Thoughts on the veracity of this tele.......

Travisthedog

I like this - does it look kosher?


http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&alt=web&id=222271595929&globalID=EBAY-GB ;

olafgarten

The body and neck look OK, but it obviously has a replacement bridge to fit the HB. The serial number also matches the year. 

The tuners also look legit as do the knobs. 

Bridgehouse

Did Fender do a bound Telecaster in the late 70's? I thought they were originally 60's only..?

ICBM

The neck is genuine, the body isn't. As Bridgehouse said there were no bound Teles in the late 70s, and it's the wrong shape. The pickguard and neck pickup might be 70s but impossible to tell from the pics.

The case isn't right either, Fender never used a blue lining. It might actually be a Rickenbacker case. The lead is correct though! And probably older, I think they'd stopped using that type by then.

It also appears to have had larger-diameter machineheads fitted and removed, you can see the collar marks on the front of the headstock - that reduces the value of the neck.

lasermonkey

That case looks a lot like my Ric cases.

richardhomer

The 'Custom' designation in the 70s usually refers to the 'Keef' Tele (large scratchplate, neck Wide Range humbucker/Tele bridge pick-up, scratchplate mounted toggle on upper horn, 2 volume/2 tone Les Paul-like control layout). They also had Bullet trussrods and 'Custom' beneath the word 'Telecaster' on the headstock decal. None of that guitar is from a 70s Telecaster Custom - though it appears to be a late-70s 'standard' Telecaster neck.

As others have said, no edge-bound Teles were made in the late 70s - IIRC correctly, production officially ceased around 72, when the 'Keef' version was introduced - though I've never actually seen one that wasn't made in the '60s.

Wazmeister

Def a Ricky case, and the body looks Jap to me...

DrBob

Travisthedog said:

I like this - does it look kosher?


http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&alt=web&id=222271595929&globalID=EBAY-GB ;

How many times are we going to go through this man ? You don't get on with Teles !
That said I do like the config of that one !

ICBM

Wazmeister said:

and the body looks Jap to me…

Yes.

In the very late 80s or early 90s I made one like this - apart from the colour - from a 70s Fender and a Tokai Custom Tele. The Fender had a nice neck but the body weighed a ton, and the Tokai looked nice and weighed about half as much but had a very fat neck - which would now be fashionable, but I hated it. So I swapped them, got rid the Fender body with the Tokai neck on and kept the "Fender Custom Tele" for a few years. Eventually I sold it to a well-known local blues player who used if for many years and may even still have it, I'm not sure.