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This very early Japanese reissue 'Rosewood' Telecaster weighs 9.60 lbs. and has a nut width of just under 1 11/16 inches and a scale length of 25 1/2 inches. Two-piece Rosewood body with a center 'sandwich' of maple. One-piece rosewood neck with a maple 'skunk-stripe' and 21 original medium frets and pearl dot position markers. Headstock decal with "Fender" 'transitional logo in gold with black trim. Individual vintage-style "no-name" Fender [Kluson] Deluxe tuners with oval metal buttons. Single "butterfly" string tree. Four-bolt neck plate with "Fender" stamped between the top two screws. Two hot single-coil pickups: one plain metal-cover pickup at neck with an output of 7.74k and one black six-polepiece pickup angled in bridgeplate with an output of 7.03k. Three-layer black/white/black plastic pickguard with eight screws. Two controls (one volume, one tone) plus three-way selector switch with 'round' tip, all on metal plate adjoining pickguard. Chrome knobs with flat tops and knurled sides. Fender combined bridge/tailpiece stamped with the serial number ("A018493"). This guitar is in near mint (9.25) condition with just a couple of very tiny surface marks, one on the back of the neck behind the fourth fret, the other on the back of the headstock. Housed in the Original Fender USA 'Form-Fit' three-latch rectangular hardshell case with black plush lining (9.25).