Outlaw Style with a Whole Lotta Character
The Fender Custom Shop never fails to amaze, but this Cunife Tele has Sweetwater’s guitar experts especially impressed. This hyper-customized creation inventively pairs timeless style and precision engineering in a Texas-style character befitting its tonal heat. A roasted pine body features a beautifully figured knotty pine top and bottom, which are resonant and resilient and adorned with rope purfling for added panache. A round-laminated rosewood fingerboard features 21 frets, sitting atop a '60s-style oval “C” profile, carved into a roasted 2A birdseye maple neck to accommodate a diverse array of playing styles. Humbucking Cunife and Hand-wound Texas Special pickups blend tremendous tonal potential with glistening heat. You'll also get to the heart of your expression with the Bigsby B-5 bridge and tailpiece, making this a Tele out of time in all the right ways.
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Sound beyond the pines
Pine populates the entire body of this Tele, roasted throughout, with figured knotty pine in the top and bottom. Known for its light weight, pine delivers a warm tone throughout, with great natural resonance and a glistening upper end. The roasted 2A birdseye maple neck produces clear, precise tones, with straightforward basses and responsive middle and higher registers. A round-laminated rosewood fingerboard wraps the tone in a warm clarity, finishing off with a glassy veneer with great articulation.
Stable design with plenty of space
This Cunife Tele can handle just about anything you could throw at it. Its roasted 2A birdseye maple neck isn’t just there for looks — it’s light, sturdy, and highly resilient, making it great for gigging across various climates with minimal maintenance (a trait augmented by roasting it). Keeping with classic detailing, the round-laminated rosewood fingerboard boasts 21 narrow-tall (6105) frets across a 9.5-inch radius. Versatility abounds, thanks to the '60s-style oval “C” neck profile, making any player — no matter the style — feel right at home, so long as they can handle these tones. Vintage-style tuning machines, a bone nut, and a wing-string tree complement the Bigsby B-5 bridge and tailpiece, pairing historic flair with massive expressive potential.
Southern heat with classic panache
Fender’s hybridized Tele owes no small part of its tremendous tone to its unique pickup pair. A Cunife humbucking pickup sits in the neck slot, using classic CuNiFe magnets to deliver a relentlessly vintage hi-fi clarity that won’t quit at any volume. Down below, the Fender Custom Shop’s Hand-wound Texas Special single-coil pickup are stocked with Alnico V magnets and an overwound enamel-coated magnet wire, providing a clear, warm profile with immense presence. Featuring a 3-way switch with dual-stack HS Tele wiring, scorching tones with classic color score as much range as this Telecaster is diverse.
Fender Limited-edition Cunife Telecaster Custom Journeyman Relic Features:
- Humbucking Cunife neck pickup is paired with a Custom Shop Hand-wound Texas Special single-coil bridge pickup to produce vintage, hi-fi tone that’s warm, clear, and raw
- Roasted pine body is adorned with figured knotty pine top and bottom for gorgeous, natural character unique to each guitar
- Roasted 2A birdseye maple neck is lightweight, sturdy, and climate adaptable, producing crisp, balanced tones with great projection
- Round-laminated rosewood fingerboard is era-accurate, with warm tones and glassy articulation
- Classic '60s oval “C” profile is era-accurate and versatile, accommodating any number of playstyles with comfort
- 3-way switch wires pickups with dual-stack HS Tele wiring, fueling the unique heat of this Tele
- 21 narrow-tall (6105) frets sprawl the vintage compound-radius (7.25–9.5-inch) fingerboard
- Vintage-style tuners, wing-string tree, and bone nut provide stable, reliable tone
- Bigsby B-5 bridge and tailpiece pair classic detailing with tremendous expression
- Deluxe hardshell case, strap, and certificate of authenticity included
