with humbuckers and didn't want to rout out one of my other Teles-plus it's a very lightweight guitar & the price was sure right for it. I customized it by adding 2 push/pull pots for dual volume controls-it's a really versatile tone machine now. By the way, they ship with a .009 set of strings-I prefer .010's for the beefier sound and the feel.
The other Teles are solid-1 is ash and the others are basswood-ash is definitely the most twangy as far as tone. The solid body Xaviere in natural sure looks great, with the vintage bridge with 3 barrel brass saddles and the black pickguard.
The GFS pickups are fine pickups, I'm using them in quite a few of my guitars-I would advise that you should change the stock 3 way switch though. They are not very durable in the long run and I installed 4 way switches in my Teles in place of them. It gives a series sound-which is louder with more bass-as well as the standard parallel Tele sound.
I would say the solidbody may be a good one to go for-hope this helps.
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That definitely helps. Thanks a bunch man! It's great to get such great responses.
Thanks again!
Definitely leaning towards the solid body.
 
Anfontan said:
I bought the black metalflake XV-650 earlier this Spring and I like it a lot. I wanted a Tele with humbuckers and didn't want to rout out one of my other Teles-plus it's a very lightweight guitar & the price was sure right for it. I customized it by adding 2 push/pull pots for dual volume controls-it's a really versatile tone machine now. By the way, they ship with a .009 set of strings-I prefer .010's for the beefier sound and the feel.
The other Teles are solid-1 is ash and the others are basswood-ash is definitely the most twangy as far as tone. The solid body Xaviere in natural sure looks great, with the vintage bridge with 3 barrel brass saddles and the black pickguard.
The GFS pickups are fine pickups, I'm using them in quite a few of my guitars-I would advise that you should change the stock 3 way switch though. They are not very durable in the long run and I installed 4 way switches in my Teles in place of them. It gives a series sound-which is louder with more bass-as well as the standard parallel Tele sound.
I would say the solidbody may be a good one to go for-hope this helps.
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any soundclips of the 650?....
 
Humbuckers on a T-style?? HERESY!!!! If you must, I'd go with solid body to stop it becoming a total jazz box.
 
TelePaul said:
Humbuckers on a T-style?? HERESY!!!! If you must, I'd go with solid body to stop it becoming a total jazz box.
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Humbuckers? Neither of the guitars I posted had humbuckers... So uh, what?
 
Gidge said:
any soundclips of the 650?....
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I had an old blues rhythm track that I added some lead lines to-they are sloppy but it gives an idea of the guitar and the pickups sounds. A clean track of rhythm-both pickups in s/coil mode-panned opposite tremolo part.

6 verses and turnarounds

1-neck pickup in coil split mode-single coil
2-bridge pickup in coil split mode-single coil
3-neck & bridge pickups in coil split mode-single coil
4-neck pickup in humbucker mode
5-bridge pickup in humbucker mode
6-neck & bridge pickup in humbucker mode

Blues Driver for a bit of gain into Peavey Classic 20-no effects or reverb

http://soundclick.com/share?songid=6853381
 
As a rule, I will always prefer a cheap solidbody to a cheap hollowbody. The more of the guitar's sound that come from the wood, the more the sound of the cheap wood will be highlighted. This is also a large part of why it is easier to buy a usable cheap electric than a usable cheap acoustic. That said, I can't imagine why anyone would want humbuckers on a Telecaster, but I'm old-fashioned. If I wanted humbuckers on a light solidbody, I'd just get an SG. And yes, I understand that there is no real reason for this. After all, Pete Townsend managed just fine with P-90's on an SG.-Richie
 
Richard Monroe said:
As a rule, I will always prefer a cheap solidbody to a cheap hollowbody. The more of the guitar's sound that come from the wood, the more the sound of the cheap wood will be highlighted. This is also a large part of why it is easier to buy a usable cheap electric than a usable cheap acoustic. That said, I can't imagine why anyone would want humbuckers on a Telecaster, but I'm old-fashioned. If I wanted humbuckers on a light solidbody, I'd just get an SG. And yes, I understand that there is no real reason for this. After all, Pete Townsend managed just fine with P-90's on an SG.-Richie
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Yeah sounds good. I think when the time comes I'm going with the solid body one. I'm not getting humbuckers on the guitar...I never planned on it. The reason I wanted a tele was for the single coils. But yeah.

Thanks for the input!


Elliot
 
I reviewed one of the solid bodies for FrugalGuitarist.com last month. Nice guitars in my opinion. The pickups are low output, so if you want something with a little more fire you'll have to swap them. Alan reivewed a hollow a few months prior and has several clips on YouTube. You can read the full reviews on my site, www.frugalguitarist.com.
 
Roguetitan said:
Yep and it sounds good too with much more sustain than the single coil pups.
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I like the sound of those Dream 180's and the way I've rewired it it's got a ton of tones. I also realized I put the wrong model number down-it is a XV-600 Tele style-it isn't marked on the guitar any where.
650 is a Strat style with the F hole.
 
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