Does anyone know what guitar this is?

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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:
 

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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.
 
Tele Custom,there seem to be a few variations on it.I have one with a humbucker.
 
Fender has a set neck Tele out there that kind of looks like that one too.
 
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.
 
raven46 said:
thats a tasty guitar, nice one
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You know,it fell right in my hands and I took it.I aways wanted a standard tele though. :rolleyes:
There's a single coil under the ashtray and humbucker is very bright sounding.
 
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/search.php?partno=0262300561
 
punkin said:
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.
:D
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You know,I must be the only person who wasn't that impressed with it. :o 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. :o

The ashtray cover comes off and reveals the usual slanted single coil and Tele bridge.
 
it's fucking late and i'm fucking drunk but i think it's a tele!

did i win something?
 
damn, now i want a couple of those also, sweet looking in burst and vanilla, i gotta stop this...
 
acidrock said:
You know,I must be the only person who wasn't that impressed with it. :o I took it for some work I did for a guy,I wasn't really excited about it,
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BLASPHEMY!! :D
 
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.
 
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