Fender '62 Reissue Telecaster

black boty, white pick gard with reely nice rose wood fret bord

single coin neck and brige neck crome plated

crome hardwhere
tone ,volume 3way switch but only one tone nob as with all clasic teli setups

i play hard rock and metal and although it isnt ur normal metal axe i think it make a good nose when playd with a lot of gain but allso when cleen and the brig setup id gr8 for palm muting.

farly bright sound trebblyish on acount of humbuckers but rich enbough for clasik rock allso
so much veriaty of sound solos grunge its ace for hammerin of thoes killer licks

tho only down side is no wabble bar

good on all but myne was setup and chect over at the shop so may vary

a hard gutar that you can depend on

this is my best gutar yet and it is so ace its versatil and can be used for enything from clasik rock to trash metal but mabe not for the death metal tipes a verry capable gutar.

3 tone sunburst with 3-ply aged white pick gaurd, and tobacco stain bound edge. 3-saddle T8 Spiral Brass, Gotoh Kluson Style, Rosewood 184mm (7.5") radius neck with 21 Vintage frets. 2 controls 1 volume the other tone, 3 way selector bridge, bridge & nrck and neck. pickups are USA Texas Specials, and body is alder bound. not got 10/10 cos teles don't have a lot of features but thats how i like my guitars gadget free

I play all kinds but mostly alt rock like RHCP and Pearl jam, at the mo i'm only using a crappy little Marshall MG30 amp but it still sounds awesome compared to what my epiphone sg sounded like. i can get every sound i want out if it, it really does every thing you want a tele to do but with out paying a lot for a USA Version. u can get great bright sounds out of it and really scratchy full sounds which i love only reason not a ten is coss u can't get fat sounds like a les paul, but if u want that buy a guitar with humbuckers, not single coils

the action on the guitar is superb, best i have ever plyed on in fact, not sure if it was the factory set up or if my local store set it up. The finish on the guitar is excellent, it is a three tone sunburst with a tobacco stain binding around the edge which i think just sets it off. the head stock is good too as it has a fender sticker on it and a tele sticker on it, so people who are snobs don't look at it and think oooo only a jap model. I have nothing bad to say about this guiat it looks great and nothing on it was loose so full marks wish i could post a pic it is that nice.

up to now this guiat has been excellent i've knocked it a few times both the body and headstock and still no chippings/scratches, loose hardware or even stap buttons. i would certainly gig with this without a back up no hesitation. but hey its a fender u expect this from quality goods. all hardware on this is chrome so it won't break easy.

no need to deal with them yet so don't know

i have been playing about six years and have payed on many relatives and friends guitars both cheaper and more expensive than this and i can say if this was stolen i would cry until i could afford another, i just loves this guitar not a bad word about it. only problem was that i had to buy a case with it, i bought a fender hard case for ??100 and it is crap if i could go back i would buy a hiscox case, the locking on the fender case is dreadful, and that is the only complaint but nothing to do with the guitar.

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I use this guitar with a fender hot rod deville and a boss GT8.. When i first got this guitar the stock pickups were very thin soundin and very harsh but the guitar looked great and the build quality was fantastic.. i replaced the pick ups with custom shop texas specials and it transformed the guitar it now sounds like a proper tele it has the honky yet bright sound of a real 62 tele...

spot on

no problems as of yet

great price, great finish, plays well and with the right pick ups can compete with the usa model

I purchased a 1983 Fender Telecaster custom foto-finish from Cambridge, England last year. I probably paid too much for it because I had never bought with (GBP), but it was worth it now. It is a weird cherry grain color and I have never seen one like it in the last year after looking at similar Telecasters. I have been playing about 30 years and have owned a 25/50 Les Paul, (TOO HEAVY), 57 Strat,many custom made telecasters, I am a Tele guy. I play county, rock, and now days at my age I mostly play blues. This guitar is total original, including pickups and hardware and that is the way I want it to stay. This is literally the best guitar that I have ever played for sound and action. In the past several years I have used Seymore Duncan pick-ups,Texas Specials, ECT. and it is each to his own. I am 52 years old and this axe is a keeper. It is the only thing I leave the house with now days and it has a little veneer broke out of the back and the gold is a little tarnished, but what do expect for 23 years of playing. I has the gold package and it is a real looker whether they are musicians or not. IT IS SHOWIE.

