Description
Description & Specifications
1952 Fender Telecaster – Blond
We present an all original 1952 Fender Telecaster in its original Blond finish. Made in Fullerton, California.
This 70-year-old Butterscotch Blond Fender Telecaster sounds and plays fantastically. We acquired it from our friend Terry Foster’s personal collection. Terry Foster is the author of the renowned book Fender: The Golden Age, and this exact guitar was also featured in the Blackguard Calendar of 2021.
This beautiful 1952 Fender Telecaster features a solid ash body and a wonderfully shaped medium-to-thick profile fretted maple neck with 21 frets and black dot position markers. Single “round” string tree. The headstock sports a decal with the silver “Fender” spaghetti logo and “Telecaster” in black beneath it. It has original individual “no-name” Kluson Deluxe tuners with oval metal buttons and slot-head screws.
The tuning keys are stamped “235677 / PAT. APPLD” on the base. It has a plain metal-cover “black-bottom” bridge pickup with slot-head adjusting screws, and a black, six-polepiece “copper-coated metal plate bottom” neck pickup with flush polepieces. Single-ply black Bakelite pickguard secured with five slot-head screws.
Controls include one volume, one blender, and a three-way “tone” switch (with slot-head screws) and the original black plastic “barrel-style” tip, all mounted on a metal control plate adjoining the pickguard. The guitar is fitted with shorter chrome knobs with more pronounced domes and heavily knurled sides.
The combined bridge/tailpiece has three flat-bottom brass saddles and slot-head intonation screws. The serial number is stamped on the bridge plate beneath the words “FENDER / PAT. PEND.”
The solder joints cover the stamps on both potentiometers, but nothing inside this guitar has ever been touched. The original three-way switch is stamped “CRL 1452.” Overall, this historical piece is in excellent condition, with minor nicks, dings, finish checking, and other cosmetic playwear. The original Butterscotch finish has aged to a rich, creamy color. The beautiful ash grain shows clearly through the Blond finish. Quite simply, this is one of the finest 1952 Telecasters we’ve ever seen. The original frets and nut have plenty of life left.
The pickups and all electronic wiring remain completely untouched and intact — no broken solder joints, no rewound pickups. All original and correct.
It even comes with its original “thermometer” case with chocolate brown plush lining, complete with the original “ashtray” bridge cover.
