Fender Custom Shop Masterbuilt Austin MacNutt '59 Telecaster Custom NOS, Transparent White over 5A Flame Maple #AM0221
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Austin MacNutt built this '59 Telecaster Custom for us at the Fender Custom Shop, to a spec we wrote, and the whole build started from the confetti binding. It runs top and bottom and it's the one loud colour on the guitar. We kept everything else quiet so the binding could carry it: a sorted 5A flame maple top in Transparent White, all the figure there and none of it competing, over a mahogany body. NOS, so no aging.
Maple over mahogany borrows from the Les Paul, and the electronics follow it there. Two ThroBak SLE-101 humbuckers in nickel, which we rate among the best humbuckers being made right now. No pickguard. Two volumes and two tones, a 3-way toggle on the upper bout, and a fixed six-saddle vintage Strat hardtail, strung through the body, rather than a tune-o-matic. It's a Tele with a few other guitars folded into it.
The neck is 4A roasted flame maple, something we spec on a lot of our builds, carved to a '59 Esquire "C": .790" at the first fret and .970" at the twelfth. That's a full neck with real shoulder to it, for players who want something to hold onto. Slab AAA rosewood board, 9.5" radius, 6150 frets, bone nut. The headcap is painted to match the body, with the Fender logo inlaid in abalone.
One of a kind.
SPECIFICATIONS
BODY
Model: '59 Telecaster Custom NOS
Masterbuilder: Austin MacNutt
Body: Mahogany
Top: Flame Maple, 5A, sorted
Binding: Confetti, top and bottom
Finish: Transparent White, NOS
Weight: 7 lb 14 oz
Serial: AM0221
NECK
Neck: Roasted Flame Maple, 4A
Neck Shape: '59 Esquire "C", .790" at 1st fret, .970" at 12th fret
Neck Finish: Light tint nitrocellulose lacquer
Headstock: '60 Tele, matching painted headcap, Fender logo inlaid in abalone
Fingerboard: Rosewood, AAA, slab, 9.5" radius
Frets: 21, Medium Jumbo 6150
Nut: Bone, 1.650"
Truss Rod: Early '60s
Tuners: Vintage with Fender logo
ELECTRONICS
Pickups: ThroBak SLE-101 Nickel, neck and bridge
Controls: 2 Volume, 2 Tone, 3-way toggle on upper bout
Output Jack: Vintage Tele
HARDWARE
Bridge: Hardtail Vintage Strat, six-saddle, string-through
Hardware: Chrome/Nickel
Knobs: Knurled flat-top
Pickguard: None
Strings: .010-.046
CASE
Included: Brown Fender Custom Shop Strat/Tele case, certificate of authenticity
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