Fender Custom Shop CuNiFe Telecaster Custom Journeyman Relic Electric Guitar, Rosewood Fingerboard, Aged Firemist Silver

Straight from our friends over in California comes this Fender Custom Shop CuNiFe Telecaster Custom Journeyman Relic in a sleek Aged Firemist Silver. Exemplifying the Custom Shop's track record for quality, this guitar impresses with style and substance. This Custom Shop Tele Custom loads in tons of unique appointments and specifications with quality tonewood construction to add up to one multi-platinum hit of a guitar.

This Fender Custom Shop CuNiFe Telecaster Custom starts out its experience with a two-piece alder body, sorted for weight. Specially picked for this guitar, this cut of alder offers a unique weight and feel when slung over the shoulder. Boasting resonance and tonal focus, alder makes for a wonderful pick for a sonic engine as well as a canvas on which a Fender Custom Shop Journeyman Relic finish treatment can be painted. The Journeyman Relic finish on this particular Tele imparts some definite age and wear, though checking and scrapes are kept mostly to a minimum for a finish treatment that implies more age than damage.

At this juncture, this Fender Custom Shop carries on with a quartersawn AA flame maple neck in a 60 Style Oval "C" profile. This popular Custom Shop neck shape offers a smooth grip that is relatively thin and effortlessly playable yet has a unique feel due to its unfinished back. From here, a 9mm AAA rosewood fingerboard joins up with the flame maple lined with twenty-one Medium Jumbo (6150) frets. Medium Jumbo fret wire accounts for a good number of Custom Shop fret jobs, and since it's among Fender's most popular sizes, it's an easy addition. The rosewood board measures with a modern 9.5" radius for a consistent feel across the entire scale. Mother of pearl face and side dots punctuate the rosewood for a keen visual addition.

This Fender Custom Shop Telecaster Custom comes with a number of dynamite electronics and hardware specs to really make itself known. For one, this Custom Shop puts the CuNiFe in "CuNiFe Telecaster Custom" with a CuNiFe (copper, nickel, iron) Wide Range Humbucker in the neck position. This humbucker is accompanied by a handwired Texas Special Tele bridge single-coil, summoning heaps of Tele heat to match the grit of the CuNiFe humbucker. Made to turn up and break up, these pickups have all the spirit and gusto you might expect from a Tele this bold.

Onboard this Telecaster Custom, a Bigsby B5 tailpiece aligns with an RSD J-Bridge. This bridge, normally reserved for Custom Shop Jazzmasters, offers two movable brass saddles bolted to a cold rolled steel base. The combination of elements here enables a greater transfer of sonic energy from strings to body than your usual offset bridge. Alongside this bridge (already unique to Telecasters), is the Bigsby B5 vibrato tailpiece that inspires deep pitch bends in playing while retaining full control and intonation. These final considerations are joined by black top and back body binding and rope purfling top body binding, accentuating the aged silver sheen of this Telecaster Custom and a matching finished headstock headcap. This Fender Custom Shop CuNiFe Telecaster Custom travels with an included Fender Custom Shop Strat/Tele Brown hardshell case.

There's always that distinct "it" factor when it comes to Fender Custom Shop creations. Whatever "it" is, this CuNiFe Tele Custom's got "it" and plenty more to go along.