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Post subject: Found 50's tele body
Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 12:05 pm
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Ok guys I'm new here. What first brought me here was a pawn shop score of a 1978 usa telecaster. Everthing checks out. I got it for 250 out the door. It wasn't even on the floor yet and the guy had no idea what he had obviously. Anyways while doing some research I discovered that an old body I had lying around was what I belive to be an early 50's tele fender bigsby. Pretty cool. All the markings are gone but the jack cup was still in it and low and behold, It's a chrome plated brass ridged press in cup. Maybe one of you guys can confirm this for me. I inherited this years ago along with a bunch of other junk from my Uncle who also gave me a '72 tele custom(made in '76 I believe) It's trashed but he bought it new back in the day. He recieved the body from another friend who passed away along with a framus hollywood with sliding pickup. Mine now. NOW, you guys are gonna kill me. I thought this thing was garbage and almost threw it away many times. about 15 years ago I bought a new tool that had a router in it and wanted to try it out on something and guess what? I chose the old tele body as my test source. Nice right? It's still solid but I routed the edges off of the front and back. It actually looks good but probably killed the value, whatever that may be. Somebody give me some expert info please! Here's a couple pics of the body and the '78.[img][IMG]http://i1111.photobucket.com/albums/h468/Dustin_Carson/IMG_20120713_143336.jpg[/img][/img][img][IMG]http://i1111.photobucket.com/albums/h468/Dustin_Carson/IMG_20120713_143435.jpg[/img][/img][img][IMG]http://i1111.photobucket.com/albums/h468/Dustin_Carson/IMG_20120712_184557.jpg[/img][/img]


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Post subject: Re: Found 50's tele body
Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 12:08 pm
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ok I guess I'm doing the picture thing wrong. Can anyone help me out. I know I had to go old school on it but I thought photobucket would work


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Post subject: Re: Found 50's tele body
Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 12:14 pm
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Go to your pic on photobucket and clickon thye image code and paste it here.


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Post subject: Re: Found 50's tele body
Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 12:16 pm
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Post subject: Re: Found 50's tele body
Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 12:17 pm
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tbazzone wrote:
Go to your pic on photobucket and clickon thye image code and paste it here.

I figured it out. It's been awhile since I used photobucket. Thank you


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Post subject: Re: Found 50's tele body
Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 12:17 pm
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Post subject: Re: Found 50's tele body
Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 12:18 pm
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Post subject: Re: Found 50's tele body
Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 3:05 pm
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Why is it that I'm never lucky enough to find a '78 Tele for $250? I'm considering buying one right now...but I'll have to pay $1,500 for it.

You might be the luckiest dude I know (well, I don't really know you). Congrats and best of luck with it!


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Post subject: Re: Found 50's tele body
Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 3:15 pm
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ES11 wrote:
Why is it that I'm never lucky enough to find a '78 Tele for $250? I'm considering buying one right now...but I'll have to pay $1,500 for it.

You might be the luckiest dude I know (well, I don't really know you). Congrats and best of luck with it!

I don't know what the rules are on here but I put it on craigslist this morning for Cincinnati. I am willing to part with it for a fair price. Not 250 but fair lol


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