House on fire and you can only save one: Custom Shop 61 Tele or Custom Shop '61 SG....

RandallFlagg

Which would you choose and why?

Grampa

Neither, I'd grab the PRS MEQ.

Kittyfrisk

Grab the SG, the tele's tough enough to look after itself 

Bucket

SG.

Skipped

Neither.

They are both easily replaceable and your exit from the building should not be delayed.

An actual vintage guitar might be considered hard to replace.

SteveF

Tele I think 

skunkwerx

Neither. 

I'd dig their remains out of the ashes and sell them for 100% mark up as roadworn. 

monquixote

Any Tele that can't survive a house fire isn't a proper Tele.

HAL9000

Since this is a guitar forum surely the correct answer is both.

Whitecat

The Tele...

crunchman

Tele

TTony

I'd save the time of posting on here to ask people which one to save, and save them both.

monquixote

If you run into a house fire to save a Gibson Lucille the ghost of B.B. King haunts you.

octatonic

Tele.
I'd use an SG to break down the door, even if it was unlocked.

Lestratcaster

Tele cos I don't like SG's.

chris78

If you tried to save the SG, you'd probably break the headstock on your exit from the building anyway so you may as well save the tele

Sassafras

I'd probably try to save my children from an horrific fiery death. If I had time after that, I'd go in for the Tele.

stickyfiddle

Without playing them, SG.

rze99

SG. I can build an excellent Tele. 

Skipped

stickyfiddle said:

Without playing them, SG.

This is a good point.

If it was a chip pan fire,  there might be just enough time to check if Gibson have somehow  managed to make a very slim neck which is still too heavy for the body they have attached it to.

Roland

Neither. My mantra is passport, plastic, ‘phone. Not necessary in that order. 

When it comes to guitars I’d still say neither. The least replaceable is probably my sister-in-law’s acoustic, and that’s for sentimental reasons. All other guitars, even my Parker Fly, are replaceable.