Fender Custom Shop '52 Telecaster Heavy Relic Aged Nocaster Blonde
SKU: F923-5001-558
The 1952 Fender Telecaster is the quintessential electric guitar that started it all and is still a favorite after all these years. Simplicity of design and the alluring tone that only a Tele® can produce have graced countless recordings and stages over its long lifespan, and the Custom Shop ’52 Telecaster captures the original essence in all its glory. Available in six finishes, the guitar features a two-piece select ash body, a one-piece rift sawn maple neck with a comfortable ’57 “soft V” profile, vintage compound-radius (7.25”-9.5”) fingerboard and 21 narrow tall (6105) frets for comfortable play in all registers.
Custom Shop hand-wound ’50/’51 Blackguard pickups provide perfect vintage-correct tone in combination with ’51 modified Nocaster wiring, which lets the player blend both pickups together in switch position 1. Other features include a single-ply black phenolic pickguard, ’51-’54 Tele bridge with brass barrel saddles, vintage-style tuning machines, bone nut and disk string tree. Also includes deluxe hardshell case, strap and certificate of authenticity.
SPECS
General
- Model Name: '52 Telecaster® Relic®, Maple Neck, Aged Nocaster® Blonde
- Series: Time Machine
- Color: Aged Nocaster® Blonde
Body
- Body Shape: Telecaster®
- Body Material: 2-Piece Select Ash
- Body Finish: Lacquer
Neck
- Neck Material: 1-Piece Rift Sawn Maple
- Neck Shape: 1957 Soft "V"
- Scale Length: 25.5" (64.77 cm)
- Fingerboard Radius: 7.25" to 9.5" Vintage Compound Radius (184 mm to 241 mm)
- Number of Frets: 21
- Fret Size: Narrow Tall (6105)
- String Nut: Bone
- Nut Width: 1.625" (41.3 mm)
- Neck Finish: Nitrocellulose Lacquer
- Fingerboard: 1-Piece Maple
- Neck Position Inlays: Micarta Black Dot
Electronics
- Bridge Pickup: Custom Shop Hand-Wound '50/'51 Blackguard
- Middle Pickup: N/A
- Neck Pickup: Custom Shop Hand-Wound '50/'51 Blackguard
- Controls: Master Volume, Blend
- Pickup Switching: 3-Position Blade: Position 1. Bridge Pickup (+ Neck Pickup with Blend control), Position 2. Neck Pickup, Position 3. Neck Pickup with No Tone Control (dark vintage circuit)
- Pickup Configuration: SS
Hardware
- Bridge: 3-Saddle Vintage Style Tele® with Barrel Brass Saddles
- Tuning Machines: Vintage Style
- Orientation: Right-Hand
- Hardware Finish: Nickel/Chrome Pickguard: 1-Ply Black Phenolic
- Control Knobs: Knurled Chrome
- Switch Tips: Black
Miscellaneous
- Strings: Nickel Plated Steel (.010-.046 Gauges)
- Included Accessories: Deluxe Hardshell Case, Strap and Certificate of Authenticity.