Fender Telecaster with Bigsby Solid Body Electric Guitar (1967), ser. #208507, original black tolex hard shell case.

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Fender Telecaster with Bigsby Model Solid Body Electric Guitar (1967), made in Fullerton, California, serial # 208507, Lake Placid Blue lacquer finish, alder body, maple neck with rosewood fingerboard, original black tolex hard shell case. This is a generally well-preserved example of a rare Telecaster variation: Lake Placid Blue with factory Bigsby and rosewood fingerboard neck. It was built less than three years after Fender became CBS/Fender; the neck date stamp is November 1967 and the pots are coded to the 42nd week of 1966. While a solidly CBS-era guitar it still retains the feel of earlier instruments with an all-lacquer finish. In 1967 the Bigsby vibrato was a brand-new extra-cost option for the Telecaster, introduced in the July 1967 FENDER FACTS. Due to bad blood between the Paul Bigsby and Leo Fender this never happened under Leo's reign but by this point both men had sold their respective companies. This guitar is a very early such example, a double custom order with the blue metallic body in addition to the vibrato. It picked up the nickname "The Blue Devil" in the shop as there is a factory job number "666" die-stamped into the wood under the pickguard; this does not appear to be the sometimes seen hand-etched indicator of a factory refinish job. Standard features of the Telecaster from this era include a wide bevel 3-ply laminated white plastic pickguard (replacing the earlier 3-ply greenish nitrocellulose), the then brand-new "big" logo decal (supposedly instituted by CBS so the guitar would be more recognizable on TV) and the new-style Fender-made "F plate" tuners. The wiring is still the earlier 60's cloth-covered style, and the guitar is still rigged in the old 1950s control scheme with the "mud cap' on the front pickup and no two-pickup combination without balancing the switch between positions #2 and #3. This guitar is medium weight for a later '60s alder body Telecaster at 8.58 lbs.; the Bigsby adds some noticeable weight but it still handl