Beautiful! I got my first custom shop telecaster too..a 63 candy apple red over shoreline gold heavy relic...there's definitely something special about these guitars..congratulations brother..happy playing! Al Northern Ireland
Beautiful guitar! I recently bought a used Fender CS "50"'s pine Esquire super heavy relic with a handwound blackguard pickup. I also have several other Fender CS guitars and a CS Gibson 335, and the Esquire is my favorite. Mine has the same neck profile as yours, which I've come to love and the same basic level of relicing. You're right about how awesome the pickups are on this series of Fenders. The Nocaster/Blackguard pickups Fender is making are exceptional! Great guitar and congratulations on an AWESOME guitar man!!! It sounds fantastic!
@@guitar_george The blackguard pickups have non-staggered magnet poles and thinner 43 gauge wire instead of 42. There’s other technical differences but I think generally their early 50’s bridge pickups are almost p90-like in response and work great with the volume and tone pots. I’m getting a Ron Ellis 50B pickup tomorrow to put in my 60’s CS Telecaster Custom to see if I can push it into the early 50’s sound like my Esquire.
Thanks for taking the time to make this video George. I'm torn between the Relic and the original Telecaster custom...decisions... decisions... decisions. Gives me a chance to think while I save my pennies 🤔
The heavy relics are a little bit much for my own taste. I have a Strat with that treatment, and kind of wish it was closer to Journeyman. Having said that, I do prefer SOME level of relic over a brand-new, shiny, sticky guitar.
Beautiful! I got my first custom shop telecaster too..a 63 candy apple red over shoreline gold heavy relic...there's definitely something special about these guitars..congratulations brother..happy playing! Al Northern Ireland
@@albaxter8711 sounds like a gorgeous tele.. enjoy it!
Between this Tele and your Wildwood LP, you are set for life. Both super-lovely! Congrats!
Set for life indeed. Im thankful everyday! Theres always looking for the next one though..
I love it. I personally like more relicing. But that’s just me. Awesome sound.
Basically a hot Guitar ❤
Looks and sounds great to me
Thanks Dave!
Congrats man, I love it! In fact I have one too and it’s just awesome. I doubt you’ll ever tire of owning it. 👌
Thank you! It's quickly become one of my favorite guitars
Beautiful guitar! I recently bought a used Fender CS "50"'s pine Esquire super heavy relic with a handwound blackguard pickup. I also have several other Fender CS guitars and a CS Gibson 335, and the Esquire is my favorite. Mine has the same neck profile as yours, which I've come to love and the same basic level of relicing. You're right about how awesome the pickups are on this series of Fenders. The Nocaster/Blackguard pickups Fender is making are exceptional! Great guitar and congratulations on an AWESOME guitar man!!! It sounds fantastic!
Are the blackcaster and no caster pickups similar? I haven't played the blackcaster pickups. Enjoy that Esquire.. sounds like a killer guitar!
@@guitar_george The blackguard pickups have non-staggered magnet poles and thinner 43 gauge wire instead of 42. There’s other technical differences but I think generally their early 50’s bridge pickups are almost p90-like in response and work great with the volume and tone pots. I’m getting a Ron Ellis 50B pickup tomorrow to put in my 60’s CS Telecaster Custom to see if I can push it into the early 50’s sound like my Esquire.
Thanks for taking the time to make this video George. I'm torn between the Relic and the original Telecaster custom...decisions... decisions... decisions. Gives me a chance to think while I save my pennies 🤔
@@mattychapati any tele is a good tele in my opinion! Get the one that will inspire you to play
Thanks George. I like the look of the relic. I'm torn between the relic and regular custom 🤔
Nice vid man
Thank you 🙏
The heavy relics are a little bit much for my own taste. I have a Strat with that treatment, and kind of wish it was closer to Journeyman. Having said that, I do prefer SOME level of relic over a brand-new, shiny, sticky guitar.
Journeyman is a nice middle ground. Journeyman body with a heavy relic neck would be cool
@@guitar_george right on, the back of the neck and the rolled fretboard edges. To me those are the biggest benefits for the whole relic process.
Love the guitar, not a fan of the relic 😮