Guitar of the Day: 1959 Fender Telecaster Slab Board | Norman's Rare Guitars

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[@campfirecrooner]

Blows me away no matter how many times I view it, the amazing Michael Lemmo always delights, takes us to Tele heaven. His versatility is beyond measure in any genre! wow is all you can say! Jen you are and artist of rare compare, awesome video Jen one of your best. Thanks for capturing this master craftsman and awesome guitar.

[@sam-ww1wk]

Painting tweed black is the most rock thing I've heard in a sec.

[@hkguitar1984]

Historically speaking, has there ever been something made by Mankind that gives so much inspiration and beauty to so many through the years/decades as the guitar?

[@jfinester]

AMEN!!

[@denniskramer9657]

i think you have something there.

[@stantonh1452]

If you combine it with the explosion of media that has coincided with the rise of the guitar, then I think probably not.

[@indieguy81]

Aged white finish, white guard, and slab rosewood board is the classic Telecaster, in my opinion. I know people rave about the original blackguards but this is where it's at. One of my dream guitars for sure.

[@larrypower8659]

Watching/listening to Michael Lemmo is a guitar lesson in itself. I’ve been playing 60 years and there’s always some- thing else to learn, so what better person to watch than Sir Lemmo? Thanks for what you do, brother!

[@jonnybeck6723]

I've been plunking off 'n on fer 57 years and still can't figger how ta finger (pick) "Angel of the Morning" ...Oh, the injustice of it all (!)

[@tootiegrigio713]

Daaaaaamn! Well done!

[@stevefaure415]

This is a real special one. I hope a working musician ends up with this one and plays it for people to hear.

[@uniquestringsthings]

Another sweet Tele👍 And an awesome demo Mr. Lemmo

[@tonycorlett2099]

There is no mistaking, that is the beautiful ‘Telecaster’ sound demonstrated perfectly by Lemmo!

[@schalksteyn9594]

Man....listening to the Lemmo Wizard is like driving a luxury Rolls Royce, then all of a sudden you are a Ferrari whipping along at 100mph, thats why he's the Wizard. Shout out to Whoo Hoo Jen. Love you guys. Blessings from Kruger Park in South Africa. Awesome stuff!!!

[@erichutchinson6882]

Lemmo and Chris Buck are the best two players on KZbin

[@Noitpure]

One of the best demos Lemmo has done and they are all fantastic!

[@mtballen5]

The best sounding tele I have heard.

[@mrtambourineman6107]

Norm singing!! Oh dear I wondered why it was raining 🌧 hahaha 😆

[@frankcastle2045]

That old boy sounds so amazing very warm

[@toddflowers8052]

Let's hear it for the bridge pup !!! 😎🎸🎶👍💯💥....Loved it LEMMO !!?

[@freddaniel5099]

Awesome Telecaster! Nicely played - as always - by Michael Lemmo!

[@niccololaforteza7983]

Something about teles brings out the creativity in a guitarist. Lemmo being a perfect example of that

[@benallmark9671]

He’s singing , he’s singing. That was awesome, the more I get know Norm through the channel, the more I like him.

[@GhostFace8]

Norm Lemmo lmao

[@yakatara5590]

Nice playing South Africa approves ❤️❤️❤️

[@Truminashadepressure]

I wish Mr. Lemmo would review every telecaster. So many out there grab a tele and IMMEDIATELY play outlaw country or blues on it, because so many assume that’s all that a tele is good for. Mr Lemmo is an amazing musician.

[@conradbegin9505]

Beautiful sound, beautifully played

[@charlescrisp2814]

beautiful tele and awesome playing by the legend Michael Lemmo as usual

[@martinreid1740]

Congratulations, one of the best sounding guitars for a long time.

[@barryrahn5957]

Dig the licks!

[@ScepticalCliff]

Great piece of playing on a lovely guitar. Thx!

[@thomassawicki2065]

I am sure that in his heart, Norm is delighted to have Mike Lemmo. Lemmo makes these vintage G-tars sing ! ! I love his diverse taste in guitar playing. Go Lemmo !

[@LuckyJack99]

Sweet Tele and as always - great playing !

