Well it's got to have a 3 brass saddle bridge. It's got to have a bakelite pickguard. It's got to have kluson tuners. It's got to be string-through body. It's got to be bolt on neck. It's got to have 2 single coil pickups. It's got to have a 3-way switch. It's got to have a solid maple neck. It's go to have nickel hardware. It's got to be a slab of ash shape the way Leo did it in way back when.
Unless...
It has a 6 saddle or steel saddle bridge. It has a plastic or phenolic white or 3 ply pickguard. It has gotoh or ping tuners. It is a toploader or uses a strat-style bridge. It is a neck-through body. It has 3 pickups or humbuckers. It has a 4-way, 5-way or no switck at all. It has a rosewood, ebony or capped fretboard. It has a tummy cut or forearm cut. It's made of alder, mahogany or maple. It has gold or chrome hardware.
All these things exist in Fender's Telecaster Arsenal and they decide what gets the Telecaster name put on it so....
If YOU play it and call it a Telecaster, why would some guy on the internet you've never met argue with you?
Now Esquires are completely different.
