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.
By 1963, a new combination of tonewoods married the punch and focus of alder with the warmth added by a round-lam rosewood fingerboard, enhancing the signature Tele twang. Featuring Pure Vintage ‘63 Telecaster pickups, triple threaded-steel saddle bridge and a comfortable “C”-shape maple neck, the American Vintage II 1963 Telecaster reproduces the quintessential tone and feel of the original. Characteristic of production in 1963, this Tele features clay dots (narrow-spaced at the 12th fret), a 7.25” radius fingerboard fingerboard and is offered in three colors: Crimson Red Transparent over mahogany and 3-Color Sunburst or Surf Green over alder.
The instruments in the American Vintage II series are direct descendants of the original Fenders: designed for players with a fine appreciation for vintage Fender tone and feel and built with unmatched quality, down to the last screw. These are Fender electrics in their purest form: Fender American Vintage II, the stuff of legends.
- Body: Alder
- Body Finish: Gloss Nitrocellulose Lacquer
- Body Shape: Telecaster
- Control Knobs: Knurled Flat-Top
- Fingerboard: Round-Laminated Rosewood
- Hardware Finish: Nickel/Chrome
- Pickguard: 3-Ply Parchment
- Position Inlays: Clay Dot
- Neck Finish: Gloss Nitrocellulose Lacquer
- Neck Construction: 4-Bolt
- Neck Shape: 1963 "C"
- Neck Pickup: Pure Vintage '63 Single-Coil Tele
- Side Dots: Vintage Clay
- 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 '63 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 Threaded Steel Barrel Saddles
- 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 Brown (Orange Interior)
- Fingerboard Radius: 7.25" (184.1 mm)
- Refinement Fingerboard Radius: Vintage
- Neck Material: Maple
- Refinement Neck Material: Maple
- Refinement Neck Shape: C Shape
- Nut Material: Bone
- Truss Rod: Vintage-Style Butt Adjust
- Truss Rod Nut: Vintage-Style Butt Adjust
- Style: 2 Single-Coil
