Fender® Road Worn Telecaster

This is a brand new Fender® Road Worn Telecaster® that we've modified with some very nice upgrades, which are detailed below. All original parts are included in the sale. The guitar weighs 6.85 pounds.

The Road Worn® model is designed to mimic an old guitar that's been heavily played over the years. But anything that's cool is worth making better, so we've made a few changes. First, we had to replace the saddles, so the thing will intonate properly. Whio wants to play an out-of-tune guitar? Next, we replaced the neck pickup with a Lindy Fralin Unbucker neck pickup, which has a strong coil and a weak coil. We've also installed one of our ToneShaper switching systems, so that the humbucker may be split. When you split an Unbucker, the strong coil remains on, which does a better job of mimicking a traditional Tele neck pickup. You can view the videos below and determine for yourself whether the split-humbucker sounds good.

We've also replaced the bridge pickup with a Fralin Blues Special pickup that complements the Unbucker perfectly. And the ToneShaper has a feature where it can change the way the volume pot loads the circuit, so that it can be optimized for the various switch positions. Here is the switching configuration for this guitar:

Position 5: neck pickup (humbucking), 500k volume pot
Position 4: neck pickup (split), 250k volume pot
Position 3: neck pickup (humbucking) + bridge pickup, 250k volume pot
Position 2: neck pickup (split) + bridge pickup, 250k volume pot
Position 1: bridge pickup, 250k volume pot

As you can see, there is lots of tonal variety here, and the tones are good!

This guitar cannot ship internationally. Sorry!

Video of actual guitar for sale	Same guitar, more ToneShaper detail
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