It's Xavier Armenta. He worked at Fender from '56 to '72.

Circles in the neck mounting holes looks like it was made when the drill press is pushed down to touch the chuck.

Definitely document the repairs and show us, love this stuff!

Thank you so much for taking the time to share this with us! The workbench / camera is an enviable addition to an already enviable channel! That guitar is beautiful - flaws and all. It has a story. And that's why these old guitars are so remarkable. Looking forward to hearing it again!! 👍🏻

Matthew this is a great video - your set up is fab - it's so cool to be 'with you' when unveiling 60 year old details on a classic guitar like this - a musical antiques roadshow - excellent.

I love the way you tease the story from the guitar just excellent preservation mind set.. Thank you for caring about these old guitars

Dude... It is great to see your channel grow like this.. New camera set up, new work bench and some brand new old guitars to show us, so we can learn and see some cool stuff with you!!!

Love the new setup! Looking forward to seeing more of this guitar

The overhead camera is excellent and works very well indeed. Loved your dissection and commentary about the guitar. Great stuff Matthew. PEACE 🤠🎸

Thanks for another great video. Very informative and I love your new setup withe the new table and overhead camera. Looking forward to see what you do with the neck and what plans you have for the tele body.

Wow, I thought it was going to be so much worse. That's awesome man. OF COURSE we want to see the neck work. Love the new camera setup.

I'm digging the new work bench and camera set up Matthew! Definitely a guitar that's been through some changes in its life. Oh the stories it could tell. PEACE from Southwest Michigan! 🐉💀👽🎸🎶🎵🧠

Great vid Matt as always...I've built my first guitar..a 'strelecaster' in lockdown so I'm definitely interested in the repair work !!

Quarantine really makes me find these amazing channels.. Subscribed!

I love to see your channel grow Matthew!

Love the overhead cam! Okay, hopefully, one of your upcoming guitars is a player's grade pre-CBS Strat. I'm patiently waiting to pull the trigger. Keep up with the cool vids!

Great setup and amazing content as always! Makes me want a Tele again.

I love your videos! Mystery guitar stories.... Re fret it and enjoy it...the mysterious history of it makes it awesome with all the weird changes. sounds fabulous to me

Anyone else watching the coffee mug the whole time? My anxiety was through the roof seeing it almost spill. 😭

Yes on showing us the neck work. I love these videos!

Love these authentication videos! Keep up the great work.

I've been enjoying your videos because I am a huge fan of 50s to 70s fenders and gibson. I just found out about your channel and appreciate the information.

Matt, you're the Sherlock Holmes of modified or orphaned vintage guitars! Enjoy all of your posts, keep em' coming!

Awesome find on the guitar...you lucky bast...Nice studio setup. looking forward to your videos; and wish you the best.

Bro, love all your vids. Such an inspiration to me dude. You have no clue. I've taken all of what you like in the way of gear bc of your tone. And used it to narrow down what I like

my best guess is that they wanted to intonate all 6 strings individually, so the only/best option around at the time was the strat hardtail (?)

Definitely would love to see your work on that neck, always up for a good lesson!

I think the guitar looks amazing as is. That guitar definitely has a history to it, and I think it's awesome that it's unknown. Whoever owned that before you made that guitar into their own thing. It looks played in, which to me, means it was loved! Such a cool guitar!

Would like to see more on the tele pick-ups- history of old versus new and the electronics set-up --- enjoyed this a lot - now I want to go build my own tele! Nice work, Matthew!

The overhead cam looks very clean. Well done and cool guitar!

the overhead camera is really a cool touch. Very informative...good job

That was a really enjoyable foray into guitar archeology. Love it Thanks!

Love the overhead camera, thank you. I would imagine you've handled enough vintage instruments (especially the Fenders) to spot a potential fake instrument just by the tint/feel of the lacquer. You've had some really exceptional instruments, thank you for sharing as well as the great content.