[@michaelkartman3543]

Your style of playing and chord voicings are so unique and beautiful, Lemmo. Gave that Slab board the the respect she deserved.

[@mickkev]

Awesome! 👍

[@davemead4504]

Cool way to wake up in the uk, watching lemmo making a tele sing! Cool start to the day 👊

[@stevenbrennon9284]

would love to see Micheal and Marty Stuart get together and play that would be awesome. keep up the fine work and keep on picking Michael.

[@josephgrant757]

I agree!! That and see more country guitar covers… or Albert King songs as well

[@jfinester]

Yeah! Michael plays his tail off! So does Marty Stuart. I’d love to hear that. Get Cuzzin Kenny Vaughan in there too!

[@stevenbrennon9284]

@@jfinester Good morning lets add Don Felder of The Eagles and Albert Lee also would be a heck of a jam session. thanks for the post and take care.

[@ginochipchip]

lemmo .........what a machine

[@wesspangler]

This one sounds especially nice!

[@blackcreekarmory3470]

Lemmo smoked yet another telecaster, oh the humanity!..

[@richardelson3261]

Lovely lovely demo Lemmo

[@georgechapogas1054]

Funny, Josh Smith uses the dark circuit to great effect. I love it myself. Bridge alone sounds like pop rock. Mid position sounds like a vintage 175.

[@samimakesmusic]

legend

[@rdb9936]

The dynamic range out of that bridge pickup using only the volume is insane. Convinced me that my next build will be a rosewood slab board Esquire with vintage style pickup! Inspiring and creative playing as ever!

[@christianlacheze3323]

That one sounds really good

[@Cube10]

Excellent end!

[@sheade_mcshyster]

Jen has the best laugh behind the camera!

[@midrider335]

Damn fine playing by Mr. Lemmo, as usual! Sweet Tele and I’ll bet she was born Olympic White but has yellowed with age!

[@jfinester]

Nope. That’s the normal blonde for that era at Fender. When it ages, it can take on an almost greenish shade.

[@midrider335]

@@jfinester you could be right, although I have seen original white Fender’s turn yellowish. Take Robben Ford’s ‘60 Telecaster that is yellow now, hard to know if it’s an original blonde or white that aged.

[@michaelbarnett3721]

I think the second position is the neck pickup alone with the tone control connected.

[@soofitnsexy]

I AGREE

[@jfinester]

Yes. The only way to get both pickups with the old wiring is to put the switch between the back and middle positions and hope it stays there!

[@johnmirabile3535]

Amazing how much space he filled sonically with his hands and that tele...How isnt this kid, in a top band? hes playing bass, rythem, lead, and percussion! who needs a band i guess lol

[@geofflee6295]

Not sure that you can have both pickups at once with 59 wiring. Middle position is neck without the dark circuit.

[@hankrocks7504]

it always blows me away how much single coil pickups can actually handle. When he goes heavy made me go Okayyyy lol. Right on Mr. Lemmo !

[@jamesfriestad3164]

Great Norm episode !

[@curttitus405]

I need this guitar!

[@jfinester]

I had a ‘59 Tele in the mid-to-late ‘70s. Same color as the one in the video, but mine had a maple neck (worn out!) and a black pickguard. I had to replace the threaded-steel bridge saddles as they were totally rusted-I put brass ones on and that improved the tone a lot! Replaced the tuners too as they were rusted too, and at that time (1974) there weren’t any decent retrofit Kluson tuners available-I wound up using mini-Schallers which just barely fit. I had to get the frets crowned as they were pitted and grooved-this poor thing had been played to death before I ever got it. Despite all that, it sounded great, but after playing the hell out of it for several years, I’d worn out the neck, and rather than put a crappy mid-‘70s neck on it, I traded it off. Got a ‘73 Gibson Les Paul Recording (this was in 1977) which sounded amazingly like the Tele did, plus I could get it to sound like a Les Paul as well, just with a lower output. If one ever shows up at Norm’s, I’d love to hear Lemmo do a GOTD on it! Very underrated guitars in my opinion. But I still miss that Tele!

[@pedalpukus]

Oh! the pickup value!

[@jamiebridson7871]

Lemmo Loops. Pure Class.