I play all types of music. I use the bridge pick up for country and the neck pickup for blues, the middle used when I just want to be different. I used to use two twins running them sterio and a processor (RoLand). Now days I use a Fender 40 Watt Hot Rod straight out of the amp and a Ibanez compressor. No more trying to program those crazy processors. I think those processors take away from the true sound of the individual guitar, that is my personal opinion, after many years of playing.

This guitar is about 23 years old and I have no idea how it was set at the factoy. I generally do my own set up on my guitars. I have even built my own custom teles in the past. I have not touched this guitar. When I got it from England, I unpacked it and started playing it. The only flaw that is has is, about a 1" chunck out of the back of the finish. The only thing that I am not hot about is the factory (Vintage) tuners, they are the old vintage tuners and harder the change strings quickly, however, I am getting faster at it after years of not messing with these kind of tuners.

I am an X drummer from the 60s and I kinda play a guitar like I play the drums with tons of rythem, for a lead picker. I do use a wire insulator on the bottom E string to keep the string from breaking. On my other guitars, I use graphit bridges, except my 62 Reissue, it is standard and I have had no problems. I rarely ever take a backup guitar out, just strings. I have however, changed the strap buttons to quick release gold hardware.

Like the other guy said, I've never called Fender and they have never called me.
But after many years with fender, I have had no problem and all of my stuff has been rained on, thrown, flew, and their stuff holds together, through it all.

I have been playing for about thirty years, I am a multi-musician and have been playing professionally since I was 14 years old , but prefer the guitar totally now days. If this guitar was to dissapear, I KNOW I could find another like this one, this is a very rare custom built Tele.
In closing, if you can get your hands on one of these 80 RI Telecaster, it will be the best investment you have ever made and played. I realize I paid alot for mine, but you can get you an MIJ for about $500.00 to $600.00. If someone would have ever told me I would end up playing a Japenese guitar after this many years, I would have told them they were crazy, nuts, or stoned. This is not your ordinary JAP guitar.
Good Luck

Mine is a 1985 Japanese model with tradional sunburst finish which I think suits a Tele best- especially when they get a little 'beaten up'. Its the usual feature filled spec, you know, 1 volume, 1 tone and a 3 way switch! The maple neck is a vintage C shape with a rosewood fingerboard, again, I prefer Rosewood on a Tele as Ive found that maple necks can sound a little bit too bright for certain styles. The bridge saddles have been replaced with heavier chrome barrels which a better quality than the originals, and have now aged down nicely and more importantly, help with the intonation.The necks on these MIJ 80's Teles are the best you will find - unless you're looking for a really chunky one. Ive got 10's on but they feel like 9's.The tuners look and work great, the bridge is properly finished with no rough edges [unlike some USA Tele's Ive owned in the past]and the volume and tone controls work as they should - no suprises or disappointments. The Custom came with a stunningly good, heavy duty, snug fitting gig bag, and that has remained in tip top condition.

Well, like most us find, the stock pickups are its Achilles heel.Mine's fitted with SD 54 neck and Broadcaster bridge pickups. The 54 is perfect, but I might look for something a bit 'growlier' for the bridge.I play a variety of music, 60's pop, Steely Dan type rock [ Elliot and Skunk were my favourite guitarists], Blues - naturally - Eagles type, just about anything except heavy rock and metal.I was a confirmed Strat user, but someone put me on to these Japanese Customs and Im beginning to realise the guitars full potential. If you can manage without the 2 and 4 positions, the Tele has a better sound in the other 3 positions, paticularly the bridge and neck. The bridge is much raunchier than the Strat, while I get some really great Blues and Jazz sounds out of the neck pikup - youve just got to play around with the volume and tone controls.I admit that the overal comfort of the Strat is unbeatable, especially if over the years youve found that for no good reason, your waist has filled out a bit, but the balance of the Tele is second to none,so that helps even things out. I use a Traynor Bassmate tube amp(if you see one, get one)very very simple layout.Volume,tone, off and on with a great 15" speaker which I use with an old Tokai chorus pedal,an Ampeg analogue delay, and a tubesreamer. Using a combination of these pedals should allow you to get any 'proper' organic guitar tone you could wish for. There is nothing to dislike about this Tele, it does what its meant to do and does it well. Because of the stock pickups, Im giving it an 8, [change them, and it gets a 10]

Almost perfect - nothings perfect.I didnt get it new, so cannot comment on the factory set up. The finish is still good today, it might be a bit battered, but to me that looks great. The neck is perfect and the varnish, although applied very thinly, has stood the test of time, as have all the hardware, and also the frets.

