Used 2024 Fender Custom Shop Masterbuilt Paul Waller 1957 Telecaster Heavy Weathered White Blonde with OHSC

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Masterbuilt Paul Waller Heavy Weathered '57 Tele Truetone Music is proud to have a long and close relationship with Fender, especially with the Custom Shop.  Every so often, we make a pilgrimage there to sit down with Masterbuilders to cook up a batch of amazing guitars.  Sometimes we go for vintage-styled recreations, sometimes we go for modernized tweaks.  Sometimes it's a classic color, sometimes it's a totally new color or even reclaimed wood.  No matter what, they always knock it out of the park!   This very unique 1957 Telecaster is a result of this partnership.  In 2019, we met with Masterbuilder Paul Waller and came up with the idea for this guitar.  We specifically asked him what he had not done before, or in a long time, that he would want to do.  That was the genesis of the Heavy Weathered treatment.  Now, it has turned into a whole run of guitars - and this is the first we've done as a Telecaster. This is a guitar that took a trip around the block and is now back - it was here at Truetone as a new guitar, sold recently to a local regular that's one of our favorite customers.  It was barely played, and is here again on a great deal!  The Tele comes with the original hardshell case and certificate of authenticity, and has been setup up to play perfectly by the techs in our shop.  It's ready to go.    The main feature and calling card of this guitar is the aesthetic and feel of the body, which was sandblasted.  This term means exactly what one would think - it's a finishing process that involves the use of a machine to spray abrasive particles under high pressure against a surface. It’s called “sandblasting” because it blasts the surface with particles of sand. As the sand particles strike the surface, they create a unique patina and texture to the wood.  Waller developed his process as he created this run of instruments. The parts (bridge, pickguard, neckplate, etc.) were installed first, and the raw body was sandblasted.  That created the initial "wea