Fender Made In Japan Traditional '50s Telecaster, Butterscotch Blonde Overview
Fender’s Made In Japan models are some of the highest-quality electric guitars and basses around, made in Fender’s Japan factories by expert luthiers who use their experience to combine classic Fender designs with some updated specs for the modern player.
The Telecaster is used by musicians all over the world and makes a great workhorse guitar. It’s renowned for its ‘Tele twang’ and powerful, punchy tones.
The Fender Made In Japan Traditional '50s Telecaster has a basswood body, a durable maple neck with a comfortable ‘U’-shape profile, and is topped with a maple fingerboard with 21 vintage size frets. It has a 3-saddle vintage-style strings-through-body Tele bridge with brass barrel saddles for increased sustain and resonance and is paired with vintage-style tuning machines.
For pickups, it has a pair of vintage-style single-coil Tele pickups which deliver anything from thick, chunky tones that’s great for rhythm parts, to the classic Tele twang. There’s a 3-way pickup selector so you can easily switch to the sound you want. The Made In Japan Traditional ‘50s Tele is completed with knurled dome control knobs, an eggshell pickguard, nickel/chrome hardware and available in a Butterscotch Blonde or White Blonde finish.
- Body Basswood
- Body Finish Gloss Polyester
- Body Shape Telecaster®
- Bridge 3-Saddle Vintage-Style Strings-Through-Body Tele® with Brass Barrel Saddles
- Bridge Pickup Vintage-Style Single-Coil Tele®
- Configuration SS
- Control Knobs Knurled Dome
- Controls Master Volume, Master Tone
- Country Of Origin JP
- Fingerboard Maple
- Fingerboard Radius 9.5" (241 mm)
- Fret Size Vintage
- Hardware Finish Nickel/Chrome
- Neck Finish Gloss Urethane
- Neck Material Maple
- Neck Pickup Vintage-Style Single-Coil Tele®
- Neck Shape "U" Shape
- Number of Frets 21
- Nut Material Bone
- Nut Width 1.615" (41.02 mm)
- Orientation Right-Hand
- Pickguard 1-Ply Eggshell
- Pickup Configuration SS
- Pickup Switching 3-Position Blade: Position 1. Bridge Pickup, Position 2. Bridge and Neck Pickups, Position 3. Neck Pickup
- Position InlaysBlack Dot
- Scale Length 25.5" (648 mm)
- Series Made in Japan Traditional
- String Nut Bone
- Strings Nickel Plated Steel (.009-.042 Gauges)
- Tuning Machines Vintage-Style