Don't matter what type of guitar you may collect every one can agree on one guitar to add to their collection. A vintage Fender Telecaster is wanted by every collector. How come? Well it was the first solid bodied electric guitar out on the market and its impact on the music industry was fascinating and still seen today.
It took 17 years of set backs and experimentation to create the better known as "Tele". The true original name of the Telecaster was the Esquire. The Esquire was first distributed in 1950, its life span , however, would be a short one. Only around 50 of these guitars were ever made and they were recalled due to a manufacturing error. Leo was not discourage though.
He updated the guitars features and re-released it later that year and renamed it the Fender Broadcaster. Once again luck would not be on Leo's side and the Gretsch Company would complain Leo violating their copy righted "Broadkaster" line of drums.
Leo once again would not be shaken by this set back and he renamed his guitar after the newly popular meduim, the television. Hence the Fender Telecaster. The Telecaster repaid him for all of his years of trial and error. It hit the market and caused a frenzy in the guitar world. The once dismissed solid body electric guitar now was the new thing. Leo had changed music history forever.
With the release of the Telecaster the new players not only like the sound, but liked the way that the guitar was put together. It was rather simple to fix. The components were not individually constructed like most guitars at the time, but were mass manufactured. You would think with such a strategy that the performance of the guitar would suffer, but it did not. The Telecaster was sawed and routed from slabs, not hand-carved, necks were bolted and not glued, and the fretboards was a single piece with the neck not separate. Just a few examples of many neat features...
It took 17 years of set backs and experimentation to create the better known as "Tele". The true original name of the Telecaster was the Esquire. The Esquire was first distributed in 1950, its life span , however, would be a short one. Only around 50 of these guitars were ever made and they were recalled due to a manufacturing error. Leo was not discourage though.
He updated the guitars features and re-released it later that year and renamed it the Fender Broadcaster. Once again luck would not be on Leo's side and the Gretsch Company would complain Leo violating their copy righted "Broadkaster" line of drums.
Leo once again would not be shaken by this set back and he renamed his guitar after the newly popular meduim, the television. Hence the Fender Telecaster. The Telecaster repaid him for all of his years of trial and error. It hit the market and caused a frenzy in the guitar world. The once dismissed solid body electric guitar now was the new thing. Leo had changed music history forever.
With the release of the Telecaster the new players not only like the sound, but liked the way that the guitar was put together. It was rather simple to fix. The components were not individually constructed like most guitars at the time, but were mass manufactured. You would think with such a strategy that the performance of the guitar would suffer, but it did not. The Telecaster was sawed and routed from slabs, not hand-carved, necks were bolted and not glued, and the fretboards was a single piece with the neck not separate. Just a few examples of many neat features...
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