Fender American Original 50s Telecaster
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Welcome to this in depth demo and review of the Fender American Original 50's Telecaster! This particular guitar was a 2020 Limited Edition done with the Mary Kay treatment, ash blonde with gold hardware. Featuring Fender Pure 52 Tele Pickups, an Ash body and a U shaped neck. What do you think? Using a Vick Audio Tree of Life for the overdriven tones.
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Great Video. Thank you. I have a 50s Original 2020 in butterscotch and Love it. It’s a Classic 🤘
I own one of these Teles and they came with CS '51 Nocaster pups, and the bodies are (yes, absolutely...) chambered; I love mine-wouldn't part with it!
I went through 3 telecasters until I bought a 60's Original 3 tone sunburst. Blew me away. Now I want this 50's Original like this one too. Amazing guitars that sparkle when played...
What an inspiring instrument. I mean it just cries out to be played. Beautiful. And, of course, your playing is impeccable. 👏
I have an American Original Esquire, and everything you say about the Tele applies to that guitar as well: thick, comfy 50s U-neck, 7.25" radius, nitro finish, superb pickup.
Nice - those look awesome, what finish?
The original 50’s Teles and Strats are amazing instruments. Those pickups sound amazing.
You can buy those from several private winders.
I have a 1988 American Standard Telecaster, still in pristine condition, except that the polyester finish has aged from a pale yellow to a richer yellow. The colour designation is actually Vintage White, from back when Fender had far fewer models and colours available. It has a rosewood fretboard.
I've always admired Steve Cropper and Jimmy Page's early Led Zeppelin work with that style of Telecaster.
It's the only Telecaster I've ever owned, although there are some others I wouldn't mind having.
But the one I have just sounds fantastic, and shreds if I need it to.
That tele sounds superb well played jack
Awesome looking guitar 🎸 😎 👌 😍 😀 😊. Those gold hardware look stunning. Great playing and review Jack.
I have two Teles: Brad Paisley Road Worn Signature Model. It's very light and great. Second is Fender Squier Thinline. Also light and with humbuckers. Great Tele.
Cripes, lookit all that there GOLD... Mama don't mess around!
...even the frets look gold.
That’s one gorgeous tele! Both sonically and visually
I own 13 electrics including five custom shops and my hands are always on the American original 50s. Unlike my other telecasters where I find myself more in the bridge position with this one I'm using all positions.
I've owned a few Telecasters. My Fender American Original '50s Telecaster is one of the best built I've owned. Maybe I just lucked out and got a super good one, but I did not have to do anything to make it playable. It was just great right out of the box.
I have one of these. Incredibly guitar. Very light and I believe it's chambered.
Definitly chambered! Always ~3kg. Another upgrade most youtubers and shops don't mention is that these come with CS '51 nocasters.
Great playing and guitar. You are absolutely right. 50s are more mid heavier. 60s are brighter. Both sound great. To me there is no PU favorite. 50s are more for blues 60s for R&B, soul and funk.
There are many PUs like fender vintage, Lindy Fralin, Lollar or Kloppman which sound great.
The point of preference to me is the neck. I like the 60s C. And of course you can put those high price PUs in a player series or vintera or a custom shop as well. It will upgrade your instrument definitely.
With that white and gold looks like a fender white falcon equivalent. :-)
Very tasteful playing. Awesome gift! Happy Birthday 🎂 🙏
Thank you very much!
Great guitars the gold looks superb, got the 50's Vintera...rolling the tone off gives a lot of useable sounds ...as always great playing Jack
Mrs Fossett strikes again with another great prezzie. Sounds great Jack.
Thanks again!
Those pickups sounds amazing! That's the Tele sound of my dreams - the bridge has the right amount of growl with drive and the neck pickup sounds warm and clear with no mud through a clean amp. And that Mary Kaye Tele is a work of art. I have a set of Fralin Stock Tele pickups (with a 2% overwound bridge) that sound very similar and are amazing in their own right....but they cost about twice as much as the Fender Pure Vintage 52's. I think I might have been just as happy with these Fender pickups.
This LTD version actually has CS 51 nocaster pick ups in it. Only the regular AO50s comes with the PV52's. I liked both, but must agree the CS 51's are a slight upgrade still.
@@vyvynylificationRob di Stefano of Cavalier Pickups winds the “Nocaster Holy Grail” bridge which is the overwound version of the OG from Leo’s era that everyone loves. I have it in one of my Teles and it’s amazing.
