New guitar features a chambered, two-piece roasted alder body and Tim Shaw-designed pickups.
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SUMMER NAMM 2019: Fender has introduced the new Rarities Flame Maple Top Chambered Telecaster, part of the company’s Rarities Collection, which combines exotic tonewoods with premium pickups and appointments.
The new model boasts a chambered, two-piece roasted alder body with a natural flame maple top, separated by a black center stripe. There’s also a maple neck with a modern C”-shaped neck profile and a maple fretboard with black dot inlays.
Pickups are a Tim Shaw custom-designed Fifties vintage-style bridge single coil and a ShawBucker 1T humbucker in the neck.
Other features include a master volume control with treble bleed, a master tone control and a three-way blade switch. There’s also a vintage-style Tele bridge with three compensated steel saddles, Fender Standard Cast/Sealed Staggered tuners and a four-ply tortoiseshell pickguard.
Rich is the co-author of the best-selling Nöthin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion. He is also a recording and performing musician, and a former editor of Guitar World magazine and executive editor of Guitar Aficionado magazine. He has authored several additional books, among them Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, the companion to the documentary of the same name.