Fender Custom Shop Artisan Korina Telecaster Aged Natural With Case

New for 2023, the Fender Custom Shop introduces the Artisan Korina Tele, which features a beautifully crafted thinline body fashioned from select korina. This light and fine-grained west African mahogany has exquisite looks and tonal qualities similar to western mahogany varieties, delivering warm, bass-friendly tone and sweetly responsive midrange. These qualities in turn complement the open, resonant tone of the two-piece semi-hollow body, which features a single f-hole and a sumptuous Aged Natural NOS lacquer finish.

Its quartersawn maple neck has a comfortable '60-style Oval "C" profile and is roasted for even more beauty and stability, topped by a compound-radius (9.5"-12") round-lam rosewood fingerboard with 21 jumbo (6100) frets and a bone nut. The Custom Shop hand-wound '50/'51 Blackguard bridge pickup is a faithful recreation of the earliest Blackguard Telecaster^® pickup, with extra-large alnico 3 magnets wrapped with thinner wire to produce that sweet early-'50s Tele tone - perfectly balanced with versatility of the Custom Shop P90 neck pickup.

Other premium features include "Dual-Stack" HS Tele wiring, three-way pickup switch, single-ply brown shell pickguard, '58-'63 Tele bridge with Custom Shop RSD (Research Special Design) compensated brass saddles, vintage-style tuners, wing string tree, deluxe hardshell case, strap and certificate of authenticity. 

Product Specs

General

SERIES: Artisan
ORIENTATION: Right-Hand
COLOR: Aged Natural
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: US

Neck

HEADSTOCK: Stratocaster® Small
NECK MATERIAL: Roasted Quartersawn Maple
NECK FINISH: Nitrocellulose Lacquer
NECK SHAPE: 60s Oval "C"
NECK THICKNESS: .790"
NECK BUTT WIDTH: 2.200"
NECK THICKNESS 12TH FRET: .930"
FINGERBOARD RADIUS: 9.5" to 12" Compound Radius
FINGERBOARD MATERIAL: Round-Laminated Rosewood
POSITION INLAYS: Vintage Clay Dot
SIDE DOTS: Vintage Clay
NUMBER OF FRETS: 21
TRUSS ROD: Early '60s
STRING NUT: Bone
NUT WIDTH: 1.650" (42 mm)
NUT MATERIAL: Bone
HEADSTOCK THICKNESS: 0.575"
FRET SIZE: Jumbo (6100)
SCALE LENGTH: 25.5" (64.77 cm)

Hardware

BRIDGE: 58-'63 Tele® Bridge with Brass RSD Saddles
PICKGUARD: 4-Ply Brown Shell
CONTROL KNOBS: Knurled Chrome
SWITCH TIP: Barrel Style, Black
HARDWARE FINISH: Nickel/Chrome
TUNING MACHINES: Vintage-Style with Fender® Logo, Tortoiseshell Buttons
STRING TREES: Single-Wing
STRINGS: Nickel Plated Steel (.010-.046 Gauges)
NECK PLATE: 4-Bolt with Custom Shop "V" Logo

Body

BODY: Korina
BODY FINISH: Nitrocellulose Lacquer with WLS Undercoat
BODY SHAPE: Telecaster®
BODY MATERIAL: Korina

Electronics

BRIDGE PICKUP: Custom Shop Hand-Wound '50-'51 Blackguard
NECK PICKUP: Custom Shop P90
PICKUP CONFIGURATION: SS
CONTROLS: Master Volume, Master Tone
SWITCHING: 3-Position Blade: Position 1. Bridge Pickup, Position 2. Bridge and Neck Pickups, Position 3. Neck Pickup

Accessories

INCLUDED ACCESSORIES: Deluxe Hardshell Case, Strap and Certificate of Authenticity.