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American Vintage II 1951 Telecaster Left-Hand, Maple Fingerboard - Butterscotch Blonde

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American Vintage II 1951 Telecaster Left-Hand, Maple Fingerboard - Butterscotch Blonde

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The Fender® American Vintage II series presents a remarkably accurate take on the revolutionary designs that altered the course of musical history. Built with period-accurate bodies, necks and hardware, premium finishes and meticulously voiced, year-specific pickups, each instrument captures the essence of authentic Fender craftsmanship and tone. The instruments in the American Vintage II series are direct descendants of the original Fenders: designed for players with a fine appreciation for vintage Fender tone and feel and built with unmatched quality, down to the last screw. These are Fender electrics in their purest form: Fender American Vintage II, the stuff of legends.

Series: American Vintage II
Body Material: Ash
Body Finish: Gloss Nitrocellulose Lacquer
Neck: 1-Piece Maple
Neck Finish: Gloss Nitrocellulose Lacquer
Fingerboard Material: Maple
Number of Frets: 21
Fret Size: Vintage Tall
Position Inlays: Black Dot
Nut Material: Bone
Nut Width: 1.650" (42 mm)
Tuning Machines: Pure Vintage Single Line "Fender Deluxe"
Scale Length: 25.5" (64.77 cm)
Bridge: Pure Vintage 3-Saddle Tele® with Brass Barrel Saddles, Serialized
PICKUPS:
Neck: Pure Vintage '51 Single-Coil Tele®
Bridge: Pure Vintage '51 Single-Coil Tele®
Pickup Switching: 3-Position Blade: Position 1. Bridge Pickup, Position 2. Bridge and Neck Pickups, Position 3. Neck Pickup
Controls: Master Volume, Master Tone
Control Knobs: Knurled Dome
Hardware Finish: Nickel/Chrome
Strings: Fender® USA 250R Nickel Plated Steel (.010-.046 Gauges), PN 073-0250-406
Pickguard: 1-Ply Black Phenolic
Case/Gig Bag: Vintage-Style Tweed (Crushed Red Interior)

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THE ONE I'D SAVE IF THE HOUSE WENT ON FIRE 2 of 2 customers found this review helpful
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Closest Store   Ottawa, Ontario
You pay the man at the store and drive home all excited about your latest guitar purchase. You come home, open the classic tweed hardshell case, and you're basking in the bright red glow of the soft inside padding of the case. Surely, this is how a custom shop case must feel like, you think. The intoxicating smell of nitrocellulose is overwhelming your senses as you pick up the guitar close to you, and take a deep breath in. Ahhhhh. You plug it into your clean amp setting and just from the first few chords, you can tell this guitar is special. Yes, it's a bit heavy, but it just sounds so...genuine. It's as if the sounds you're hearing were completely foreign to you. The tone transcends all of your expectations. You turn up the grit on your sound and start playing some blues licks, and the guitar keeps on giving. While still in disbelief, you go to your heavy overdriven settings you'd normally use an Ibanez or a Gibson with, but this Tele still won't give up. It STILL sounds better than any of your other guitars! You wonder how can something with such a thick baseball-bat neck and 7.25" radius play so well. Is it the large, chunky frets that allow bending with no choke-out? How can it be so perfectly in tune and intonated with only 3 classic brass saddles? The best part is, you begin to realize that this guitar somehow INSPIRES you to create brand new licks and riffs within seconds every time you pick it up. It's as if it's possessed by some sort of magick and makes you write musical melody you didn't know you were capable of. If someone asked you to pick the guitar you like best from all your other guitars, it would be a very difficult choice to make but this, this is in a class of its own. It's simply the best guitar in your collection - without a slightest doubt. It's the one you'd save from a fire, if you could only rescue one. It will relic naturally over the years as you play it, no need to pay for a custom shop relic when you can write your own story into this brand new guitar. It will be your companion as you explore your musical journey together.
Posted by George on Jan 24, 2024
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Top Notch Guitar 0 of 0 customers found this review helpful
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Closest Store   Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Beautiful guitar in every aspect. Sounds amazing, plays amazing, feels amazing and the butterscotch blonde looks amazing! I was initially hesitant because of of video reviews stating the neck being chunky and big but once I picked it up in store and started playing I didn't find it very big at all. The neck felt great in my hand as I played. I believe it's worth every penny and would recommend that if you're looking for a Telecaster you most definitely have to check this one out!
Posted by Beau on Jan 6, 2024
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This guitar needs no introduction. 1 of 1 customers found this review helpful
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Closest Store   Toronto (Danforth), Ontario
While there have been many incarnations of the fabled Tele, some great, some not so great, Fender has clearly hit a home run with this one. The fit and finish is on par with a custom shop build, at half the price. I think they did a great job on the finish tint. It resembles what an instrument, or a piece of furniture would look like if it wasn't all banged up, but was 70 years old. Well done, Fender. My neck was not the least bit stocky, as suggested in some videos, and the profile fits my large hands like a glove. String bending is a breeze as well. I was surprised at how much I like all three PU positions. I was not expecting to spend much time in the bridge position, and since buying it yesterday, that's pretty much where it has stayed. It's a guitar that can cover a lot of musical bases, country, rock, blues, soul, jazz, probably anything that you could throw at it. Mine was new out of the box, so I'm not sure exactly when it was built (I haven't checked the serial number). I felt I had to do a proper set up on it as the action was high (even by using Fender's recommended string height). I don't fault Long & McQuade for that. It was the first time attempting a neck adjustment on a vintage style neck, so I was a bit apprehensive at first, but after watching a few videos on how to take the neck off, my confidence rose. With a steady hand and some newly acquired knowledge, it turned out to be a breeze. Curvature is how I like if (fairly low action) and the string action after a minor adjustment with the brass saddles, is perfect. It's a time piece guitar, and sits perfectly beside my Custom Shop Strat and my Custom Shop Les Paul R9. Where have you ben al my life, Tele?
Posted by Jared Purdy on Dec 31, 2023
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Old Gibson player 10 of 10 customers found this review helpful
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Closest Store   Calgary Chinook, Alberta
I have been playing since 1986 and have always dreamed of getting that special Gibson gold top but could never afford it ,fast forward to 2023 and I now have a little bit of money and can afford the payments and was doing shopping on this web site and was getting ready to get that high end Gibson, by complete accident looked at Fenders on this site and saw the 51 spec'd Telecaster, it only took me a couple of days to know that was what I was looking for, I immediately fell in love with it, had it sent to me and immediately connected to it ,I have never played anything so nice the neck is perfect and I have small hands, it plays and sounds like nothing I have ever played before and it's worth every bit of 3 grand and more in my view
Posted by Richard Frier on Apr 25, 2023
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