Fender Custom Shop Muddy Waters Tribute Relic Telecaster 93 of 100 2000 Candy Apple Red

This is a 2000 Fender Custom Shop Muddy Waters Tribute Relic Telecaster, with a Candy Apple Red finish. Fender only produced 100 of these guitars back in the year 2000. This is a collectible grade piece, with no issues ! It was purchased new and has been used rarely over the years.
The original paperwork is missing but the guitar looks and plays like the day it was purchased.
The list price at the time of manufacture was $5,000 and as a rare limited edition mint guitar I believe the asking price of $4,750 is correct.

This is some information about the instrument that I found online:

The introduction of the guitar will be the first in a series of year long tributes to the blues legend, which will initially include an entire issue of Frontline magazine dedicated to Muddy that will also be released at NAMM. In May of 2000, Fender will center its 4th Annual Catalina Island Blues Festival around the music of Muddy Waters, inviting an all-star line up of some of the world's most well known blues and rock artists to join in the three-day celebration.

The guitar itself will be a reproduction of the main guitar that Muddy used for over 30 years, and which now hangs in the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio: a 1960s Fender Telecaster in Candy Apple Red. In the style of the Custom Shop's Relic guitars, the Muddy Waters Tribute Telecaster will be severely distressed to resemble the wear and tear that Muddy imposed on his guitar over the years.

"Muddy played that guitar constantly," says Vice President of Fender Electric Guitars, Mike Lewis. "Part of the mystique, part of the 'Mojo' of that guitar was that it was well worn from all that playing. All those great blues songs were created on that guitar."

According to interviews, Muddy had a custom neck fitted to his Tele by Fender. With the obvious exception of the Fender amplifier knobs used in place of the standard Tele controls, the guitar's other features are mostly stock, or were stock 40 years ago.

To recreate this classic artist's axe, Custom Shop R&D man George Blanda flew out to Cleveland and, with the permission of the Hall of Fame, took rulers, calipers and gauges to Muddy's Tele. In addition to all the specifications and vital statistics, Blanda took rolls of film to capture the features on every square inch of the guitar.

Blanda's research went back with him to the Custom Shop in Corona, California, where every ding, scratch and distinctive eccentricity - even the amp knobs - has been recreated for this limited run.