THE FENDER TELECASTER GUITAR
The Fender Electric Instrument Manufacturing Company, was started by inventor Leo Fender in the 1940s and he started to look at the process of making electric guitars, thinking things could be done in a more steamlined way.
And this he did when he created the first mass made solid bodied electric guitar the Fender Esquire in 1950, it would be changed to the Broadcaster for a very short time then due to legal reasosn it became the Telecaster in 1951.
Simple in design and construction the Telecaster as it became known was to lead the way in solid bodied electric guitars.
The body was a simple slab of ash with a more angular Spanish style single bout design coated in Butterscotch Blond finish, the neck consisted of one piece of maple bolted onto the body, not set in with glue as on traditional designs and the tuners all down one side instead of 3 on each.
Black Bakelite pickguard clear coated with lacquer housed the front pickup while the through body 3 saddle bridge held the lead pickup, volume, tone and 3 way pickup switch were mounted on the metal control plate.
Other guitars would sell more, be more pretty and more user friendly but where would rock & roll have been without the original solid bodied electric guitar.
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