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A 2025 Fender Japan Limited Edition Telecaster in Black Paisley is already doing considerably more work visually than most black guitars. The transparent 1-ply guard lets the paisley do its thing underneath, so depending on the light it goes from “very cool Telecaster” to “hang on, that’s actually quite ridiculous” in about half a second.

It’s a proper vintage-style recipe too: alder body, maple cap neck, 7.25" radius, 21 vintage frets and the familiar Pat Pend bridge. Fender clearly decided there was no need to reinvent anything here. Just make the good Tele shape, make it look fantastic and move on.

The neck is a very comfortable C-shape maple cap, finished in clear gloss and measuring 22.1 mm at the first fret and 23.5 mm at the 12th. The 42.3 mm nut gives it that slightly more substantial vintage feel without wandering into baseball-bat territory. Fresh vintage frets mean there’s absolutely nothing to worry about there, while the original F-style vintage slotted tuners keep the headstock looking properly old-school. It weighs a very sensible 3.4 kg, so you can wear it for a three-hour set without discovering that your left shoulder has filed for divorce.

The body has vintage-correct SS routing and the classic Fender bridge with steel saddles, so mechanically it’s all reassuringly straightforward. No locking systems, roller bridges, 47-way switching or NASA engineering. Just a Telecaster doing Telecaster things.

And then there are the pickups. Original vintage-style single coils, wired through proper USA-spec CTS A250K pots, an Orange Drop capacitor, Oak USA 3-way switch and Switchcraft jack. So you've got the familiar Tele vocabulary: bridge pickup for making the amp sound considerably more annoyed, neck pickup for pretending you’re a jazz player, and both together for the bit where you realise this is probably why you bought a Tele in the first place.

Condition is basically mint, with only a few tiny superficial marks on the body. Just a nearly new Japanese Limited Edition Telecaster looking spectacular and waiting for someone to actually give it a few scratches.

Vintage recipe, modern build quality, excellent weight and absolutely no unnecessary nonsense. Basically, Fender Japan made the Tele equivalent of a leather jacket, gave it a Paisley pattern, and made it look very suave. Can you handle this amount of style?

This instrument received a full professional setup with deep body clean, neck deep clean and full electronics check. Restringed with D'addario 10-46 nickel-plated steel strings.

Please note that although we put our heart and soul and also all our knowledge into every single guitar we sell, a setup is a personal preference. However, we try to get the best playability out of every guitar and set them up so you can play both rhythm and lead. We also pull them all apart to clean and check every single component and replace all unreliable parts with new ones, from dodgy pots to the whole wiring, tuners, string trees, nuts and etc. All the work done is described in detail in the listing.

We make sure that every guitar we sell is problem free and take full responsibility for the accuracy of our listing descriptions. All photographs are done by a professional photographer and processed on a calibrated monitor. Some colours might look slightly different on your monitor, but we will always put the official Fender colour name in the listing description, so please study pictures of other guitars with the same colour if you are unsure. We focus on finding great quality guitars and making them reliable and inspiring to play.

This guitar will be shipped around UK with Parcelforce and UPS couriers, safely packed into a sturdy guitar cardboard box. 24h courier service provided to UK customers. We also ship to USA, Canada, Japan, Australia and many other places, but at the moment we don't ship to EU or Northern Ireland - but please drop us a message if you are in the EU as we might be able to deliver in person.

MODEL: Fender Japan Limited Edition Telecaster

YEAR: 2025

COLOUR: Black Paisley gloss finish

PICKGUARD: 1-ply transparent

NECK: C-shape maple cap neck, clear gloss finish;

NUT: synthetic bone

NUT WIDTH: 42.3 mm

NECK THICKNESS: 1st fret - 22.1 mm; 12th - 23.5 mm

FRETBOARD: maple, 7.25-inch radius

FRETS: 21 vintage frets with no wear

TUNERS: original F-style vintage slotted tuners

BODY: alder body, vintage-correct SS body routing;

TOTAL WEIGHT: 3.4 kg

BRIDGE: Fender vintage style "Pat Pend" bridge with steel saddles

WEAR: a few tiny superficial surface dents on the body, otherwise mint condition

PICKUPS: original vintage style single-coils

WIRING: original USA-spec wiring with CTS solid shaft A250K pots, Orange Drop tone capacitor, Oak USA 3-way switch; Switchcraft jack