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Post subject: Reintroducing the Rosewood Telecaster!
Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2013 10:06 am
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Hi all,

Here's some long-awaited eye candy to get you out of your long-weekend slump! The Fender Custom Shop has resurrected the Rosewood Telecaster. Back in the early 1960s, we introduced limited hand-selected rosewood Fender guitars that became highly coveted collector's items. Used by George Harrison during the Beatles' famous Apple Studio rooftop concert, this recreated Tele is sure to pique the interest of vintage enthusiasts everywhere looking for a unique and historic instrument.

The Limited Rosewood Telecaster features the namesake rosewood body and a early ’60s "oval C" shaped rosewood neck with vintage-style hardware, but is also decked out with modern features such as a 9.5'' fingerboard radius and versatile Twisted Tele pickups.

How does it live up to the original? Let us know!


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Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2013 10:18 am
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Gorgeous And Delectable!

Would love a left-handed tele bass just like that!

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Post subject: Re: Reintroducing the Rosewood Telecaster!
Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2013 11:49 am
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One unique guitar, I want one too, thanks for the heads up Fender! :D

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Post subject: Re: Reintroducing the Rosewood Telecaster!
Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2013 11:52 am
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This is SWEEEEEET!! Really cool - more to save for!

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Post subject: Re: Reintroducing the Rosewood Telecaster!
Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2013 4:04 pm
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The price tag??? I was watching the market on these over the years and Fender Japan made a few in the late 1980s. They sold for $1200 used. A USA older one, way out of my price range. Now Fender CS??? Ummm.... I bet $3200?

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Post subject: Re: Reintroducing the Rosewood Telecaster!
Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2013 4:21 pm
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I'd like to know price also. I've been thinking of a Tele, and that one does it for me. The oval C neck sound like it might be like my friends '57 Tele neck which I love.
Edit: Okay, I just checked product descriptions and it's $7,000 MSRP. :shock:
I still like it but I probably won't be owning it.

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Post subject: Re: Reintroducing the Rosewood Telecaster!
Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2013 4:41 pm
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Drew365 wrote:
Okay, I just checked product descriptions and it's $7,000 MSRP. :shock:
I still like it but I probably won't be owning it.

WOW! :shock: :shock: :shock: Ok that does it for me unless Brad will swing me a super-consumer-relations-great guy-discount of 90%???? 8) Seriously, I have always wondered about Rosewood. I can see pieces big enough for fret-boards but how do they come up with enough for a whole guitar body, unless there are a lot of pieces glued together???

EDIT: Well this helps: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosewood Rosewood are other species that are big tress and not just big bushes! LOL!

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Post subject: Re: Reintroducing the Rosewood Telecaster!
Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2013 5:35 pm
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Nice, but if George where still with us, he would not approve of such a high price tag.

George owned a Maclaren F1 that he probably paid a very handsome sum of money to buy. So, though he might not approve, he knew that if you wanted certain toys you had to pay for the previlage. I think he was a realist as well as a dreamer.

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Post subject: Re: Reintroducing the Rosewood Telecaster!
Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2013 5:57 pm
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Drew365 wrote:
SKcoppertele wrote:
Nice, but if George where still with us, he would not approve of such a high price tag.

George owned a Maclaren F1 that he probably paid a very handsome sum of money to buy. So, though he might not approve, he knew that if you wanted certain toys you had to pay for the previlage. I think he was a realist as well as a dreamer.

I thought Lennon was the dreamer? I guess he said he was not the only one. Anyhow I can only dream about a $7000 rosewood Tele. Think I would buy a used MIJ one first or a couple other vintage guitars!

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Post subject: Re: Reintroducing the Rosewood Telecaster!
Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2013 7:01 pm
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Post subject: Re: Reintroducing the Rosewood Telecaster!
Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2013 8:33 pm
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It is a beautiful guitar. Aimed a a specific market and it is not us regular guitar players, unless we are foolish enough to put it on a credit card and end up paying a few thousand more in interest. This is a bragging rights guitar because of its pricing. I am sure it is a very special guitar that sounds and plays great. Some of its purchasers might even play it once in a while. :roll:

In my eyes, it is missing a fret. :lol:

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Many of those CS-only creations seem to be trickling down to the average folk in a somewhat different incarnation later...Cabronita Tele, for instance...

However, with the cost and supply of Rosewood, I doubt this one will trickle down at all. Oh, well...I guess I'll just try to become rich or something, :lol:

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Post subject: Re: Reintroducing the Rosewood Telecaster!
Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2013 11:29 pm
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With all my respect for past and future Telecasters and providing it really cost $7,000, I can only say - its ridiculous (price wise, otherwise the guitar looks awesome.!

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Post subject: Re: Reintroducing the Rosewood Telecaster!
Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2013 5:30 am
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I've already said my piece on the pricing issues in a post on the Custom Shop Forum. I don't consider owning this guitar as any kind of priviledge other than being able to afford it. Besides, the good fortune George Harrison had to be able to afford his toys was due to his benefactors...we...his audience, who thought enough of his work to pay for it enmasse.
Personally, that $7K took me to Paris and back last May and paid for my hotel and meals for a week. Next time I'm there, I hope to connect with Alain and play his rosewood Tele. :wink:

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Post subject: Re: Reintroducing the Rosewood Telecaster!
Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2013 11:02 am
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Wow and Double-Wow-she's beautiful-no doubt the price would make the purchasing of it impossible for we mere mortals.I had the enormous pleasure of playing a Rosewood Tele way back when they first came out and my buddy sold most of his gear except for his amp and an old beat up Hagstrom to get it.They were exemplary guitars and although there was no mistaking the Tele sound the Rosewood had a warmness and fullness to the tone that no standard Teles ever had.Stupidly and recklessly and against the advice and pleading of al, of his friends-including me,he removed the pickguard and routed out the neck pickup cavity and installed a Gibson humbucker.We all told him that the results he would get just wouldn't be worth ruining the value of the guitar for but he went ahead and did it anyway and as we all told him,he wasn't impressed with the sound at all because for starters the humbucker drowned out the single coil bridge pickup when both were engaged.He put the original pickup back in and attempted to fill the routed out section with a block of rosewood that he had shaped out,but the damage had been done and he ended up trading the beautiful Tele with some guy in New York for a sitar.

Anyway I always wanted a proper Rosewood Tele but I'm sure that the Custom Shop model will be way beyond my reach unless some benevolent soul takes pity on me and buys me one and that ain't about to happen.

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