I keep grimacing thinking he's going to smack a headstock on that cinderblock wall! 😂 Fascinating stuff. Where'd I leave my checkbook?

Nacho will forget more about vintage Telecasters than most of us will ever know. He makes some beautiful Blackguard replicas, too! Thanks for a great episode!

In the end, the simplicity of the telecaster is what has drawn me to it. Thanks Zac.

Man, Zac, this is just awesome, and it couldn’t be more timely-I just ordered a 53 build from Nacho!

Unbelievably cool and informative. Nacho IS the Early Telecaster guru. Fantastic video!

Great episode Zac. Thank you for your insight and dedication to the Fender Telecaster and KZfaq community. You need a raise ❤

Shear Magic seeing these Two Vintage Telecaster guitars! and the extensive knowledge from Nacho! Thank You for this Video!

WOW talk about a Master Class...thanks for all the trouble you went through to produce this. It's just plain weird that it takes a European to be the world's greatest expert on Leo Fender's work circa '49-'54

A Telecaster lovers treasure trove!!! Thank you!!! 🙏

Couldn’t afford the guitar but I bought the book, it’s astonishing!

Nacho will end up selling more Telecasters than Leo in the end. Love it. Thank you for a great video.

Thanks guys!! Great Video and walk through from Nacho!!

Very entertaining and informative. Thank you, Prof. Childs!

Great content! Thank you, sir!! And thanks to Nacho and Olivier!!

This is so good to see and it’s much appreciated!

Thank you Zac for all you provide!

Love it. Thanks Zac!

Excellent. Thank you.

Why no discussion on the type of body wood, the headstock contour differences between them and newer tele models, the 12th fret dot spacing and tooling locaters etc? Plenty of talk about the finish but just vague pickup talk as well. Oh well.

great show with Nacho -- what an amazing source of knowledge!

Great video Zac, thanks so much. Cool t-shirt as well!

What a treat, thanks 😀

Very interesting. Nice to see such vintage Telecasters with such a knowledgeable guy. Thanks

Amazing video man!! Thank you Zac🥳🙏🇸🇪🎸

This is awesome, thanks so much for this video!

Nice to see Nacho again. Greetings from Andalucia!

This was terrific, Zac. Thank you.

I built a few teles from kits, i k ew i couldnt find a broadcaster if i found one so i made my own. Both are upgraded electronics. Love the difference in tone between the 2. Great video, very informative. Leo fender is the GOAT.

Thanks for letting us look at your guitars guys!! Zac - if you’re ever looking for subjects, I’d like to hear more about them he blend control that was mentioned.

So entertaining Zac 🙏🏻

That was a very educational soundbite on pine casters, amazing how much changed between the two guitars. I recall you mentioned meeting him and filming this backstage. Was the neck on Nachos 53 a Birdseye maple neck? couldn't tell in the video, may have just been the finish. Great video thank you for sharing.

Got his Blackguard book which is superb. Thanks for this amazing video!

Great show thanks! Unfortunately the Pinecaster book site is under construction, but I hope that will be resolved soon. I ordered a Nacho Telecaster last year. Arriving this summer. Can not wait..

Hooray for Leo Fender! Cheers from the Micronesia Blues Society on the island of Guam.

I have built several blackguards including winding the pickups. So much fun to do and compare. I did have access to a Broadcaster in the early 80s so I have those specs. I also built a non-trussrod Tele but I used swamp ash and 1.75” thick. My favorite Tele and it would be fun to have you review a non-truss rod Tele. The holes on the back…if they are crooked it was top drilled. The drill bit wanders, so they later did it from the back.

Great stuff.

This is awesome Zac

Wonderful video Zac! I have about 2 months left for my Xotic XTC1 build and this show makes me want it even more. ( I don’t think I’m alone, and not liking the wait for a new build) I tried to go to the website for the Pinecaster book but apparently it is under some kind of maintenance. My daughter is always asking me for something to get for my birthday that I wouldn’t buy for myself. Hopefully it’s back up at some point.

OUTSTANDING ! ! !

Aloha Zak! Really enjoyed this show! TY. Well today Mama get here washer and dryer finally. I get my Seymour Ducan MJ wound Lap steel pickups. I got to figure out what I'm going to do. Black guard? Bridge pu for Strat? Keith Richards style Tele?

Nacho is a great Tele expert, and he builds some amazing guitars!

Amazing men, amazing guitars....

That back wall is awfully close haha, especially at the end I was nervous I'd hear a clank 😅😅 Extremely cool info, bravo!

Great insight fellas. It’s all about the twang 🤪❤️🎸🎸🎸

i just love anokd tele......thank..you..zac..

The wall behind Nacho looked way too close.... I was getting nervous every time he held the guitar up and leaned it back that the headstock was going to hit the wall. Glad he made it through the video without bonking either one of those amazing looking instruments. It would have been cool to hear a sound comparison of them even just acoustically.

We love Nacho

Yay! Fabulous!

I'm on the email list for one of these guitars....hopefully I'll get one this year🤞🤞🤞

I love the Fender Tele and Strat. But as I’ve gotten older I have a lot of problems with the 01.65” nut width.

Between the 3 of you not even 1 brought a pignose battery amp into the room, this opportunity will be hard to replicate. Thanks anyway, just wanted to hear those pickups and their character as explained in such detail and so accurately by the Man. Peace.

