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Post subject: Fender Telecaster ash natural
Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2017 12:40 pm
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Hi, friends !
Need Your help !
Is it OK with this tele ?
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Post subject: Re: Fender Telecaster 1972 Identification
Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2017 2:03 am
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Tone pot ( white shaft ) look a 1979 pot , 1 meg is not the right value. It should be 250K

Other pot; too much solder job to read something. It have lots of solder work on it. It may come from another guitar ?

I'm not expert , to me it look original 1972 tele except for pot (s ?)


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Post subject: Re: Fender Telecaster 1972 Identification
Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2017 5:14 am
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stratele52 wrote:
Tone pot ( white shaft ) look a 1979 pot , 1 meg is not the right value. It should be 250K

Other pot; too much solder job to read something. It have lots of solder work on it. It may come from another guitar ?

I'm not expert , to me it look original 1972 tele except for pot (s ?)

Thank You !
Is it normal, that serial number shows 1973 year of production, and neck is 1972 ?


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Post subject: Re: Fender Telecaster 1972 Identification
Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2017 5:34 am
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Waits wrote:
stratele52 wrote:
Tone pot ( white shaft ) look a 1979 pot , 1 meg is not the right value. It should be 250K

Other pot; too much solder job to read something. It have lots of solder work on it. It may come from another guitar ?

I'm not expert , to me it look original 1972 tele except for pot (s ?)

Thank You !
Is it normal, that serial number shows 1973 year of production, and neck is 1972 ?


Yes,

Fender may built the neck in dec 1972 and finish guitar in january 1973.

They can't use only piece made/ built in same years.


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Post subject: Re: Fender Telecaster 1972 Identification
Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2017 11:53 am
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Wasn't there a period when Teles had a 1Meg vol pot..?
IIRC that was from the end of sixties to early seventies. I need to check the Duchossoir Tele book, will return if I find something. :?:


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Post subject: Re: Fender Telecaster 1972 Identification
Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2017 11:56 am
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jmattis wrote:
Wasn't there a period when Teles had a 1Meg vol pot..?
IIRC that was from the end of sixties to early seventies. I need to check the Duchossoir Tele book, will return if I find something. :?:



That is where I look ,please double check.


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Post subject: Re: Fender Telecaster 1972 Identification
Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2017 12:07 pm
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Thanks, my friends !
So, as I understand, if my neck was produced in May 1972, it can use in 1973, yes ?


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Post subject: Re: Fender Telecaster 1972 Identification
Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2017 12:13 pm
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Thanks, my friends !
So, as I understand, if my neck was produced in May 1972, it can use in 1973, yes ?


+1

Many Fender Guitars have different years parts. Many years ago ( '60,70 ) Fender may buy a lots of pots and may use them on many years. Most of the time all is the same years.

Years of the guitar is the year on the most "newer"part.
'71 body and neck with '72 pots mean it is a ....'72 guitar :wink:


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Post subject: Re: Fender Telecaster 1972 Identification
Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2017 5:46 pm
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Issues with the body. At the least it's been refinished. They never used such dark grain filler, and Thick-Skin poly finishes don't sink into the grain like that.

And compare these pics of correct neck pocket shoulders with that body. It's very possible that when the original finish was sanded off they got too zealous and took off some wood, turning the '73 pocket shoulder into that "not quite either style" shoulder.

Neck is real.


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Post subject: Re: Fender Telecaster 1972 Identification
Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2017 5:57 pm
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Looking some more at the neckplate pic -- you can see that the body shape on the bass side was altered when the finish was sanded off.

On the top pics of the neck joint area you can see the edge radius on the treble side was rounded quite a bit near the neck pocket.


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Post subject: Re: Fender Telecaster 1972 Identification
Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2017 9:14 pm
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I am no expert but the six saddle bridge may have been introduced mid 70s so it has possibly been replaced. Notice I say may and possibly.
If you look at any early 70s teles they all have the 3 saddles. :D


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Post subject: Re: Fender Telecaster 1972 Identification
Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2017 12:13 am
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jimmy_james wrote:
I am no expert but the six saddle bridge may have been introduced mid 70s so it has possibly been replaced. Notice I say may and possibly.
If you look at any early 70s teles they all have the 3 saddles. :D

Thanks ! Sometimes I saw Fender Teles with six saddles bridges


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Post subject: Re: Fender Telecaster 1972 Identification
Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2017 12:42 am
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stratele52 wrote:
please double check.

OK, this is what I found:
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That 1Meg wiring is on Duchossoir's book, page 63. And Dave Hunter mentions the 1Meg in his book, too.


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Post subject: Re: Fender Telecaster 1972 Identification
Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2017 2:17 am
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jimmy_james wrote:
I am no expert but the six saddle bridge may have been introduced mid 70s so it has possibly been replaced. Notice I say may and possibly.
If you look at any early 70s teles they all have the 3 saddles. :D



Not in the Duchossoir's Telecaster book, we see 6 saddles '70 telecaster


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Post subject: Re: Fender Telecaster 1972 Identification
Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2017 2:20 am
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jmattis wrote:
stratele52 wrote:
please double check.

OK, this is what I found:
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That 1Meg wiring is on Duchossoir's book, page 63. And Dave Hunter mentions the 1Meg in his book, too.


For volume, not tone as I see on the photo


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