Fender Custom Shop '54 Telecaster Time Capsule Electric Guitar, Wide Fade 2-Color Sunburst

Fulfilling its titular namesake, we have a true vintage encapsulation of a Fender with this Fender Custom Shop '54 Telecaster Time Capsule in a sunny Wide Fade 2-Color Sunburst. This classy image of a retro-minded Tele comes together with hot pickups, custom dimensions, and a unique build for a wholly impressive Custom Shop model. Stand aside: This Wide Fade's coming through.

This Fender Custom Shop '52 Telecaster starts off on the right foot with a unique build. A '52 Tele body is brought together with a two-piece, off-center ash body, sorted for weight. These two pieces are selected for their light weight, ensuring an easily handled body in total. In the body's assembly process, the two pieces of ash are brought together with an asymmetrical seam, making for a unique quality and an "off-center" design. This unique build is then decked in a NOS (New Old Stock) No-Buff Flash Coat Wide Fade 2-Color Sunburst lacquer finish and treated to the Custom Shop's Time Capsule finish treatment. Time Capsule, Fender Custom Shop's lightest finish wear treatment, creates the presentation of a finish affected by nothing but time – untouched by playwear or damage.

At this point, we bring on a 5/4 quartersawn maple neck in a 1954 "U" profile. This neck, notably thick with that "baseball bat" feel, builds up even more with custom dimensions, where we're met with a thickness of .940" at the first fret and .970" at the twelfth. This is truly a neck for all you '50s fanatics who can't get enough of a full feel. Filling out to a fingerboard bearing twenty-one frets, this Custom Shop uses 6105 Narrow Tall fret wire. This fingerboard offers up great articulation with thinner, higher frets perfect for precise playing across a modern-feeling 9.5" radius. Micarta Black facedots and sidedots line the length of the board as fret inlays.

Sonically, this Tele drops in two hand-wound Twisted Tele pickups. Known for their brighter, hotter tonal profile, these Twisted Tele single-coils make for excellent companions for louder, prouder, higher-output sounds. These single-coils are harnessed through a Fat '50s Tele wiring setup for easy tonal sculpting. Backed up by a suite of reliable hardware specs, this Custom Shop Tele features a Tele 51-54 bridge, Vintage-Style tuning machines, and a narrower bone nut. This setup enables effortless playability while an included Fender Custom Shop Strat/Tele Tweed hardshell case makes travel an afterthought.

A Tele with some truly telling custom specifications, this Fender Custom Shop is really something special. Jump in with this Time Capsule and get back to the future.