Fender Custom Shop '64 Telecaster Custom NOS, 3-Tone Sunburst Sparkle, Gold Hardware, R150097

We specced this '64 Telecaster Custom live on our podcast, in an episode where we sat down and built dream guitars on paper. The Fender Custom Shop built it for real.

The body is two-piece alder, bound top and bottom in tortoise and finished in 3-Tone Sunburst Sparkle. NOS, so no aging. A four-ply tortoiseshell pickguard and gold hardware throughout set it off.

The pickups are a pair of gold Lollartrons, Jason Lollar's Filter'Tron-style humbucker, in place of the usual Tele single-coils. They sit ahead of a chopped Tele 3-saddle bridge.

The neck is roasted quartersawn maple with a slab ebony board, white pearloid block inlays, a 9.5" radius and 6150 frets. The profile is a '60s oval "C", .790" at the first fret and .930" at the twelfth. It weighs 8 lb 4 oz.

One of a kind.

SPECIFICATIONS

BODY
Model: '64 Telecaster Custom NOS
Body: Alder, 2-piece, sorted
Binding: Tortoise, top and bottom
Finish: 3-Tone Sunburst Sparkle, NOS lacquer
Weight: 8 lb 4 oz
Serial: R150097

NECK
Neck: Roasted Quartersawn Maple
Neck Shape: '60 Style Oval "C", .790" at 1st fret, .930" at 12th fret
Neck Finish: Medium tint nitrocellulose lacquer
Fingerboard: Ebony, slab, 9.5" radius
Inlays: White pearloid block
Side Dots: White Micarta
Frets: 21, Medium Jumbo 6150
Nut: Bone, 1.650"
Truss Rod: Early '60s
Headstock: Tele, '64-'67 Telecaster Custom decal
Tuners: Vintage with Fender logo, gold

ELECTRONICS
Pickups: Lollartron (Gold), neck and bridge
Controls: '63 Tele NOS, gold
Knobs: Knurled, gold
Switch Tip: Top hat
Output Jack: Vintage Tele

HARDWARE
Bridge: Chopped Tele 3-saddle, RSD saddles, gold
Hardware: Gold
Neck Plate: Vintage, gold
String Tree: American Vintage '59-'64, gold
Pickguard: 4-ply tortoiseshell, nitro
Strings: .010-.046

CASE
Included: Fender Custom Shop Strat/Tele brown case