Fender American Vintage '52 Telecaster Left-handed - Blonde

The Tele to Which All Others Are Compared

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The Fender American Vintage '52 Telecaster re-creates the renowned solidbody guitar that forged music's electric future. Sporting its famously fat maple neck, the '52 Tele was a benchmark axe for Fender, and its American Vintage descendant nails the tone, vibe, and specs of the original to a tee. Drink in the buttery playability of this Tele's deliciously thick U-profile neck. Bask in the radiance of its authentic vintage twang. If '50s Teles turn you on, Sweetwater's got your axe: Fender's American Vintage '52 Telecaster solidbody electric guitar.

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• Meticulous vintage accuracy graces this guitar
• Beauty, tone, and playability are in the details
• The magic of Fender's American Vintage series

For the American Vintage '52 Telecaster, Fender tracked down several of the original '52s and exhaustively analyzed them to ensure a painstaking level of vintage accuracy. Every facet of the original instruments - including minute details such as curves, perimeters, radii and more - was examined, measured, evaluated, and ultimately incorporated into the American Vintage '52 Tele. What you see in this remarkable guitar is more than the sum of its parts. It's a highly playable, eminently musical-sounding re-creation of an iconic instrument that changed music forever.

With Fender's American Vintage '52 Telecaster, there's genius in the details. This remarkable guitar's beauty, tone, and playability are no accident. It starts with the classic ash body, the simple single-ply black pickguard and a thin Fender Flash Coat nitrocellulose lacquer finish in classic Butterscotch Blonde. Then, there's the fat U-profile maple neck with rolled fingerboard edges and 21 vintage style frets, a sculpted headstock volute for enhanced first-position comfort, and vintage tuner spacing for true "straight string pull" over a bone nut. Of course, you also get a vintage-style bridge with three brass saddles, and knurled chrome dome Tele control knobs. If you're a fan of early Teles the Fender American Vintage '52 Telecaster is one drool-worthy axe.

Since its introduction in the early 1980s, Fender's American Vintage series has been the go-to source for the last word in original-era model year guitars. With today's American Vintage guitars, Fender has gone back to the drawing board with new features, new specs and the most fanatical level of vintage accuracy yet. They've restored original tooling dies, voiced new pickups, reformulated vintage colors, and more - based on actual vintage guitars. From its flawless vintage looks, to its impeccable tone and playing feel, there's pure magic in the Fender American Vintage '52 Telecaster!

• Fabulously chunky U-profile maple neck
• American Vintage '52 single-coil pickups
• Sculpted headstock volute for enhanced first-position comfort
• Includes Vintage '52 Tele strap, cable, cloth, vintage wiring kit, bridge cover, saddle height wrench
• Deluxe Vintage Tweed case, owner's manual, '50s Tele information kit included

NOTE: This product is available in the United States only - no international sales.