$75 shipped
I have an American Original 60's Tele in Burgundy Mist and its fantastic, best Tele I have ever owned or played.
I need one of those Burgundy mist ones. They're too attractive to pass up.
I have one in BMM too. I used to own the AO50s but sold it and got this LTD 50s tele about a week ago. The 50s sound alot fatter but the 60s just sings with more sparkle. Love them both for different reasons.
That’s a beautiful sounding tele - great playing. I have a MIJ 50s with aftermarket gold foil and suprocaster pickups. Love it!
Very nice! Gold foil pickups are ones I actually have pretty limited experience with
@@JackFossett it’s just a normal tele neck size one from Gemini pickups. Teisco style, very chimey and a bit Stratocaster sounding maybe? I’m a big fan of the normal tele neck, the lipstick one, but when I got a Jazzmaster I wanted something different that would make the tele unique.
Love me a 50's Tele, Congrats your wife is a "doll" you are blessed.
8:45 you gotta teach us those Tele licks!
Ain’t it the truth
The sound of this guitar reminds me more of Fender’s MIJ Daybreak Strat in white on white with matching headstock and gold hardware. I believe 2017 or 2018? The pickups on that one are awesome! I don’t understand the criticism of those pickups. They are superior to many other Fender-branded Strat pickups, in my opinion. I’m going to check your videos now to see if you’ve demoed that one, too! I really wish I could just buy the two original ‘50s and the daybreak Strat!
I have a 2020 Vintera 50s Road Worn, which plays like a dream. However, I also have 2021 American Original on the way as I write this. Can’t wait!
I was lucky enough to own an original 1954 tele and out of a shootout with all the Fender editions incl the very expensive custom shop relics this one came closest to it! Fantastic combo between pickups and chambered ash body!
Gorgeous in looks and Sound 👍🔥🎸🦅
Yeah sounds beautiful, man! Gorgeous guitar. The gold hardware just definitely puts it over the top. Nothin' beats a 50's era too, whether it's a Tele or a Strat, in my humble opinion.
Especially an original, if you can get your hands on one! Lol
Great video! 👏
That tele is whole package. Looks and tone.
I have an 87 MIJ Squier tele. (I think it may be a 52 reissue) It has Joe Barden pickups. This is my guitar that I judge all other guitars too. It’s a guitar the choose me. Blessings bro
Stunning dude. Love it.
Jack your giving me severe G.A.S. Please don’t change. Beautiful axe
Jack happy belated birthday and very sweet sweet rig and playing - thanks for this
Thank you kindly!
I have the 50's original Tele and Strat. Did heaps of research before I bought them. Better than any others I have heard including vintage and custom shop.
Thanks to Mrs. Jack.
He needs a Dumble. He really, really needs one. Honest, Mrs. Fossett, it's essential to his well-being and will make for a happy home.
I’ll add it to the grocery list 😉
@@shannonfossett8147
LOL!
Btw I'm out of milk and coffee...
#LazyGuitarist
You forgot to mention which amp (I think) (?)
Love what you plunked on the back pup clean (!)
Oh yes, the Franklyn 5e3 going into a 2x10 cab
@@JackFossett ...and I'll bet that sounds perfect
Very beautiful instrument,looks a treat. I landed a 2018 Mexico 1950,s Tele in nitrocellulose finish. It too has 50,s spec pickups by fender made for this model, bit more bite , bit more tone as they were back when.
That is a beautiful guitar...sadly I do not have a Telecaster....My wife is working in for me now....
Bought one a couple weeks ago. I'm used to fat necks from one of my teenage guitars, and that was one of the things that decided me for the Original 50s over a 52 reissue that I also could've bought. Sounds fantastic through a well-dialed Blues Deluxe, at high or low volume.
9 months in and I'm very happy with this guitar. Jack & these commenters are right, the neck pickup sounds beefy and woody when raised to the right height, and the bridge is powerful and balanced, with excellent sustain when I add a little fuzz. The body isn't as resonant as I'd like, but I bought it brand new, and finished wood will probably take years to dry out. And the build quality is magic: literally stays in tune for weeks, still doesn't need to be set up, and I want to play it more than any other guitar in my small collection.
(Side note: I knew next to nothing about the Telecaster when I went looking for one, and I dislike its conventional thin & bright sounds, the indie-rock "krang" and the country "quack." I could've very easily bought one and come to dislike it, but the AO50's was an answer to a prayer.)
