Fender ’72 Tele Custom LTD w/ Bigsby, Natural

Full Description

Classic Alder Body

The Limited-Edition Tele Custom features a lightweight alder body to produce balanced, resonant tones with plenty of clarity and midrange bite, ideal for the versatile musician. The alder tonewood provides a decent amount of sustain, creating bright, sizzling highs, beautifully rounded lows, and a beefy midrange. Fender have used alder as their tonewood of choice since the 1950s, as the balanced response and slight upper middle definition makes it perfect for rock and blues playing.

Maple Neck & Fingerboard

Fitted with a beautiful maple neck and fingerboard, the Fender Telecaster delivers a lusciously bright tonal character, with plenty of tightness and 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 this guitar with a lavish undertone of depth and crispness. Crafting both the neck and fingerboard from maple helps improve the Tele’s sound by adding a slight sizzle to the high end, while keeping the lows firm and mids snappy.

Fender ‘’Wide Range’’ Humbucker & Standard Tele Single-Coil

The Classic Series Tele is equipped with a humbucker and single-coil pickup, delivering an incredibly versatile tone suitable for lead and rhythm work. The bridge pickup is Fender’s ‘’wide range’’ humbucker, delivering a wide dynamic range and a crunchy, fat set of tones with excellent clarity. The standard single-coil Tele neck pickup offers classic Fender sounds with plenty of cut, allowing players to punch through dense mixes. Using both pickups together unleashes the Telecaster’s tonal capabilities, offering snappy leads, thick rhythms, and pure vintage Fender sounds suitable for any situation.

Bigsby Tremolo Bridge

Featuring a unique Fender Bigsby vibrato tremolo bridge, the '72 Tele Custom allows you to bend the pitch of notes and chords with the robust whammy bar. With a roller bridge system and spring-loaded arm pushing down the whammy bar allows the string tension to be relieved, lowering the pitch. The pressure spring counterbalances the natural tension of the strings, allowing the guitar to hold tuning when in neutral position.

Resonant Synthetic Bone Nut

Featuring a carefully fitted synthetic bone nut, the '72 Tele Custom LTD 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.

Specifications

• Model Number: 0141212321
• Series: Classic

Body & Bridge

• Body: Alder
• Shape: Telecaster
• Bridge: Bigsby
• Construction: Bolt-On
• Finish: Natural

Neck & Fingerboard

• Neck: Maple
• Profile: ''C'' Shape
• Scale Length: 25.5
• Fingerboard: Maple
• Radius: 7.25''
• Frets: 20 Vitnage Style
• Inlays: Black Dots
• Nut: Synthetic Bone
• Nut Width: 1.650''

Electronics & Hardware

• Bridge Pickup: Classic Series Single-Coil Tele
• Neck Pickup: Fender ''Wide Range'' Humbucker
• Controls: 2 x Volume, 2 x Tone
• Switching: 3-Position Toggle
  • Position 1: Bridge Pickup
  • Position 2: Bridge & Neck Pickups
  • Position 3: Neck Pickup
• Tuning Machines: Fender Vintage ‘’F’’ Stamped
• Control Knobs: Skirted Amp Knobs
• Pickguard: 3-Ply Black
• Neck Plate: 3-Bolt ‘’F’’ Stamped w/Micro-Tilt
• Truss Rod: Bullet Style
• Hardware: Chrome
• Strings: USA 250L, NPS (.009-.042 Gauges)