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Post subject: Fender Telecaster Custom - Help
Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2018 3:25 am
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Greetings,

I've just acquired a Fender Telecaster Custom by Warmoth. Since I am new to the family I would kindly ask if someone could tell more about it; especially through the serial number which I can't find. (there is only the Patent number)

Thanks in advance

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Post subject: Re: Fender Telecaster Custom - Help
Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2018 3:05 pm
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What makes you think that Fender would know anything about it -- they didn't build it.

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Post subject: Re: Fender Telecaster Custom - Help
Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2018 4:55 pm
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Yup.
May or may not be an actual Fender neck (you can buy a US-made neck for $500).
The body is beautiful. Simple controls with just volume/tone, I would assume that the selector is a 5-way, and being H-S-H would be wired for B(H), B(S)-M, M, M-N(S), and N(H)

A "true" Tele Custom (made by Fender), has a single coil bridge and Wide Range neck pickup. 4 controls and a toggle selector like a Les Paul.

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Post subject: Re: Fender Telecaster Custom - Help
Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2018 7:03 pm
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Fender did Special Edition Custom Telecasters with dual Seymour Duncan pickups and a flamed maple top. These guitars were built overseas.

There were also limited runs with a pair of EMGs and a slick black finish with matching hardware.


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Post subject: Re: Fender Telecaster Custom - Help
Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2018 8:41 pm
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I can't see the cereal number in your pics....
Good looking guitar though, enjoy it for what it is.


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Post subject: Re: Fender Telecaster Custom - Help
Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2018 1:01 am
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You already know almost all you need to know by knowing the body is made by Warmouth. They make guitar parts. Very nice guitar parts but they don't make complete guitars. As far as I am aware Fender have never used Warmouth bodies ...why would they as they make their own?

So your guitar has been assembled by someone from parts. How good or bad that guitar is, only you can tell. With high quality parts, assembled well, there is no reason why it wouldn't be a great guitar. It certainly looks sweet.

What it isn't is a Fender anything. Sorry if that was important to you.

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Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2018 5:01 am
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Warmoth Partscaster.


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Post subject: Re: Fender Telecaster Custom - Help
Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2018 8:03 am
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John Sims wrote:
As far as I am aware Fender have never used Warmouth bodies ...why would they as they make their own?


There have long been unconfirmed rumors that Fender does sometimes use Warmoth and B.Hefner for some bodies and necks.

Warmoth for "drop-top" bodies. Warmoth developed a process for making maple cap bodies with forearm contours. It involves heat, steam, and vacuum presses -- things that Fender doesn't normally use.

Rather than buying new equipment and experimenting with the process to learn how to do it just for a few low-volume production models, it would make perfect sense for Fender to buy those bodies from Warmoth.

The Thinline Eric Johnson models may very well be Warmoth bodies, since Warmoth was making that exact configuration long before the EJ Thinline model was introduced.

Similarly, one-piece rosewood necks are rumored to come from B. Hefner.
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Fender doesn't make the magnets, wire, or Vulcanized fiber flatwork for their pickups. They don't make tuners. They don't make poly or nitro. So if they sometimes buy specialty bodies or necks rather than make them themselves, that doesn't make the assembled guitars any less Fender.


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