Fender Custom Shop 2018 Artisan Spalted Maple Telecaster Electric Guitar

The Artisan Spalted Maple Tele combines an attractive design with the best playability and tone from the Fender Custom Shop. The Artisan Spalted Maple Tele features a roasted alder body and spalted maple top, delivering a stunning look combined with beautiful resonance. With a 4A roasted flame maple neck and Macassar ebony fingerboard, you get a clever combination of tonewoods that will captivate your audience's eyes and ears.

Other features include a NOS lacquer finish, a 63-style C-shaped neck profile, a 9.5-12" compound-radius fingerboard, 21 6105 frets, hand-wound Custom Shop Loaded Nocaster® pickups, 3-way switching, Fat '50s Tele wiring, a gold anodized pickguard, an RSD Tele bridge with compensated brass saddles, vintage-style tuning machines with Fender logo, a bone nut and wing string tree. Includes a deluxe hardshell case, strap, and Certificate of Authenticity.

Specification:

• Body Shape: Telecaster®
• Body Material: Roasted Alder with Spalted Maple Top
• Body Finish: Nitrocellulose Lacquer Over Urethane Finish
• Fretboard Material: Macassar Ebony
• Fretboard Radius: 9.5" to 12" Compound Radius (241mm-305mm)
• Scale Length: 25.5" (648 mm)
• No. of Frets: 21
• Fretboard Inlays: Mother-of-Pearl Dots
• Pickups: Custom Shop Hand-Wound Loaded '51 Nocaster®
• Bridge: RSD Telecaster®
• Pickguard: 1-Ply Gold Anodized Aluminum
• Strings: Fender® USA 250R Nickel Plated Steel (.010-.046 Gauges)
• Tuning Machines: Vintage-Style with Fender Logo
• Hardware Finish: Nickel/Chrome
• Case: Deluxe Hardshell Case