A Rare 1970 Sunburst Telecaster!

1970 Fender Telecaster.

Here we have a beautiful 1970 three-tone Sunburst Telecaster that weighs 8.40 lbs. and has a nice comfortable nut width of just under 1 5/8 inches and a scale length of 25 1/2 inches. Solid alder body and one-piece fretted maple neck (with a skunk stripe) with 21 original medium frets and inlaid black dot position markers. The neck profile is consistently medium-to-thick all the way up the fretboard starting at 0.87 inches at the first fret and gently rising to 0.95 inches at the 12th fret. It is very similar to a late sixties neck profile - and strangely enough almost identical to a 1952 Telecaster that we recently sold. Individual Fender "F" tuners with octagonal metal buttons. Single "butterfly" string tree. Four-bolt neck plate with large Fender "F" logo with serial number between the top two screws. One plain metal-cover pickup (at neck) with an output of 8.17k and one black six-polepiece pickup (angled in bridgeplate) with a really hot output of 7.29k. Three-layer plastic pickguard with eight screws. Two controls (one volume, one tone) plus three-way selector switch with black plastic "Top-Hat" tip, all on metal plate adjoining pickguard. Fender combined bridge/tailpiece with three smooth saddles and original chrome "ashtray" bridge cover. This guitar is in exceptionally fine (9.00) condition, with two small areas of surface loss on the lower edge of the body, either side of the jack-input, just a small amount of regular edgewear and a few insignificant surface marks. The original 'medium' frets show a little sign of wear but there is plenty of life left in them and the maple fretboard shows virtually no sign of wear. Overall, this is an outstanding example of this rare color. Housed in a modern Fender three-latch rectangular tan hardshell case with brown leather ends and orange plush lining (9.50).