Fender Telecaster '52 Reissue Vintage FujiGen G-Serial 1980's Charcoal Burst MIJ
Up for grabs here is a beautiful vintage late 1980’s Fender Japan 1952 RI Charcoal Burst Telecaster. It’s an 1980s G-Serial built for Fender at the renowned FujiGen factory between 1987-1988 (no pencil dating on this one). The finish definition on this guitar is very cool. These old FujiGen CCB '52 Teles come up now and again but are pretty rare on the ground. They were designed & built by Fender Japan in the mid/late 80's then again briefly in 1995, long before the current relicing obsession kicked off. They’ve got a great worn and dirty look, which I remember thinking looked awesome back in the early 90’s when I first saw one. They were domestic to Japan only, and never exported. This is from the original run built for Fender at FujiGen so you know you won’t find a better built Telecaster. It feels great to play, a very light Tele weight at 3.3kg and very resonant, with equal measures warmth & brightness, which is all probably due to the (shock horror) American basswood body they used on these models, which some say could look a bit boring. Most definitely not the case here! This beautiful old Tele has got all the good stuff: worn in looking maple fingerboard with stamped bridge and 3 saddles, (USA) TL Vintage pickups, black single-ply guard & Fender stamped neck plate. Neck is dead straight, truss rod fine, plenty of life left in the frets. Structurally and electrically sound. No issues at all. The natural ageing is inline with the charcoal bust finish making it look and feel very, very old (which I guess it is!) has some playwear as you'd expect with little well worn in bumps and nicks etc on the body and headstock. But nothing bad has ever happened to it, no repairs or DIY stuff etc. The metal hardware is nicely tarnished. It's getting pretty tough to pick these up now, and rarely do they look as good as this one. Complete with Telecaster hardcase with key. These were made in limited numbers and will never be made again. This is a very good looking CCB and there aren't many out there, go get it.
Buy with confidence, Gas Station Guitars is a limited UK company and we offer a no question 14-day refund policy on all our guitars. We ship worldwide (see below for list of countries). At Gas Station Guitars we carefully hand-select all our guitars, if they don’t blow us away on all fronts, we just don’t put them in our shop; if it’s for sale by Gas Station Guitars, you know it’s gonna be pretty special. All pictures you see above are of the actual guitar, and all guitars have been fully checked and are with us in hand, so it’s straight from us to you! Our packaging is very tough and designed to protect equally guitars with hardcases and softcases. This guitar is NOT FOR TRADE or part exchange and we cannot do holds or lay aways. We ship to the E.U, Europe, U.S, Australia, Canada and of course the UK.
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