This item is in great condition and is barely used, showing only minor signs of usage from display on our showroom floor.
1968 saw the debut of the Telecaster Thinline—designed as a lighter new version of the Telecaster due to a shortage of lightweight ash bodywood. The guitar had hollow “wings” on either side of the body, with an f-hole on the bass side for a brilliant new look and warmly resonant tone. The ’68 Telecaster Thinline Journeyman Relic captures that year’s model in all its brilliance, with a few custom modifications including a Bigsby® B5 bridge and tailpiece for added vibrato. A semi-hollow Thinline mahogany or ash body wears a perfectly worn-in Journeyman Relic lacquer finish. The rift-sawn maple neck features a ’60s-style “oval C” profile, 9.5”-radius rift-sawn maple fingerboard and 21 narrow tall (6105) frets.
Custom Shop hand-wound Twisted Tele® pickups provide extra-hot output for beautiful resonance and are hooked up to modern Telecaster wiring and three-way switch. Other features include a three-ply white pearl pickguard, Schaller® “F” tuning machines, bone nut, and wing string tree. Also includes deluxe hardshell case, strap and certificate of authenticity.
Serial#: CZ562777
Weight: 7lbs 4oz
Body: 1-Piece Vintage Michigan Mahogany
Body Finish: Lacquer
Body Shape: Telecaster
Body Material: 1-Piece Vintage Michigan Mahogany
Neck Material: Rift Sawn Maple
Neck Finish: Nitrocellulose Lacquer
Neck Shape: 1960 Oval “C”
Fingerboard Radius: 9.5″ (241 mm)
Fingerboard Material: Round-Laminated Rift Sawn Maple
Position Inlays: Micarta Black Dot
Side Dots: Black Dot
Number of Frets: 21
String Nut: Bone
Nut Width: 1.650″ (42 mm)
Nut Material: Bone
Bridge: Bigsby B5 Bridge and Tailpiece
Pickguard: 3-Ply White Pearl
Control Knobs: Knurled Chrome
Hardware Finish: Nickel/Chrome
Bridge Pickup: Custom Shop Hand-Wound Twisted Tele Single-Coil
Neck Pickup: Custom Shop Hand-Wound Twisted Tele Single-Coil
Pickup Configuration: SS
Controls: Volume, Tone
Switching: 3-Position Blade: Position 1. Bridge Pickup, Position 2. Bridge and Neck Pickups, Position 3. Neck Pickup