Fender Custom Shop 51 Nocaster Relic Electric Guitar Honey Blonde

I've been playing a les paul for my whole life as my main guitar and also had a vintage strat and a tele among the fenders and as a true Zeppelin fan i had to try up this one looking for the sweet tone and the glossy twang of a classic tele, after playing a 52 of the vintage series, the nocaster was a kind of a disappointment, it doesn't have enough power as the neck pickup is weak and without any tone options...just shut all the way down but i guess after a rewire work on it its gonna sound better and edgier, what i really like about this guitar is the amazingly fat neck which I love in this type of instruments...anyway i think the price of this guitar is really too much, the 52 tele would probably be a better choice.

First, the specs listed on this site in the lower right panel are for another guitar. This NOS has a very large U shaped neck, one inch thickness heel to nut, clear nitro finish over pale maple, 7.25 radius and perhaps 6130 frets. Nut is cut well, takes 11-49 strings over the non compensated brass barrel saddles and gives good intonation and nice string height. NO fret out issues on this 7.25 board. Nocaster pickups run through control panel thus: 3rd position, neck with heavy capacitor yielding 'dark' sound, no know use; 2nd position, neck pickup with no tone control; 1st position, bridge pickup with the bottom control allowing blend of the neck pickup. This control setup is fine; contemplating changing the cap on position 3 for more treble. Body is lightweight center joined select ash with a semi-transparent sunny yellow nitro undercoat and topcoat. Some grainpore will telegraph through the nitro, the over all effect is very beautiful. They call this 'thin skin' but the term means no vinyl undercoat as in a AV 52 or Highway One body, as opposed to the actual finish thickness. The H1 finish is not 'thin skin' but is far thinner in fact. No scale handy, but I'd guess 7 pounds 2 ounces. Neck nitro finish hard, stands up well to repeated playing, not sticky. Best to try the one you buy in person; some very good, some excellent, some incredible. Mine is a 2006 approx build date. NOS is a no brainer over the CC or Relic at substantially less cost. I'll do the wear and tear, thank you. Bubbanov