What a wonderful sound, airy and glassy yet fat, articulate and woody, very organic... one of the very best I’ve heard from a Tele on YT! Jack, by any chance, did you get to play the 2021 Japan Standard Tele? It has the same ash blonde finish (except for the gold hardware) which I love, 50’s vintage pickups, chunky neck and was wondering if it could be close to this one given the specs... thank you!
I haven’t! That sounds like a great guitar though. I actually have very little experience with MIJ Fenders but I’ve heard great things generally
@@JackFossett I will try it next week, curious to see!
I have both the 50s American original tele and the 50s Limited Edition American original tele. Both are crazy good. The Limited Edition definitely gets heavier and more LP-like when pushed.
Quick note: Mary Kaye finish (chambered) has Custom Shop 51 Nocaster Pickups. The American Original butterscotch finish (solid body) has 52 Pure Vintage pickups.
Wow, what a gleaming beauty. Shame birthdays only come around once a year, huh? I was going to say he really knows how to pick 'em, but nooo...his _wife_ really knows how to pick 'em. As for the tone, the clean tones impart an almost acoustic guitar vibe - and that's good. Just gorgeous what I'm hearing.
Gosh this may be THE Tele I've been searching for
2020 limited edition tho
Hey! Vick Audio TOL, I was using one earlier today. Got the Vick Audio "Trinity" on my board atm. Tree of Life, Mount Pleasant, and the V-2.
This IS the Tele you’ve been looking for.
@@JackFossett
This is the Tele I've been looking for.
Move along
#JediJack
The force is strong with this one…
@@JackFossett
I'm a little short for a Stormtrooper
@@mattgilbert7347 hopefully you have better aim though!
I have a US made 70th anniversary Broadcaster. It was 1/2 the price of the custom shop version but comes with the same pickups and pick guard and of course the Broadcaster logo. The neck feels great, 7.25 radius thick U shape and plain maple fretboard. This thing has a FAT sound. It’s wired like a modern Tele, but comes with a kit if you want to re wire to original specs.
Oh nice! Man I wanted one of those 😂
@@JackFossett I tried one of the all Rosewood Telecasters, it looked great but had a thinner 60s neck, and the custom shop price I thought was a bit much. The Broadcaster was the last one in stock and they let me have it for a great price, about 1/3 of the price of a custom shop version. I did go custom shop on my Strat and my 57 2 pickup LP Custom, but the US made Fender and Gibson are also great guitars. Even Fenders MIM guitars are good, but I gotta tell ya I’m not a fan of the aged look, I’ll do that myself.
Jack, have you measured the pickup output? Would love to know. I have a classic 50's tele, looks identical except no Mary Kay treatment. MIM, pickups were 7.35k/9.00k. I changed those out with some fender custom shops I scouted for on the net. Those are 6.11k/6.71k. Changed to black pickguard... Love it. Thick neck is nice. Also on the wall next to that is my '18 American original 60's strat. Fender did a great job on the American original series. Leaving that one stock :). Thanks for vids. Play that super more!!
Hello Jack. I have this guitar. Just a small correction If you allow me. This guitar has the Custom Shop '51 Nocaster® Single-Coil pickups (Neck & Bridge) and not the Pure Vintage ‘52 single-coil pickups as the regular american original 50s tele. That's why it plays much better apart from the chambered ash body as well. Best regards!!!!
That is one of the woodiest sounding guitars I’ve ever heard (that’s a good thing). Not sure how much that has to do with the amp. Does the neck pickup have that rare magical quality that your blue Tele has?
It does! It “breaths” like it
That's a beautiful tele
Jack, a representative from Fender told that they are moving from decade-specific originals to year-specific originals. The 50s versions are becoming hard to get. What is your take on this? I am very interested in this 50s tele, should I try to get one or wait to see what they come up with?
That guitar is too pretty...
Need to scuff it up some me thinks 🤣😎👍
Nope...Personally have Leo's other one...G&L ASAT Classic Semi-Hollow Bluesboy Blonde /Rosewood 😎👍
Rings out forever😎👍
Tree of Life is a favorite 😎❤
😎👍❤🖖
Love brother
BTW I just put a "Wide Range" type pup w/ threaded alnico rods into my DC Junior
(in the back) and it is such an improvement (for me anyway) over the Gibson P-90...
