Fender Esquire-Telecaster 6lb. Custom built w/ custom shop case By former Fender artist and worker.

Hello all…My name is Ray Edwards.
I worked at Fender guitars in Corona for many years on the production line.
I have been building guitars for almost 20 years before deciding to try and get my foot in to Fender and create a name hopefully for myself.
You know it’s such a long story…basically I was able to make some friendships create guitars w/ John Cruz and Ron Thorn for the Namm show, I ended up leaving Fender for .strandberg* guitars about 5 months ago…I was offered a deal I couldn’t turn down and now I am going to  continue to create some guitars I hope will find good home. 
This guitar is (6lbs.) swamp ash, all gold hardware w/ gold (Brian May) strings all Fender components and parts it is not from the Fender Custom shop…no certificate of Authenticity, although I can write something up if you want.

There are a couple dings on it, nothing major I sanded and re-buffed and polished it, it comes with a FCS case I got from Wildwood guitars( it has a small scratch/dent on it) but it is brand new, I labeled as used but that’s because of the couple spots that aren’t perfect. 
It also has a Fender strap, the Fender Corona neck is painted on the headstock orange w/ black transparent on top, so sometimes it looks black and in the light you can see the orange pop through…I always like to try new things.

I just started building this one day (never intended on a complete build) and over two years l think it came out pretty nice…I know I’m not describing this piece very much if you have any questions just hit me up and I’ll give you some more specs on this. Thanks for looking!