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About This Listing

Looking for a real eye-catching guitar that is different, one of a kind, high quality build? This is it. Awesome guitar that will compete with ANY Fender customer shop guitar. I know I owned some. Ships in nice plush hard shell case to get to you next gig without issues.

Walnut Grain Caved Flame Telecaster! One of a Kind!

Reasonable offers considered.

This one was a custom built guitar project I did, an elaborate “partscaster” Telecaster. It is all walnut body has hand carved flames and features all gold hardware with Joe Barton Gatton T pickups. It plays as great as it looks.

The body was built by high-end luthier Tony DeLacugo making this Telecaster style guitar truly one-of-a-kind. Tony is now retired and no long building guitars. I was lucky enough to do four project guitars with him which this is one. This is the ONLY Walnut hand carved guitar we did.

The walnut grain is beautiful and makes a nice resonate guitar. Tony starts out building a vintage ’69 style Telecaster body and hand carves the flames into the body.  The walnut carve is treated with Tru-Oil to bring out the grain than poly coated for protection. Lots of sanding and time consuming work was spent creating this awesome body.

Guitar weighs a bit less than 7-lbs. 8-ozs so it is pretty light.

See the entire build process and details at chasingguitars.com/carved-walnut-telecaster-project/

I used a new genuine Fender made “select” necks are some of Fender’s nicest. It has a compound radius from 9.5 to 14 with a satin back nitro finish. Plays like a dream.

The Babicz Full Contact Telecaster Bridge is engineered to be direct coupled to the body for stability, increased sustain, improved fullness and tone. It is a radical design but has complete adjustability and allows for a very nice setup.

All quality components and spared no expense on the parts used on this project. All the cavities are copper foiled to reduce hum. The build quality is top shelf. The Joe Barton Danny Gatton T pickups are awesome.

Electronic components from RS Guitarworks:

  • 280K RS Solid-Shaft SuperPot® – for volume
  • 250K CTS Solid Shaft Audio taper pot – for tone
  • Jensen Paper and Oil GuitarCap® .047 – vintage style
Specs:
  • Tony DeLacugo Carved Body
  • Fender Select Telecaster Neck with Compound Radius and satin back finish
  • Gold Elite Schaller Tuners (same as used on Fender Custom Shop)
  • Gold Babicz Full Contact Hardware Telecaster Bridge
  • Joe Barden Engineering Danny Gatton T-Style Pickup Set for Telecaster
  • Gold Fender Telecaster Style Control Plate
  • Gold Custom Shop 4 Bolt Neck Plate
  • Gold Fender String Ferrules
  • Gold Telecaster Style Pickup Ring
  • Gold Electro-socket Jack Plate
  • 2 Q-Parts Gold Dome Guitar Knob w/ Mother of Pearl
  • 1 Gold colored Switch Tip
  • Gold Dunlop Strap Locks
  • Gold screws for pickups, neck plate, etc.
  • CTS Pots, 3-way switch, vintage style caps and vintage style wire
Please feel free to ask any questions. I am an honest and fair seller that has been buying and selling on eBay and Reverb for many years with an earned 100% Positive Feedback. So buy with confidence.

SORRY NO INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING. I only ship in the U.S.

Listed5 years ago
Condition
Brand
Model
  • Walnut Carved Flames Telecaster
Finish
  • Walnut
Categories
Made In
  • United States
Body Type
  • Solid Body

About the Seller

ChasingGuitars

Gilboa, NY, United States
(346)
Joined Reverb:2015
Items Sold:165

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