This is, I think, an excellent example of the classic Fender Telecaster. Simple, functional, toneful. I replaced the original electronics soon after I bought the guitar. The original frets were replaced with tall vintage frets in early 2007 by Dan Erlewine of Athens, Ohio. Dan leveled the fretboard, installed the frets, fashioned a beautifully shaped and polished bone nut, and cleaned and lubed the truss rod adjuster. In the spring of 2009, the frets we leveled and crowned at Elderly Instruments in Lansing, Michigan. As you can imagine, the guitar plays beautifully.
Here are the details and a gallery of images:
- Fender Japan basswood body in 3-tone sunburst, with some dings and a chip or two
- Fender Japan maple neck with rosewood fingerboard
- Safe-T-Post tuners
- E-B and G-D string trees
- Tall-vintage frets
- Bone nut
- Fender Nocaster (clean) bridge pickup
- Fender Texas Special Tele neck pickup
- Stew-Mac 250k volume and tone pots
- Fender Japan stamped steel ashtray bridge
- Fender Highway 1 slotted steel saddles
- w/b/w pickguard
- D'Addario strings: .010-.046
- weighs 6.75 lbs.
