Fender Custom Shop '50s Telecaster Custom Journeyman, Faded Aged Teal Green Metallic

Straight from our friends out west comes this Fender Custom Shop ‘50s Telecaster Custom Journeyman in a lived-in but undeniably fresh Faded Aged Teal Green Metallic finish. The Journeyman Relic finish job on this piece gives it an overall well-loved and lived-in feeling that matches with modern appointments and playability.

This Fender Custom Shop ‘50s Telecaster Custom Journeyman begins with a two-piece ash body, sorted for weight. Its ‘52 Tele body style feels and handles as you’ve always known with that rich Journeyman Relic Teal Green Metallic finish simulating years in the case, on the road, under stage lights, the whole nine yards. As with many FCS finishes, minor dings and dents are designed into this finish to really bring that road-worn feel to life. What’s more, this Tele features top and bottom body binding that tie the whole package together, visually.

Assembled with a plain grain maple neck shaped in a ’60 Style Oval “C” profile, this Tele has a solid grip in the left hand. This neck contrasts the finish of the body by bearing an unfinished Relic treatment, appearing rubbed down and stripped of a finish job. The neck is matched with a 9mm AAA rosewood fingerboard with twenty-one frets with classic Medium Jumbo (6150) sized wire. Micarta White .250 face dots line the board. Feeling out the neck from lower to higher sections, the neck measures .790” at the first fret and .930” at the twelfth.

Sonically, this Tele comes to life with a setup that is both tonally and visually unique. A hand wound 55/56 single-coil Tele pickup in the neck position matches with a hand wound Crushed Blackguard Tele pickup in the bridge for a classic sound. These pickups produce the great twang and snap the Telecaster is known for, but something that’s sure to catch some eyes is this FCS’s reverse-angle bridge pickup route and reverse control plate assembly. In addition, this Tele comes equipped with a number of fine hardware features like a 1.625” bone nut, a ‘50s truss rod and Vintage Fender tuning keys. Included with this Telecaster is a Fender Custom Shop Tweed case.

Encapsulating so much of what makes the Telecaster great with some real off-the-wall adjustments, this Fender Custom Shop Tele truly makes you look twice.