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Prepare to experience real-deal vintage tone and feel with the Fender Custom Shop 1953 Telecaster. With this guitar in hand, you’re ready to conquer everything from old-school country to classic rock and everywhere in between. The guitar accomplishes such a feat thanks to its pair of hand-wound pickups. You get a ’50/’51 Blackguard in the bridge and a Twisted Tele in the neck. The body is constructed from two pieces of ash bolted to a 1-piece maple neck. Speaking of the neck, it’s carved into a 1952 “U” profile, which gives you a bit more wood in the palm for a more solid playing experience. The guitar is dressed up in an eye-popping finish relic’d to perfection through Fender’s Heavy Relic aging process. This particular Custom Shop 1953 Telecaster is available only from Sweetwater ? order yours and prepare to be impressed.





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Hand-wound Custom Shop pickups





The Custom Shop 1953 Telecaster is outfitted with a pair of pickups wound by hand in the Fender Custom Shop. In the bridge position, you’ll find a hand-wound ’50/’51 Blackguard pickup. It’s a painstakingly accurate version of the flat pole piece pickups found in the original black guard Teles and has more than enough twang to peel the paint off your walls. Meanwhile, the neck position’s Twisted Tele pickup delivers clear, glassy tones reminiscent of the Stratocaster. The controls are classic and simple, too. You get a 3-way switch, a master volume knob, and a master tone outfitted with Fender’s iconic Greasebucket mod.





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You’ll love the old-school “U”





This Custom Shop 1953 Telecaster comes with a neck built just like the ones from yesteryear. The neck is crafted from a single piece of quarter-sawn maple. It’s carved into an old-school 1952 “U” profile. “U”-shaped necks from this era in Fender’s history are sometimes called “baseball bat” necks. If you’re a fan of chunkier necks, you’re going to absolutely love the Custom Shop 1953 Telecaster’s 1952 “U” neck profile.





A brand new, broken-in classic





There’s a lot to be said about Fender’s intensive relicing process. And for a guitar like this, the relic’d finish gives your axe the travel-worn, broken-in feel you’ve always wanted. The master luthiers in the Fender Custom Shop expertly aged this guitar’s finish to accurately simulate decades of regular use onstage and in the studio. When you take the Custom Shop 1953 Telecaster out of the case for the first time, you’ll feel right at home ? almost as if you were the original owner more than seven decades ago.





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Fender Custom Shop 1953 Telecaster Electric Guitar Features:


2-piece ash body gives you a superb tonal foundation


Quarter-sawn maple neck delivers exceptional flexibility


1952-style “U” neck profile gives the axe an undeniable vintage feel


Updated 9.5-inch fingerboard radius offers a more contemporary feel


Twisted Tele neck pickup gives you clear, glassy tones


’50/’51 Blackguard bridge pickup pumps out plenty of twang


Heavy Relic finish recreates decades of regular use and abuse