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Fender Custom Shop Telecaster 1959 Relic
Guitar description
I was delighted to get my hands on this 59 Relic Tele from the Fender Custom Shop. This example has a 10" radius, medium jumbo frets and a 65 C Strat neck shape with a lovely AAA rosewood board. A great combo of classic Tele tones with a more Strat like feel to the neck and playability. The 10" radius and medium jumbo frets make it super playable and we've set it up perfectly so it has a great action. There is plenty of lively woody twang to this guitar unplugged, quite satisfying to play it unplugged in fact. But fire it up and it sounds amazing, a great pickup combo and just an awesome guitar.
Guitar specification
| Country of manufacture | USA |
|---|---|
| Fret board radius | 10 |
| Body | Alder 2 piece |
| Candy | Present inc Cert |
| Case | Original Black case |
| Frets | Medium Jumbo |
| Neck | Maple / Rosewood |
| Neck shape | 65 Strat C |
| Number of frets | 21 |
| Pickups | N: 56 / 57 Tele B: 51 Nocaster |
| Neck depth @ 12th fret | 24.79mm |
| Neck width @ 12th fret | 51.67mm |
| String action (low E, 12th fret) | 1.3mm |
| String action (high E, 12th fret) | 1.3mm |
| Nut slot depth | 21.41mm |
| Nut width | 41.9mm |
Guitar condition
Superb original condition. Lovely, been played but very little use and remains in amazingly good condition.
What did we do?
- Action setup and string-height adjustment
- Cleaned
- Fret dress and polish
- Fret level
- New strings
- Nut lubrication
- Strip-down authenticity check
- Truss-rod adjustment
- New strings — daddario 9 - 42
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