Floats Like a Butterfly -- 

Stings like a Bee…

This fifty-three year-old Telecaster went back to the Fender factory in early 1959 to be re-necked (this was of course Leo Fender's original concept back in 1949). The guitar weighs just 7.50 lbs. and has a solid ash body and a one-piece maple neck with a medium-to-thin profile and 21 frets with black dot position markers. One plain metal-cover "black-bottom" pickup with slot-head adjusting screws (at neck) with an output of 6.28k, and one black six-polepiece "copper-coated metal plate bottom" pickup with staggered polepieces (angled in bridgeplate) with an output of 5.96k.  Telecaster combined bridge/tailpiece. Body dated "9-56", pots dated April 1956. The neck has no pencil date (which is usual for an early '59). The pickguard was also replaced (or had the three additional screw holes added) by the factory at the same time. Original Fender tweed hardshell case (8.75). The best of both worlds - the sound of a '56 with the very comfortable medium-to-thin neck profile of an early '59!  Quite simply one of the best sounding "white guard" Telecasters that we have handled!