[@BrianOboylemusic]

Dude so killer

[@tonray9395]

excellent stuff....just excellent....I have always found teles to be a bit uncomfortable but......man....I need one now.

[@billtaylor4897]

Crazy Good... I Feel Crazy Good...

[@jimbonacum8917]

I don't know why everyone hates the dark circuit so much. It is a great jazz sound.

[@user-pl7lr5dn8q]

no one likes jazz

[@jfinester]

I like jazz. On my ‘59, I got a much better jazz tone by using the neck pickup with the tone rolled back about halfway. The dark circuit was too muddy for me, and luckily, my ‘59 had been wired with the post-‘67 setup before I ever got it. Much more usable.

[@CW0123]

I think they expect the trad bridge middle neck. It’d be like having a three way toggle switch and up is both pickups out of phase 🤷‍♂️

[@MrJohnr47]

I love the dark circuit on this guitar. Sounds great. Be nice if that was a fourth option on teles

[@thebenefactor6744]

Just get yourself a broadcaster wiring harness set up, drop it in, and you'll have it.

[@kengibbens5059]

Sounds so sweet, love it. Very nice Mike n Jenn, love seeing the behind the scenes goofiness. Makes place fun to work at if everyone has a sense of humour... had a dream met EVH last night and I mentioned you...bizarre dream

[@kungstu22]

One hell of a bridge Pup.

[@alxra]

Lemmo makes me want a telecaster BAD. He always makes them sound like the most diverse guitars for rock, and the tone he gets is consistently great.

[@benallmark9671]

Because they are the shit. I highly recommend one , 8 doubt you’d regret it.

[@CentaurusRelax314]

That pedal octave thing @5:50-that’s beautiful. Is that a song I should know, or just you ‘messin around and gettin a triple-double?’

[@artamussumatra6286]

Tele like it is!

[@pappyodanial]

Damn on the dark circuit that guitar sounds like a Cello playing in the middle of an ocean. Damn. That's the "good wood" difference. Nothing like old Brazilian honestly. It's insane, the difference.

[@YourWifesBoyfriend]

You're delusional

[@soofitnsexy]

absolutely the slab board neck and Brazilian makes an incredible difference I actually played a similar tele today and 3 vintage strats....THE WOOD IS ALL!!

[@YourWifesBoyfriend]

@@soofitnsexy Wrong. It's all about what color socks you wear.

[@soofitnsexy]

@@YourWifesBoyfriend actually!!!! u are correct! color has vibration which transfers thru the body into the strat

[@ipelegeng]

I just noticed that I watch your channel just to see and hear Lemmo play. The guitars are obviously nice but unobtainable anyway, pls don’t tell Norm 😊

[@billgreen3629]

That last song was amazing. I think I may be taking a trip to Teleland.

[@-Atmos1]

Nice Telecaster

[@malcolmhardwick4258]

Should get Norm to sing for us !

[@HiHello-ku1fl]

@Lemmo! What was that very first riff/song? Original? That was good. I'd be interested in hearing it if its some band. The bridge pickup on that tele has the tele sound I'm after....sort of a awe vowel midrange but still twangy. Hard to find that. Only vintage teles seem to have it.

[@danieltrinh1399]

I watched the whole video

[@Gunslinger320]

Ummm I love um Mike Lemmo ! Um he is the best!

[@JoshuaMalilay]

Lemmo on that bridge pickup my goodness man

[@stephenstevens6573]

When he plays that thing hard, it comes alive! Make it talk, Michael!

[@millmoormichael6630]

One of the best sounding for sure Lemmo has played on here horrible od pedal(?)

[@roberthunniecutt3879]

Hey Lemmo, not a great video to highlight what that guitar is capable of, BUUUUUUUTTTTTT, I highly enjoyed your performance. Not the perfect guitar for you, but you do pull out some nuances in a very nice manner. Thank you, Thank you, Happy New Year. I will look forward to hearing more from you, keep playing ! Thanks again, Cheers !! Oh, and to add validation to my comment, please reflect on how playable and great sounding the Fender ASAT Classic tribute series guitar, (which I play now), IS. 1959 Fender. OK , i'll give you that, but 2000 + Fenders, just as good if not better, and waaaaayyyyyyyyyyy CHEAPER ! Lemmo here surely deserves a Classic guitar, but does the classic deserve him ? See ? his music inspired THOUGHT! Enough said , play on world !

