Fender Custom Shop 50s Telecaster DLX Closet Classic Electric Guitar, Copper, David Brown Masterbuilt

When it comes to custom guitars, there's few places you could go to find something like this Fender Custom Shop '50s Telecaster Masterbuilt by David Brown in a rich Copper finish. This '50s-style Tele, personally built by Fender Master Builder David Brown, comes together with unique aesthetics, high-quality electronics, and a masterful assembly from an artist's hands.

This Fender Custom Shop '50s Telecaster sets off in its musical journey with a two-piece ash body. A more pronounced lower-end response makes this ash body uniquely resonant while it serves as an exceptional canvas to wrap a Copper-colored lacquer finish around. This Masterbuilt Custom Shop features a thin lacquer finish with a Fender Custom Shop Deluxe Closet Classic finish treatment. Deluxe Closet Classic appears as a finish treatment with a level of finish wear designed to capture the essence of a guitar well-kept in good condition for decades, ultimately only touched by the hands of time.

From here, a 5/4 quartersawn maple neck reaches out in a 52 Style "U" profile. Retaining more of your proverbial "baseball bat" feel in hand, this neck feels particularly vintage and is decked in a thin satin lacquer finish. Smooth and silky, this quartersawn pick couples a comfortable feel in the palm and a full, retro-minded shape. Its fingerboard lines up twenty-one frets utilizing Vintage Upgrade (45085) fret wire. Meant to capture the essence of '50s and '60s Fenders with fret sizes only slightly larger than original Fender models, this Vintage Upgrade fret wire makes for a comfortable and articulate experience. This fingerboard measures with a compound radius of 7.25" to 9.50". Where this lands this Tele's playability is with a board that starts rounder near the nut for easier chords and flattens out toward the body for smoother soloing.

For its voice, this Masterbuilt '50s Telecaster employs a robust set of electronics. Onboard, two 50-51 Blackguard Tele single-coil pickups summon enormously expressive single-coil Tele twang. These two pickups are hand-wound by none other than the illustrious Josefina Campos and play with exceptional response and their own one-of-a-kind tonal profile. A Modern Tele wiring setup shapes these hand-wounds in an incredibly intuitive, no-frills fashion.

This bold sonic palette is backed up by a sturdy hardware setup. A Nocaster bridge lands at the base of the scale and is matched with a bone nut and Vintage-Style tuning machines at the opposite end. Fender Custom Shop Closet Classic hardware finish treatments appear across the entire guitar to push the presentation solidly into a vintage aesthetic. This Masterbuilt model travels with an included Fender Custom Shop Strat/Tele Blonde hardshell case.

From a master's hands to ours, we're delighted to share this Masterbuilt model and all the timeless style it exudes.