More about 1953 Heavy Relic® Telecaster®
Hearkening back to the exciting period when the Telecaster was a “new-fangled” instrument with surging popularity, the 1953 Heavy Relic Telecaster combines the sound and style of the past with modern features and playability. The lightweight two-piece ash body wears a carefully aged nitrocellulose lacquer finish, giving it the look and feel of a road dog that’s only seen the inside of a case once or twice during its service.
A pair of hand-wound Custom Shop single-coil pickups provides the classic Tele tone—the Twisted Tele neck pickup is joined by a fat-sounding “Broadcaster” bridge pickup for an unbeatable combination. Modern wiring, including a Greasebucket tone circuit that preserves volume when rolling back the tone control, shapes the pickups’ voice.
Other sterling features include a tinted quartersawn maple neck with “U”-shaped profile, 9.5”-radius maple fingerboard, 21 6100 jumbo frets, single-ply black phenolic pickguard, ‘51/’54 bridge with bend brass saddles, vintage-style tuning machines with Fender logo, bone nut and round string tree. Includes a deluxe hardshell case, strap and Certificate of Authenticity.
Specs
General
| Model Name: | 1953 Heavy Relic® Telecaster®, Maple Fingerboard, |
| Model Number: | 1550122803 |
| Series: | Time Machine |
| Color: | Wide Fade Two Color Sunburst |
Body
| Body Shape: | Telecaster® |
| Body Material: | 2-Piece Select Ash |
| Body Finish: | Nitrocellulose Lacquer |
Neck
| Neck Material: | Quartersawn Maple |
| Neck Shape: | Early ’50s “U” |
| Scale Length: | 25.5″ (648 mm) |
| Fingerboard Radius: | 9.5″ (241 mm) |
| Number of Frets: | 21 |
| Fret Size: | 6100 Jumbo |
| String Nut: | Bone |
| Nut Width: | 1.650″ (42 mm) |
| Neck Plate: | 4-Bolt Vintage-Style |
| Neck Finish: | Nitrocellulose Lacquer |
| Fingerboard: | 1-Piece Quartersawn Maple Neck |
| Position Inlays: | Micarta Black |
Electronics
| Bridge Pickup: | Custom Shop Handwound Original Blackguard Tele® Bridge |
| Neck Pickup: | Custom Shop Hand-Wound “Twisted” Tele® Single-Coil |
| Controls: | Volume, Tone |
| Pickup Switching: | 3-Position Blade: Position 1. Bridge Pickup, Position 2. Bridge and Neck Pickups, Position 3. Neck Pickup |
| Pickup Configuration: | SS |
| Special Electronics: | Modern Tele® Wiring with Greasebucket Tone Circuit |
Hardware
| Bridge: | 3-Saddle American Vintage Strings-Through-Body Tele with Compensated Brass Saddles |
| Tuning Machines: | Vintage-Style with Fender Logo |
| Orientation: | Right-Hand |
| Pickguard: | Relic 1-Ply Black Phenolic |
| Control Knobs: | Knurled Dome |
Miscellaneous
| Strings: | Fender® USA, NPS, (.010-.046 Gauges) |
| Included Accessories: | Deluxe Hardshell Case, Strap, Certificate of Authenticity |