In terms of hardware, the American Series Telecaster has three main improvements over the early designs.
As a bonus, when the time eventually comes for a re-fret, that will be a bit less expensive as Rosewood fingerboards don’t require re-lacquering. It follows the early 1960’s variant with a Rosewood fingerboard and relatively slim neck and sports a nicely done Nitrocellulose Lacquer Sunburst finish and slightly ‘minty’ three layer pickguard.įender chose to use a much larger, non-vintage style fret wire for the 22 fret neck, which greatly increases fret life. Here we’re looking at a Fender American Series Telecaster built during 2005 at the Fender plant in Corona, California. It has been in continuous production since the early 1950’s, with really only relatively minor changes and improvements. Leo Fender’s design, quickly becoming the Telecaster, has arguably been one of the most successful and influential musical instruments ever.
It presents many of the best improvements to this venerable design. The Fender American Series Telecaster was built from 2000 to 2007, renamed from (and then back to!) the American Standard Telecaster.
