Odd telecaster. I NEED HELP yall

[Wound_Up]

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allparts finished bound tele body. Pretty nice stuff really.

It's 30+ years old so I doubt it's that

 

[StratUp]

An aged Uncle's vintage "whatever" ? Cool, get it setup and start rock-n-rollin!

 

[FrieAsABird]

Lookin nice but I agree that it’s likely a mixture of different parts of different origin. Play it and post some more pics of the insides if you get to it

 

[MT Poteet]

Looks great!

 

[CAR63]

So Renegade , did you ever get this sorted out ? What bothers me is that the pickguard contour doesn't match the body well . Someone mentioned that the neck could be Korean, I have a Korean Tele from early 2000s , the headstock shape looks identical and mine is a 22 fret as well . Mine has different tuners though . The logo does look large , but it looks like the same " Fender" as is on my Stratacoustic from early 2000s . Still a great looking Tele though !

 

[stratman323]

Not a Fender.

 

[92 Fiesta Red 62]

That looks like a really cool and funky partscaster…nothing at all to look down your nose at.

If it plays/feels good and sounds good, rock that thang!

I’d certainly play it!

 

[Scott Baxendale]

I just picked up this telecaster bigsby from a relative, they have had it for over 30 years so I assume it’s real, but I can’t find a serial number, where it was made, or another one exactly like it. First thing that threw me off was no truss rod but I seen other bigsby that didn’t have them either, older ones from the 60-70s it seems. Any info would be awesome!!

It looks to be from the 80’s to me, or a partscaster.

The Grover Rotomatics dates it.