[@Smagledorf]

Yes! I love these original 59 Teles! They're so awesome to play and just have such a great tone with the slab board! Only thing missing is the top loader bridge! However! Gotta do a Maton!

[@cjscala87]

That bridge position sounds amazing that’s just like Jimmy Page’s tele. I noticed the bridge has the holes for top loader but the body still holes for string through. Maybe a transitional?

[@leamanc]

I believe that’s how Jimmy Page’s Tele was also. It gives you the option of top-loading or stringing through the body.

[@DenKulesteSomFins]

Yeah, that's transitional. They had a lot of toploader bridges, but drilled them for string through I think.

[@jfinester]

My ‘59 Tele was the same way. I always strung it through the body.

[@josephgrant757]

What song was played on the bridge pickup?

[@allisonholmesmusic97]

Damn Lemmo is on fire!

[@erichutchinson5150]

Lemmo should play a tele

[@f1s2hg3]

Mike I play a little guitar and my homemade pine caster and my blonde butterscotch modern Matsumoto telecaster is one of a kind. Your so write Norm knows music and your playing is great Mike but try to do original music try to create a melody for the show and be a ⭐️

[@MjSurf4Life]

LEMMMMMM

[@KohLHAUStyle23]

More teles no problemmo

[@Khaled-Amir]

Somebody tell me please, what he played in this video are all improvisations or covers for songs that I am not aware of???

[@christianlacheze3323]

Not on the store site. Sold already?

[@donaldscheer5206]

You could make Boogie Music Playing A Rubber Band!

[@smelltheglove2038]

Lemmo rips

[@das27]

any idea what tuning hes in?

[@lukabanovic2937]

I must know, is this all improvised by Lemmo or does he cover existing songs?

[@davidg1612]

That Tele sounds awesome. What's the significance of it being a "slab board" guitar? I'm not familiar with that term.

[@bigdaddystinkeye]

It's actually a slab of wood, usually rosewood, as opposed to a laminate board, which is a thinner piece of wood that matches the radius. Hope that helps.

[@imannonymous7707]

Im always amazed when a fifties tele still has a dark selection . I mean people have been playing this thing for 70 years + ....i cant believe nobody had switched it out. I switched mine the first year i owned it....i couldnt use that tone for anything

[@jfinester]

Fender didn’t change to the modern wiring until 1967. They did the same thing in the ‘70s with Strats. 5-way switches had been available since at least 1970, but Fender didn’t start putting them on Strats until 1977 or ‘78.

[@kevinhill4012]

Thought elvis coming on at the end there...

[@fasteddie8782]

Hey I was wondering what's the serial number of that guitar you guys need to put the serial numbers show the backing plate

[@martinreid1740]

Probably five digits starting with a 4.

[@evansteer3352]

Anyone know the first song

[@Jimrota12]

Songs?

[@zaxbysfixit]

What exactly is a slab board neck?

[@YourWifesBoyfriend]

Is this a joke?

[@smelltheglove2038]

@@YourWifesBoyfriend no, that’s your life.

[@rvnlvr0599]

Thicker piece of rosewood over the maple neck.

[@raym9434]

Slab of rosewood fretboard is thicker and no skunk stripe

[@YourWifesBoyfriend]

@@smelltheglove2038 Triggered, little snowflake?

[@dominiquecerdan8255]

How much norman???

[@antonchigurh3226]

Didn’t take to the tone - no matter the PUP - of this particular Tele. Not sure if it was the amp, the actual instrument, or both. I enjoy L’s playing and so, I know the difference (for me) must be in the tone and settings of the amp/Tele.

[@KeithSouthwest]

Yah right. Maybe you've played so much you've damaged your hearing?

[@dorianponcela9680]

Great playing as usual! One question... What about wearing the masks again? I thought Norm said he was vaccinated...

[@connorfischer3283]

Song name @5:30 anyone?

[@pappyodanial]

Right? That is GREAT

[@HiHello-ku1fl]

Not sure but it reminds me of George Benson or Norman Brown. The smooth station...lol

[@GhostFace8]

Sold already 😪