WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU MIX A FENDER STRATOCASTER WITH A TELECASTER? Let's Find Out!

[@billkaroly]

That was a silly thing to do. Turned off it's still a Strat and turned on it's a Chinacaster. The Fender Gods are angry I think. But it was a fun video.

[@robertnilsson8213]

Yep, those pups sure do sound like they're meant to sound. LOL! Thanks Shawn & Cathy for another interesting video. Nice job folks. I enjoyed it very much and love both strats & teles. ~Rob

[@ItFigures89]

Found this channel a couple months ago and have been subscribed since. As a Florida native transplanted here in Ohio, you remind me alot of my uncles and guys back home, and your vibes are funny but informative. Keep up the great work Big Dog. I'm working on my first build so I appreciate all of your advice in the videos, and every new video that comes out is better than the last 🤘🏻

[@Mr.PhatsVarietyVibesShow]

the shape does make the sound all in the shape , folks.. if you turn this into a key board shape it will sound like a piano

[@perkins1439]

Every since I understood the mechanics of electric guitar always said you can bolt a neck to a plank and put some pickups on it same thing

[@markmccawley2526]

I like how you stress the importance of PPE. Great video

[@RafsGearReviews]

I think it looks amazing. Plus it being blue makes it instantly sound better.

[@timesurfingalien]

Cathy couldn't get a better head knocker than a scarred acoustic. That bugger is solid

[@flash21502]

Great video, you never stop impressing me with how well you can play.

[@bigted1953]

Sean... Problem here...i have a freind that works at a junk yard....i was telling him about dont touch my scarred guitar... He totally misunderstood and thought i said... Why dont you scrap my car.... now my car is on its way to China as scrap.... But... It may come back as squier and iyv and harley benton parts... so its not a total loss. 😅

[@TimRock1269]

That looks awesome. Now you have me wanting to make a Tele-Partscaster

[@valueofnothing2487]

Part of the reason I don't buy tellys is because they do not have an arm cut. So I bought a paranormal offset which has one

[@michaeltracanelli745]

The perfect mix. Good shape of a Strat and the punch of a Tele . Yeah sounds awesome 🔥

[@frankperricone2065]

It sounds damn good, very cool transformation. Not a big strat fan but love me some Telecaster. Good video Sean, keep them coming.

[@slacquin]

Best way to make a Tele with some whammy, well done!

[@BooyaKitten]

Praise be. Do I detect a beautiful copy of Cool Edit 2.1 running on the desky??? What an absolute unit of a program. Still using it today!

[@scarmyguitar]

I'm still running Cool Edit Pro 2.0 !! I love it and have used it for 20+yrs. I think 2000 is when I got the very first edition. 2.0 still recognizes every audio sound card I throw at it. Never any latency. Just a boss software.

[@thegoodguy44]

@@scarmyguitar Adobe bought cool edit decades ago and turned it into Adobe Audition. Way better in every sense. Will probably recognize all sound cards. Try it out!

[@sahamal_savu]

This is some quality content right here. And you absolutely did prove a point, it's the pickups and the placement that make the sound. I would've laughed in that guy's face if he tried to tell me the shape of the body has anything to do with the sound 😂

[@mikeg6666]

The lack of common sense nowadays is frightening!

[@stevenpotter-en2me]

I've thought about doing this before, still haven't but now I know I absolutely have to. That's cool man, especially for people that prefer the shape and feel of a Stratocaster

[@jaminjimlp]

I'm so glad to see you got you a good soldering iron brother😮 you talk about guys cringing when you use a battery drill and take the pic guard off, I was cringing every time you whip out that soldering iron with about a quarter inch long tip on it lol.... Oh yeah you probably want to keep that thing down below 700 Fahrenheit (about 370c) or it will be hard to keep that tip tinned.

