GEORGE FULLERTON'S PERSONAL 1951 TELECASTER & LEO FENDER'S BENCH AMP
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ส.ค. 2024
- These are the things that give us chills, and rightfully so. Today we have a 1951 Fender Telecaster to share with you all... yes, 1951. This one was previously owned by George Fullerton, and even has his signature on the back of the guitar! Each piece inside has been signed off by the man himself, and it is in immaculate and completely original condition. One for the history books, really! Since we had such an amazing piece of Fender history available to put on video, we called up our dear friend Chris Jansen who graciously made the 3hr journey to the shop to bring down his grandpa's old 1946 Model 26 "Woody" (that we previously featured on this channel - go check out that video!), that lived on Leo Fender's workbench for many years prior to Chris's grandpa taking ownership - for a pairing that may very well be the coolest setup that we will ever have within our walls. This is purely for your enjoyment, as the guitar is already spoken for and you'd have to pry the Woody amp out of Chris's cold dead hands - but we got our extremely talented friend Skyler Mehal to plug these babies in and give ya'll a taste of what it sounds like!
Check out the incredible story of the 1946 Model 26 "Woody" amp: • Leo Fender's personal ...
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Doesn't that smile at the end just say it all? He's one lucky chap and he knows it.
I loved that. He played great
this is as good as it get's. they should be together forever
they really deserve to be together on display at the rock and roll of fame . maybe together both owners could make this happen. this is a once in a life time event
Do you think the builders in ‘51 ever think about the impact they would leave on the world with their instruments? Amazing ❤️
Doubtful. All in a day's work back then.
Nope. Those dudes were just factory workers. It's a cutting board with a neck bolted to it, and they had no idea the magic they created.
one of the best videos Emerald has ever posted,what a fantastic combo 51 tele and a 1946 woody amp.there’s no better
I bet a guy named Joe’ is gonna be the next lucky owner.
Derp...
if he isnt the first... guy seems like hes got a network of spies just working to notify him of guitars.
🙈🙈🙈👍🏻👍🏻 I bet 👍🏻👍🏻
Annoying.
This is a priceless guitar. It still has the brilliant blend knob instead of the silly tone knob added in June 1952. They don't come any better than this.
That is an astonishing Telecaster. That tone can not be bested. Fender has always been king, for me.
Man, that Tele and Travis pickin' is conjuring up some memories of jams with my cousin. RIP Erv.
What a great player! Amazing to see these pieces of music history together, and so special to have a video like this documenting it.
Wow... I feel thats a super historic moment .. kind like in movies... Those two should definitely go together
Sick playing
My god...thank you so much for this candy guys ♥️🤟
I wish I still had my '51 Esquire. I bought for $100.00.
That is why you never sell a guitar, just buy more and more.
The difficult part is to tell that to the wife. =P
@@rogeriocosta1035 So true, man!
. . . . . And the Guitar Gods made Love 🎸
crying, so beautiful
Kudos to the gentleman playing, time appropriate. Heaven!
Lived nearby the city of Fullerton my whole life... what a legacy.
This is the sond of the electric guitar. That's exciting to hear.
This is why I love TH-cam!! What an incredible piece of music history
That must be the one most beautiful and best sounding Tele I’ve seen demoed. Perfect playing to demo the tones of this beautiful guitar.
Oh my.! great playing sounds great.!
WoW!
Amazing guys! Cheers.
Wow, what a cool combination. What history! Sounds crazy awesome, too. Amazing.
Phenomenal playing. The only sad thing about this is that we'll never see this guitar again
This is crazy cool. It gave me chills and I'm just a viewer. You guys will remember this for the rest of your lives. Congrats to the new owner and their lucky friends and family.
A miracle to see and hear a completely original "Woody" amp sounding at all. We might be the few last generations to experience this. Those caps are a-hurtin'!!!😅
Skyler! You are THE man to demo that combo. Bravo, sir.
Fantastic guys! Huge Fender fan... I love seeing the originals being played and absolutely loved the tones! I WANT!!!
So rad!!! What a great peice of history
This video cannot be beat... best one ever. Thanks Emerald City Guitars!
So many emotions run through these pieces of art. Thanks for sharing. My heart rate will come down eventually.
Dooode !! Sooo clean ! I love Teles 👏🏼
What great and appropriate playing on this rig.
this is cooler than the other side of the pillow
Thank you! I'm dreaming
Stunning....
Unbelievable, thanks for these videos
Touching video.
DROOL worthy gear and tone! WOW!!!
