62 Telecaster Custom Reissue

[Rosita Westhouse]

Duringthe 50s and 60s Fenders only in-house mixed colors where Sunburst, Blonde, and Candy Apple Red. The Custom Telecaster was available in Sunburst. For an additional 5% cost, Fender offered the following custom colors: Black, Blue Ice metallic, Burgundy Mist Metallic, Candy Apple Red, Charcoal Frost Metallic, Dakota Red, Daphne Blue, Fiesta Red, Firemist Gold metallic, Firemist Silver metallic, Foam Green, Inca Silver metallic, Lake Placid Blue metallic, Ocean Turquoise Metallic, Olympic White, Shell Pink, Sherwood Green metallic, Shoreline Gold metallic, Sonic Blue, Surf Green, and Teal Green metallic.

In 2010 the 69 Telecaster Thinline, the 72 Telecaster Custom, and the 72 Telecaster Thinline were added to the AVRI series. In contrast to the AVRI 52 Tele that came with a Certificate Of Authenticity (COA) until mid-2005 the other AVRI Fenders did not.

Hi Rick,

You are absolutely right. The mistake has crept in while the format of this post was copied from the 52 Telecaster Reissues post.

Fender serial numbers are supposed to be on the neck plate since 1954 and the same goes for the reissues.

Thank you very much for pointing out the mistake!

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so, is it better to get the '72 Deluxe (12" radius fretboard) and replace the neck with a 7.25" neck? or get the '72 tele custom (already equipped as such), and replace the bridge p/u, which is a little thin and glassy for rocking out?

Personally, the traditional Tele Bridge PU is my favorite feature of any Tele. A pickup that can be both twangy and have a fat, gnarlly blues tone with the tone rolled back. Hundreds of hmusicians have had no problem rocking out on Tele bridge PU's (just check out any Clash album, or, the cliche referal of Led Zep I).

If you really want the double HB pickups, go with the Deluxe and you will adapt very fast to the 12" radius. It would seem a major waste of cash to buy one and have to replace the neck (which can run you anywhere from $175 to $300), or buy the Custom and have to rout out for a different pickup. And, if you want the traditional Fender-style "wide-rnage" humbucker (which are larger than Gibson), you would be looking at drilling out for a new vitnage Strat hardtial bridge and spending $30+ on a new pickguard. Now, if you want a Gibson-style HB in the bridge, you can get a Tele-style bridge that will work with the current pickguard (but still may need new holes drilled (modern Tele bridges mount differently than the vintage style).

I had a 72 Tele Custom reissue. I didn't like the stock bridge pickup which was thin and harsh sounding for my taste. So I dropped in a Seymour Duncan Little 59, which is a stacked mini-humbucker in a single coil size. That made a world of difference in tone and matched the higher output of the neck humbucker much better. So if you find that you like the feel of the Custom better than the Deluxe, you can always change the bridge pickup.

I also have the custom RI and hated the bridge pickup. I love the guitar but it needed a few alterations. I slapped a muy grande bridge PUP in (It now completes with the HB really well) and had to sheild it . The next thing I need to do is slap in a better PUP selector. It's a great guitar, but definitly needs some personal flavour.

I'd give it to the Deluxe personally. I like it original take on the classic Tele tone. Also, the 72 custom I had didn't really do it for me, the three saddle bridge always made the thing sound as if it was half out of tune.

I've got a 72 Custom I'm in the process of modding. So far its got a SD Jerry Donahue in the bridge and Wilkinson compensated saddles that give you that 3-saddle twang while being able to intonate each string.

The SD Donahue is fantastic, but sadly its out of phase with the neck pickup. With the stock pickup, it got a really wide range of tones in the middle that are gone with the Donahue. I'd really like to find a pickup that combines the good qualities of the Donahue and the stock pickup.

As a general note to anyone, they key to mixing SD and Fender is knowing they often have reverse ideas about which coil is RWRP. But when mixing a single coil and HB, you want the single coil to be RWRP compared to the inner coil of the HB's, that way it will cancel more hum when mixing the two.

i got a 72 RI Custom that i put locking schallers on and put a seymour hot rails in the bridge, i love this guitar. i love it. i don't have my pickups coil tapped, because if i did no other guitar would get played. it is hard justifying keeping my prs cu22 when i play my tele 70% of the time. the hot rails can get mushy with heavy gain, but through a semi broken amp and fuzz pedal of your choice, it is perfect.

I think the tone of the Deluxe is "okay" just not stellar. I bought it off this forum from "weatherboy" and he obviously had a similar feeling about it, so he parted with it. But he does keep the number of his guitars down. But I do think the playability of the Deluxe is superb.

i found the deluxe "wide range" HB's to sound like a freight train. bassy and rumbly, powerful in their way, perhaps not as all-round performers as fender would have one to believe. that's played clean. the distorted sound was sweet. i really could play heavy metal, capital h, with it.

The JD was thin, weak and noisy with the leads reversed. I did reverse the leads on the neck pickup and that helped, but the middle postition still doesn't sound as good as either pickup by itself. With the stock pickup, there was a lot of interesting sounds I could get by blending the volume and tone controls, but with the JD, the range is rather limited.

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