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Custom Shop Prestige

Saint John’s Skeleton Telecaster Relic

2022 Fender Spring Showcase / Paul Waller

Model# 921-6095-036

Color: Black over Grafitti Yellow

BODY

Wood: 2-Piece Select Alder

Lacquer: Nitrocellulose Lacquer

Shape: Standard Telecaster

Pickguard: 3-Ply Custom  8-hole (Part Of Artwork)

Serial: PW486 | Neckplate

NECK

Wood: Flat Sawn Maple

Decal: Abalone Spghetti Inlay

Fretboard: 3A Rosewood

Neck Lacquer: Nitrocellulose Lacquer

Headstock: Standard Tele

Neck Profile: 60’s Oval "C"

Inlay Fretboard: White Micarta 0.25 Aged

Side Dots: Abalone

Nut Width: 1.650" (42mm)

Nut Material: Bone

Scale: 25.5”

Radius: 9.5” 

#Frets: 21

Fretwire: 6150 Medium Jumbo

Trussrod: Heel Adjust

HARDWARE (Aged)

Bridge: 58-63 Vintage 3-Saddle String Thru

Bridge Markings: FENDER Pat.Pend

Saddles: Aged Threaded Steel Barrels

Tuners: Fender Pure Vintage SD91 (Single Line Logo)

String Tree: Heavy Relic Butterfly / Tall Metal Spacer

Knobs: Chrome Knurled Flat Top

Neckplate: 4-Bolt Plate “Fender Custom Shop” + Serial

ELECTRONIC

Switch: 3-Way / Top Hat Switch Tip

Wiring:  Modern Wiring N/NB/B

Pots: Master Volume 250k / Master Tone 250k

Pickup Config: SS

Neck Pickup: Josefina HW Original Blackguard Single Coil

Bridge Pickup: Josefina HW ’51 Nocaster Tele Single Coil

MASTERBUILDER: Paul Waller

WEIGHT: ?

CASE: Deluxe Hardshell Case

PRICE: $35.999

Artwork By: David Kassen (Artwork is Handpainted on the body)

Acquired By: Guangzhou Fast Musical Instrument CO., LTD, China.

INFO:

Master Builder Paul Waller partnered with oil-on-canvas artist David Kassan to create hand-painted art inspired by a skeleton from Saint John the Divine Cathedral in New York. The Prestige Saint John's Skeleton Telecaster is painted on top of a Relic finish with Black over Graffiti Yellow - a notably different treatment than the typical gloss finish on Fender art guitars. While the artwork appears to be a picture at first glance, it becomes individual brushstrokes of oil colors. As Kassan notes of this artwork, "This has the profound potential to wake us up and breathe more life into our lives. A painting surface holds all of the thoughts of the artist that paints on it. In this case, the Telecaster is the ossuary for all of my decisions to create this work. It embodies and has absorbed all of my success as well as my failures in painting it."