Its 20 years old, Im 56, it'll be interesting to see who lasts longer! This guitar has been designed to last, its a Jeep not a Ferrari. Its simple, no fancy wiring, no extra switches, no architecturally designed bridge.The Tele is almost as old as me and people still buy them.I guess you could say its 'durable'. ALWAYS have a back up - strings break!!

Ive never phoned Fender, and funnily enough, they've never phoned me!
However, lets give them a 10 as they might be reading this and you never know if you're going to need them.

Ive been playing around 25 years,what have I owned? How long have you got?? Ive had several Jap Strats and Teles.The Tokai Silver Star is the best of the Japenese Strats by a mile.This is 1 mile ahead of of a JV or Breezysound, and 2 miles ahead of the rest. A few Les Pauls, but to me they have one sound and anyway, I really have never liked the sound of humbuckers, a single coil has brighter, snappier and more expessive sound than any humbucker Ive ever heard.A few 70's USA strats of varying weights and finishes, none of which topped my '89 Strat Plus [ forget most 70's Strats, they're heavy and have clubby awkward necks, therefore they dont balance well and are pigs to gig with, plus theyre overpriced - get a late '80's Plus for $600 and they wipe the floor with almost all of them]. A 62 Melody Maker, great for rock and blues, but otherwise a bit limited. A PRS, dont ask me why, theyre expensive and fall between 2 stools. A late 80's Schecter Strat - my favourite Strat, a Gibson 335 and an Ibanez AS 50, but although they looked great and looked fabulous,especially the Ibanez, the sound wasnt to my liking - humbuckers again! Throw in a couple of Gordon-Smiths[British LP Juniors]really good value,and a '59 Gretch 2 tone green Single Anniversary - always my dream to own ever since the early 60's, best action, best rock and roll guitar ever and a keeper. The 80's Custom is a great guitar, seriously. It does what a Tele should,looks like a Tele should, has the perfect weight[for me] Having played this Im now seeing what I'd previously not had with other Teles, so yes.I will keep it 'cause I know I'd someday regret selling her. If you want a Tele, I highly recommend one of these. You'll spend a couple of thousand $s on a 70's Tele which I doubt would even be as good as this 'copy'. You could go for Tom Anderson Teles which are also very good, but cost around $1700 2nd hand, and although they are really top quality, save yourself a $1000 towards really good amp and one of these and then try and tell the difference. It wont get stolen. I have a really protective, easily riled, giant size Yorkshire Terrier!

Crafted in Japan, all the normal features... it gets a 10 because if I wanted bells and whistles I wouldn't have gone for a telecaster.

I play all kinds of stuff, but predominantly mellow stuff like Radiohead, through a 15 watt solid state piece of crap (blasphemous, i know).. Neck pup has a lovely warm sound, great for clean leads, and the mid position has a good balanced tone that responds well to overdrive. The bridge pup has a slightly weaker sound, but it's still nice. The pups are both quite niosy, particularly when distorted, but it's no big problem. I give it an 8 becasue my set up doesn't really do it justice so i don't really know its full potential.

The factory action was a little high for my taste, but i had it lowered in the shop and now it plays perfectly. The only questionable feature is the nut, I string it with .010 - .046s which sit fine, but it looks as though anything bigger might not fit.

The finish is a beautiful sunburst with cream binding, cream scratchplate with black binding and large pearloid dot inlays. It has picked up a couple of small dings in the frw months i've owned it, but I have knocked it around a few times, so i can't really fault it.

This guitar is solid, I've never taken it to a stage but i've played with friends and it's never had any problems. In fact, I've owned it about six months and i've never broken a string, and only replaced the set once. It does occasionally fall of the strap when it gets twisted, but fortuantely i have good reflexes when it comes to expensive things, and it's nothing a strap lock won't fix.

The hardware is simple and seems solid, and the finish has resisted any wear so far. I would gig it withoug a backup.. but only because it's now my only guitar.

Never had to deal with them, but I've heard nothing but horror stories about Fender customer support, so fingers crossed it'll go the distance.

Overall, it's a great piece of kit for an intermediate player, if I was a pro I might consider changing the pickups to something a little less niosy. If it was stolen, I would hunt the bastard down and get it back!

