Full Description

Classic Alder Body

The FSR MIJ Hybrid 60s Tele’s body is crafted from lightweight alder, producing balanced, resonant tones with plenty of clarity and midrange bite ideal for the versatile musician. The alder tonewood provides a decent amount of sustain, creating bright, sizzling highs, beautifully rounded lows, and a beefy midrange. Fender have used alder as their tonewood of choice since the 1950s, as the balanced response and slight upper middle definition makes it perfect for rock and blues playing.

’’U’’-Shaped Maple Neck & Rosewood Fingerboard

This FSM Made In Japan Telecaster features a ‘’U’’ shaped neck profile, which is usually found on thick necks and perfect for guitarists who play with their thump on the back or side of the neck. The maple tonewood provides the Fender with a beautifully bright characteristic, tightening up the overall tone and delivering plenty of cut and bite. The neck is coupled with a rosewood fingerboard to enhance the bass with warm, soft tones, and ‘fur up’ the maples harsh edges for a sizzling high end and an open midrange attack. The rosewood’s naturally oily surface allows any stray overtones to be absorbed into the pours, offering this guitar with a natural fundamental tone, while the maple delivers a powerfully sharp punch when the strings are hit hard.

American Vintage ’58 Tele Pickups

The Fender Special Run Tele boasts Fender’s American Vintage '58 Tele single-coil pickups in the bridge and neck, designed to offer classic tones with modern reliability and durability. Wound to precise specifications for authentic, traditional Fender tone and performance, the Vintage pickups offer bright tones with enhanced dynamics thanks to its alnico 5 magnets. The bridge pickup is designed with staggered pole pieces to ensure volume balance across each string, allowing the guitar to produce clear, light tones with an upper-end edge. The neck pickup provides sweet tones with excellent clarity, perfect for strumming and chords.

String Through Construction

This Limited-Edition Fender incorporates a string-through body construction to improve the overall tonality and sustain, transferring the vibrations and resonance from the strings to the body. The American tele bridge features brass saddles to keep the strings stable, allowing the guitar to be played harder without going out of tune.

Bone Nut

Along with its amazing tone and looks, the Fender FSR MIJ Tele also features a bone nut which adds to its classic aesthetic. The main purpose of using a bone nut, compared to modern materials, is the bone offers excellent resonance and sustain. A bone nut also delivers a very balanced tone and will last a long time. In addition, this type of nut naturally self-lubricates and helps the guitar to stay in tune for longer.

Fender Japan Guitars

Fender Japan was established as a way for Fender to market their guitars to the Japanese market, allowing for the creation of low cost Fender guitars that still possess the high expectations and build quality of their American counterparts. Japan is often considered to be one of the leading places in the world for guitar manufacturing, although most of the guitars produced are not sold in the UK, the FSR MIJ series allows players to purchase an exceptionally high quality and unique guitar.

The History of the Telecaster

The rich history of Fender guitars begins with the Telecaster. An indispensable instrument, the Telecaster was the world's first successful solid-body electric guitar. Perfected after two years of development - and a name change or two - the Telecaster debuted in February 1951 and began its steady ascent towards the stage and studio. Ingeniously engineered with the ability to be heard both loud and clear, it was a marvel of simple design elegance and workhorse functionality. It is perhaps a fitting testimony to its essential original rightness that the Telecaster design has hardly changed ever since.

Specifications

• Model Number: 5651600357
• Series: Fender Special Run/Made in Japan

Body & Bridge

• Body: Alder
• Shape: Telecaster
• Bridge: 3-Saddle American Strings-Through-Body Tele
• Construction: Bolt-On
• Finish: Sea Foam Green

Neck & Fingerboard

• Neck: Maple
• Profile: ‘‘U’’
• Scale Length: 25.5’’
• Fingerboard: Rosewood
• Radius: 9.84’’
• Frets: 21 Medium Jumbo
• Inlays: White Dots
• Nut: Bone
• Nut Width: 1.675''

Electronics & Hardware

• Bridge Pickup: American Vintage '58 Telecaster
• Neck Pickup: American Vintage '58 Telecaster
• Controls: Master Volume, Master Tone
• Pickup Switching: 4-Position Blade
  • Position 1: Bridge Pickup
  • Position 2: Bridge & Neck Pickups (In Parallel
  • Position 3: Neck Pickup
  • Position 4: Neck & Bridge Pickups (In Series)
• Tuning Machines: Vintage-Style Locking
• Control Knobs: Knurled Flat-Top
• Bridge Saddles: Brass
• Pickguard: 3-Ply Mint Green
• Hardware: Chrome
• Strings: Fender NPS, (.009-.042 Gauges)
• Case Included: Gig Bag