A Specially Ordered Iradescant Rainbow Holo-Flake Mix Telecaster Custom Plus… (SOLD)

This unique Iradescant Rainbow Holo-Flake Mix Telecaster Custom Plus was specially built by master guitar builder Larry Brooks at the Fender Custom Shop in September 1993. This very unusual solid alder body guitar weighs just 7.90 lbs. and has a comfortable nut width of just under 1 11/16 inches, a nice uniform medium neck profile, and a scale length of 25 1/2 inches. Four-bolt maple neck with Fender tilt mechanism and slab rosewood fretboard with 21 medium frets and inlaid white dot position markers. Headstock with modern Fender logo in silver outlined in black. Ezy-glider string tree. Individual Fender tuners with five-sided pearloid buttons. On the back of the headstock is a gold decal "Custom Built / Larry L. Brooks / Fender U.S.A." Four-bolt neck-plate engraved with "Fender". Pearloid over three-layer white/black/white plastic pickguard with eight screws One Fender Lace Sensor Blue pickup in the neck position with a great fat output of 12.00k, and two Fender Lace Sensor Red pickups (mounted dually) in the bridge position with outputs of 13.67k and 13.85k. Two controls (one volume, one tone) plus three-way pickup selector switch and also a three-way mini-toggle switch specifically for the two bridge pickups, all on metal plate adjoining pickguard. Fender chrome knobs with flat tops and knurled sides. American Standard combined bridge / tailpiece. The end of the neck is stamped "SEP 30 1993" and the the neck cavity is stamped "SEP 10 1993 / TELE PLUS". There is a Fender label on the underside of the neck which is signed in red ink "Brooks / Custom". This amazing guitar is in near mint (9.25) condition with just one tiny surface chip on the lower edge near the strap button. Housed in the original Fender Tweed hardshell case with imitation brown leather ends and red plush lining (9.50). With the original Fender Custom Shop Certificate of Authenticity dated December 1993 and the original Fender black embroidered guitar strap.

The Telecaster Plus had a short style bridge (somewhat similar to that of the Stratocaster), with the bridge pickup having a small metal border which was not part of the bridge mechanism. Telecaster Plus necks were shorter and fatter than standard Telecaster necks. The control plate also differed from the standard Telecaster, due to an extra mini switch between the tone and volume knobs, which was used to select different pickup settings - giving the guitar a huge range of different tones. This wiring scheme was available on the American Deluxe Tele for about two years. The 2nd Version of the Guitar made from about 1995 until 1997 also featured a bound contoured alder body with ash veneers. Telecaster Plus and Deluxe Plus models were all replaced by the American Deluxe Telecaster in 1998. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fender_Telecaster_Plus).

"A Lace Sensor "Dually" is effectively two Lace Sensors mounted together on a single frame. Both coils of the pickup are wired individually and left that way, so that the user may choose whether to wire them up as a humbucker, or one of several other ways. When wired as a humbucker, the "Red-Red" Dually has a DC rating of over 30 K/Ohms, making it one of the hottest output distortion-type pickups. The humbucking Lace Sensors were used as a standard equipment material on the original Jeff Beck Stratocaster, the Telecaster Deluxe & Telecaster Deluxe Plus and the Stratocaster Ultra, manufactured by Fender in the early '90s, as well on some Custom Shop models such as the Set Neck and Contemporary Stratocaster guitars. Usually a humbucker needs to comprise at least two coils with equal output, in order to produce the noise-cancelling effect. Lace Sensors get away with using mismatched coils because as single-coil pickups they are so low in noise anyway." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lace_Sensor

Larry L. Brooks has built guitars for Bonnie Raitt, Albert Collins, Jon Bon Jovi, Ritchie Sambora, and most of the other artist endorsers who’ve had product built by Fender’s custom shop.