Maybe a new PRS Tele style guitar soon?

[Spudman]

Myles Kennedy (Alter Bridge) was seen this fall with a new T style PRS guitar. Maybe a new production model at some point? Would be pretty cool.

 

[j.a.]

That’s the missing Tele in my arsenal! Amazing!

By the way, Paul had a mystery prototype guitar in his last tour in the UK, it was mentioned in several videos. Will it be this one?

 

[xxxadixxx]

While I am not a Tele fan, that guitar is hot! The subtle body against the maple neck/dark birds. OMG! It would be great to add some more variety to the PRS line-up and that looks like it could be a great addition.

 

[gemyneye]

I wished they had done something like this and ended up getting a used custom Suhr T with a slim neck and I LOVE IT. But, if they end up coming out with a PRS version...hopefully I've saved up enough money by then.

 

[László]

I had a Tom Anderson Hollow T in the '90s, a very nice Tele-style guitar. I don't know if they still make it, but it certainly was a very fine instrument, and was more ergonomic and (just my opinion) nicer sounding than a Fender Tele. I ordered mine with dual humbuckers, similar to the model in the O.P.

If you're looking for a Tele, and they still make one, Anderson is doing a very nice job with the concept.

So is Suhr, but in a more traditional way.

 

[dmatthews]

Homer drool...

 

[Bowtiefanatc]

I doubt it

 

[Andrew Paul]

Looks like a PRS Tele.... waiting for the sound demonstration.

 

[Sybo]

I’d give it a go!!!

 

[Lewguitar]

I’d give it a go!!!

Sure! I would too.

For me, the two weakness of a Tele are the ashtray bridge design which is just plain uncomfortable for me, and the sound of the neck pickup.

However, guys who love Teles have no problem with the bridge design and like the neck pickup.

 

[Alnus Rubra]

I’m allergic to Telecaster shaped guitars.

 

[CivoLee]

Not to taint anyone's breakfast here, but I'm hoping not. That having been said, they probably will, and more people will support them for it. Because it seems like a lot of what PRS have been doing over the past several years is make concessions to the traditional 1950s school of electric guitar design - focusing more on 22 fret designs, phasing out the 25" scale Singlecuts, the Silver Sky - and players have been eating them up.

I'm glad PRS continue to offer the design that made them what they are today - the Custom 24, which AFAIK still remains their best seller - but they seem to get more attention and praise for the designs that are basically PRS versions of older, even more established designs: Strat/Silver Sky; Les Paul/McCarty SC 594...heck one could even say Vela/Jazzmaster, though that might be a bit of a stretch. But what I like about the original PRS guitar design in both Standard and Custom variants is that while it retains the best features of a Strat or Les Paul (double cutaway for easy upper fret access and vibrato tailpiece for pitch control from a Strat, dual humbuckers and a carved arch top from a Les Paul) while being its own animal and offering things that weren't standard on either one (coil splits and a two octave fretboard).

I may be in a minority of sorts, but I want my PRS to be a PRS the way they were originally conceived to be: a double cut, 25" scale 24-fret guitar with a carved top. If I wanted a Strat, LP or Tele, I'd sooner buy the original than PRS version of one.

 

[butterfly]

Would buy.

 

[CrimesAgainstMusic]

I may be in a minority of sorts, but I want my PRS to be a PRS the way they were originally conceived to be: a double cut, 25" scale 24-fret guitar with a carved top. If I wanted a Strat, LP or Tele, I'd sooner buy the original than PRS version of one.

And aside from this sage statement, there are a bunch of Tele clones out there that are as good or better than Fender offerings costing waay more, and are are currently priced waay lower that any proposed PRS clone would be... (See Sire T-7 FM)

And where are all the objections about "ripping people off with cheap Asian (or expensive American) knock-offs " ???

I'd rather see PRS work on getting a SE McCarty 594 with a pattern or pattern thin neck, that costed about $200 /$300 less than what was introduced the other day ...

 

[CrimesAgainstMusic]

PS ... How would the guitar proposed above, be any better than an S2 Vela (which looks pretty cool, but costs $1,800 ... )

 

[11top]

Tummy cut tele

 

[Lewguitar]

Not to taint anyone's breakfast here, but I'm hoping not. That having been said, they probably will, and more people will support them for it. Because it seems like a lot of what PRS have been doing over the past several years is make concessions to the traditional 1950s school of electric guitar design - focusing more on 22 fret designs, phasing out the 25" scale Singlecuts, the Silver Sky - and players have been eating them up.

I'm glad PRS continue to offer the design that made them what they are today - the Custom 24, which AFAIK still remains their best seller - but they seem to get more attention and praise for the designs that are basically PRS versions of older, even more established designs: Strat/Silver Sky; Les Paul/McCarty SC 594...heck one could even say Vela/Jazzmaster, though that might be a bit of a stretch. But what I like about the original PRS guitar design in both Standard and Custom variants is that while it retains the best features of a Strat or Les Paul (double cutaway for easy upper fret access and vibrato tailpiece for pitch control from a Strat, dual humbuckers and a carved arch top from a Les Paul) while being its own animal and offering things that weren't standard on either one (coil splits and a two octave fretboard).

I may be in a minority of sorts, but I want my PRS to be a PRS the way they were originally conceived to be: a double cut, 25" scale 24-fret guitar with a carved top. If I wanted a Strat, LP or Tele, I'd sooner buy the original than PRS version of one.

There's a classic neck humbucker sound that 22 fret guitars have that 24 fret guitars don't.

That's because the 23rd and 24th fret are where the neck pickup would be in a Les Paul, ES 335 or PRS Custom 22.

I don't own any 24 fret guitars for that reason.

I'm used to the deeper sound of neck a humbucker having its screw polepieces under the 2nd octave harmonic, which is where the 24th fret is in a 24 fret guitar.

That's just my preference and what I'm used to hearing.

 

[alantig]

Tummy cut tele

There wouldn’t be much Tele left if it was cut for my tummy.

 

[Bogner]

I can dig it. I prefer double binding and no tummy or forearm cuts. Regarding teles, one of my biggest regrets and mistakes as a guitar player was not getting into teles or really giving them a chance sooner than I did. I missed out in acting that way. I have since fallen in love with them in an odd way.

 

[DISTORT6]

There wouldn’t be much Tele left if it was cut for my tummy.

I can relate. The pickup would have to be mounted in my bellybutton.