Product Overview
The Fender American Vintage II series presents a remarkably accurate take on the revolutionary designs that altered the course of musical history. Built with period-accurate bodies, necks and hardware, premium finishes and meticulously voiced, year-specific pickups, each instrument captures the essence of authentic Fender craftsmanship and tone.
Just one year after launching the Broadcaster, Fender received a cease-and-desist telegram from the Fred Gretsch Mfg. Co. and was faced with renaming its flagship electric guitar. Taking inspiration from the booming growth and expansive reach of television, the first blackguard Telecaster rolled off the line in 1951, and the model has been in continuous production ever since. Deceptively simple and totally groundbreaking, the Telecaster brought the solid body electric guitar to the masses, inspiring countless musicians along the way.
The American Vintage II 1951 Telecaster features an ash body. The substantial '51 "U"-shaped hard rock maple neck plays like a dream with a 7.25" radius fingerboard and vintage tall frets. Characteristic of production in 1951, 12th fret face-dot spacing is narrow and the sole Phillips-head fastener on the guitar is at the truss rod nut. The triple brass saddle bridge, single-line "Fender Deluxe" tuners and Pure Vintage '51 Telecaster pickups deliver classic twang and authentic Fender style.
Now available in a very limited Prototype White finish!
- Body: Ash
- Body Finish: Gloss Nitrocellulose Lacquer
- Body Shape: Telecaster
- Control Knobs: Knurled Dome
- Fingerboard: Maple
- Hardware Finish: Nickel/Chrome
- Pickguard: 1-Ply Black Phenolic
- Position Inlays: Black Dot
- Neck Finish: Gloss Nitrocellulose Lacquer
- Neck Construction: 4-Bolt
- Neck Shape: 1951 "U"
- Neck Pickup: Pure Vintage '51 Single-Coil Tele
- Side Dots: Black
- Headstock: Telecaster
- Bridge Cover/Tailpiece: Includes Chrome Bridge Cover
- Orientation: Right-Hand
- Configuration: SS
- Refinement Pickups: Pure Vintage
- Scale Length: 25.5" (64.77 cm)
- Number of Frets: 21
- Fret Size: Vintage Tall
- String Nut: Bone
- Nut Width: 1.650" (42 mm)
- Bridge Pickup: Pure Vintage '51 Single-Coil Tele
- Controls: Master Volume, Master Tone
- Pickup Switching: 3-Position Blade: Position 1. Bridge Pickup, Position 2. Bridge and Neck Pickups, Position 3. Neck Pickup
- Pickup Configuration: SS
- Bridge: Pure Vintage 3-Saddle Tele with Brass Barrel Saddles, Serialized
- Tuning Machines: Pure Vintage Single Line "Fender Deluxe"
- Strings: Fender USA 250R Nickel Plated Steel (.010-.046 Gauges), PN 0730250406
- Case/Gig Bag: Vintage-Style Tweed (Crushed Red Interior)
- Fingerboard Radius: 7.25" (184.1 mm)
- Refinement Fingerboard Radius: Vintage
- Neck Material: 1-Piece Maple
- Refinement Neck Material: Maple
- Refinement Neck Shape: U Shape
- Nut Material: Bone
- Truss Rod: Vintage-Style Butt Adjust
- Truss Rod Nut: Vintage-Style Butt Adjust
