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Fender Nocaster, wtf? It's just a tele, no?

Anyone care to shead some light on the subject?

Nocaster

Back when fender first came out with the tele, it was called the quot;broadcasterquot;. Gretsch (i think, cant remember for sure), had a model called the quot;broadkasterquot; and got all butt-hurt over it. So, the transitional models, after they couldnt use the quot;broadcasterquot; name and before they came up with the quot;telecasterquot; name, are called quot;nocastersquot; cause they lack a model name on the headstock.

At least, thats what I heard.

Pretty much what he said! Actually, the Broadkaster was a line of Gretsch DRUMS, of all things, that it threw a hissy fit over. The Fender model was changed to quot;telecasterquot;, but a few guitars were made in the interim bearing no model name - and these are known as quot;nocastersquot;. They are REALLY rare, and very valuable!

EDIT - Sorry, ORIGINAL nocasters from the 50s are very rare and expensive. The Fender stie is, it would seem, doing reissues.

All I know its one of the early Fenders guitar made. Its termed as Nocaster relic if you were to find one, not the reissue kind

Yes, it was the broadcaster and what they did for a short period of time was shave off the name Broadcaster before it left the shop...so people started calling it the Nocaster. But ya, it it pretty much a tele.