Fender Custom Shop’s Time Machine Series continues with the 1963 Telecaster Relic Guitar. This Telecaster guitar is modeled after the Telecasters built during 1963 and played by a number of artists.  Like all relic guitars from Fender’s series, this relic guitar has been artificially aged so that it truly looks like a guitar from the 60s.  The finish features nicks, scratches, and other aging signs, plus the hardware is rusted and the plastic has been aged to match the rest of the look.  The 1963 Telecaster Relic guitar comes in four different colors: a three color sunburst, black, Dakota red, and Sonic blue.

The ’63 Telecaster features a body made out of select alder and a neck made from maple.  The neck is done in a C shape, just like the original Telecaster was.  The relic guitar has a fingerboard made from round laminate rosewood that has a 7.25 inch radius and features 21 vintage style frets.  The guitar has two vintage ’63 Tele single-coil pickups and a three position blade that includes bridge pickup, neck pickup with tone control, and neck pickup with no tone control.  The bridge itself is an original vintage style Tele bridge with three threaded steel saddles and an ash tray bridge cover.  All of the features unique to the 1963 Telecaster have been recreated for this relic guitar, including the neck, the top hat switch tip, and the fingerboard.