Ferndale, MI, United States
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*Here at Gordy's Music in Ferndale, Michigan, we are so proud and grateful to receive the REVERB TOP 300 SELLERS Certificate for the second year in a row! A real honor.We want to start by thanking all of you, our customers, my partner wife Marcia, top notch crew, and Reverb.com. We have quite a team and will strive to get this certificate year after year.*_________________________________________________________________________________________________ Here we have the specs and information on a first-year 1998 Fender Tele-Sonic with its original hardshell case. This specific serial number and potentiometer codes perfectly verify it as a highly collectible, early production run model from April 1998.Factory Authentication & Dating:Serial Number (N8349099): The "N8" prefix designates US production in 1998 (N = 1990s, 8 = 1998).Potentiometer Source Code (303): Identifies the component manufacturer used during this manufacturing era.Potentiometer Date Code (9817): Confirms the internal electronics were manufactured during the 17th week (late April) of 1998. Factory Specifications:The Tele-Sonic was a unique, short-lived departure from standard Telecasters, blending traditional Fender construction with Gibson and Gretsch-style attributes: Body: Honduran Mahogany featuring 11 internal tone chambers for weight relief and enhanced resonance.Neck: Bolt-on Maple with a comfortable Modern "C" profile and satin polyurethane finish.Fretboard: Rosewood, 9.5" radius, 22 medium jumbo frets.Scale Length: Shorter 24.75" scale (matching traditional Gibson lengths for a looser string feel).Pickups: Dual US-made DeArmond 2K single-coil pickups (yielding a thick, punchy, P-90 style chime).Controls: 2 Volume knobs, 2 Tone knobs, and a 3-way toggle switch arranged in a Les Paul layout.Bridge: Fender Tech-Tonic fully adjustable, low-profile 6-saddle locking wrap-around bridge/tailpiece.Case: Original black molded Fender hardshell case.____________________________________________________________________________________________________________Here we have a near mint early 1998 Fender Tele-Sonic in amazing condition.Cosmetically the guitar is very clean and would be mint except for some light pick scratching on the pickguard and some 'very' light guitar strap scratching on the very surface of the back of the body. Otherwise. Flawless.The frets are like new showing no signs of any playing wear. All set up with a seasoned rosewood fretboard and a set of Ernie Ball .10-.46 strings, the guitar plays nice and easy with perfect string height and chimes out real bright and loud even when not plugged in. Plugged in the guitar sound is very powerful with tons of tone from those screamin' DeArmond pickups. A truly unique and great Fender Telecaster.___________________________________________________________________________________________________A 28 year old guitar that has hardly been played comes with it's like new Fender hard molded case.Guitar weighs 8 lbs. 4 oz.Ships fast and insured.Shipping box Dimensions46"X20"X8"Shipping weight 24 lbs.Shop at our Reverb Store for a bunch of vintage and other products at:https://reverb.com/shop/gordys-musicIN BUSINESS for 40 YEARS!!50 YEARS of VINTAGE EXPERIENCE!MICHIGAN GUITAR SHOW PROMOTORS Since 1989!Brick and mortar to the end!__________________________________________________________________________________Visit our new secured still under construction website to see the long list of celebrity musicians and groups we have met and serviced in the past 40 years. NOTE: Too cool. Late last summer we shipped a 1967 MapleGlo Rickenbacker 6-12 Converter 'comb' guitar to Billy Corigan of Smashing Pumpkins! We also then shipped a vintage 50 watt Marshall head to L.A. studio-touring guitarist extraodinaire, Michael Landau, and 2 vintage guitars to Jack White's organization down in Nashville just a few days before his 50th. birthday! mmm? Add 'The Kentucky Head Hunters' to the list, just sold Greg a cool little 50's Valco tube combo amp!Gordy's Music has become a Detroit institution! Our shop was used as a filming location for a few films like "Miracle in Motor City" a Christmas movie on Lifetime (featuring Smoky Robinson). We've supplied gear for movies including "Bill & Ted Face The Music" with Keanu Reeves. We've got decades of celebrity customers, including recent visits from Beck, Eric Johnson, and we recently sold Billy Joel's bassist a cool Gibson SG he is in love with. One day a while back Andre 3000 and his group stopped in to browse as they were playing Masonic Temple that night and right after that we sold an old oil can Morley Wah Vibrato pedal to Credence Clearwater Revival's thee John Fogerty!We are having and have had a lot of fun here at Gordy's Music! I was just remembering about 35 years ago a tour bus pulled up to our little shop, and who rolls right in and hangs out for an hour? Lenny Kravitz and his entire group, right about the same time I was selling many guitars to and chauffeuring around Dee Dee Ramone who had an apartment a block down from my house.
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