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“To my ears, it’s not very usable”: The main problems with Telecasters, according to Paul Reed Smith

PRS has a few T-types in its catalog – and building them allowed Paul Reed Smith to address the biggest issues he had with the classic guitar

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“There’s more than a whiff of Keef’s fabled old Telecasters”: The Newman Torn and Frayed Edition might be the Rolling Stones-inspired T-type we’ve been dreaming of

With vibe and mojo off the charts, this UK boutique build is a stunning example of what a little imagination can do with when applied to Blackguard inspiration

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Daily Telegraph unveils Sydney’s Power 100 list. You won’t believe who’s on it

Sky News host Sharri Markson among the News Corp luminaries to make the grade. Plus: ABC boss faces hostile Coalition duo in Senate

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“This is the guitar I wrote and recorded Chasing Cars with”: Snow Patrol auctions off life-changing and career-defining Fender Telecaster for children’s charity

The guitar was used to write and record the UK band's biggest hit, and starred during some historic performances

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“I started crying. I never thought in these 42 years I’d see my work on the stage. I’m going, ‘Damn it, Joe!’” Maricela Juarez is a legend in the pickup game – and she was given the ultimate shoutout by Joe Bonamassa and Josh Smith

The Seymour Duncan Custom Shop manager says working with Peter Frampton was her greatest achievement – until this touching moment

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“Fender needed something to bring them into more modern times”: How Jim Root’s radical signature Telecaster updated a Fender mainstay for the 21st century

The Slipknot guitarist was originally pushed towards Charvel, but he had his sights set on reinventing a Fender classic

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“The quality of guitars didn’t plummet overnight – some might argue that it remained high for at least a decade”: Fender CBS guitars get a bad rep – but what actually changed?

The CBS takeover of Fender was many things but it was not an overnight revolution. We track the key changes to its builds through the era

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“Who’d have thought the Oasis reunion would be such an event for signature guitars?” All the guitar gear that has caught my eye this week – including the Hummingbird’s evil twin

A host of highly anticipated signatures, some surprising company-firsts, and the evil twin of the classic Hummingbird all landed this week

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“The JB has been the go-to pickup for guitarists across countless genres”: Seymour Duncan has retooled its Jeff Beck-backed JB pickup – and it might be your next Tele mod

The metal and blues-approved pickup has been given a single-coil-sized makeover, with the JB Jr. aiming to rectify classic Tele issues

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“When I found out how funky these things can get, with the twang and everything, that made me get into it”: Christone “Kingfish” Ingram introduces his new Delta Day signature Telecaster Deluxe and explains how the Tele won him over in the end

You've seen his Mississippi Midnight signature model, now introducing the modern blues phenom's Tele Deluxe in Delta Day – or is it Daphne Blue?

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“The legendary JB tone, now reimagined for Telecasters”: Seymour Duncan might just have dropped this year’s must-have mod for your Fender Telecaster

One of the greatest rock humbuckers of all all-time, slimmed down to single-coil size to drop into your Tele's bridge position. Meet the JB Jr For Tele

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“It’s totally his fault. I just couldn’t take my eyes off his guitar”: John 5 on the unlikely player who started his life-long love affair with the Telecaster

John 5 has played with David Lee Roth, Rob Zombie, and Mötley Crüe, but the player that inspired his guitar choice is from a whole other world

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“I have such horrible OCD. Ever since I was a little kid, if I couldn’t get something, I would stay home from school fake sick and play it over and over”: John 5 on staying true to the Crüe, pushing his playing and why he’s surrounded by ghosts

The virtuoso explains what made him the perfect fit for Mötley Crüe, how he’s channeling Paul Gilbert and Robert Johnson on his latest solo album, and what’s next for his signature Fender Telecaster

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“I asked if he had anything inspiring – he brought Gregg Allman’s ’66 Guild Starfire. It’s cool that Gregg played a small part on this record”: Marcus King on true love as recovery, being neighbors with Billy Strings and the Tele he bought while drunk

Darling Blue finds Marcus King getting the band together in the studio for the first time since 2018, putting together a little set of songs that did a whole lot of healing

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Foxtel’s star-crossed Hubbl flames out despite multimillion-dollar marketing push

Ill-conceived set-top box put into ‘maintenance mode’ just over a year after $1m launch party. Plus: ABC critics revel in Trump clash

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A one-man headline machine? Murdoch tabloid spins Ray Hadley’s sprays as ‘exclusive’ news stories

Short videos recorded by the former shock jock get the star treatment. Plus: the ABC hires new investigative reporters

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"Classic Vibe value, Telecaster style, and Bigsby wobble, what's not to like?": Squier Classic Vibe Custom Telecaster SH with Bigsby Review

With a 'bang for your buck' reputation, Squier introduces a classic vibe Telecaster with a twist - a Bigsby Licensed trem.

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“This thing is like a time capsule. It feels like home in my hands again”: Sum 41’s Deryck Whibley has been reunited with his beloved Iggy Pop Tele – after it spent 20 years on display

The guitar was on display at the Hard Rock Cafe in Florida for two decades, having featured in some pinnacle career moments

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“I of course fully endorse ANY mods done to any of my designs, let alone from the great Hammett”: Kirk Hammett orders up custom Thinline version of Jack White’s Fender Triplecaster – and gets one for White, too

Jack White's been giving out his Triplecaster to all and sundry and now Hammett returns the favour, with a "cool mod" that White hopes will duly upset Telecaster purists

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“Much more versatile than a vintage-style Tele”: Fender Player II Modified Telecaster SH review

For decades, players such as Keith Richards have been swapping out their Tele's neck single-coil for a humbucker – now Fender has unveiled its most high-spec take on the format yet

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“It just never felt like it worked with Queens. There’s something about it – it’s a little too ordinary”: Troy Van Leeuwen explains why Queens of the Stone Age are not a Fender Strat band

The alt-rock maverick doubles down on his love for offsets and the Tele's versatile tone

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“Doing this makes me feel like he's always going to be here with me”: Meet the guitarist who’s worked his dad’s ashes into his Telecaster

"This way he will still be with me at all the shows and this has given me a sense of closure," he says

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Sinking feeling as Adelaide Advertiser chooses wrong week to run Aukus submarines sponsored series

Pentagon announces review of the Aukus defence pact, torpedoing best laid plans of News Corp editors. Plus: ‘green’ gas claims blasted

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“It was the closest I’ll ever get to Indiana Jones. You find this artifact and you’re scraping away until it’s the dinosaur bone showing”: The story of Brad Paisley’s Lost Telecaster – the ‘hippie vomit’ reject that became one of Fender’s rarest finds

A partly-failed flower-power experiment in the ‘60s comes back to life via its namesake, who’ll make 19 on his own while Fender’s Custom Shop make another 67

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“They looked at me like they had seen a ghost. They were like, ‘We’ve got to make this for people’”: Brad Paisley’s new signature Telecaster is based on a vintage gem so rare Fender couldn’t believe he had one

The ‘Lost’ Telecaster features an obscure paisley finish that revives a long-forgotten treatment from the late ’60s

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