Selling a freshly-built Esquire/Telecaster. Playability is excellent, and the tone gives you that classic Fender Tele tone but with more beef and a modern bridge.
Specs include: - Body is an MJT finished alder body by Guitar Mill in Candy Apple Red nitro lacquer. This CAR is gorgeous! Body weight was about 4.6 pounds. - Neck is a Musikraft neck that was also finished by Mark Jenny in nitro and features a Brazilian rosewood fretboard, a comfortable C profile that is approximately 0.82” at the first fret. Extremely fast and playable. - Cavalier Fat Lion pickup - Great Tele bridge at 8.92k output that delivers twang and attitude in spades! - Gotoh modern six-saddle bridge - Kluson Deluxe tuners - Controls are handwired with cloth pushback wire and feature CTS pots, Mallory capacitors, and an Oak Grigsby switch, topped off with Callaham knurled knobs.
This is wired as an Esquire with the “Eldred” mod for a “cocked wah” sound in the forward position. It’s the most versatile single-pickup guitar I’ve ever played and provides great tone whether it’s clean, bluesy or just downright nasty.
The body is routed for a neck pickup and has been fully shielded with copper tape. So if you want to convert it to a two-pickup Tele, you just need a pickup, a standard pickguard and some soldering time on the controls to switch it over, and I used and 8-hole guard so it would be ready to convert.
Finish is beautiful is in very good condition overall. This is a relatively thin finish and should wear in nicely. There are a couple spots along the edge where the gold undercoat glows slightly through the CAR, which is pretty cool. Since I first built it up, it’s starting to develop some light check marks here and there, which I’ve tried to show in some of the close-ups. There are a couple small chips by the output jack and one of the ferrules during installation, but overall it’s pretty clean and should wear in nicely as a light relic.
This is overall in excellent condition, plays and sounds fantastic. Happy to provide more pics or details upon request!
