Fender Vintage 1988 Telecaster 1952 RI Micawber Butterscotch Blonde MIJ Japan

Here we have a very cool vintage Japanese non export Fender '52 Reissue Telecaster Micawber. This is closest they got to Keith Richards Telecaster imo. These first run white ash Micawbers are one of my favourite ever Japanese made Fenders. They were never exported from Japan. This beautiful old Tele was constructed for Fender at the legendary FujiGen plant, and like all these first run 80's builds is constructed from a fantastic resonant solid slab of heavy White Ash. The maple used for the neck & fretboard is also top quality. Fender Japan didn't build too many of them, preferring to stick with the classic single coil '52 design. This has all the good stuff with its '52 black single-ply scratchplate, 6 solid brass saddles, solid machined brass bridge, Fender stamped neck plate & Gotoh tuners. Like all these first run old white ash Micawbers it is fairly weighty at 4.7kg. It's got the awesome sounding factory fitted Dragster in the neck and traditional TL vintage in the bridge, both balanced nicely. There some nice looking vintage wear going on, all classic natural finish fading and relicing in all the right places, the kind of things that customs shops try to replicate on sterile new guitars. The brass bridge has a nice patina all over it. This thing has Mojo. There are a couple of well worn in paint nicks around the edges etc. The maple neck is dead straight, truss rod fine and the frets have got years left in them. Comes with heavy duty padded softcase Don't miss it, once it's gone it's gone. Oh and feel free to take out a saddle and drop it to open G ;)
 
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