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I came across this a few hours ago, direct from a Fender employee; it's a one-off Custom Shop deal, not production. I think it looks pretty sweet.

Fender "White Chicken"


I grabbed one and uploaded it to the SS uploader so as not to steal the fellow's bandwidth, but obviously the photo credit is his.

He has a bunch of other cool shots of Custom Shop work scattered throughout the other posts as well.

Yeah nice, works for me, I normally hate gold hardware.

No thank you.
But I bet a lot of people will like that.

Pretty much ace stuff. I think I may have cut back on the knobs a bit as it veers towards over crowded on the lower half but very swish. Also like the 12 string tele with the orange comp stripe.

If it has the carved 1-piece body like the Custom Shop Nashville one-off from a few years back, I'm sure it will be a stunner to play as well.

Don't want to hijack this thread, but there have been a lot of gold hardware-clad custom jobbers out this year that ooze glorious amounts of schmoooze.

Do you mean this one, Ultra? I think it may have been you who originally posted this. Man oh man, I really love this pic, I swoon to it semi-anually:




The "chicken" is a clever touch on the white one.

what's he knob on the horn do? anyhoo, aesthically, i dig it.

well, with half the gold

gaybear wrote:what's he knob on the horn do? anyhoo, aesthically, i dig it.

Pretty sure it's master volume.

2-vol, 1 tone in the back.


And yeah, Paul posted the lovely CS Tele I was referring to, though I remember a shot taken in brighter lighting [/splitting hairs]

I don't like the relief'd body but it's a stunning guitar. Too garish for me to play but love the concept.

Love them !! Wish it was production.

i'd definitely have a pop at that.

didn't Ultratwin have a tele done like a gretsch anniversary (two tone green). that was a sweet Tele Gretsch mashup.

dezb1 wrote:didn't Ultratwin have a tele done like a gretsch anniversary (two tone green). that was a sweet Tele Gretsch mashup.

Yes and it's the best Tele ever....! Massively jealous.

Thom wrote:

dezb1 wrote:didn't Ultratwin have a tele done like a gretsch anniversary (two tone green). that was a sweet Tele Gretsch mashup.

Yes and it's the best Tele ever....! Massively jealous.

+1

deeeeelicious.

In fact....

All the gold on the guitar in the OP is giving me a stomach ache.

Like many folks, I'm not a huge fan of gold hardware—but in the context of recreating the look of a White Falcon on the Tele platform, it's amazing.

Gretsch just really does gold right, and I think a lot of why I feel they're so lovely has to do with texture. Instead of a bunch of wide, flat, shiny boring runs of gold, there are multiple shades and textures in play.

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thats the one just needs the correct shade pick guard.

Now that green one! That's a looker!
I'd play that one.