I found it interesting to note, Nacho talked nearly the whole time gesturing and pointing, with a pick tucked in his index finger. Shows how long he has been playing guitars. Like second nature. Clearly, he has put in the time.

Nice T-shirt there Mr. 😉

Wonderful...

Also the time between the Broadcaster and Telecaster without a decal sticker . The " NoCaster"

What a fantastic video have a wonderful day Zac also what is your favorite year from the 2010s ❤❤❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😊😊😊

epic episode

Nacho had me on the edge of my seat, just watching as those headstocks got dangerously close to hitting that brick wall! 😬

My question is are they tonally similar? Is one more bright than the other, or are they all a little unique in their own way?

A 53 tele would be my dream guitar

Beautiful

Dangit! I was about to go play my Strat but now I’ve gotta spend some time on the Tele first. 😂

Don’t bust the headstock on the block wall

Wow that was amazing!

I have a blackguard one thing i had a hard time finding a bakelight pickguard the one i got from Fender was not a pure bakelight pickguard i finally found one in Japan Fender has changed the formula for theirs

Never seen a Telecaster behind prison walls. Until this.

Don't forget the different spacing of the dots at the twelfth frets.

sweet guitars 👍

Both are beautiful guitars. I've wanted a Broadcaster for years!

Minor hardware niggle - Nacho used the term "flat head" to differentiate from Phillips screws. Flat head refers to the shape of the screw top, as opposed to oval or round. The correct term is "slotted".

I wonder if that Broadcaster came out of Texas in the mid 2000's. If I heard Nacho right he said 0725 for the number on the bridge plate. I have slept a few times but I think that guitar may have come from a friend of mine. I can't ask him cause he is no longer around. If it IS, that guitar I can attest to how great it sounds. VERY rock n roll guitar. The pickup in my friends was hot, but perfectly hot, dark and punchy and had the best mid frequency growl of any single coil I've ever played. Played it for many hours. It was purchased for Vince Gill from C&C guitars in Paris TX around 2004- 2005??? I still think about that guitar a lot. A whole lot. Great episode Zac.

Yes

❤ So much mystique surrounding such a simple design. Whenever I play one of my other guitars, I find myself trying so hard to get it to sound like my telecaster, I wind up putting it down and asking myself.Why do I even bother. Just grab the telecaster and be happy.😊

Where you here at the Rodeo with Brad on Sunday?? If I’d have known I would have gone!😢😢

So cool, but damn, I wishby’all had an old Champ amp to play them thru.

I wonder what he thinks of the 1951 American vintage 2 telecaster?? Thoughts??

No playing? Too bad. Got a CS Broadcaster 70th anniversary reissue and it's fabulous. Love the blend control.

Testing another hand built Fender Harvard clone amp. This is the best Harvard copy yet. I am using a vintage RCA selenium rectifier for the bias supply. The transformers are accurate for ratios and power handling. The tubes are all vintage NOS or NOS testing pulls. The pots are all a special taper. The speaker is a special reconed PM speaker using one brands frame, another brands cone and yet another brand's voice coil for a genuine Chicago made vintage Jensen sound. Carboneu made some fabulous sounding speakers. Fender rarely used them, but I don't really care. With Joe Biden's ineffective & highly selective sanctions against Russia getting those selenium diodes is very difficult and expensive.

Talking about how two different guitars "might" sound without a demonstration is a bit like coitus interruptus! Is there a second video where we can hear these two amazing instruments for a real comparison?

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Never knew bakelite was compressed paper...

You look road worn..Great! ..keep it up.

Julian lage plays a nacho tele so you know he’s doing something right,

cooooooool!

If Nacho can get away with relicing the fret board on his '53 I feel totally vindicated for relicing my '52 RI and various partscasters.

What screwed this video up is "u-tube' constantly dropping in "ADS" throughout the video . . .PITA . . .

Serious question. Do these guys play?

👍

My inexpensive Fender Squire Affinity Telecaster is as good as any guitar I have and I have 22 guitars. I am confident that outside of the very real marketplace value/cost of guitars which makes a difference in price, well not considering the marketplace my Telecaster is pretty much as good as any guitar ever made, by anybody! You build it good enough to play and function properly and that's all you need. The rest is the player.- Peter age 74

If the workers back then only knew a handful of them put away for the family would buy them a Nice house today.

Early 1950 Broadcasters had steel saddles. They were replaced by brass saddles by Fall 1950 which validates Nachos' instincts that this is a November 1950 Broadcaster. The blend control is the most significant feature that gets dismissed too quickly. It was brilliant and why Leo discontinued it is a real mystery to me.

What gauge strings

lets compare the same guitar...I poke fun because this is ridiculous, I'm a nerd, I stay and watch because I love Telecasters, and Zac is absolutely awesome, and for anyone reading this, yes, i say the same guitar, i subscribe to the fine detailed differences mattering too :) i cannot wait for the next Telecaster video! what's that thing that Uncle Jen says? more chicken picken less picklin? you needs your pickles too Juncle Jen.

Wait, he added grooves to the fingerboard? What?

Shame we couldn't hear them through an amp.

Nacho is old news. Javier Alemany is the man now.

"nacho nacho man!"

Shame he wasnt able to compare it to an G&L Asat.

Would have been nice to hear them. Just saying...😮

Zac, you must have the coolest wife in the world