Yes, allow us to follow along with the whole process, please!!!! Well done!!!

I play drums, and I'd still watch you repair this neck. I love musical instruments and the history.

Looks great Matt! Love that tele-strat too!!! :)

You are becoming one of my favorite "hangout and learn" KZfaq channels. Great stuff! Call me crazy, but I don't hate the bridge pickup mounting solution!

This teardown was very interesting. Good call with the camera angle. The XA signature is definitely an awesome find. I think, as someone in the comments suggested, the owner had a humbucker installed before and switched it back.

I learn so much from your channel. Thanks.

Great work Mathew...always an interesting video. Thanks

Really interesting stuff!! I’d love to follow each guitar to completion!!

Matthew, good stuff man. Its fun to see a guitar this old torn apart. It cracks me up how little has changed in the constructions of bolt on neck guitars. Agree with the comments below about parts guitars. In the end its about the feel and sound of the guitar not the pedigree. Fix that guitar and play the hell out of it... :) Good job on you videos.

Coffee on the work table. I, too, like to live dangerously.

your top camera setup is great! good job

Looks like a restoration project ahead, thanks for the vid!

New setup looks great. Like to see the refret job!

FYI - The audio quality on this video is spot on. Whatever you're doin'...you're doin' it right. 😎

I thought I saw a 59 on the neck heel, Great content and digging you're new overhead set-up Matthew.

Actually, I don't know anything about guitars, but I really like your work. You are a pretty damn good detective too as exhibited in previous videos. Keep up the good work. Very informative.

Great video Matt, new camera is great. Previous video really showed how well it sounds. Going with 6100 Jumbo's on it?

The decal on the neck is surely mid 60's and those frets look wider than usual. So perhaps a refinish in the mid 60s along wit the refret?

I love coming here and seeing what kind of crazy vintage Frankenstein players guitars you find and document. they remind me of the early 70's SG my uncle gave me for my birthday because he doesn't play anymore lol.

You know what's even more interesting, the wear pattern on the freatboard. It's similar to the one on Clapton's guitar.

It has that Eric Clapton vibe, his most famous Fender guitar were parts guitars with necks, bodies and pickups from different guitars. And one of his most famous guitars was a double bound sunburst Telecaster with a Stratocaster neck.

Great video. Also looking forward to seeing the Goodwill Les Paul in the coming weeks.

I’d love to see an update on that les Paul you got from goodwill. That was very cool. I love this series too.

Oh and by the way awesome guitar another great video Matt

The overhead is great. Thank you Matt. Love old stuff

Keep us updated on this one, its very cool !!!

Keep it up, Matthew! Great content!

Very cool! Nice Partscaster...the overhead is very nice as well. Do what you do man!

You have some cool stuff and I do love that over head camra shot.

Very cool guitar. Love the new angle!

The grain of the wood on the body is absolutely stunning.

That is interesting Matthew, great follow on from your first video of this project, Any chance of a part three, am wondering what the outcome is regarding the truss road and what you intend to do next,. Stick it all back together or put that neck on a deserving Strat....keep us posted please 😁

great vid again, love your content

Great! Like the overhead! Keep it up!

I'll be the weirdo in the room: I'd put the Tele body back to its original configuration.

The new camera angle is great man!

The missing wood has been done with a curved chisel. Probably for wire clearance as the owner/modifier wanted lower pickup height. 🤷‍♂️ Installed a replacement neck without shims, pickup too high, won’t screw down more, so they cut out the area below the pickup leads and grounding solder on the base plate of the pickup.

love the overhead view!

Can you do a video/video series on the full restoration of this tele? That would be super interesting!

Definitely interested in seeing the work on this guitar.

Overhead camera looks dope bro 👍

I really appreciate how the guitar was modded way back in the day. covering the old string ferrule holes from the tele bridge with a plate and adding the new strat ones. I also love the pickup mount and jack relocation. If it was mine, I would only modify it to make it playabe. Keep as much 60's mod vibe as possible. One cool guitar.

