A Custom Shop Thinline "Nocaster"

2007 Fender Custom Shop Thinline 'Nocaster'.

This wonderful little guitar weighs just 6.60 lbs. and features a thinline hollow premium ash body finished in custom color black nitrocellulose. Huge one-piece maple neck with a fat nut width of 1 11/16 inches and a super-thick profile very similar to a 1950 Broadcaster or a 1953 Telecaster/Esquire. Standard Telecaster scale length of 25 1/2 inches with 21 medium jumbo frets and black dot position markers. Headstock decal with "Fender" logo in silver with black trim (á la Nocaster). "Fender Custom Shop" decal in black on back of headstock. Single "round" string tree. Individual Fender 'no-name' tuners with oval metal buttons. Four-bolt neck plate with slot-head screws. Fender Custom Shop 'Twisted Tele' pickup in neck postion with an output of 5.69k., and a Fender Custom Shop 'Nocaster' pickup (with flat pole-pieces) in the bridge position with an output of 9.30k. Single-ply white pickguard with twelve screws. Two controls (one volume, one tone) plus three-way selector switch, all on pickguard. Chrome knobs with lightly-domed tops and knurled sides. Combination Broadcaster/Nocaster/Telecaster three brass-saddle bridge/tailpiece, with "FENDER/PAT.PEND./R4768" on the base plate. All screws with slot-heads. This guitar is in mint (9.50) condition and is housed in its original Fender Custom Shop black hardshell case with black plush lining (9.50). Complete with all the original case candy including the Fender Custom Shop Certificate of Authenticity, signed and dated 11/19/07.

Designed by Fender Custom Shop Senior Master Builder Chris Fleming, this guitar has all the features of the early Fifties Fender Golden Years. The Telecaster Thinline was first introduced in 1969 - eighteen years after the Broadcaster / Nocaster made its debut in 1950… and here Chris Fleming has successfully managed to combine the two guitars into one. These fine guitars were made from Premium Ash and only a small number were produced during the very limited production run which ended in 2008. This one actually feels and plays like an early fifties guitar… see and hear Phil X play it on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zu0dBW3KEQE&feature=channel_page