Fender Custom Shop CuNiFe Blackguard Telecaster Heavy Relic Aged Butterscotch Blonde Bigsby (297)

The benchmark of craftsmanship, the Fender Custom Shop is the apex of what Fender has to offer. Each instrument is hand-crafted by Fender Master Builders from only the finest, premium-grade components. The Custom Shop, known also as “The Dream Factory,” produces extremely limited runs of period-correct touchstones from the Fender catalog, as well as special one-offs featuring experimental, ground-up design and appointments. Custom hand-wound and treated pickups, exotic tonewoods, hand-aged hardware, special relicing techniques–only the best of the best goes into what leaves the Fender Custom Shop. Fender’s finest expression of quality and art, supreme in all ways.

Body Wood: 2-Piece Select Ash Body
Body Color: Aged Butterscotch Blonde
Body Finish: Heavy Relic Lacquer Finish
Bridge Assembly: Bigsby B-5 Bridge and Tailpiece
Control Assembly: Dual-Stack HS Tele Wiring
Tuner Keys: Vintage Style Tuning Machines
String Guide: Disk String Tree
Neck: 1-Piece Tinted Riftsawn Maple Neck
Fret Wire: Narrow Tall
Number of Frets: 21
Fingerboard Radius: 9.5" Radius
Neck Back Shape: Off Center "V"
Nut Material: Bone
Pickguard: 1-Ply Black Phenolic Pickguard
Pickup Neck: Wide-Range Cunife Humbucker Neck
Pickup Bridge: Hand-Wound '50-'51 Blackguard Tele Bridge
Switch: 3-Way Switch