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This one starts life as something already quite special and then goes slightly off-script in the best possible way. A Fender Japan JV 50s Modified Telecaster, built in 2022 to celebrate 40 years of Fender Japan — a series that deliberately nods back to the legendary early JV instruments that made guitar nerds weak at the knees in the first place. In other words, Fender Japan took their own history seriously… and then we decided to have a bit of fun with it.

The body has been fully refinished in Olympic White nitro, because if you’re going to do a Tele tribute you might as well do it properly. The finish has been aged just enough to look like it’s lived a little, without trying too hard to convince anyone it survived the Eisenhower administration. The neck has received the same full nitro refin treatment — a soft V maple neck with worn nitro on the back that feels instantly broken-in. No sticky gloss, no awkward adjustment period, just that familiar “oh, this feels right” moment the second you pick it up.

Spec-wise this thing quietly ticks every box you actually care about. A generous 43.2 mm nut width, proper soft V profile, modern 9.5" radius, and rolled fretboard edges make the neck feel like shaking a hand of a long lost friend. Fresh 21 vintage frets mean it plays like a new guitar pretending to be an old one. The gold anodised guard leans hard into late-’50s Jazzmaster swagger, while the Pat Pend bridge with compensated brass saddles keeps everything perfectly in tune — because romance is nice, but intonation is nicer.

Electronics are where it stops pretending to be polite. The Fender Japan AlNiCo V vintage-style single coils deliver all the Tele DNA: bite, snap, and that slightly cheeky midrange that makes a Tele cut through anything. But the wiring has clearly been hanging around with interesting people. The 4-way switch adds the glorious in-series position — basically turning the pickups into a surprise humbucker when you need it — and the push-pull tone pot throws them out of phase, producing that wonderfully nasal, wiry tone that sounds like it’s trying to start an argument with your amp.

Hardware is solid, practical and quietly excellent. Original Gotoh vintage-style locking tuners, basswood body keeping the weight at a comfortable 3.3 kg, and factory routing all intact. The wear you see is intentional, purely cosmetic, and part of the nitro finish character — no structural issues, no drama, no hidden skeletons.

So what you end up with is a JV Tele that looks like it stepped out of 1957 but behaves like it’s from the future. Classic attitude, clever wiring, broken-in feel, and just enough mischief under the hood to keep things interesting.

In other words: a Telecaster that knows the rules very well… and occasionally ignores them.

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 couriers, safely packed into a sturdy guitar cardboard box. 24h courier service provided to UK customers. Worldwide shipping provided as well, 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 JV 50s Modified Telecaster

YEAR: 2022 (40 years of Fender Japan)

COLOUR: full refinish in Olympic White nitro

NECK: soft V-shape maple neck, worn nitro gloss refinish

NECK THICKNESS: 1st fret - 21.6 mm; 12th fret -  24.1 mm

NUT: synthetic bone

NUT WIDTH: 43.2 mm

FRETBOARD: maple, 9.5-inch radius, rolled-in fretboard edges

FRETS: new 21 vintage frets with no wear

TUNERS: original Gotoh Japan vintage style locking tuners; chrome finish

BODY: basswood; original SS body routing

PICKGUARD: original gold anodised

TOTAL WEIGHT: 3.3 kg

BRIDGE: original Fender "Pat Pend" bridge with upgraded brass saddles with compensated design for spot-on intonation

WEAR: all wear intentional and purely cosmetic; no structural damage

PICKUPS: original Fender Japan vintage style AlNiCo V single coils

WIRING: original Fender Japan wiring with 4-way switch for an extra humbucker in-series tone, A250K pots, ceramic tone capacitor, push-pull tone pot for an out-of-phase tone when both pickups are engaged