Fender Custom Shop Masterbuilt Violinmaster Telecaster Relic New - Violin Varnish

In Store – Available – Fender Custom Shop (FCS) Limited Edition Violinmaster Telecaster Relic Masterbuilt by Yuriy Shishkov.  New

On Reverb - We can look at buying your guitar/amp (in trade) if it's listed or you list it on Reverb.

Tony Elder / Steve Jackson
Black Dot Music
Est 1985

In store available – New! untouched!

Brand New - untouched!

Body & Construction

• Body Shape: T-Style (Telecaster Thinline) with hollow-carved archtop and back construction 
• Top Material: Italian "Stradivari" spruce (sourced from the Fiemme Valley)
• Back & Sides Material: Bosnian flame maple
• F-Holes: Copied and proportionally scaled from the Huberman Stradivarius violin
• Finish: Authentic European hand-polished violin varnish ("Antiqued" Relic) 
• Binding: Violin purfling with an internal soundpost 

Neck & Fingerboard

• Neck Material: Bosnian flame maple
• Neck Shape: Oval "C" (.830" at 1st fret, .940" at 12th fret)
• Fingerboard Material: Round-laminated ebony
• Radius: 9.5" (241 mm)
• Frets: 22 medium jumbo frets
• Nut Material: Graphite
• Nut Width: 1.65" (42 mm)
• Scale Length: 25.5" (648 mm)
• Headstock: Headstock truss rod adjust with no skunk stripe; black tuning machines with ebony buttons (Gotoh SGS510Z)

Electronics & Hardware

• Pickups: Two TV Jones® Thunder'Blade™ humbuckers and three passive Piezo (PZO) bridge/body sensors 
• Controls: Master Volume (Piezo), Master Volume (Humbuckers), Master Tone 
• Bridge / Tailpiece: Fender "Patent Pending" floating bridge with custom ebony/brass tailpiece and four interchangeable saddles (Bronze, Ocean Coral, Buffalo Horn, and Ebony) 
• Hardware Finish: Nickel / Black & Gold accents 

Extras & Production

• Production Run: Limited to 60 units worldwide
• Weight: Approx. 5 lbs, 10 oz
• Included Case: Custom flight case, mini violin-style case for the interchangeable saddles, and a certificate of authenticity 

This beautiful hand-made instrument is inspired by and crafted in tribute to the famous “Gibson-Huberman” Stradivarius violin built by Antonio Stradivari in 1713 and now owned by Grammy award-winning violinist Joshua Bell. The storied violin is so named for an early owner, British violinist George Alfred Gibson, and most famously for a subsequent owner, Polish violinist Bronisław Huberman, from whom the instrument was stolen twice—first in 1919 in Vienna (recovered shortly thereafter), and again in 1936 in New York, when it was taken from Huberman’s dressing room during a performance at Carnegie Hall. He never saw it again. The violin was recovered in 1985 after the thief—a violin player himself who used shoe polish to disguise the instrument for 50 years—made a deathbed confession. After a nine-month restoration in the late 1980s, the instrument was sold at auction to British violinist Norbert Brainin.

 Bell acquired the violin in 2001, and it is he who gave the exclusive privilege of examining the instrument to Fender Custom Shop principal master builder Yuriy Shishkov, who has captured the 300-year-old violin’s essence in the Violinmaster Telecaster. The guitar is fashioned with the look and feel of a Stradivari violin, from the same materials and sources used by the great Italian luthier more than three centuries ago.

 Its hollow flame maple body has a carved “Stradivari” spruce top from northern Italy’s Fiemme Valley, with proportionately scaled Stradivarius violin f-holes and purfling. The neck is constructed of Bosnian flame maple with an oval “C”-shaped profile, headstock truss rod adjustment and no skunk stripe. The 9.5”-radius round-laminated ebony fingerboard has 22 medium jumbo frets. Both neck and body feature an authentic European hand-polished violin varnish “Antiqued” finish.

 Three passive piezo pickups and two TV Jones® Thunder’Blade pickups offer a wide variety of tonal options, with three-way pickup switching. Additional features include a custom Fender “patent pending” floating bridge with interchangeable saddles, black tuning machines with ebony buttons, graphite nut and disc string tree. Also includes a custom flight case, mini violin case for the interchangeable bridge saddles and certificate of authenticity.

SPECIFICATIONS LIMITED EDITION VIOLINMASTER TELECASTER® RELIC® MASTERBUILT LIMITED EDITION

Featured: 9216095001

Body Flame Maple with “Stradivari” Spruce Top Finish European Hand-Polished Violin Varnish

Neck Bosnian Flame Maple with a Oval “C” BackShape and 9.5” (241 mm) Radius Fingerboard Ebony Frets 22, Medium Jumbo

Hardware Black & Gold Bridge Fender “Patent Pending” Floating Bridge with Interchangeable Saddles

Pickups TV Jones® Thunder’Blade™ (Bridge & Neck)

Controls Master Volume (Piezo), Master Volume (Humbuckers), Master Tone

Included Custom Flight Case, Mini Violin Case and Certificate of Authenticity.