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Home  Vintage Guitar Articles Music Vintage Fender Telecaster- The Little Crude Wooden Guitar that Could
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Vintage Fender Telecaster- The Little Crude Wooden Guitar that Could |
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Written by ChristopherBeachum
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Monday, 19 October 2009 |
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Don't matter what type of guitar you may collect every one can agree on one guitar to add to their collection. A vintage Fender Telecaster is wanted by every collector. How come? Well it was the first solid bodied electric guitar out on the market and its impact on the music industry was fascinating and still seen today.
by ChristopherBeachum
Don't matter what type of guitar you may collect every one can agree on one guitar to add to their collection. A vintage Fender Telecaster is wanted by every collector. How come? Well it was the first solid bodied electric guitar out on the market and its impact on the music industry was fascinating and still seen today.
Over 17 years of trial and error Leo Fender would put together the guitar better know as the "Tele". The first real "prototype" of the Telecaster was the Esquire. 1950 was its big debut and 1950 was its death. Due to manufacturing problems only around 50 guitars even made it off the self, just to be called back. Leo, however, analyzed his mistakes and pushed forward.
He worked on the guitars kinks and updated some features and re-released the guitar later that year and renamed it the Fender Broadcaster. Leo's luck however still was poor. The Gretsch Company would state that Leo violated their copyright of "Broadkaster" drum line and the Broadcaster would have to be renamed.
Leo once again not set back by this failures renamed his guitar the Fender Telecaster. Some people often ask, why the "Telecaster" or the "Tele", thats an easy question. He named his guitar after the newly popular medium the television. Just like what it was named after the guitar was wildly popular and effected the music industry forever. Leo had altered music history.
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...
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