Fender Custom Shop Introduce 2013 Custom Collection

The Fender Custom Shop’s 2013 Custom Collection includes eight guitars and two basses - some of their best output to date. These guitars will be showing at the Winter NAMM show, but for those who aren't attending, here's the lowdown…

2013 Custom Deluxe Stratocaster


 

- Okume body with access heel and AAA flame maple veneer top in Faded Three-Color Sunburst, Candy Yellow, or Ebony Trans

- Urethane-finished AAA flame maple neck with a mid-’60s oval “C” back shape

- Dark rosewood or one-piece maple fretboard with 22 medium jumbo frets

- Custom Shop Fat ’50s pickups with five-way pickup switch and modern Strat wiring

- Chrome hardware with pearl button tuners

2013 Custom Deluxe Telecaster


 

- Ash body with access heel, top and rear contour and AAA flame maple veneer top in Faded Three-Color Sunburst, Candy Yellow, or Ebony Trans

- Urethane-finished AAA flame maple neck with a mid-’60s oval “C” back shape

- Dark rosewood or one-piece maple fretboard with 22 medium jumbo frets 

- Twisted Tele pickups with three-way switching and custom wiring and Greasebucket tone circuit 

- Chrome hardware with pearl button tuners

- Research Special Division (RSD)-designed bridge 

 

2013 Closet Classic Stratocaster Pro 


 

- Lightweight ash body available in Black, Faded Three-Color Sunburst, and White Blonde

nitrocellulose lacquer finish

- Quartersawn maple neck with early-’60s C back shape

- Dark rosewood or one-piece maple fretboard with 22 6105 frets

- Custom Shop Fat ’50s pickups with five-way pickup switching

- Locking tuners

 

2013 Closet Classic Telecaster Pro 


 

- Lightweight ash body available in Black, Faded Three-Color Sunburst, and White Blonde 

nitrocellulose lacquer finish 

- Quartersawn maple neck with a mid-’60s oval “C” back shape 

- Dark rosewood or one-piece maple fretboard with 22 6105 frets

- Twisted Tele pickups with three-way pickup switching and Custom Tele wiring 

- Greasebucket tone circuit 

- RSD-designed bridge

 

2013 Closet Classic Precision Bass Pro


 

- Premium alder with Black nitrocellulose lacquer finish

- One-piece quartersawn maple neck with a 1960 Oval “C” back shape and 20 frets

- Two Seymour Duncan Stacked 1951 P Bass pickups with Vintage Jazz Bass wiring 

- Vintage-style reverse tuners

- Dual volume controls and master tone control

- RSD-designed high mass bridge                                  

 

 

1972 Closet Classic Telecaster Custom 


 

- Lightweight ash body with Black urethane finish and comfortable belly-cut contour

- Maple neck with a 1969 “U” back shape

- Round-lam maple fingerboard with 21 6105 frets 

- “Wide-Range” Humbucking (neck) and Twisted Tele (bridge) pickups with Custom Tele wiring

- Nickel hardware with vintage-style bridge 

- Original three-bolt neck-joint design with Micro Tilt™

 

1951 Relic Precision Bass


 

- Slab ash body in Aged Lake Placid Blue, Melon Candy or Candy Tangerine with nitrocellulose lacquer finish 

- One-piece quartersawn maple neck with a ’51 P Bass “U” Back Shape and 20 frets

- Custom-wound Seymour Duncan® Stacked Precision Bass pickup

- Gold anodized pickguard

- Gold hardware

 

1952 Relic Telecaster


 

- Lightweight ash body in Aged Lake Placid Blue, Melon Candy or Candy Tangerine with nitrocellulose lacquer finish

- One-piece maple with a 10/56 large “V” back shape and 21 frets

- Twisted Tele pickups 

- Gold anodized pickguard

- Gold hardware

 

1956 Relic Stratocaster


 

- Lightweight ash body in Aged Placid Blue, Melon Candy or Candy Tangerine with nitrocellulose lacquer finish

- One-piece maple neck with a 10/56 large “V” back shape and 21 frets

- Custom Shop Fat ’50s pickups

- Gold anodized pickguard

- Gold hardware

 

1959 Relic Esquire


 

- Alder body in Faded Three-Color Sunburst

- Maple neck with a mid-’60s oval “C” back shape

- Dark rosewood fingerboard with 21 6105 frets

- Twisted Tele pickups 

- Modern Tele wiring with Eldred Esquire Modification

- Greasebucket tone circuit

- Three-ply parchment pickguard

- Nickel Hardware

 

All models include case and certificate for authenticity

For more information, visit www.fendercustomshop.com