Fender Custom Shop 1954 Telecaster Faded/Aged Nocaster Blonde (USED, 2024)
T-Style · Single Coils Pickups · Used
The last year the Telecaster looked like this, rebuilt by the Custom Shop with a compound radius that brings its playability into the modern era.
1954 is the last year the Telecaster looked like this: black phenolic guard, blonde over ash, everything still built the way Leo built it before the Stratocaster showed up. A year later the white ABS guards arrived and that particular look was gone.The Custom Shop got the details right on this one. Two-piece select ash with the seam offset toward the treble side, exactly where the originals put it. One-piece rift sawn maple neck carved to a '54 "U," which is substantial without being cumbersome. The one concession to the present is the fingerboard: a compound 7 1/4" to 9 1/2" radius that keeps the vintage feel down at the nut and makes bending higher up the neck a bit easier. Said another way? It looks period correct but plays like it isn't.
The pickups are hand-wound Loaded '51 Nocasters, and they do what we want from early '50s Fenders - an articulate top end, real twang, a dry woody midrange, with slightly more muscle behind it than a strictly vintage-output set would give you.
The rest is period: medium vintage 47095 frets, Fat '50s Tele wiring, three-way switch, and the '51 to '54 bridge with brass saddles.
| Body | 2pc Ash (off-center seam) |
| Finish | Nitro |
| Color | Faded/Aged Nocaster Blonde |
| Aging Level | Journeyman |
| Pickup | Hand-wound '51 Nocaster |
| Controls | Volume / Tone / 3-Way Switch |
| Electronics | Fat '50s |
| Bridge | Vintage Style w/Brass Saddles |
| Tuners | Vintage Style |
| Neck | Maple (rift sawn) |
| Profile | 1954 "U" (.94-.97") |
| Radius | 7 1/4"-9 1/2" compound |
| Nut | 1.65" Bone |
| Frets | 47095 (Medium Vintage) |
| Inlays | Dots |
| Case | Hardshell w/CoA |
| Weight | 7lbs 1oz |
| Serial | R137541 |
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