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Would be interesting to see what a Strat routed as a Tele felt like. Something like this:
http://imgur.com/a/uJpArKI
It has string through the body and a tele neck. Both of them have a different attack and tone to a trem Strat, but neither of them sounds like a Tele. They also feel like Strats when you play them, partly due to how they sit (just like a strat), and the string tension is different in the one with the hardtail Strat bridge.
Feel and sounds are as close as I’ve got.
For a while I had a Tele with 3 pickups (Nashville style), but the 5 way switching gave me neck & bridge in position 3. As a Tele player that was about the best compromise. All 3 Tele selections with the 2 strat ones that matter.
I can't even deck the trem on a regular Strat, the first thing I try to do is full up on it to get some warble.
YMMV of course but IMHO to get something approximating a Tele sound and feel you need a base plate and a tele bridge, ideally with 3 saddles.
My advice is don't try to make a guitar into something it is not.
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But it does surprise me that this one doesn’t sound like a Tele because other than the silhouette and the neck & middle pickups it is essentially a Tele in terms of construction, pickups etc. Does the body shape really change the sound that much ?
I get it more with say a V where the wood around the bridge area is radically different but on this one other than the edge contouring it’s fundamentally the same