Fender Brad Paisley Road Worn Telecaster, Silver Sparkle

Full Description

Lightweight Spruce/Paulownia/Spruce Body

Brad Paisley’s Signature Fender features an incredibly lightweight body, crafted from spruce and paulownia to provide an acoustic-like resonance. While paulownia is not known as a premium tonewood, its incredibly balanced and resonant tone makes it perfect when combined with spruce’s incredibly dynamic character. Using spruce for the top and bottom gives the guitar its luscious tonal quality, providing excellent clarity and a powerfully direct sound.

Maple Neck & Fingerboard

The signature Telecaster is fitted with a beautiful maple neck and fingerboard, providing the guitar with a lusciously bright tonal character and tightening up the overall tone with plenty of cut. The tonewood is perfect for a wide range of playing styles, delivering a powerfully sharp punch with excellent clarity when the strings are hit hard. Medium to light picking brings out the subtler tonal characteristics of the maple, providing the guitar with a lavish undertone of depth and crispness. Crafting both neck and fingerboard from maple helps improve the Tele’s sound, adding a slight sizzle to the high end while keeping the lows firm and mids snappy.

String Thru Construction

The Telecaster incorporates a string-through body construction to improve the overall tonality and sustain, transferring the vibrations and resonance from the strings to the body. The vintage style bridge features compensated brass saddles to keep the strings stable, allowing the guitar to be played harder without it going out of tune.

Resonant Synthetic Bone Nut

Featuring a carefully fitted synthetic bone nut, the signature guitar delivers an increased resonance and bright tonality. When compared to traditional plastic and Tusq materials used to construct guitar nuts, synthetic bone improves the vibration transfer between the string and tuning machines without dampening the tone.

The History of the Telecaster

The rich history of Fender guitars begins with the Telecaster. An indispensable instrument, the Telecaster was the world's first successful solid-body electric guitar. Perfected after two years of development - and a name change or two - the Telecaster debuted in February 1951 and began its steady ascent towards the stage and studio. Ingeniously engineered with the ability to be heard both loud and clear, it was a marvel of simple design elegance and workhorse functionality. It is perhaps a fitting testimony to its essential original rightness that the Telecaster design has hardly changed ever since.

About Brad Paisley

Brad Paisley is a famous American country music singer/songwriter, selling over 12 million albums and winning 3 Grammy awards, 14 academy of country music awards, 14 country music association awards, 2 American music awards, and many others. Born in 1972 in Glen Dale, West Virginia, Brad's life as a musician began when he received his first guitar from his grandfather, along with his love for country music. His first performance was at the age of 10 when he sang at his church, propelling him onto the path of becoming a star. At 13 Brad wrote his first song, ‘Born on Christmas Day’, which appeared on his Christmas album later in his career. In 1999, Paisley released his debut album and has released 9 more since.

Specifications

• Model Number: 0145902317
• Series: Artist

Body & Bridge

• Body: Spruce/Paulownia/Spruce
• Shape: Telecaster
• Bridge: 3-Saddle String-Through-Body Tele
• Construction: Bolt-On
• Finish: Road Worn Nitrocellulose Lacquer
• Colour: Silver Sparkle

Neck & Fingerboard

• Neck: Maple
• Profile: Enhanced ‘’V’’
• Scale Length: 25.5’’
• Truss Rid: Vintage-Style Heel Adjust
• Fingerboard: Maple
• Radius: 9.5’’
• Frets: 21 Medium-Jumbo
• Inlays: Black Dots
• Nut: Synthetic Bone
• Nut Width: 1.650’’

Electronics & Hardware

• Bridge Pickup: Custom Brad Paisley Spec Vintage-Style Telecaster
• Neck Pickup: ‘’Twisted’’ Single-Coil Tele
• Controls: Master Volume, Master Tone
• Pickup Switching: 3-Position Blade
  • Position 1: Bridge Pickup
  • Position 2: Bridge & Neck Pickups
  • Position 3: Neck Pickup
• Tuning Machines: Vintage Style
• Control Knobs: Knurled Flat-Top
• Bridge Saddles: Compensated Brass
• Pickguard: Clear w/Black & Silver Paisleys
• Neck Plate: 4-Bolt
• Hardware: Nickel/Chrome
• Strings: Fender USA 250L, NPS (.009-.042 Gauges)
• Case Included: Deluxe Gig Bag