[@nathanflowers9950]

Hey Sean! Great video man; it was awesome how you made that conversion. Never occured to me.😂 My favorite part was when you went into that blues-jam. I had to rewind and hear that again!! Killer jam😀👍

[@picksalot1]

If you use a "Quick Connect" to the Jack, you can swap out Pick Guards and their entire set of pickups, and electronics in a few minutes, and without soldering or removing the strings. This how I can quickly convert my one Strat to different types of guitars.

[@morgan79347]

Love the color of that strat.

[@TheShink]

A New Years shot to the nutz. Ty from the team, and good work Kathy.

[@Ron_Masterjohn]

Hilarious intro with Cathy.😊

[@MashaT22]

People have some silly ideas about guitars. It’s like saying elbow macaroni tastes different than spaghetti! It’s not the shape that changes the taste of the pasta - it’s the cheese, sauce, and whatever else you put on top! Oh great, now I’m hungry for pasta lol. Anyway, same goes for electric guitar shapes and what they sound like. It’s not the shape that matters with changing the tone. It’s primarily the pickups and some other factors (like the type of metal strings one uses, pick materials, etc.) that are helping to shape the tone, clarity/muddiness, etc. (Btw, got your email, Cathy. I haven’t been able to write back yet. I’ve been having a rough few weeks, but this week I really was overtaxed and on little sleep. But I did see it and will reply soon. As a quick response: 😱🤘🏻🎸❤️‍🔥🥰

[@Bob-Whiting]

Now I want some of that Strat-O-Tele goodness too, See what you did?! lol

[@wardengrn]

Awesome. Love the sounds of both but prefer looks of strat. Good combo

[@michaelmcdonald8877]

Be aware, under the Geneva Convention, a soldier wearing the uniform of the enemy can be summarily executed as a spy. This is true of a Stratocaster wearing the guise of a Telecaster. It can be summarily executed as a spy depending on which camp it falls in. Your guitar has been warned. Best wishes and thanks for another entertaining video.

[@wilhelmtheconquerer6214]

In my humble opinion, the Tele has only one real advantage over the strat (two if you prefer the ascetics) and that is the bridge pickup. The strat is more comfortable, better balanced, more versatile (especially with an HSS configuration and/or a Gilmour-swtch) and (subjectively) more attractive

[@squirrel-1969]

Great video Sean! The Strat-a-Tele is a bit of an odd duck but it sounds great man! One more thing... you now need to invest in a sports cup to keep Walter and the twins safe from Kathy. Looking forward to the live stream!

[@Ron_Masterjohn]

Yes you have to where your mask and sometimes Sean has to slip in his helmet real fast. Lol😊

[@recumbentrevolution6540]

LOL😂 DEZZNUT'S🤘🎸 See you at the live tonight.. Looks like gonna be snowed in today where I'm at. Gonna have to pull my stratacaster off the wall and jam a little bit

[@greggrigsby319]

Cathy is awesomeness 🤗 She makes the best of the videos👍 keep up with the great work 😊 From the Pacific Northwest 👍✌️😎

[@PedroBrando]

Richie Blackmore of Deep Purple always had the middle pickup of his Strats. disabled.

[@billpenrod6415]

Got to say it but love your channel love every minute of it I'm a guitar player myself and really enjoy it all keep it up brother . Pastor Will Penrod . God Bless.

[@barbmelle3136]

Good demonstration. I see I am not the only one that does not like the volume knob that is close to the strings. I have a Strat with a Telecaster neck pickup in the neck. I had to make an adaper ring for the mounting screws, but I like the tone

[@coreyseitz7013]

The pearloid pick guard looks good with the color of that guitar

[@jackbutler1955]

just need a reverse headstock now lol love it bro

[@kokodin5895]

on the other hand i love the looks of teles with strat pickups and picguards and bridge( hard tail or trem ) they look alien and unevolved and yet fun, especially if they rounded over all around

[@barriehercock8612]

Looks and sounds great ,its just like a tele going to have to attempt one ,got old strat bodies and tele electrics, thanks for the idea Sean ,great video

[@jaminjimlp]

I guess you're going to have to take a Telly body and put some Strat pups in it.... Maybe a Nice little HSS setup so you can finish proving that point. Then you can have that joker over and blow his mind!!!

