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New, but Hot Rodded
This is a brand new Fender® Classic '60s Telecaster® that we've modified with some very nice upgrades, which are detailed below. All original parts are included in the sale. We're an authorized Fender dealer, and this guitar is sold with a full factory warranty. The guitar weighs 7.80 pounds. Re-Radius, Refret
This guitar shipped from Fender with small fretwire as used in the 1960s, and with the 7.25" fretboard radius that came on all Fender guitars at that time. Because modern players often prefer lower action and taller fretwire than was used by Fender in the '60s - to accommodate modern playing styles where string-bending is prevalent - we've flattened the fretboard radius from 7.25" to the 9.5" that Fender uses on most non-Reissue guitars; and we've re-fretted the guitar with Dunlop 6105 fretwire, which is tall and of medium width. This is a very popular fretwire size. These two changes result in a guitar with modern-player-approved low action, and with taller frets that will make it more comfortable for most modern players to bend strings. After installation, we leveled, crowned, and polished the frets. We almost always level/crown/polish frets on the Mexican Fender guitars, so they'll be as perfect as possible. You can read more about our process here. And finally, we completely setup the guitar, so that it plays perfectly. We adjusted the nut slots, and adjust the truss rod, the action, and the intonation. When you get a guitar from us, it plays right. Just like it should. Pickups
We replaced the guitar's stock pickups with Seymour Duncan Vintage Tele pickups. These are true single coils, so you'll get that traditional Tele tone, but the bridge pickup is RWRP, for hum-canceling when the two pickups are combined. Wiring
We've completely rewired the guitar with our alternate 4-way switching (TA-SS3). This provides for additional tonal flexibility by allowing you to combine the pickups in series as well as parallel (the stock wiring only offers parallel). Wiring two coils together in series rather than parallel yields markedly different results. On Telecasters with 2 pickups, the traditional parallel wiring provides relatively consistent output across all three positions. A Telecaster with its pickups wired in series differs in that when both pickups are on at the same time, the combination produces higher output and a fatter tone. A 4-position Tele switch allows players to have both wiring options at once. The resulting pickup combinations are: Position 4: Neck Pickup (standard Tele)
Position 3: Bridge & Neck Pickups in Series (fatter tone than position 2 & more output than positions 1, 2, or 4)
Position 2: Bridge & Neck Pickups in Parallel (standard Tele)
Position 1: Bridge Pickup (standard Tele) Since this guitar has a reverse-wound, reverse-polarity pickup, you receive the additional benefit of hum-cancellation in switch positions 2 and 3. Bridge Upgrades
We've upgraded the saddles on this guitar with compensated brass saddles from Callaham. The stock saddles don't allow for intonation adjustments, and so they cannot be adjusted to play properly in tune at various points on the neck. Compensated saddles fix this problem by providing for individual string lengths for all six strings. This allows the guitar to be properly intonated, so that the guitar plays in tune everywhere on the neck. We use Callaham's saddles for this because they're beautifully made, and are better than anything else on the market that we've seen. Cavity Shielding
There are many sources of hum and noise in our modern world. Many of the ones that plague guitar players fall into one of two classifications: EMI (ElectroMagnetic Interference) and RFI (Radio Frequency Interference). Both can be effectively dealt with by comprehensive shielding of the electronics. If you've ever experienced touching the strings on a guitar and hearing a reduction in hum, this is EMI/RFI. The hum is reduced when you touch the strings, because touching the strings connects you to ground, and your body provides some shielding for the electronics. The way to effectively shield a guitar is to enclose the electronic components in a box that's electrically conductive, and then connect this box to ground. Fender shields the cavities on Mexican Standard guitars with shielding paint, but the Classic Series guitars, and the Road Worn guitars, are usually not shielded at all (the Road Worn Player Strats are partially shielded). We shield the cavities on these guitars using a high-quality nickel-based paint, and connect this paint to ground. This provides an effective shield so as to keep unwanted noise (radio transmissions, hum from magnetic fluorescent light ballasts, etc) out of your signal. Giddyup
So now this guitar is ready to gig. It is, really and truly, all that and a big bucket of grits. Sounds great, plays great, is great, and for not a ton of cash. Bonus: It says Fender on the headstock. It can be yours today, unless you live outside the US (because this guitar cannot ship internationally, sorry!) | | | | Video of actual guitar for sale | | | | | | Click images below for larger versions |  |  |  |  |  |  | | | |