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Post subject: American Deluxe 60 Years Neck Plate.
Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2016 5:13 pm
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Hi.
Around September 2013, I bought an American Deluxe Telecaster 60 Years, which I've never used, even It still has the plastic cover of the pickup and pick guard, in July 2016 I took It out of the case to polish it and I noticed that the neck plate is cracked.

This guitar have been purchased for collection, so It has never been used

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I'm trying to find this neck plate.


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Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2016 7:12 pm
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Have you tried eBay?


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Post subject: Re: American Deluxe 60 Years Neck Plate.
Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2016 1:45 am
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Ask to fender Consumer service. Scroll down to see Contact.


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Post subject: Re: American Deluxe 60 Years Neck Plate.
Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2016 4:46 am
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Hi Blue Notes and Stratele52

I tried on ebay, but no luck.

I sent a email to Fender Consumer Relations, but they answered this anniversary neck plate is not longer available.


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Post subject: Re: American Deluxe 60 Years Neck Plate.
Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2016 10:33 am
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This is just a guess but I would imagine you are S.O.L. for getting a new one.
My advise would be to keep the broken one in storage for posterity and for keeping the guitar "Numbers Matching" if that has any value for you.
You can easily find a neck plate that will be sturdy, functional and even customized if you wish.
There are lots of places that will engrave neck plates and bridge plates.

LazrArt is one such place.

As for finding a company to do custom embossing, like your original, I imagine that would be more problematic.

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Post subject: Re: American Deluxe 60 Years Neck Plate.
Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2016 1:27 pm
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nmorales wrote:
Around September 2013, I bought an American Deluxe Telecaster 60 Years, which I've never used, even It still has the plastic cover of the pickup and pick guard, in July 2016 I took It out of the case to polish it and I noticed that the neck plate is cracked.

This guitar have been purchased for collection, so It has never been used.

My advice would be to presently leave the broken plate in place, as it is providing plenty of support for the neck, and immediately begin playing the guitar.
I would immediately begin playing your guitar, because if you are currently 15 years of age, and you save your guitar in pristine condition for 65 years and sell it when you are 80 years old, it is highly unlikely that a Fender 60th Anniversary Telecaster will appreciate very much, relative to inflation, in comparison to the value of...., let's say, a '52 Telecaster today.

To the extent that the guitar actually does appreciate over the years, you will likely find a relative correlation between the appreciated value of the guitar over time, to the depreciated value of money, cause by inflation.
In other words, if your guitar appreciates to a market value of $5,000.00, you will likely find that a similar new Fender guitar will be available for a similar price, assuming that the market for a used, 2011, NOS Fender Deluxe Telecaster, actually appreciates over time, at the rate of inflation, of which there is no guarantee.
It is quite possible that your 60th Anniversary guitar will appreciate at a much slower rate, than the rate of inflation affecting new Fender guitars, and may even depreciate, relative to the supply and demand for guitars like yours, in the future.

Forget thinking that in 65 years, when you are 80 years old, that if you can actually remember where your guitar is, that your guitar would have a market value similar to a never used, NOS '52 Tele, today.
That's not going to happen.

In 1990, I remember thinking that if I had the money to buy the new ZR-1 Corvette, and put it on jack-stands in a garage, and never drove it, that it could probably be the best possible retirement investment anyone could ever make.

A grand total 6939 ZR1 Corvettes were built from 1990 through the end of production in 1995, when the ZR-1 Corvette's LT-5 engine was retired.
All ZR1-option cars carried special vehicle identification numbers (VINs) that did not sequence with regular production Corvettes.
The ZR1 had wider rear bodywork, wider doors, 11-in.-wide rear wheels with huge tires, rectangular exhaust outlets and different, rounded-square tail lamps, and came with the all aluminum, LT-5 engine made by Mercury Marine, with 4 overhead cams and 4 valves per cylinder, producing up to 400 HP in 1995.
The LT-5 Chevrolet/Mercury Marine 4 overhead cam engine is the only V-8 non-pushrod engine ever sold by Chevrolet.
The ZR-1 sold for the "then" outrageous price in 1990, of $59,000, about twice the price of the standard L98 Corvette.

This car has to be a great long term investment, right???
Oh how fickle history can be....
How surprised I would be to find that I didn't actually purchase one of the twenty (20), 1967, L-88 Corvettes.....; one of which recently sold for $3,850,000.00.
http://www.barrett-jackson.com/Events/E ... UPE-161046

If you go on to Edmunds.com today and price the retail value of a 1990, ZR-1 Corvette, the first year of production, with 100 miles on it, in "outstanding" condition, the Dealer Retail value is $19,968.00, with a Private Party selling price of $16,828.00.
http://www.edmunds.com/chevrolet/corvet ... sal-value/

Had I been able to follow my dream, I would have lost more than $40,000.00 to the ravages of time, given the market value of ZR-1 Corvettes today.
Sour grapes indeed!!

So the moral of the story is, start playing your 60th Anniversary Fender Telecaster, as it is not a "collectable" guitar, and keep watching eBay for a new neck plate, which will eventually show up.
Good Luck!!


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Post subject: Re: American Deluxe 60 Years Neck Plate.
Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2016 1:50 pm
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That's pretty darn good advice there....enjoy it, play it loud and hard, take care of it as best you can...give it to your relatives when you're gone from the world.
Replace the broken neck plate as it may effect the condition of the neck. Don't wait to find the exact replacement. Keep the original broken plate.


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Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2016 1:57 pm
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sfceric64 wrote:
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That's pretty darn good advice there....enjoy it, play it loud and hard, take care of it as best you can...give it to your relatives when you're gone from the world.
Replace the broken neck plate as it may effect the condition of the neck. Don't wait to find the exact replacement. Keep the original broken plate.



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Post subject: Re: American Deluxe 60 Years Neck Plate.
Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2016 4:52 pm
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A few on eBay.

Several there but pricey:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Fender-Telecast ... Swe7BWx2tK

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Post subject: Re: American Deluxe 60 Years Neck Plate.
Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2016 11:12 am
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Miami Mike wrote:
A few on eBay.
Several there but pricey:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Fender-Telecast ... Swe7BWx2tK

Mike, he needs a Fender "offset" neck plate for a 60th Anniversary, American Deluxe Telecaster, not an American Standard.
Unfortunately, I don't believe that there are any of these plates currently on eBay.

Personally, I don't think its necessary to immediately replace the plate, even if he begins playing the guitar, as the broken plate is surely providing adequate neck support at this point, given the picture of the cracked neck plate, absent some form of extreme use.

I'm sure that a 60th Anniversary, American Deluxe Telecaster "offset" plate will eventually, show up on eBay.
There are several regular "offset" American Deluxe plates on eBay, such as the following:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Fender-American ... SwSzdXCUzU


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