When are you gonna get a '72 Tele Custom? (HA HA) cheers
Nice! Bet that sounds awesome
You can have all this goodness in a new Squier CV 50 with some swapping out of components. 50’s Tele pups are available from guys like Rob Di Stefano for $150 a set and are constructed to the exact specs and materials Leo used. The vintage tuners that are already on these Squiers are hit or miss, but if you need to replace them with the OG’s it’s no biggie. Same with the pots.
Basically, you can have a legit 50’s Tele for well under $1000 complete and it’ll play and sound great.
I did all this on my Limited Edition Copperburst Mexican Tele except I left the regular tuners on it.
Then again, your Squier won’t say “Fender” on the headstock. 😂
Very nice. Is the weight of this old style Telecaster the same as a modern one?
ALOT lighter! This specific limited edition is chambered. It does not reach 3kg
the originl 50 is an exceptional guitar, although I prefer the 60's neck
Not sure that I prefer one neck over the other -- both feel good to me. The 60s Original Tele neck is pretty big too.
@@JackFossett it is, but not as much. I generally gravitate towards bigger necks - especially on LPs - but the 50's U does not feel right in my hands. The pickups of the 50's tele however are amazing, as you just demonstrated. They have a unique mid range quality which is really PAF-like, if that is a word.
I picture a '57 Tele straight into a 5E3 type amp...
...and tho' I've neither, I still imagine it Thus.
I have this exact guitar
Jack- you forgot a massive spec detail
These are chambered bodies ( I shit you not) great guitar
Does the American Original 50s Telecaster have a chambered body? It sure weighs as much as a solid body, lol, and I haven't heard any other reviewers or owners mention that it's chambered
@@andrewpearson1903 : NO - this limited edition does, but not the normal AO’ 50s
I’ve took the tone plate off it’s constructed more like a solid centre, semi hollow, it’s definitely not fully solid body
@@bobbillnolan7644 So the Mary Kay edition that Jack plays here is chambered, but the normal AO 50's is fully solid
@@andrewpearson1903 yes
@@bobbillnolan7644 Thank you. I might check this one out at some point. I'm happy with my butterscotch one, but if the chance comes up...
Jack I know this is more of a matter of opinion but, if you had to pick the Original 50s or the Originals 60s telecaster for a more all genre guitar, which would you pick? I love the sound of the 50s but that lake placid blue is just incredible
I think still the 50s - for all purpose, the 50s pickups sound a little fatter and have more attack, which makes them better for heavier genres. You can make the 50s Tele sound alot like a vintage Les Paul if you push some mids and gain and notch the tone slightly. The 60s has beautiful tone but it’s a little more slender.
@@JackFossett thanks for the feedback!! Love the videos!
Epic tone! What was the amp used?
The blue Gretsch? It doesn't look like a g5420. Not as deep, and those pickups don't look like blacktops. Is it a 5420?
It’s a 5420t with upgraded pickups. Done plenty of videos on it if you’re interested
@@JackFossett ...yours doesn't look as deep as other 5420's I've seen. Also, I'm not usually drawn to Fenders, but yours is beautiful!
@@mickeyjohnson1137 it is, it’s a regular 5420.
Can you comment a bit on how this and your 60s tele differ ? Any preference on the necks? Thanks
I'm not him but I own the 60s, used to own the 50s and now own this LTD 50s instead of the regular 50s. The 50s sounded fatter, for sure. But the 60s has more sparkle, it seems to sing a bit more. As for the AO50s versus LTD AO50s: The ltd comes with the CS 51 nocaster pick ups, which are a slight upgrade compared to the regular PV52's. the body is also chambered. It still retains that 50s fatness but adds more complex tones, sounds woodier en more airy. Stunning combination really
The one you get old with
Nice but I'm fixated on the butterscotch blonde/black pickguard model. ;-)
Thats the classic!
Mate, I just picked one up the other week! It’s soo nice and sounds immense, although I’m struggling with the lacquered neck after playing a relic custom shop strat for a while
Sounds good. Great playing.
Neck too glossy.
Thank you kindly!
This tele sounds heavier, fatter,
boomier and crunchier than its Strat counterpart. This is after having listened to many demos of both instruments to account for any differences in EQ, knob positioning, etc
get yourself a vintera which is closer to vintage specs aside for the poly finish. save yourself 1k because all your paying for with the American model is "made in corona" on the headstock know why it doesnt say made in the USA ? because not enough of the guitar is !
What a beautiful guitar