Does anyone know what guitar this is?

[JPXTom]

Hey, i saw that one of the guys from jimmy eat world has this guitar, and i want to know what it is...It looks like a Fender Tele, but with an unusual tele pickguard...idk, so if u know, tell me:

[Mike3354]

Not positive, but I'm gonna go with: it is a Fender Tele, but with a custom, or maybe just an aftermarket, pick guard. Reminds me of the old-school Gibson SG pickguards. Also, that guitar has some P-90's in it, if that matters.

[ocnor]

It looks like a Fender Broadcaster.

[acidrock]

Tele Custom,there seem to be a few variations on it.I have one with a humbucker.

[acidrock]

http://www.homerecording.com/bbs/att...chmentid=36830

[acidrock]

Fender has a set neck Tele out there that kind of looks like that one too.

[mikemorgan]

Telesonic, what do I win? His has soapbars.

http://www.zen-pharaohs.com/guitars/Fender/telesoni.htm

[JPXTom]

you know, i thought it was a custom..idk. I've been thinkign about getting a fender custom, but i love w/e mods he did to this..if it is mods to a tele custom.

[mikemorgan]

Another view....http://www.12fret.com/new/fenderTeleSonicPage.html

although it had real potential, most everyone who bought one at about $1100 thought it was a real piece of crap. The early models had a crappy bridge, and even when this was fixed, they didn't tune worth a damn.

[raven46]

Originally Posted by acidrock

http://www.homerecording.com/bbs/att...chmentid=36830

thats a tasty guitar, nice one

[acidrock]

Originally Posted by raven46

thats a tasty guitar, nice one

You know,it fell right in my hands and I took it.I aways wanted a standard tele though.
There's a single coil under the ashtray and humbucker is very bright sounding.

[BrentDomann]

JPXTom,

I saw that you posted the same question at the Jimmy Eat World forums. That's a good idea, and I think your answers there are the right ones. It most definitely is NOT a Telesonic - it has P90s and the knobs are tophats/Fender amp knobs arranged in a rhombus/parallellogram pattern, while the Telesonic has DeArmond 2Ks and the knobs are chrome and arranged in a square/rectangle pattern.

To me it looks a lot like a Stratosonic (cherry, mahogany body, P90s, pickguard) with a Tele body. If you check out other photos on the band's website you can tell that the body is contoured where the forearm rests like a Strat, too.

My guess, as the forums seem to suggest, is that this is a one-off instrument. Although it is a hollow-body with two cutaways, I bet a TC-90 would do the trick.

TC-90:
http://www.fender.com/products/searc...tno=0262300561

[punkin]

Originally Posted by acidrock

http://www.homerecording.com/bbs/att...chmentid=36830

What's up with the bridge & PUP cover...I've never seen anything like that before. I'm no Fender expert by any stretch. It looks like a comfy guitar. My gripe with Fenders has always been the bridge hardware and how rough it can be sometimes but that, is a cool looking guitar.

[myramyd]

For the record this is a Fender TC-90, apparently made custom for him.

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/produ...38&src=3WFRWXX

[acidrock]

Originally Posted by punkin

What's up with the bridge & PUP cover...I've never seen anything like that before. I'm no Fender expert by any stretch. It looks like a comfy guitar. My gripe with Fenders has always been the bridge hardware and how rough it can be sometimes but that, is a cool looking guitar.

You know,I must be the only person who wasn't that impressed with it. I took it for some work I did for a guy,I wasn't really excited about it,but figured I couldn't pass it up.I like Tele's but I realy wanted a standard one.

The neck is too fast for a hamfisted player like me.

The ashtray cover comes off and reveals the usual slanted single coil and Tele bridge.

[faderbug]

it's fucking late and i'm fucking drunk but i think it's a tele!

did i win something?

[junplugged]

damn, now i want a couple of those also, sweet looking in burst and vanilla, i gotta stop this...

[true-eurt]

Originally Posted by mikemorgan

Telesonic, what do I win? His has soapbars.

http://www.zen-pharaohs.com/guitars/Fender/telesoni.htm

OMG...the wood finish on that one is gorgeous !

[true-eurt]

Originally Posted by acidrock

You know,I must be the only person who wasn't that impressed with it. I took it for some work I did for a guy,I wasn't really excited about it,

BLASPHEMY!!

[Fat Ben]

It could also have been a G&L ASAT, well that what mine looks like anyways.
BenT
PS New to the site, can't wait to get in here.

[IronFlippy]

Originally Posted by acidrock

You know,I must be the only person who wasn't that impressed with it.

Well, send it to me and I'll see what we can do.

[acidrock]

Originally Posted by IronFlippy

Well, send it to me and I'll see what we can do.

After you guys talked it up there's no way I'm getting rid of it!

[Newbie dude]

looks like a fender toronado to me. maybe not.

[myramyd]

If you go to the Jimmy Eat World website you will see that Jim states it is a Fender Telecaster Thinline TC-90 2004-2005 model.