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I put an aftermarket single ply pickguard on this Tele so I could drill holes for the front pickup height adjusting screws I install on all my personal Teles. The dullness on the body front sheen is a protecting polish that I missed wiping down before I had to take the pics here at an opportune time. |
The neck has a great Tele feel and playing action. |
A few small dings around the lower butt rim. I'm get a bit captured by the music / spirit when playing, particularly when I was 10 years younger (my oh my where does the time go?). My own personal guitars are well taken care of players not babied show pieces; Plus this tele's almost 20 years old ! |
The neck is a dream to play: The fretboard radius and neck contour are both compound, with the neck profile a bit flatter toward the heel and rounder toward the nut; And although the 1st fret's apex is only 1/64" higher above the neck plane datum than at the 12th fret, the width of the neck at the first fret is naturally narrower than at the 12th fret, giving slightly more radius at the 1st fret than the 12th fret. The compound fretboard radius and profile both transition simultaneously and perfectly to maintain the same playing hand closure as the playing hand moves along the neck; Luthiery at it's best. The neck profile slices I charted below are only approximations but provide the essence of what to look for in the pictures where glare and wood grain show the neck profile and fretboard radius rather well. Apparantly some Menehune has lifted my fretboard radius gauges, but I provide the fretboard width & apex measurements below should someone desire to dig up the radius formula or reference chart to derive the compound radiuses curve. (I have a challenging illness at the time of writing this description and can't reliably do such calculations, ....even ensuring the measurements were correct was a chore!). |
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The neck is well figured maple. In some camera angle shots this right-angle figured cross grain looks like a repair in the pics, but it is not a repair nor fault of any kind, ....just nice figuring seen better in the next picture below. |
NOTICE: These Chandler Teleblaster pages have high resolution pictures; Please be patient for them to load, so you will have very good pictures; It won't take long at all. Early 1990's Chandler 'Teleblaster' A super Tele. Condition is Excellent / 99%. Chandler's quality is excellent. I bought it in the early 1990's previously owned in mint condition. It's been my own personal special-use Tele, packed away stored about 10 years ago as my full time gigging and age gave way to a more casual schedule. After 43 years gigging, I stopped gigging regularly in 2003 in favor of spending more time in my shop and closer family life. This Tele is loaded with great sounding, very dynamic, early 1990 Fender Squier Tele pickups, down to about 5.5K and KILLER Tele tone more dynamic than most other Teles that commonly run as high as 8K (usuallay around 6.5K). I have the original fat-tele-sound Chandler pickups packed safely away from the elements, mounted in the old Pat. Pending type pickup & bridge pan, that I will gladly reinstall and keep the Squire Tele pickups myself ! Although I like the pan better, it's much easier to swap out the pickups and saddles already adjusted and intoned on the plate & pan. My "bathroom" scales (shop use only) shows this Tele to weigh 6 lbs, it's case 9 lbs, and the Tele in the case 15 lbs; Stable, but I don't believe those numbers; This Tele feels to me to be about 8 lbs, but that feel is often skewed if the neck is lighter and the body heavier but the full guitar still weighing-in less than 8 lbs. This Chandler color is nigh identical to Fender Custom Shop's Capri Orange; I don't know what Chandler called it. There are 2 major elements that make old guitars have an alive sound: The first is being played and those vibrations doing some "magic" as the wood ages; And second is the wood aging. You get about 18 years of aged wood since the guitar was born, plus the unknown age of the wood when this guitar was made. Back in the early 1990's, aged wood was still rather affordable and used by company's like Chandler who knew what they were doing in the guitar world. (NOTE: Having previously written this description, it has since occured to me that visible dissimilar wood aging along the body wood joints shows that the wood was kiln dried and not naturally aged before being planed in manufacture, .....but is now at least 20 years old. The joints were well done and are fully intact). |
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