Fender Custom Shop ’52 Telecaster Relic Electric Guitar, Maple Fingerboard, Aged Vintage White
We’re feeling particularly retro with this Fender Custom Shop ’52 Telecaster Relic in a worn-in Aged Vintage White. Straight from that mythical West Coast workshop, this Tele captures a distinctly classic vibe with a cool match-up of black and white. Bringing together some iconic Tele tones under the hood and plenty of knockout specs along the way, this Fender Custom Shop piece balances an experience that is both luxurious and hardworking.
This Fender Custom Shop ’54 Telecaster stakes its claim with a roasted ash body. Finely shaped in the classic single-cutaway Tele profile, this tonewood selection resonates uniquely and carries a gentler weight. The roasted ash of this guitar makes an appearance both sonically and aesthetically with this model’s Fender Custom Shop Relic finish treatment. With charming finish scrapes, some of the ash’s natural wood grain is revealed through the aged lacquer, sneaking in some extra dimension into this Tele’s overall visual presentation. Extra character manifests through paint checking across the body, bringing with it some added texture to the paint job and resulting in an implied lineage of age and love.
Meeting up with the roasted ash of this Tele’s body is a riftsawn roasted maple neck shaped in a 52 Style “U” profile, completing the guitar’s basic physical form. With a solid grip in hand, this “U”-shaped profile carries with it some tangible age and plays comfortably. Filling out to its fingerboard, this Tele features twenty-one frets outfitted with 6105 Narrow Tall fret wire. This pick of wire offers an articulate experience across the fingers for precise fretting. Matching this Tele’s overall vintage vibe, the fingerboard’s radius measures to a round 7.25″, reminiscent of Fender’s earliest models. Micarta Black .250 facedots pair with Micarta Black sidedots to punctuate this Tele’s roasted maple. Vintage-style tuning machines bear the Fender logo line the headstock to ensure consistent intonation and string changes. Across the length of the neck, this Tele’s roasted maple measures .860″ thick at the first fret and .920″ at the twelfth.
For fans of classic Tele twang, this Custom Shop piece is equipped with specially-wired electronics. Onboard, two loaded 51 Nocaster single-coil pickups burst with iconic Telecaster voices to deliver on some excellent vintage sounds. These pickups were hand-wound by Fender legend Josefina Campos and bring with them that extra element of love to the instrument. Further considerations brought onto this Tele by Custom Shop designers include a Tele 51-54 bridge with its own Relic finish treatment and a bone nut measuring at 1.650″, ensuring stability across the entire scale length. This white Telecaster travels lavishly in a Fender Custom Shop Strat/Tele Tweed hardshell case.
With a skillfully-recreated set of specifications and appointments, this Fender Custom Shop Telecaster idealizes that iconic Fender experience and brings it into the modern day – and who says they don’t make ’em like they used to?
- Roasted ash single-cutaway solid body
- Riftsawn roasted maple neck in 52 Style “U” profile
- 7.25″ radius fingerboard with twenty-two Narrow Tall (6105) frets
- Vintage-style tuning machines with Fender logo and Relic finish treatment
- Two Josefina Campos hand-wound single-coil Nocaster pickups
- Tele 51-54 bridge with Relic finish treatment
- Fender Custom Shop Relic lacquer body finish treatment
- Fender Custom Shop Strat/Tele Tweed hardshell case included
