Custom Partscaster "Early Telecaster Butterscotch Relic" With Tweed CaseThis is a Custom Made Early Telecaster Repro with Premium Quality Parts.
Nitro Relic Lacquer Finish, Aged Hardware & Handwround Pickups.
7,7 LB (3.5Kg)* 2-Pieces Swamp Ash Body With Aged Butterscotch Blonde Vintage Nitro Lacquer Finish. Strings through body, Vintage PAT PEND Bridge With Compensated Saddles* Original Bakelite Pickguard & Vintage Correct 50's Flat Head Screws* Neck Fender licensed Allparts Maple
- 7.25 inch radius, Chunky C profile
- 21 tall frets
- Slotted bone nut
- Aged vintage style tuners
- Hand Rolled Fret Board Edges & Fretwork
- Truss adjust at the heel
- Heavy Relic Vintage Honey Nitro Lacquer Finish
- "Fender Telecaster" Period Correct Decal, Put On Top Of The Lacquer like it was done in the 50's. * Hand Wound Broadcaster Pickups Early Tele® sound, very rich in harmonics but with enough "punch".
This set will give a vintage 50's flavour, with thick bass and crystalline highs.
8,5 Kohm for the bridge an 7,0 Kohm for the neck. Alnico 3 and 43 awg heavy formvar in both pickups.- Hand Wound
- Wax-potted in paraffin/beeswax mix.
- Vintage cloth lead wires.
- Black vulcanized fiber (bobbins).
- "Calibrated" alnico 3 magnets.
- 43 awg " Heavy Formvar" copper wire.
- Output: 8,5 Kohm (bridge); 7.0 (neck).
- Neck pickup RW/RP (hum-cancelling in the middle position).
- Neck cover made of nickel silver (Aged Finish).The early Tele® guitars had a very distinctive sound which is often associated with country, jazz or rockabilly, although these guitars can do any music style.
These pickups have a high output, being single coils, but because the alnico 3 magnets, its sound isn't abrupt or aggressive.
The bass sound is thick and the highs are crystalline almost acoustic.
The neck pickup have that belly an Woody tone, while the bridge pickup have more definition and "punch", with that "cutting edge" character that a good Tele® bridge pickup should have. * Premium "5-Way HOoP Tone" ElectronicCTS POTS, Vintage Mullard Capacitor, Treble Bleed, Solderless Pickups Switch System, Vintage Wire & Switchcraft Output JackSwitch positions [3] [4] & [5] are your regular Telecaster 'Bridge/Both/Neck' settings respectively; in addition position [2] runs both pickups in parallel 'Half Out-of-Phase' for a pleasing 'Pseudo-Strat Quack' effect, and position [1] pushes the neck pickup through the series 0.01uF cap. on the selector-switch for a pretty cool vintage Tele 'Twang' with 10% less 'bottom' than [5].
[1] is perfect for lead work through a 'clean' channel on your amp. and [2] is Awesome when overdriven.* Fender Pro Case Tweed (Mint)