[@TURBOCAST]

Man! I sooooo dig that set up!! I do have a scarred strat…. Hmmm🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

[@PooNinja]

Always wear a cup 4:58 I always wear my mask!

[@hvymtlhed5113]

Y'all crack me up ! Great videos !

[@MultiSpeedr]

They made a "hybrid Strat" as it is called, which is a Strat Body with Telecaster electronics right after i documented my build of one on Facebook, it took me a few weeks, and right after i was done. Fender brought out their Parallell universe Hybrid Strat, only thing is mine costcabout $550.00, and theirs was $1999.00.. Now mine was based on a guitar i saw in a Tina Turner video, i saw the guy playing a hybrid strat with a tremolo, anf i had to get one, so i built my own, but then i found the guitarci saw and bought it, it is called, ESP the Hybrid -1, it is a Strat Body, Maple neck, laid out like a telecaster with a Flicka Tremolo, from Japan, i believe, and i also built another i call Snakeskin Voodoo, and one other thing, Besides the Parallell universe Hybrid Fender sells, Squier has a Parallell universe Nashville Strat which is a Hybrid with 3 pickups which they just realeased...so yes it has been done by Fender and very recently...

[@mauibill7233]

Sure, up to a point. My ES335 sounds way different than my Les Paul, for example. And, then, why did Fender make the Thinline Tele? Sumpin to think about.

[@ralphmills7322]

Your buddy ought to check out Les Paul's original 1939 electric guitar solid body prototype called "The Log" pretty much a 4x4 piece of pine with a Gibson neck, a vibrato tailpiece and homemade bridge and pickups. He did add two halves of a hollow body guitar to the log just to make it look like a "real" guitar and did nothing for the sound. Just to show appearance has nothing to due with sound.

[@Cemetery_Fog]

I'm all kinds a hooked on this channel

[@bouzoukiman5000]

You could reinstall the strat neck pickup to make it a hybrid

[@peterhicks6328]

fender has a paranormal series. strat with tele parts. tele bridge tele switch and pots. tele pickups. tele output jack.

[@jchavins]

I don't like the volume control up near the strings on a Strat either. I move it to the second hole and run all three pickups to the bottom tone pot then add a mini switch to turn on the neck pickup giving me seven positions. I glue a guitar pick over the top hole. I have found on my two SSS Strats that if I use the bridge pickup alone and roll off a little high end it sounds a whole lot like my Teles in the bridge position. Since my 3 Teles are all Nashville with either 7 positions or blending the middle pickup I can choose whatever I feel like playing at the time with very little difference in sound........love your videos

[@jeffrowlette]

I dig that black wrench you used to tighten the pot nuts!

[@Zundfolge]

Fender kinda makes something like this, its called the "Squire Paranormal Nashville Stratocaster". Its got a tele bridge, tele bridge pickup, tele controls and pickguard and a strat middle pickup on a strat body with a strat neck.

[@TM-ev2tc]

You need to check on , and install a B- Bender in a telecaster sometime.

[@timscarrow9151]

Man, I was kinda hoping you would put better pickups in man. Well the bridge and the pickup baseplate make some difference. I like my Tele a tele and my strat a strat, gettin old I rekon.

[@pecktox]

I quit breathing when you routed that beautiful guitar..😱..pex

[@douglowe5355]

I was wondering if I could do this very same thing--except with an offset body. Now I know, Thanks Sean! Wish I could put a bender neck in it--I'd love to try one some day...

[@ottovonnekpunch1268]

Gee Sean, @ 14:09, you said " This ain't gonna hurt this guitar...", as you are creating a semi-"swimming-pool" cavity in your axe! Maybe a Para-Normal Tele fits the bill? OK, after watching the finished effort, that axe sonically ROCKS!!!! So, after watching the full video, when are you selling that loaded pick-guard on Ebay???