Fantastic video. Thanks for doing this.
The Fender ARK !
Very, very, very cool.
I love you guys!
Wow! Awesome playing, incredible gear!
What's the song starting at 7'45"? It's awesome! Wish you guys would do a tutorial for it ;)
I hope that customer got a good deal for being so cool.
Dont get better than this
Beautiful playing. Great combo with gear
This is the guy to get for the fender demos!
great playing, great guitar, great shop... love it!!
That little amp doesn't like being pushed too hard. I really appreciate your detail to history, keep it up.
I kinda wish they'd pushed it harder, but that was astounding
Wow, this is amazing....great job
Nice shirt.
I’m gasping for that Telecaster. That amp is the biz, as well. I have to keep editing because jeez, that may be the best amplifier I’ve ever heard.
THAT TONE
Beautiful guitar 😘
Awesome! That was a good one.
Should be in the Fender museum or Rock n Roll Hall of Fame! Excellent find. I imagine that it hasn't been played in almost 70 years, which is kinda too bad...
This is the tone every pedal wants to generate
Do the people you get to play these once in a lifetime guitar's know how lucky they are ?
Did you see Skyler’s smile at the end? Pretty sure he knows hahaha
@@screamingstrings76 yeah I think your right !
This video should be a Christmas one ;)
Soo bonamassa will eventually own every fender made product ever made. Jeeze Joe save some for the rest of us.
He tried to buy mine...lol for real.
I used to think the butterscotch colour on my Classic Vibe Tele was not accurate because it doesn't have the orangey hue that so many butterscotches have, but it is actually the exact same colour as that Tele in the video, so now I feel vindicated, haha
Emerald has some of the best guitar players in the biz making demo’s
Primarily a Gibson player . A guitar like that could change anyone's mind. Chunky complex rich tone and no effects pedals yow ! A true artifact lucky person who adopted it
Imagine have this guitar, and cleaning it Up and wipe out that Signature, that's what I call a bad day 😬
yeah that‘s it. I quit the internet. Thanks
I cant handle so many overtones, nieder all the digital industry ourdays. Thats why i allways look for blackguard, to remind them, its all about feel and tone.
Qué bien toca Zac Efron la guitarra
I'd double check the provenance. George did put his signature to a G & L guitar in his later years, so that signature is publicly known. Even if that guitar IS a 1951 model, if it's proven to be George's personal property that bumps it's value up significantly.
It's shown with his signature in his 2005 book "Guitars From George and Leo." Granted, 2005 isn't 1951, but still.
I would like to know in which book this guitar has been described, I haven't seen it in any Fender book I own. What I know is that this guitar has shown up more often. It has serial no. 0900 on the bridge plate. The neck pocket shows a cross and the neck shows the name Leo written on the underside. It has no diagonal rout under the pickguard. All slot head screws, even the truss rod. As far as I know this guitar was made for Leo himself, later bequathed to George Fullerton. Probably the first Tele that came to be.
Lol it sounds so good
My feeling is that these pieces should have never left the related families ...
What a fantastic video and story. My only question is who bought the telecaster...Joe Bonamassa, Rick Nielsen or Jim Irsay???
qigung
Could have been John 5. He owns at least one from every year of Telecaster production.
Could be headed to Chattanooga to Songbirds. They have a broadcaster prototype from 1949.
Wonder what the Tele sold for?
Joe Bon tried to buy my 1973 Tele. I wonder if he let this one get by him too.
Fullerton sighed G&L guitars around 95 I guess he signed this for some one at NAMM
I've seen some of the Fullerton signature G&Ls and the signatures look picture-perfect to each other, even the exact placement on the upper horn, so I'll bet the signature was somehow part of the manufacturing and/or finishing process. However, I'm only referring to the sig models.
Which book are referring to? I have several great ones on Fender, I would like to read the one you mentioned if I have not already. Thanks
The guitar is pictured, with signature, in at least one book, "Guitars from George and Leo" authored by Fullerton and published in 2005. I don't know if there's anything written about the guitar in the book, but it is pictured.
Hi, anyone knows the strings gauge of this awsome fullerton tele? ✌️
Whats the first song he plays?
Steel saddles? Or just very discolored brass ones.
🤤🤤🤤
Tell you what would set this combo off...
