Vintage Fender Telecaster- Leo Fender's Revolutionary Idea
Guitar collections seem incomplete until they have a vintage Fender Telecaster. Reason being is because it was the first popular solid body guitar produced. There were a lot of attempts before it, but none of them caught the success of the Telecaster. It would set the stage for a new era of guitars.
It took Leo Fender around 17 years of experimentation to produce the better known as "Tele". The first prototype name of the Telecaster was the Esquire. The Esquire entered the scene in 1950 and had a short life span. Only around 50 guitars were manufactured and distributed then recalled due to manufacturing errors. This however did not discourage Leo.
After patching up his botched guitar and adding some new features he was ready for a re-release later that year. He would name his new release as the Fender Broadcaster. Leo's luck remained poor and almost as soon as he started selling his guitars he was hit with copy righting argument with the Gretsch Company. They had a line of drums called the "Broadkasters" that they claimed an obvious violation of their copy right. The Broadcaster needed a new name.
Leo once again would not be shaken by this set back and he renamed his guitar after the newly popular meduim, the television. Hence the Fender Telecaster. The Telecaster repaid him for all of his years of trial and error. It hit the market and caused a frenzy in the guitar world. The once dismissed solid body electric guitar now was the new thing. Leo had changed music history forever.
The Fender Telecaster for its time had remarkable craftsmanship and was an ease to fix when broken. The components were not constructed individually like most of the guitars of the time, but were mass manufactured. Most would thing that this would decrease the performance of the guitar, but this wasn't the case. The Telecaster was sawed and routed from slabs, not hand-carved, the necks were bolted on not glued, and the fretboards were imbedded not separate from the neck. Theses are just a few examples of many at the simplicity of production and repair... - 18762
It took Leo Fender around 17 years of experimentation to produce the better known as "Tele". The first prototype name of the Telecaster was the Esquire. The Esquire entered the scene in 1950 and had a short life span. Only around 50 guitars were manufactured and distributed then recalled due to manufacturing errors. This however did not discourage Leo.
After patching up his botched guitar and adding some new features he was ready for a re-release later that year. He would name his new release as the Fender Broadcaster. Leo's luck remained poor and almost as soon as he started selling his guitars he was hit with copy righting argument with the Gretsch Company. They had a line of drums called the "Broadkasters" that they claimed an obvious violation of their copy right. The Broadcaster needed a new name.
Leo once again would not be shaken by this set back and he renamed his guitar after the newly popular meduim, the television. Hence the Fender Telecaster. The Telecaster repaid him for all of his years of trial and error. It hit the market and caused a frenzy in the guitar world. The once dismissed solid body electric guitar now was the new thing. Leo had changed music history forever.
The Fender Telecaster for its time had remarkable craftsmanship and was an ease to fix when broken. The components were not constructed individually like most of the guitars of the time, but were mass manufactured. Most would thing that this would decrease the performance of the guitar, but this wasn't the case. The Telecaster was sawed and routed from slabs, not hand-carved, the necks were bolted on not glued, and the fretboards were imbedded not separate from the neck. Theses are just a few examples of many at the simplicity of production and repair... - 18762
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