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Limited-Edition '53 Telecaster Heavy Relic Electric Guitar
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Overview
Vintage-inspired style and tone with a duo of Custom Shop hand-wound Tele single-coil pickups.
The Fender Custom Shop Limited-Edition ’53 Telecaster Heavy Relic electric guitar celebrates iconic Fender sound and style with its meticulous construction and vintage-inspired features. It has a 2-piece offset seam ash body with a distressed Heavy Relic nitrocellulose lacquer finish. The 1-piece 2A flame quartersawn maple neck is shaped in a smooth, comfortable profile, and topped with a flame quartersawn maple fingerboard, 21 narrow-tall frets and black Micarta inlays. The ’53 Telecaster Heavy Relic’s tone is powered by a duo of Custom Shop hand-wound single-coil pickups—an Original Blackguard Tele at the bridge and Twisted Tele at the neck—with master volume and tone controls and a 3-way pickup switch to shape your sound with precision. Additional appointments include vintage-style tuners with the Fender logo, a 3-saddle American Vintage strings-thru-body bridge, bone nut and nickel/chrome hardware. Comes with a deluxe hardshell case, strap and certificate of authenticity.
Features
- 2-piece offset seam ash body with a distressed nitrocellulose lacquer finish
- 1-piece 2A flame quartersawn maple neck
- Flame quartersawn maple fingerboard topped with 21 narrow-tall frets
- Duo of Custom Shop hand-wound single-coil pickups: Original Blackguard Tele at the bridge and Twisted Tele at the neck
Travel back with the Fender Custom Shop ’53 Tele Heavy Relic. Order today.
Specs
Limited-Edition '53 Telecaster Heavy Relic Electric Guitar Specifications:
Body- Body type: Single cutaway
- Body wood: 2-piece offset seam ash
- Body finish: Nitrocellulose lacquer
- Neck wood: 1-piece 2A flame quartersawn maple
- Scale length: 25.5"
- Neck finish: Gloss nitrocellulose lacquer
- Material: 1-piece 2A quartersawn flame maple
- Fret size: Narrow-tall
- Number of frets: 21
- Inlays: Black Micarta
- Nut width/material: 1.65 in. (42 mm) bone
- Configuration: SS
- Neck: Proprietary hand-wound single-coil
- Bridge: Proprietary hand-wound single-coil
- Control layout: Master volume, Master tone
- Pickup switch: 3-way
- Bridge design: 3-saddle American Vintage strings-thru-body with compensated brass saddles
- Tuning machines: Vintage-style with Fender logo
- Color: Nickel/chrome
- Number of strings: 6 string
- Case: Deluxe hardshell
- Orientation: Right-handed
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