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Edit - I just noticed the binding so it’s a custom. The serial starts with a 5 so ‘75 tele custom?
https://reverb.com/uk/news/how-to-date-a-fender
Looks to me like a hotchpotch of American CBS/Fender and Fender (Japan) parts. (The controls are Japanese.)
The curve of the upper bout meets the neck at the seventeenth fret. On a CBS-era Telecaster, the body shape went a bit wonky. Consequently, the bout meets the neck between the sixteenth and seventeenth frets.
Once upon a time, a Fender Telecaster or Esquire with binding had the word Custom added to the beginning of its name. In the Seventies, a largely different design had the word Custom added to the end of its name. It was never offered with binding.
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Ooooh...just my kind of FrankenTele.
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It’s really a question of what someone will pay if they think it looks cool and/or has some restoration potential - it doesn’t have much inherent ‘vintage value’ now.
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"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein