Tele History Chart

You are speaking of a book"s worth ...... we are going back to 1951.

 

Probably need a volume for each era. Just what's been put out since 2000 is probably over 100 variations.

 

Wait, there are different kinds of Telecaster???

 

You can get up to the 90s with the "The Fender Telecaster" by A.R. Duchossoir. It's a little sketchy after the mid 80s but it's fairly accurate prior to that. They used to sell it at the Fender Store in Corona and other online sources.

 

The Tony Bacon books are pretty good for the later models.
If you want to look at catalogs they are here:
https://guitar-compare.com/catalogs/fender-catalogs/

also most tele models are in the vintage price guide
https://www.vintageguitar.com/price-guide/

 

The Bacon book is "The Telecaster Guitar Book", the copy I have goes up into 2012 and has oodles of what you're looking for, in the main text and pics but especially in the Reference section.

 

A Bacon book? Now I am hungry for bacon!

 

It would be a tome of enormous proportions and pretty-much unreadable. Coupled with the fact that even Fender’s records are not that detailed or accurate, I think the answer has to be, ‘not likely’.

 

Wasn’t he the original Rindstone cowboy? (Sorry, but he started it!)

 

Best way to do that is just look at the catalogs from each year. They're available.

 

I wish I would have saved my old Musician’s Friend catalogs - it’s be interesting to flip through and compare some of the prices to what’s on reverb these days.

 

It might be simpler to have multiple charts - based on where production occurred. So you would have one chart for USA production, another for USA Custom Shop production, a third for MIM production, etc.