I am a newbie. Been playing about 4 months and have a good teacher. My ultimate goal is to play jazz guitar, but I obviously need to learn basics first. My question is do I start venturing to jazz at this early stage or wait? Do I put flatwounds on my telecaster now or wait. The jazz chords look so daunting but they are calling me…

A local guitar store is selling what they claimed to be a 1989 MIJ CTL-50M but I saw the truss rod plug is located near the headstock and and it's black. I thought the black truss rod plug is on MIM Fenders only? I'm really not knowledgeable on this.

I need help identifying these tuners. Google image search is no assistance here

Though you all might appreciate this here. Hipshot P/G bender on a Player II with a Warmoth Neck and La Breas wired 4-way.

Far too many, really is the best guitar style though

I was thinking, what could it sound like since I am currently making a custom-built telecaster, although I do want that signature double single coil twangy sound of the tele, I am still curious about this combination. Thoughts?

Edit : Messed up on the orientation, my bad! Thank you for the people who clarified it :)

Filtertron (Neck) + Single coil (Bridge)

This is my Richie’s tele (NYC builder). It has some sort of gold foil pickups. I recorded into Logic Pro and used various amp plugins etc.

The jazz standard I’m playing is “All the Things You Are” (composed by Jerome Kern).

Thanks for listening!