NGD:'62 Custom Telecaster Dark British Racing Green metallic nitro doublebound and rosewood build

rze99

Just finished this build which was first conceived in the summer last year. Pretty rare to see Teles in this colour.

There are a few Fender Custom Shops in the colour, but mostly they are relic'd.

I asked Jon at Rexter Guitars (https://rexterguitars.co.uk/ ) @rexter ;to spray this for me in thin gloss nitro.
I have to say it is precisely what I envisaged. It is the most gorgeous hue in person. Sometimes looks jet black, faded greened black or in bright light the green metallic really shines through. The ivory binding sets it off beautifully I think. I tried to get some pics that show some of its variety. Jon's been so busy - great to see, he deserves it.

Neck: Fender American Original '60s. Gotoh vintage nickel tuners, bone nut.

Body: 2 piece alder double bound S/H routing in case I want to put a P90 or something in the neck in future.

Bridge Pickup: Lindy Fralin "Blues Special" Tele bridge pickup with a hybrid magnet stagger 7.3K Alnico V Magnets

Neck pickup: APC Adder T300N Brad Paisley

Controls: used from a fender USA Tele CTS 250 pots

Bridge: Fender America Original 60s with Gotoh InTune brass compensated saddles.

Guard: Axecaster 60s mint green 3 ply.

Balances well and is light at 7 and a quarter pounds. Sounds and plays great the pickups are a touch hotter than vintage. I'll get to sound samples at some point.

pics.








 

chromatuna

ooooh that is really nice! Something extremely classy about a bound edge Tele

Hurling_Fruitmig

That’s a lovely looking instrument.

IvisonGuitars

That is outstanding, Very classy indeed! I did drop Jon a message when he posted this on Instagram as I wanted to nab it but he said it was for a customer. Great work! 

meltedbuzzbox

beautiful colour on that one. 

I have a CS Jaguar in Dark British racing green and I would say its doesn't look as nice as the colour on your tele. 
Mine tends to looks almost black 95% of the time. 

Greatape

Holy hell, that's as near as dammit my perfect guitar. Beautiful! 

lovestrat74

Tasty

Jonathanthomas83

Wow!! Amazing

stickyfiddle

Oof thats fabulous!

bazxkr

Gorgeous

johnboyno8

That is beautiful!

DB1

Stunning. 

tsj93

Love it! I have a k line British racing green strat, great colour isn’t it

djspecialist

Very classy indeed.

ThePrettyDamned

Love that colour. I have always wanted to see a les paul in this colour but that tele looks ace. 

SRD81

That looks fantastic, congrats

Voxman

That's the colour of my Toyota Avensis.

Lovely looking guitar. Never seen a Tele in that colour before. I like double sided binding on Teles, makes them look very posh. 

Zoolooter

Perfect.

merlin

That is a beautiful looking instrument and a genius colour. Just sayin'....

Philly_Q

That's a fantastic colour.  Looks great.

(Also, what an amazingly dark and tight-grained fretboard!)

relic245

Stunning!