Guitars, Gear, and Open Source
The Telecaster design dates back to 1950. While there’s been a lot of innovation in guitars over the past 76 years (as I write this), it’s fascinating to me how the bulk of the Tele has remained unchanged. There’s a cliche in the guitar space that says, “Leo got it right the first time!” There’s a lot of truth to that.
Over the past several years I’ve made several upgrades on my tele and I never took the time to write about it. I recently switched my saddles again and I figured now would be a good time to document this.
My tele started with a standard Gotoh tele bridge with modern “strat” style saddles. These bridges are excellent and it served me well for ~10 years. …until I played a Suhr tele w/ the Wilkinson (by Gotoh) WT3 bridge and it spoiled me. …a lot.
