Not to redirect the thread but I was watching a Brad Paisley video where his guitar tech talks about using steel wool on all of is necks. I tried that on the above guitar and I can attest it turns the neck into glass. Keeps fast slides and those quick up down over the fret nuances much faster. It's all about the tele in my world right now. Just trying to sound like those guys in your example above keeps me practicing hours a day. Here's another one I like to reference..this girl can play. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FO4xbv06m0Y

I am enjoying the fact that I no longer remember why or how I stumbled on this song a few days ago, and yet the episode opened up this opportunity for me to learn stuff.

To be honest, I wasn't that familiar with Brent or Redd... I spent a lot of time listening to both over the weekend.

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I love this.  Thanks Mike.  
I wish someone would make a box to make my Strat sound like a Tele!

Rim

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I love this.  Thanks Mike.  
I wish someone would make a box to make my Strat sound like a Tele!

Rim

Not possible - just too many differences! I am going to assume you mean the BRIDGE P/U, since that is the true tele magic, not to mention you don't usually want to mess with a strat neck - that's a great tone!
 
Here is a short list as to why they are so different.

1. Basic tone. A Tele bridge p/u is a lot thicker sounding than a strat bridge. It has beefier low mids - which is the heart of the tone.
2. A strat pickup is mounted on the plastic pick guard, the tele pickup is mounted on the metal bridge. That makes a huge difference.
3. Here is one you can fix easily (if the problem exists on your strat). Most strats do not have a tone pot wired to the bridge p/u, but the tele does. This is where the excess high end comes from on the strat bridge p/u! Simply wiring the bridge p/u to one of the two tone pots on a strat will tame the high end and make it much more useable! On my strats, I move the tone wire from my middle pickup to my bridge pickup (leaving the middle without a tone). This easy mod makes the bridge p/u useful, and the middle/neck sound brighter. Overall the p/u selections sound much more balanced and the neck p/u configuration remains "untouched"!

Middleman


Not to redirect the thread but I was watching a Brad Paisley video where his guitar tech talks about using steel wool on all of is necks. I tried that on the above guitar and I can attest it turns the neck into glass. Keeps fast slides and those quick up down over the fret nuances much faster. It's all about the tele in my world right now. Just trying to sound like those guys in your example above keeps me practicing hours a day. Here's another one I like to reference..this girl can play. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FO4xbv06m0Y

Yes - she can play! Good stuff.
I've been doing the steel wool thing since the 80's. I always have a box of "0000" on hand.