[@scarmyguitar]

I'm not sorry.

[@mikewood1421]

A guys gotta wonder…what happens to a tele if it has a 24.75 scale vs the 25.5?

[@pulaski1]

Fender actually did something like this in their Parallel Universe series - a Strat with Tele pickups. They also did a Tele with three single-coil Strat pickups.

[@raybassman7536]

Saturday nights at 10pm eastern, it will be time for "THE SEAN AND CATHY SHOW" don't miss it, and we may have an online guest apraerence by Brad the Guitologist from the youtube channel, "The Guitologist" Brad can fix any amp that needs repair. Just like Sean can famously fix any guitar! But sometimes he needs to wear a hard hat while doing it. LOL.

[@davehopping7212]

Fender did address that Strat-into-Tele thing awhile back, but they did it the other way around, by putting a Strat middle pickup (Tex-Mex, IIRC) in the Nashville Tele with a 5 way switch gave you all the Tele combinations, plus the Strat positions 2 and 4. I got one with a B-bender for more fancy stuff; it's the bees' knees and I'm surprised Leo didn't do a few 3 pickup Teles back in Da Golden Age.

[@Gerry-cg6kr]

That's only thing I don't know like about strat is volume to close to pickup in my opinion.

[@RunningWithScissors765]

Damn. That’s a honky tonk machine!!!!! May have to put this into a build platform

[@thomaslthomas1506]

My friend:"hey can you come over to the studio and do some chikin pikin stuff for me?". Me:"sure I'll bring my tele" My friend: "no bring your Strat it sounds more like a tele...." Me:"🤔"

[@JasonViator]

Woohoo.... loving it!

[@biggj5813]

Love this ,l have been wondering about a Tele pickup in the bridge position of my strat ,thank you very much!✌

[@wmralder]

Looks a lot like a big Mustang or Duo-sonic.

[@PaulyDTheKiwi]

DAMN!!! You made a STRELECASTOR

[@telestratblues]

Love your videos.

[@JG6869USA1]

Paranormal "Strat o Sonic". It's a Les paul JR mixed with a Strat. P90s and wrap around bridge.

[@WickedFesterBand]

Everyone knows the tone in a Tele comes from the switch tip on the 3 way blade switch! That’s why they are different than the ones on Strats. 😂

[@MikeJBlues]

Dang you let them in lol 😆.

[@j-man9457]

I'm a tele guy true and true haha and I've been modding teles into hybrids for years. LP with Tele pups, I have a strat pretty much exactly like you just built in this video. It sounds great and has all the strat comfort cuts and it aso has a tele neck on it😀! Rock on!

[@nychold]

I use 350C for lead based solder, and I 375C for lead free. 400 is a bit too hot. Probably won't cause an issue though

[@Bbbbad724]

You need to wear a cup now! 😂

[@MAX96MENDES]

Very interesting, thanks for the hard work. Cool video

[@RA-ew8rv]

Surprised the squirrel didn't run in when the nuts were cracked.........

[@jimlisterman-b3s]

QUESTION-----WHERE can I purchase wrench like you use ? * ? * ? Good Video / Good Results JimInCincy.....

[@scarmyguitar]

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[@jimlisterman-b3s]

@@scarmyguitar ---- Thank You......JimInCincy

[@oldguy5381]

Now all you need to do is put a quick connect on the claw ground. Maybe make a humbucker pick guard kinda tri Strat. 😜

[@kennethhoneycutt4513]

You ain't gonna believe this but I have a fender MIM telecaster that doesn't sound like a tele it sounds like a strat which is fine by me cause i don't play country or rockabilly type music i use light to medium gain so it works out great for me but that is a cool mash up but they do make a Nashville telecaster with three pickups

[@raybassman7536]

I bet Brent Mason might want to buy that one, it's the best of both worlds. Brent would have to go through Cathy to buy that one, and she would say NO SALE!!!

[@insufferablethrashelitist9305]

Sooooo... it's a Telestrat? Now I wanna go make one too. I've never liked how teles looked.

