Fender Nocaster
Fender Custom shop re-issue of the 1951 Fender Nocaster.
The so-called Nocaster was a short-lived variant of what is now known as the Telecaster, the original solid-body electric guitar created by Leo Fender.
The Nocaster, produced in early to mid-1951, was the result of legal action from the Gretsch company over the guitar's previous name, the Broadcaster (Gretsch already had the "Broadkaster" name registered for a line of drums). In the interim, before Fender had come up with an alternate name and printed appropriately revised headstock decals, factory workers simply snipped the "Broadcaster" name from its existing stock of decals, so guitars with these decals are identified simply as "Fender", without any model name. By the summer of 1951 the guitar was officially renamed as the Telecaster and has been known as such ever since.
The term Nocaster was originally coined by collectors to denote these transitional guitars that appeared without a model name on the headstock. Since they were manufactured in this form for only a few months very early in the Broadcaster/Telecaster's history, original Nocasters are highly prized and expensive collector's items. There are no official production numbers, but experts estimate that fewer than 500 Nocasters were produced.
This guitar is a Fender Custom Shop re-issue of the original Nocaster, but with a slight variation in that it has a Rosewood neck fitted.
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