CMCH Ultralight 50s Custom Telecaster Relic ala Fender Shop Danocaster Nash 1957

Description

**Over 70 HD images in the description**
***Price a lot more negotiable through Instagram -  message me there!***
CM Custom Historics is proud to offer this freshly-completed pro-built 50’s aged Surf Green feather-weight Telecaster tribute in the vein of a late 50's model with a lovely figured one-piece maple neck.  Painstakingly aged with realistic heavy play wear and tremendous attention to detail. This tele is not for the faint of heart and indeed looks and feels over 60 years old. A great deal of man-hours were put into crafting this instrument. It sounds quintessentially “Tele” and feels like an old friend. This one is made more to a modern spec but with the heavily played look of a well-loved old tele. It has a modern D-to-C shape profile that is fast (NOT a baseball bat!) and a sleek 10" radius that lets you bend notes all the way up the neck with ease. It’s a featherweight at 5.10 lbs and resonates like an old mellowed out tele should with wonderful snap and a “woody” tone. This guitar will indeed fool a lot of people. Leave your real-deal vintage Tele safe and sound its case and take this one to the stage. You won’t be disappointed. Please do compare this guitar to all of the other mass-produced “relics” of the world…which would you choose? It looks and feels the part and begs to be played. You’d be hard pressed to find another guitar that looks and feels this realistic without paying over K. I aimed to capture the vibe of a guitar that was played hard and lovingly over the decades and put away soaking wet. That being said, this guitar is its own beast in terms of looks, feel, and playability. It’d be hard to believe this guitar is not the real deal when looking at it - or even holding it in your hands, for that matter. It feels like a dream and old friend. It resonates like an old guitar should with that “bell-like” tone. It plays well with low action that rings out up and down the board and is ready for the stage and/or studio.
Specs are as follows:
-Premium repurposed sassafras body (like the new masterbuilt custom shop models and rumored to be on some real deal vintage 50's models).
-Aged Surf Green turned to a more ambe hue (hand mixed using the correct GM color code from a 1956 Cadillac).
-One piece, birdseye and flame figured medium C shaped neck with modern 10" radius and two way truss-rod, and fresh Jescar medium jumbo frets—a little over 1 5/8ths at the nut. (approximately .83 at 1st fret), two-way modern Stewmac "hot rod" truss rod.
-Hand-cut unbleached and aged bone nut (from raw bone).
-100% Nitrocellulose Lacquer clearcoat finish on both body and neck with beautiful REAL weather checking throughout--period correct acrylic lacquer basecoat also shows checking as well as seen in pics (no plasticizer – this is the old school stuff that Fender used back in the day with the same application process on what would've been a custom color guitar).
-Expertly aged period-correct nickel and chrome (where necessary) hardware throughout.
-Weighs in at a very lean ‘n’ light 5.10 lbs. and resonates like a piano unplugged (plays with great action up and down the board).
-CM custom wound Alnico 5 wax potted 50's Tele spec bridge and neck pickup for a little extra punch when needed (6.8k bridge and 6.4k neck) but still retains that classic tele spank; Kinman treble bleed mod---3 way CRL switch 250k CTS pots, .022 “Russian greenie” capacitor - cloth wire throughout.
-Black "poodle style" case is included! (as pictured in last photo)
-About 1/4th of the price of a Masterbuilt “Relic” Custom shop—and will rival it in terms of looks, feel, tone, and playability (if this said Danocaster on the headstock it’d be more than double price and wouldn’t last 5 minutes).
-Built lovingly and proudly in Queens, NYC.
THE NITTY GRITTY: This guitar is quite resonant and feels 60 years old. You won't find another custom build with more realistic neck play wear anywhere, short of it being a real 50's tele, that is. I can guarantee. There are a lot of “relic” aka “partscaster” boutique builders out there today. Some, in my opinion are a far cry of what an old guitar looks like (yet they still retail for more than my asking price) while others a lot more accurate with realistic wear. We have Nash, MJT, Danocaster (awesome!), Hess (top notch!), Nachocaster (the true Telecaster historian!). Everyone has their own interpretation and “artistic” rendition of what a “vintage” guitar should look like. This is merely my interpretation. In the end, we are all just building “partscasters”—that’s the way Leo Fender intended it! That being said, this is not a “thrown together” Frankenstein guitar with crappy parts with nonsensical play wear. It was methodically crafted with the pro player in mind. It comes set-up with leveled and dressed frets and ready to play. And it undoubtedly looks the part. This is a labor of love and something I do in my down-time, but is indeed labor-intensive. Please keep that in mind before making a lowball offer. This guitar did not build (cut, route, sand, prep, paint, clear coat, wet-sand, wire, cut nut, do fretwork, age) itself! I have a long list of references that includes a few famous guitarists. Please let the photos speak for themselves as I stand by my work.
Feel free to message me with questions or for extra photos. NOTE: also listed on Ebay and there are over 40 hi-resolution photos. I have LOTS of photos that I’d love to share that I could not fit into the listing. If you would like to see the guitar in person, or just wanna shoot the shiz about guitars, OR send me hate mail, please message or call Chris 516-551-2487.
Local pickup is welcome!
I also recently made an Instagram account to document some of my builds and restoration work. Please search for CM Custom Historics. Buy it cheaper direct from me on Instagram!
This guitar is for sale locally and on other platforms as well (social media, ebay, craigslist, reverb, etc and
I reserve the right to end listing at anytime
- when she's gone, she's gone - don't sleep on it!)
Also note: playing styles vary greatly. Some adjusting might be necessary to fully accommodate your personal playing style and tastes (i.e. adjusting saddles and or truss rods over time). Guitars are also very sensitive instruments and are easily effected by climate changes—even one day to the next! No warranties are expressed or implied in that sense – especially, say, 3 months from now. Guitars technically should be setup at least 3-times per year. That being said, all final adjustments and setups on my builds are done through an amplifier, not acoustically (which is how preliminary setups are conducted). I typically setup my guitars to my preference (medium action) and the necks on my builds are always straight. Please understand that an individual guitars setup is a personal preference. If you don't have the capability of setting up guitars yourself, its very wise to take the guitar to a local tech you're comfortable with to do a setup to your liking and who is familiar with your preferences.
I do not accept returns if you do not like how the guitar plays out of the box.
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