New for 2024, the Fender Custom Shop introduces the 1963 Telecaster® Relic®. A wonderfully crafted reproduction of the Telecaster® from the golden era of Fender's past, this guitar is a perfect combination of this period's appointments.

The 2-piece select alder body is artfully aged in a Relic® lacquer Fiesta Red finish and is paired with a rift-sawn maple neck with '60s-style Oval "C" back-shape and a round-laminated rosewood fingerboard. With the throaty midrange and bite of a Custom Shop hand-wound Original Blackguard bridge pickup and the crystalline clarity of a Custom Shop hand-wound Twisted Tele® neck pickup, this guitar delivers classic Telecaster® tone with astonishing versatility.

Other premium features include a 9.5" radius, 21 narrow tall (6105) frets, Modern Tele® wiring with Greasebucket™ tone circuit, 3-way switch, 3-ply mint-green pickguard, '58-'63 Tele® bridge with threaded steel saddles, vintage-style tuning machines, bone nut, wing string tree, deluxe hardshell case, strap and certificate of authenticity.

General:

- Model Name: 1963 Telecaster® Relic®, 3A Rosewood Fingerboard, Fiesta Red

- Series: Time Machine™

- Color: Aged Fiesta Red

Body:

- Body Shape: Telecaster®

- Body Material: 2-Piece Select Alder

- Body Finish: Nitrocellulose Lacquer

Neck:

- Neck Material: Rift-Sawn Maple

- Neck Shape: '60s Oval "C"

- Scale Length: 25.5" (64.77 cm)

- Fingerboard Radius: 9.5" (241 mm)

- Number of Frets: 21

- Fret Size: Narrow Tall (6105)

- String Nut: Bone

- Nut Width: 1.650" (42 mm)

- Headstock: Telecaster®

- Neck Plate: 4-Bolt with Custom Shop "V" Logo, Serialized

- Neck Finish: Nitrocellulose Lacquer

- Fingerboard: 3A Rosewood

- Position Inlays: Vintage Clay Dot

Electronics:

- Bridge Pickup: Custom Shop Hand-Wound Original Blackguard Single-Coil Tele®

- Neck Pickup: Custom Shop Hand-Wound Twisted Single-Coil Tele®

- Controls: Master Volume, Master Tone

- Pickup Switching: 3-Position Blade: Position 1 (Bridge Pickup), Position 2 (Bridge and Neck Pickups), Position 3 (Neck Pickup)

- Pickup Configuration: SS

Hardware:

- Bridge: 3-Saddle Vintage-Style Strings-Through-Body Tele® with Threaded Steel Barrel Saddles

- Tuning Machines: Vintage-Style with Fender® Logo

- Orientation: Right-Hand

- Hardware Finish: Nickel/Chrome

- Pickguard: 3-Ply Mint Green

- Control Knobs: Knurled Chrome

- Switch Tips: Top-Hat Style, Black

Miscellaneous:

- Strings: Nickel-Plated Steel (0.010 - 0.046 Gauges)

- Included Accessories: Deluxe Hardshell Case, Strap and Certificate of Authenticity

* Features and Specifications Subject to Change Without Notice