Definitely want content of the neck work. Awesome videos btw.

really enjoy your videos. Thank you

I bought a couple of squire 51s, which apparently were a replica of a time in fenders history when they ran out of tele bodies and used a strat body with a Tele neck, although the squire reproduction of this guitar came with a regular strat pickup in the neck and a humbucker in the bridge position,with the option to split the humbucker with a push pull pot,I was so happy with the blonde 1st one I bought, that I got a sunburst 2nd squire 51, which had a fatter neck and not as much figured maple as the first one,this guitar of yours seems to be the reverse of the 51 believe both are original parts just matched up to produce a pretty cool guitar,as always a thumbs up for your videos Matt?

Very Very Cool Matthew !!

3rd time I've watched this video since post. Gotta say Matthew - that cup of java on the bench gives me chills every time (lol) ;-) Been there, done that.

the color of the wood on the body and the neck mach perfectly. its a great looking guitar

Subscribed today after watching several videos although (smiling) I am not sure if they make me feel good or bad, happy or sad to never have been able to beg steal or borrow and certainly not afford to buy my dream Fender Stratocaster which would have been a 1958er and same year I was born in Scotland. I am sure my first words out of the womb to mum & dad were to do exactly that but unfortunately not decipherable. Still next best thing is to enjoy the pleasure you have with guitars in general and sharing this with us. Keep up the good work.

oddly the decal on the neck is a CBS style; date would be 1965....hmmm

All easy enough to repair. Damn why can't we ever get stuff like this in the UK. And if we did it would cost the earth.

I did that same bridge pickup mount system on two of my favorite tele style guitars ....that bridge that holds the traditional tele bridge pickup all leads to some of the squeal at high gain settings ! it also makes for much faster pickup swaps !!!

Oh man, I absolutely want to see a video on the neck especially the truss rod

nice guitar, great videos!

That neck is so cool. I like the overhead view.

That's cool. Nice work on the investigations. What part of the country did it come from? Looking forward to seeing this one progress and get us an update on the '58 LP. Thanks for the videos

Looking forward to seeing the neck repair/refret!!!

With the Strat neck perhaps the intonation necessitated a slightly different bridge position. Excellent vid and cam pisition, love this great Tele👍🇬🇧

the camera is killin it and the staof the video the Strat-o-tele is freakin unreal i love it from the blond finish to the maple neck and to end up being an XA you my friend have a streak of im not sure if i can call it luck , im gonna call it a thing that only good dudes get when their lives are right and you are doing it , so rock out and show that guitar who the boss is. great find

The string ferrules on the back of the body would not have lined up with the hardtail bridge, so the body was routed , plugged with wood and new holes drilled to move the ferrules. That's my guess. Those 6 plugged holes on top of the body is where the strings originally came through. The other plugged 4 holes were screw holes that held the original bridge on. I'd guess the neck was a '58-'59, the lacquer Fender used for those years checked the way yours is. Also, the grain orientation in the neck is very similar to my 4/59 Tele neck: quarter-sawn on the flat, very stable: I adjusted my neck one time around '83 when I first got the guitar and never had to touch it again. If you carefully move the copper plate on the neck PU there will be a piece of masking tape covering the magnets and there may be a pencil date there on the tape. Try heating the plate with a hair drier before you move it.

Very Interesting find. Thanks for sharing.

The overhead is the way to go. It leaves room for lower thirds and crawlers and other graphics. As for that incredible treasure of a neck, it’d be great to see what you can do to fix it. That instrument is downright wonderful. Congratulations on such an amazing find!

Keep'em coming, mate!

Definitely want to see the refret process!

Great new setup! You need a Matthew Scott Bench Pad.

Great video and as always awesome content. One question: why do you want to change out the tone capacitor?

Wow I’m second. Nice work Matt love your content!