Dealers taking orders for Limited Edition Teles
So, the buzz about the 12 limited edition Telecasters released by Fender during their 60th Anniversary “Telebration” is reaching a fever pitch as folks realize that 500 each (300 for some, 1000 for others) won’t go far world wide. And we’re getting reports of dealers all over the US taking “pre-orders” for these.
We’ll update this post as we learn of more doing this, but at this time we have the name of one dealer and we’ll start with that one:
I ordered mine from Wildwood.
In the UK, Peach Guitars in Essex is getting all of them, Andertons in Guildford is getting about half of them and MB Music (online only I think) is getting a few of them. Thomann.de is also listing most of them as well. Suspect in all cases it’s one of each per dealer so act fast. Those dealers are the only ones that have ‘announced’ them so far near as my research can tell…
Sounds Great music in Manchnester is listing at least 9 of them for preorder now too, if I counted correctly. Possible that they’re getting all 12 but 3 already went I guess!
GAK.co.uk is now listing most of them as well… although for whatever reason theirs are significantly more expensive than everyone elses!
Guitarguitar are now listing them for preorder… interestingly, they claim to be getting 2 of each in most cases. However, they have the most, well, shall we say optimistic prices yet!
And one more tidbit of information my research has turned up… have discovered that the European allocation is 200 units for each of the models except for the Indiana Barn Tele which is 125 units.
elderly shows some models for preorder
http://elderly.com/search/elderly?terms=telebration&x=0&y=0
The best prices I’ve seen so far have been at Peach Guitars in the UK: £1373 (or €1650) for a 2TSB Cabronita.
Thomann had an allocation of seven 2TSB Cabronitas — they now have six, since I ordered the first one.
Nearer the release date I’ll badger them about price matching, as they’re usually pretty good about that with long time customers.
I also ran into a ‘gentleman’ at a guitar shop in southern France who claimed that he could get me one within a week from Fender France, for € 1499, so long as I wired him the funds. ^^-) I advised Fender of their dealer’s misrepresentation, but they have yet to respond.
I’m interested in the Hot rod vintage and have my name on one at my local dealer. Info is scarce and nothing posted on the Fender website. Anyone know where I can get the complete specs?
J5
I have my name on one and I’m having a bit of a tough time finding out much about them. They sure look nice! Here is a link to a little information from Sweetwater: http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/Tele52HRBTB/
I would love to know if people think that the value of these will increase significantly?
OK after doing some further research I settled in the Browns Canyon Telecaster. I couldn’t get used to the humbucker in the neck position on the Hot Rod Vintage. I guess I’ll have it in a month or so!
Anyone knows where I can buy a brown canyon tele