2024 Fender Telecaster 52 Heavy Relic

This 2024 Fender Custom Shop Nocaster Telecaster '52 Heavy Relic features a hand-selected 2-piece ash body, paired with a solid 1-piece, rift-sawn maple neck. The classic comfort of the ’57-style soft V neck profile is topped with 21 narrow-tall frets, providing thumb-over players with a vintage 7.25–9.5-inch compound-radius. Era-accurate tones are easily achieved, thanks to the Custom Shop’s hand-wound ’50/’51 Blackguard pickups, which are outfitted with ’51 Modified Nocaster wiring. Vintage flares range from the tuning machines, the bone nut, and the disk string tree, all the way down to the ’51-’54 brass barrel saddles in the bridge

Body: Ash in Nocaster Blonde finish.

Neck: Maple with a Maple fingerboard, 25.5” scale length, 1.625” nut width, 21 frets, black dot inlays.

Pickups/Hardware: Hand wound Fender Custom Shop 50/51 Blackguard pickups, Fender vintage tuning keys, Fender vintage Tele bridge, knurled chrome knobs, bone nut.

Cosmetics: This guitar is in great shape. It has light surface scratches on the body, along with dents scrapes, crazing, checking and wear comenserate with heavy relic’ing from the Fender Custom Shop. The back of the neck is clean, and the frets show minimal wear. Overall, this guitar plays very well and sounds fantastic.

Playability: Our in-house guitar tech has inspected, setup, and restrung this instrument with a new set of strings. The neck is straight, the truss rod is fully functional, and the action has been setup low and comfortable.

Weight: 7 lbs. 2 oz.

Case: This guitar ships with it’s original hardshell case case, professionally packaged, and fully insured.