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Post subject: What year is my Telecaster?????
Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2013 12:43 pm
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I just bought a mint 1971? Telecaster, with the serial number 317148. Can you fine tune the date for me? It came with the original Fender Princeton Reverb Amp.The guy at the guitar shop who is checking out the Amp said because it has the old RCA plugs in back, it is probably late 60's. A gentleman who owns a rare guitar shop thinks the guitar is a 1970. Are there records to tell me what year it is other than the 1969-1971 i get from the Fender website?


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Post subject: Re: What year is my Telecaster?????
Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2013 12:52 pm
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Here's what guitardater says...if you enter the serial number and made in USA.

http://www.guitardaterproject.org/fender.aspx


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Post subject: Re: What year is my Telecaster?????
Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2013 12:13 pm
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We like pics if you'd care to post a few.. :wink:

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Post subject: Re: What year is my Telecaster?????
Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2013 2:38 am
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Post subject: Re: What year is my Telecaster?????
Posted: Sat Nov 02, 2013 5:12 pm
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Thanks guys, using the tool you provided ,it said my guitar is a 1971. I took it to a professional guitar builder for a check up, and he said there is a date stamp of Feb 1971 if you take the neck off.....Thanks for the info!!!


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Post subject: Re: What year is my Telecaster?????
Posted: Sun Nov 03, 2013 1:18 am
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On pots there is a date code will tell you the year of the pots ; Easy to look under the control chrome plate.

Google ; pots date codes


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Post subject: Re: What year is my Telecaster?????
Posted: Sun Nov 03, 2013 7:02 am
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stratele52 wrote:
On pots there is a date code will tell you the year of the pots ; Easy to look under the control chrome plate.

While that's the most common setup, not all Teles have control plates. Some have a lid on the back instead, and some Thinlines just have the pickguard.


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Post subject: Re: What year is my Telecaster?????
Posted: Sun Nov 03, 2013 10:22 am
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arth1 wrote:
stratele52 wrote:
On pots there is a date code will tell you the year of the pots ; Easy to look under the control chrome plate.

While that's the most common setup, not all Teles have control plates. Some have a lid on the back instead, and some Thinlines just have the pickguard.



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And this one ?


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