1986 Jap '62 RI Tele Custom. Nicely finished, fantastic aged finish on the neck. Pups sound like caca, so i changed them. In fact, i changed out ALL the chrome parts for gold and the pickguard for a pearloid and this guitar is a STUNNER!!! There ain't a ton of features on a tele, but that is what i like about it!

It sounds really great, now. The stock pick ups, like i said, sound like cahcah, pick ups sounded like PU!!!haha. anyway, i put in a couple of Seymour Duncan Antiquity Tele pick ups and eeny meany, jap-aneasy, it sounds great! You can really dig into this guitar and she just gives it back in spades. The neck is really nice. I give it a 3 because it sounded like poopoo initially, and 10 now, so balance it out at 7

Real good.

Super Duper. I would use it without a back up, but why?

Never heard of 'em.

Been playing for about 15 years, own lots of gear, sell lots of gear, it is a never ending thing (cool). If lost or stolen, i would find another one and do the exact same thing to it! This is a beautiful guitar! Everybody stares at it! ITs a head turner!! Some people lift their nose at it when they see it is a Japanese reissue, but that's okay!

Mine is a early 80's Japanese reissue I picked up from our former bassist. Its the candy red double bound version with the rosewood fingerboard. He replaced the stock bridge pickup with a Seymour Duncan. Must be a close reproduction to 50's vintage because it sounds great! Mine has pretty hefty weight so it may have an ash or other dense wood for the body. Tele's are very basic but I like it.

I used this as my primary axe from 92 to 94 when I got my Ric 620. It served me well for intonation & versitility, as far as the Fender tone goes. I didn't particularly like the bridge setup so I tried changing it to individual saddles but the intonation was off so I swtched back. It can me a little brassy on the highs but biting as well.

Quite impressive. As good as any American instrument I,ve seen from that era. I only own 2 Japanese guitars & both are 25 years+ old. They made their mark then.

Good Fender tough gear. A couple dings but they were from big hits! Finish still shines & outside some minor oxidation on the hdwe its as was.

Just used them once. Seemed OK as far as my needs.

Still use this guitar a lot & it will remain with me. I had a Blackie Strat but I sold it to a band member. Nothing wrong with it but the Tele was me.

1986 MIJ, 21 fret, sunburst rosewood LEFTY RI '62 Tele. Standard configuration. PUPs were quite poor, as were the controls. I replaced them both. I changed the pups for Tom Anderson black tele pups with HUGE magnets!! Big tone. I also replaced the bridge for a six saddle, which i might change back to the original if i can find some good saddles that intonate properly. Love the neck on this guitar. It has aged to a nice honey patina. Good size neck, not too big not too small. I usually like a fatter neck, but this one is really good. The frets are small, but again, thats okay! The sunburst body is really nice too. Nice binding that has become kinda creamy looking. I changed the pickguard for a mother of pearl type, it looks really cool. Came with a crappy gig bag. Shame that these guitars came with gig bags, they deserve better, and i have purchased mine a tweed case! I give it a seven because of all the stuff i had to change, including the nut.

The sound is very good, now. Before it sounded like shit. I like the weight of this guitar. It is a very lively sounding tele. It is not noisy, any more. It was. I get a really snappy sound, clear as a bell and clean as a whistle.

Flawless, except for the crappy nut and controls.

Reliable and durable. It is almost twenty years old and doing great. You could gig without a back up, but why?

Customer support? Fender? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

I would say "10", but since i had to change so many things, it is not a fantastic value.

(std 62 reissue tele,3 saddle bridge, japan early 80's. 21 frets)
ie. minimal, simple but very effective

great flexable sound.classic,fresh and twangy when clean,punchy and suprisingly "big" when driven.i use a fender twin amp and play rhyth/lead in a band, the tele delivers in every aspect of our music from light,percussive rhythm and blues sections (clean/vintage channel of fender twin) to all out pulsating,fuzzy, velvet underground esq jams (driven channel of fender twin + fuzzface pedal)

i baught this guitar in 2000 second hand.it is scrappy and shows its age.but the important bits ie. machineheads,electronics,neck,hardware and action are spot on.

ive played it live without a problem.the finish of this guitar is tatty even for a 20 yr old guitar.but aesthetics dont realy matter when the actual guitar works this well.i do use an epiphone arch top as well but not as a back up.ie if i break a string on one i pick up the other.so far so good.

dunno

im eighteen and have been playing about 8 years.its a great guitar,its got that vintage quality even though it isn't realy (its 20 yrs old but it feels about 40) as the bloke who sold it to me said "it plays it's self"