Late 1961 Early 1962 Fender Telecaster SN: 70734
Late 1961/Early 1962 Fender Telecaster in excellent condition. This late 1961/early 1962 Fender Telecaster, serial number 70734, features a December 1961 neck paired with an early 1962 body. It is finished in Blonde over an ash body and has a maple neck with a slab rosewood fingerboard and clay dot position markers. The neck has 21 frets, a 7.25" fingerboard radius, 25.5" scale length, heel-adjust truss rod, and approximately 1 5/8" nut width. Weight on this is 7.15lbs. Hardware includes single-line Kluson Deluxe tuners, a butterfly string tree, Fender stamped steel bridge, three threaded steel saddles, string-through-body construction, knurled chrome knobs, and a black top-hat switch tip. Electronics consist of the original Fender neck and bridge single-coil pickups, 250k controls, cloth-covered wiring, and the original three-way dark-circuit wiring used during this period. The guitar retains its period silver Fender spaghetti-logo decal, 8-screw single-ply white pickguard, and original nitrocellulose lacquer finish. Everything on the guitar is original, and it comes with its original Fender hardshell case.
