[Postcard2] RE: Haggard on Tour

[Jake London]

Ash bodies can be heavy too. I remember playing a '70s tele many years 
ago that was just a log.

I guess those '70s Fenders have gotten spendy, but I thought that one 
kind of sucked at the time, and I've played Mexican and even Chinese 
ones that were better.

JL

Mayjway at aol.com wrote:
> Those rosewood telecasters are especially heavy!
>  
>  
> In a message dated 6/25/2009 12:16:52 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
> jacoblondon at comcast.net writes:
> 
> Teles  seems to really vary in weight, depending on the wood used in the 
> body. I  played some, especially from the '70s that weren't that much 
> lighter than  a Les Paul.
> 
> Was he playing steel string acoustic or Nylon? Nylon would  definitely be 
> easier on the hands and lighter too.
> 
> JL
> 
> Mike  Woods wrote:
>> On Wed, 24 Jun 2009, Rick Kelly wrote:
>>  
>>> interesting question....maybe it's  weight?
>>>
>>> then again it's not like Hag plays a Les Paul  some other huge, heavy 
>>> brick of a guitar... Telecasters aren't  THAT heavy, are they?
>> No, they're not.  I've never  weighed my Tele or my Strat, but I have 
>> weighed my Les Paul  Recording.  13 f*cking pounds.  That was my only 
>> good  electric guitar from 1976 to sometime in the 90s.  I think playing  
>> it (in the earlier years, 5 - 6 nights per week) wrecked my left  
> shoulder.
>> -- Mike Woods
>>
>>
>>  
> 
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