- Style: Genuine Bakelite
- Era: early '50s (1952 - 1954)
- Colour: Black
- Holes: 5 Holes
- Thickness: 1.5mm (0.06")
- Compatible with: Early Fender Telecasters
A very, very rare and sought-after pickguard, this is cut from genuine black bakelite and is 1.5mm (0.06") thick as were found on the very first Telecasters to leave the Fender Fullerton factory back at the beginning of the 1950s in the form of the famous blackguard. Any Telecaster up until 1956 carried this Bakelite scratchplate (before being replaced with a white scratchplate as standard from 1956).
Includes a 5" Nitro can ring to the rear (as has popularly been found on the original guitars) and includes the superficial wearing, scuffs and rust markings you would expect to find on a scratchplate of this vintage.
Cut for the original vintage five-hole arrangement this will fit original instruments as well as Fender's American and Mexican 1950s reissue guitars.
