The Vintage Hot Rod '52 Telecaster® guitar combines classic looks with modern playability and tone. Features include a satin-backed neck with a flatter fretboard radius and medium jumbo frets, Seymour Duncan® 'mini-humbucking neck pickup and a single-coil bridge pickup for a slightly darker sound, vintage styling and thin-skin nitrocellulose lacquer finish. An innovative new vintage-style bridge with three brass saddles now allows precise intonation of each individual string.

On its 1951 introduction, the Telecaster was a revolutionary instrument that would usher in whole new eras of musical innovation and excitement. Sixty years later, in 2011, it is an archetypal electric guitar with a long and storied history. The rich history of Fender guitars begins with the Telecaster, and Fender is celebrating its 60th anniversary all year with 12 very special "Tele-bration" models that stay inside the Telecaster's famously elegant lines while offering the finest and most unusual takes on the instrument's past, present and future.

MPN: 0170150750

• Series: Tele-bration
  
• Body Shape: Telecaster®
  
• Body Material: Premium Ash
  
• Body Finish: Gloss Nitrocellulose Lacquer
  
• Neck: Maple, "U" Shape
  
• Neck Finish: Gloss Nitrocellulose Lacquer Front, Satin Nitrocellulose Lacquer
  
• Back
  
• Fretboard: Maple
  
• Fretboard Radius: 9.5" (24.13 cm)
  
• Frets: 21, Medium Jumbo
  
• Position Inlays: Black Dot Position Inlays
  
• Scale Length: 25.5" (64.8 cm)
  
• Nut Width: 1.650" (42 mm)
  
• String Nut: Synthetic Bone
  
• Truss Rod: Vintage Style Truss Rod
  
• Truss Rod Nut: Original Vintage Style Truss Rod Nut
  
• Pickups: 1 Vintage Hot Rod '52 Telecaster® pickup, 1 Seymour Duncan '59 humbucking pickup
  
• Pickup Switching: 3-Position Blade: Position 1. Bridge Pickup, Position 2. Neck Pickup with Tone Control (Bright Vintage Circuit), Position 3. Neck Pickup with No Tone Control (Dark Vintage Circuit)
  
• Controls: Master Volume, Master Tone
  
• Hardware: Chrome
  
• Tuning Keys: Vintage Style Tuning Machines
  
• Bridge: Vintage Style Tele Bridge with Three Special Intonatable Brass
  
• Saddles
  
• Control Knobs: Knurled Chrome
  
• Pickguard: 1-Ply Black (8-Hole)
  
• Strings: Fender® USA, NPS, (.009-.042 Gauges)
  
• Incl. Accessories: Vintage Leather Strap, Cable, Polishing Cloth