The Summer of Love…"Pink Paisley."

1968 Fender Telecaster Bass (Pink Paisley)

This forty-two year old Pink Paisley Telecaster Bass weighs just 9.50 lbs. Solid alder body with the very rare Pink Paisley finish. One-piece fretted maple neck with 20 frets and black dot position markers. Individual Fender "paddle gear" tuners with "Fender" logo and with paddle-shaped metal buttons. The neck is stamped "23 SEP 68 C." Single-coil gray-bottom pickup with four polepieces and an output of 6.50k. Original clear plexiglass pickguard (.06 inch thick) with eleven screws. Combined two-saddle bridge/tailpiece. Complete with the two original pickup and bridge covers. There are a few small cracks in the polyester clear coat as usual - but there is none of the "peeling" of the 'wall-paper' finish that is so often associated with this model. This guitar is a great example in exceptionally fine (9.00) condition of one of these very rare basses. Housed in the original Fender black hardshell case. "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).