My Flame Maple tele

[w666]

I'm not in love with the "70's Strat" thing....in fact, I'm unhappy with mine because if its ill-conceived 3 bolt neck. But it is what it is.....

Originally Posted by 52Tele_lover

ahh so it was one of those, im not playing alot at the moment but hey i will one day, ill shove it in the case under the bed and there we go a few decades later its worth stupid amounts of money ;). i had another guitar teacher (yes ive had a few(change of schools, areas etc just reasons of easy and better opportunities)) and he had a friend who worked at a second hand dealer who called him and here was a 80's strat he had in the store in a case but it was in bits. The neck and body i believe had serial numbers that matched and he brought it for about 2000NZD and put it back together(had to replace the pickups as they didnt work even when putten in another guitar to check it wasnt wiring) so it has an SD and two Fender Americans and it is amazing, but i still dont undestand why it was in peices. but anyway abit of history i got to see, and play and i played his 80s original tele(thats what made me a tele man) and ive played the other teachers 70s strat. they dont seem as rare as people make them out to be when in the last 4 years ive played 3 (1=70s orig, 2= 80s parts, 3=80s orig) vintage guitars.

[52Tele_lover]

Originally Posted by w666

I'm not in love with the "70's Strat" thing....in fact, I'm unhappy with mine because if its ill-conceived 3 bolt neck. But it is what it is.....

from what i understand fender wasnt happy either, he designed it for a removable acoustic neck but CBS used it on the strat and i dont think he liked it. but i may be wrong.

Cheers Jeremy.

[w666]

The 3 bolt neck began at Fender in 1971 with the Strat. In '72 the Telecaster Deluxe included a 3 bolt neck, and the Jazz Bass by 1973.

The 4 bolt neck returned to the Anniversary Strat in '79, and to all Strats by 1980. By 1981, all Fender products had returned to the 4 bolt design.

This is all during the CBS years, and it's not clear that Leo had anything to do with it. But I only know these things by having consulted Wikipedia (a.k.a. Truth by Consensus). Leo sold it to CBS in 1965.

Originally Posted by 52Tele_lover

from what i understand fender wasnt happy either, he designed it for a removable acoustic neck but CBS used it on the strat and i dont think he liked it. but i may be wrong.

Cheers Jeremy.