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Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 2:03 pm
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hope this helps to age fender...many thanks john


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Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 2:33 pm
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Sometimes I wonder if I should just keep quiet when a nice guy like John
joins the forum and asks about his Telecaster.

My opinion is that is not a genuine Fender Telecaster. I don't think it's a
Squier, either. I think it's some off-brand Asian copy that someone has
applied a '70s-style Fender Telecaster decal to so they could sell it for
more than it's worth.

I say this for these reasons:

Fender has never made a 3-saddle, top-loading bridge like that. Not only is
the combination of 3-saddles and top-loading wrong, but look at how thin
the saddle screws and springs are.

Fender has never made a neck with the truss rod adjustment hole at the
headstock without either a walnut 'surround', a black plastic one, or
a "bullet" adjustment nut. The bare maple hole is a dead giveaway that it's
not a Fender.

Other things just look "wrong" - some of these are hard to quantify but
they make me pretty sure that this isn't a Fender product.

Examples: the angle of where the rosewood fingerboard ends at the
headstock vs. the angle of the nut - they look different. The heel of the
neck that sticks out above the body in the rear view looks "wrong". Hard
to describe why, but it's just doesn't look like a Fender neck.

Also, see the curve of the cutaway in the front view, where the 22-fret
neck joins the body. Compare that curve to the curve of the pickguard.

The volume and tone knobs don't look right either, and they look closer
together than on a Fender Tele. Other little things include the output jack
plate on the side of the guitar and the overall proportions around the neck
pickup area, near the base of the neck. Tuners are non-Fender the
mounting screws don't look perfectly straight.

All these little things add up to the almost certain feeling that this is not a
Fender Telecaster.


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Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 2:38 pm
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I'm glad you spoke up George. I did not know what to think! :wink:
Sorry John. :(


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Post subject: re telecaster....
Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 2:56 pm
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hi
thanks for your comments..i thought when i couldnt find serial numbers something was wrong....i only paid £50.00 for it so havent lost a lot and i will give it to my son as his first guitar...it sounds very good so will be a good start for him..only positive is im going to get a fender for myself..this time i will check numbers first...thanks again guys...


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Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 9:39 pm
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The neck resembles a Squire affinity neck but they are maple not rosewood, and that style of logo was applied parallel to the strings not at a slant. Most older cheap copies actually had a cover plate over the truss rod so there could be some holes that were filled. And that jack plate Dead Giveaway of a non-fender I've seen a top loading Fender bridge and that is not one. But if it plays OK for 50 pounds you didn't get hurt to bad. Just don't pass it off as a Fender to someone else


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Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 2:12 pm
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Is this part 2 of another thread?

For what it's worth, I'd say Partsocaster for all the reasons which George described.

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