1990's ESP Japan TEV-53 Custom Order Telecaster (Natural)

1990's ESP Japan TEV-53 Custom Order Telecaster (Natural)Handmade in Japan by ESP's luthiers in the early 1990's, this is a custom order version of the TEV 53 Telecaster with a 22 fret rosewood fingerboard instead of the traditional '50's style maple one piece neck. Solid ash body with a satin C profile maple neck, it weighs 3. 9kg's. Loaded with ESP single coils (with cloth wiring), CTS pots, an "old style" six saddle ashtray bridge and ESP Deluxe vintage tuners, it appears to be all original. Good used

balls to the wall overdrive and endless sustain without skimping on articulate cleans when the volume is rolled down

Reasonably good used condition with signs of wear as pictured and a few cosmetic dings

Good cosmetic condition with signs of wear as pictured

this is a JB62 '62 reissue model that was converted into a fretless Jaco model by a previous owner

set mahogany neck and a 22 fret rosewood fingerboard

well used but tested and working perfectly

neckthrough constructed maple neck with a rosewood fingerboard (24 frets

Vibrato System:    Duesenberg Diamond Deluxe Tremola (trem models only)

Part of the "Custom Edition" of instruments made in very small batches by the Fujigen factory in the early 1990's

the TL71/ASH was a very aesthetic model from Fender built around a lovely Ash body bolted to a maple neck with a 41mm nut width and 7

the RLC-50JS was the John Sykes artist model from Burny/Fernandes

and its brass saddles kept its strings firmly in place