[@Bluesky5553]

Fender has made several different models of two pickup Strats over the years, some of the first being made for Jackson Brown in the '70's. It all comes down to the pickup as tp what it sounds like , not the body shape. Heck a Telecaster Deluxe with two humbuckers sounds more like a Les Paul than a Telecaster.

[@jimmycarter2927]

Think I just figured out my next build. I think I have an old strat body and neck laying around somewhere

[@Bbbbad724]

I have an old Silvertone Strat, really solid made of heavy plywood. It has a 9.5 radius neck. It is a two tone tobacco sunburst. It cleaned it up a good setup, but it has ceramic pickups. It stays in tune. I want to put a loaded twin H pickguard and ground it really good, since paint maybe some foil. Just can’t find a good loaded pickguard.. they are eather really cheap or cost what a new Squier would be.

[@Bbbbad724]

I think it’s a Samick the QC is good and it’s like the Japanese ones.

[@Chimp_No_1]

Absolutely amazing video ! New subscriber !

[@ivandee4011]

LOL!! LOL! Man, I love you guys! Happy New Year, by the way!

[@bdawnedon]

i love your voice you should narrate.

[@totallyunmemorable]

Where did you get that wrench you used to tighten the nuts on the pots and switch?! MUST HAVE!

[@scarmyguitar]

www.amazon.com/Saipe-Multifunctional-Adjustable-Double-head-Self-tightening/dp/B0BG88ZV99/ref=sr_1_6?crid=3DID8W6YLKIFS&keywords=multi+nut+wrench&qid=1704643725&sprefix=multi+nut+wrench%2Caps%2C97&sr=8-6

[@totallyunmemorable]

I've needed these for decades. Ordered a set. Bless you!@@scarmyguitar

[@cigarboxskinny1154]

Right on

[@bacongl]

I have seen people swap the neck single coil with a tele lipstick. And still use a humbucker in the bridge for a wide spectrum of tones.

[@GallmanGuitars]

Why am I liking this so much? Lol

[@mikepautz3128]

Great video and am curious if the Fender duo sonic is their attempt at a tele-strat hybrid, or maybe the scale difference changes it significantly.

[@freelove75]

What is that wrench you use at about 7:12 mark?

[@RustyGunn7]

This is the first time I ever seen a Tele pickup set on a Strat. It never occurred to me as an idea either. Tele pickups on a Strat just don't seem right. Lol

[@RustyGunn7]

FYI Sean, I got a note saying I won something, and an address to text you. I think someone is scamming. Letting you know (BTW the fake text link 'disappeared', I didn't click on it.)

[@atom-by5ur]

Damn, after the swap it sounds like a Les Paul.😂

[@rogerwilco59]

I'll admit when I hear a song on the radio I try to guess is that a Tele or Strat... haha you fooled me.

[@Tcoldsteel]

It’s all about the tone-wood

[@Adam-rm3fh]

That matters with acoustics. Not with electric guitars. That myth has been put to rest. There are still those who believe it because they want to or they are ignorant. But it isn't true. A few comments down Sean provided a link to an excellent video that put the myth to rest.

[@Tcoldsteel]

@@Adam-rm3fh my comment was tongue in cheek. I saw an interview with Paul Reed Smith being emphatic about how important the wood is in the tone in electric guitars even. Maybe it’s just elitism and excuse to bump up prices.

[@caseysmith544]

Fender does not have this, but Squire I think does in Paranormal series however it is using a telecaster bridge defeating the purpose of being a combination as then you have basically a telecaster on a stratocaster body. A telecaster on a stratocaster body is similar to how Fender and Squire have a duel humbucker telecaster without or with a pickguard and a few duel humbucker stratocaster mainly with a pickguard so you do not need to buy a Gibson Les Paul or a Gibson SG as these will get a sound similar yet have both a duel horn (sort of) and a single cut guitar.

[@bobcat3653]

Sweet build , but willnit Chug?!! Ha ha