Probably the Best Looking Paisley Tele on the Planet…

This 12 3/4-inch Paisley Telecaster weighs just 7.70 lbs. and has a nut width of just over 1 5/8 inches and a scale length of 25 1/2 inches. Solid alder body, maple neck and fretboard with 21 frets and black dot position markers. Black "Fender" headstock logo with gold trim, "Telecaster" in black, and two patent numbers "2,573,254" and "3,143,028" beneath "Fender." Single butterfly string tree. Individual Fender "F" tuners with octagonal metal buttons. Four-bolt neckplate with Fender backward "F" logo and serial number ("233413") between the top two screws. The neck is stamped "3 FEB 69B" One plain metal-cover pickup at neck with an output of 6.50k and one black six staggered polepiece pickup angled in bridgeplate with an output of 5.93k. Clear plastic pickguard with 'sprayed' pink area on the underside of the aperture for the neck pickup. Two controls (one volume, one tone) plus three-way selector switch, all on metal plate adjoining pickguard. The potentiometers are stamped "304 6612" (Stackpole March 1966). Chrome knobs with almost flat tops and knurled sides. Fender combined tailpiece and bridge.

This is a one owner guitar that went back to the factory in the late eighties to have the sides re-shot. The top and back of the guitar are original and untouched and there is absolutely no cracking whatsoever to the lacquer over the original 'wallpaper'. This has to be the cleanest Paisley Tele on the planet… it has hardly ever been out of its case - the only sign of playing wear on the maple fretboard is on the third fret. There is virtually no fret wear… An exceptional example of this very rare "Paisley" Telecaster. Housed in its original Fender black hardshell case with reddish orange plush lining (8.00).

"Out of the psychedelic era came the paisley finish, which is actually adhesive-backed paper oversprayed with a polyester clear coat" (George Gruhn and Walter Carter, Electric Guitars and Basses, p. 147).