The Japanese-made Fenders do have some slight serial number differences (typically a 'J' serial number prefix). N9 + 5 digits = 1990 N0 + 5 digits = 1990-1991. Fender Japan did serial numbers on the headstock face,. “JD + 8 digits” and some of instruments with “U + 6 digits” are also built in 2012.
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I have a 2015 made version of this guitar. Yours is a 2012 dyna made fender japan TL 62 custom in candy apple red.The body is Alder.The pickups should be AlNiCo. The bridge pickups are usually middle of the road, output wise, and features a base plate.The neck pickup is on the mellow side. It's lower wound 43 AWG, but with a lossy brass cover. USA Fender Tele neck pickups use nickel silver covers and are brighter, all things being equal.
It has a nice sound with the stock pickups, but I consider and of the Fender Pure Vintage '58 Tele pickup sets to be a good upgrade if you want to get more treble from the guitar. Click to expand.I agree with the above posters, I have the same TL62B in candyapple red with a JD12 serial number that I bought new direct from Japan about 9 months ago.Nothing needs changing on the guitar, imho. I changed to AVRI64 pickups then changed back to the originals, during which time I noticed the manufacturing quality of the pups was the same, but I personally preferred the sound of the standard pups. I did change to brass saddles from the standard 60s style steel braided ones, and to my ears that was an improvement which looks great too.They are MIJ, and perthaps were made at the Fujigen factory?
I say that because mine came in a Fujigen box which the shop told me was the original box, but I'm not sure.I have a couple of threads on it:It's quite a common guitar, but folks seem to like it. I like mine, not blown away, but it is a very nice guitar. I straight up love your tele. I've been wanting that model for a while but can't quite justify it. I recently sold a '94 MIJ, but it was black and wasn't doing anything for me aesthetically, but the action and playability were superb, which is a really dumb way of choosing guitars.
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I think the smaller Japanese frets helped. Are these frets on the small side? And how's the neck? Mine was bit chunky, and cramped my hand if I played too long, which is what I tell myself when I think I made a mistake.
I read that they started using Texas Special pups as standard a while back but the responses here haven't mentioned them, so I guess not.
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