Mystery Mexican Tele

[Willie G. Moseley]

Since some of youse have a more­-than-average interest in guitar construction and restoration, I thought you might know about the body of this instrument:

The serial number says it’s a 2001 Standard Tele hecho en Mexico, but that's an upgrade replacement body—bookmatched flame maple top, figured alder body, belly cut, binding on top edge of body, and a std. humbucking pickup mounted in a plate instead of an angled Fender single-coil.

And none of those attributes were seen on a Standard Telecaster back then.

Would the body have been something you could get from an aftermarket source? If someone cobbled this together he/she did a bang-up job. The fit and finish are nice (with the exception of some residual glue smears around the string anchor grommets, which could probably be cleaned off), it hangs right (for me), and it sounds good.

Any information appreciated.

Edited March 12 by Willie G. Moseley

[BadgerDave]

Have you taken the neck off? Warmoth would definitely build a body with those features.

Edited March 13 by BadgerDave

[Willie G. Moseley]

Thanks, I sort of suspect such but don't feel like disassembling it on accounta an instrument almost always feels different to my hands when I put it back together 

[crunchee]

What's the routing look like under the bridge?  Somebody might have written or stamped something in there that can help in I.D.ing it.  Perhaps in the neck pocket too. like Badger Dave mentioned.  There's only one way to know for sure.

Edited March 12 by crunchee