... throw a BOSS Metal Zone into the mix
Boom! 💥
Jesus Loves You
Some odd things:
a) Usually, on walls of offices only hang instruments gone wrong... and not the perfect, fully functional ones ( th-cam.com/video/sfu9Q2FguaY/w-d-xo.html ).
b) If it was hanging on a wall, why does the bridge pickup have some notches on it? ( th-cam.com/video/sfu9Q2FguaY/w-d-xo.html ).
c) If the first Broadcasters, Nocasters and Telecasters are well known for being "meaty", why is this one so light? ( th-cam.com/video/sfu9Q2FguaY/w-d-xo.html )
But if a book says it is original, hey, we're not going to argue...
Perhaps, but the video showed it being played, showed what it looks like and the host talked about how it felt. Sure seems "Fully functional" to me. As for the weight, please keep in mind that the host said "SOME of them were known for having a little more meat on them." The coffee table-sized Blackguard book, by Nacho Banos, I think is the absolute definitive source of blackguard information. He shows dozens of them in a crazy amount of detail and offers comments about weight, which seem to run from surprisingly heavy to featherweight.
George Fullerton had pretty much zero input on the design of the Broadcaster / Esquire / Telecaster. It was virtually all Leo. Fullerton was a shop foreman. The production methods that allowed Fender to standardize and increase both quality and production were pretty much all Forrest White.
True, although Forrest's efforts came at least four years after the Broadcaster was launched. I remember reading Forrest's book from 1994 in which he expressed a lot of indignation that he seemed to be getting short-shrifted in the history of Fender guitars. It opened my eyes, because I had read a few interviews with George and Leo in which George kind of seemed like Peter to Jesus. However, the publication of some very important and independent historical books (like the ones by Richard Smith) definitely seem to support the importance of Forrest's role in the Fender success over George's.
Joe B buy it?
Dakota M. He tried to buy my 1973.
That doesn’t look like a signature on the back. It looks like a stamp
he did a whole lot of signing for his G&L Brand in the 90's it been lifted off them
A mi,me parece"LA" guitarra la Telecaster,tengo 3 y me cuesta decidir con cual de ellas llevo a mi show....
If those things get sold in 30 seconds, maybe they sell them to cheap
@2.07 the string bushings are out of line! what they had no drilling jig and where all done by hand?? was it built by Ben Crow Crimson guitars
Common, they were done by hand
@@justingarcia7722 Exactly. I remember seeing a Broadcaster at one of the earliest vintage shops, Axe-in-Hand in DeKalb, Illinois in around 1979. The ferrules on the back were not perfectly lined up. I thought "What the...?"" but then I learned so much was hand-done.
i'd love to hear Keef bang one out on this!
A homage not an homage
looks like kept in a closet by a collector. Not of any interest -collector can buy it like an old corvette. Not what music is about-IMO
Thank fender that my champion 600 sounds better than this with my telecaster custom double bound burst.
I dont doubt the guitar is original..but the signature?? No one except English teachers have that neat cursive writing...
Of course I cannot say that Fullerton actually applied his signature to this exact guitar way back when, but it certainly looks like his penmanship based on his signature G&L model from the late 1990s. Easily Google-able.
Anthony C totally different thing if you are talking about real provenance. If it isn’t his actual signature it doesn’t matter how closely it approximates the real thing. If you were fortunate enough to purchase a real Renoir painting, or if your job was to purchase one for a museum I can guarantee you would not accept your own answer. Close enough isn’t good enough in this case. It is, or it isn’t
@@shallyshal1 I'm not talking about real provenance, and readily acknowledged in my first comment that I could not attest to it being original to the guitar from back in the day. You questioned whether that could be his signature "because no one but English teachers have that neat cursive writing." First of all, there were and are plenty of people with neat cursive writing and I simply said that a very similar signature appeared on guitars in the late 1990s, so it is very likely that's what George Fullerton's actual handwriting looked like. Nothing more.
I guarantee you whoever paid a super premium price for this piece expects it to be ‘as advertised’. I know I would. When one is talking about ‘the very first Telecaster’ every thing and every detail must be as advertised. If it was advertised as having George Fullerton’s signature, it needs to be HIS and not a stamp or other form of reproduction
Far different if this is number 5 or 50. As the price commanded would be far different
Don’t mix apples and oranges here. This was described as Number 1. It has a different standard
@@shallyshal1 YOU are mixing apples and oranges! I ONLY responded to your claim that only English teachers have such neat handwriting. I don't know when that signature was applied to that Tele. 1951? March of 1963? I can't tell. You're right that it needs to be verified...but my only point is that George Fullerton, despite not being an English teacher, has very neat penmanship as witnessed by another example of it. Good day, sir!