Fender® 011-0302-801 American Vintage 58 Telecaster® - Aged White Blonde

The American Vintage series introduces an all-new lineup of original-era model year guitars that bring Fender® history and heritage to authentic and exciting new life. The American Vintage Series has long presented some of Fender’s best selling guitars. Today, Fender® has cleared the slate to make way for a fresh American Vintage series with new features, new specs and the most meticulous level of vintage accuracy yet. Rather than just replacing the previous models with different ones, they have completely re-imagined the entire vintage-reissue concept, restoring original tooling dies, voicing new pickups, reformulating vintage colors and more, based on actual vintage guitars they tracked down to make sure they had it right. They did the work, and it shows, because there’s pure tonal magic in each new American Vintage instrument.

1958 was an important year for the Telecaster® because that’s when slimmer necks started appearing on the instrument, and when (in early-year models) string-through bridges with solid-steel saddles first showed up, magnifying the guitar’s prized signature twang. The American Vintage ’58 Telecaster® harkens back to early 1958, when the Telecaster® graduated from its original U-shaped neck profile—a real handful—to a still-large but more comfortable D-shape for its maple neck. Other spot-on early-’58 touches are here too, such as a lightweight ash body, staggered bridge pickup pole magnets, solid steel “barrel" bridge saddles, a single-ply White pickguard, “top-hat" Switch tip, flat-top knurled aluminum chrome control knobs and more.

Body: Ash

Neck Material: Maple

Neck Shape: "D" Shape

Fretboard: Maple

Number of Frets: 21

Fret Size: Vintage Style Frets

Fretboard Radius: 7.25" (18.41 cm)

Nut Width: 1.650" (42 mm)

Scale Length: 25.5" (64.8 cm)

Truss Rods: Vintage-Style Heel Adjust

Pickup Configuration: S/S

Bridge Pickup: New American Vintage '58 Tele™ Single-Coil Pickup (Bridge)

Neck Pickup: New American Vintage '58 Tele™ Single-Coil Pickup (Neck)

Pickup Switching: 3-Position Blade: Position 1. Bridge Pickup, Position 2. Bridge and Neck Pickups, Position 3. Neck Pickup

Controls: Master Volume, Master Tone

Hardware: Chrome

Bridge: Original Vintage Style Tele™ Bridge with 3 Solid Barrel Steel Saddles

String Nut: Bone

Tuning Machines: Single Line "Fender® Deluxe" Vintage Style

Switch Tip: "Top Hat" Style Switch Tip

Unique Features: Early-1958 large maple neck with comfortable "D"-shaped profile; All-new pickups wound to period-correct specs and sound, with early-1958 staggered bridge pickup pole magnets; Solid steel "barrel" bridge saddles "Top-hat" switch tip and flat-top knurled aluminum chrome control knobs

Pickguards: 1-Ply White

Control Knobs: New Knurled Chrome Round Dome