Is there really no butterscotch blackguard nitro tele with modern features?

Modern tuners would have been a $50 upgrade at most after you sold the vintage tuners on Ebay or Reverb.

Truss rod adjustment at neck heel would be a non-issue once you got it set up.

$15 would have gotten you compensated Wilkinson saddles that you could live with.

I think you made the wrond decision selling that '52 RI.

 

I'm imagining a BSB nitro Tele with:

* locking tuners
* SS frets
* compound neck radius
* noiseless pickups
* active electronics
* 6 saddle bridge
* contour body cuts

I can almost see it ... wait ... ??!!!

 

Deluxe Ash Tele

 

Except it's not nitro finished.

The 52 Hot Rod, at least the later versions, has almost all of the modern features other than the tuners and the truss rod at the heel. I actually like the vintage style tuners and how many times do you touch the truss rod? Maybe because I'm in California where there's only one season and low humidity, I don't have to touch it very often compared to other climates. The other items on the OP's wish list like pickups are an easy change. The stainless steel frets, however, aren't going to be standard on any Fenders.

 

Hm, you could either get a modern tele (like the american standard or deluxe or special) and refinish with nitro or get a custom build – if it has to say fender on the headstock that means either custom shop / custom built ($$$) or a fake decal on something your favorite luthier can do.
But I wonder why you must have nitro if it is basically a modern guitar you want. Nitro is not modern so why the hassle? The deluxe ash and the special (you could add a gotoh bridge) are available in blond.

 

Love that picture!

 

Isn't that what Fender's custom shop is for? If you have such specific requirements, I'm guessing that they could build it. It's only money, right?

 

I didn't see anywhere that the OP is asking for nitro?


Kiss My Shiny Nitro Ash!

 

Right in the title!

 

It's in the heading of his post.
Big Daddy beat me to it.

 

Duhhhhh

I's be a big ole dummy


Kiss My Shiny Nitro Ash!

 

That's alright, I deserve it


Kiss My Shiny Nitro Ash!

 

I want a 50's blackguard Road Worn with 9.5" radius fat neck and a nickel covered bucker in the neck. Maybe a 5 saddle modern brass bridge and a banjo tuner too

 

OP

You can always buy another '52 vintage reissue and then buy a modern neck from The Stratosphere or wherever. Or you can buy the body from them too.

Short of Custom Shop I don't know where else you can get a nitro finished body besides from the reissue line.


Kiss My Shiny Nitro Ash!

 

You're kidding me, right? You do know what is under the nitro top and colour coats of a Fender, right? A nice thick sealer coat of poly.

Google "Fullerplast".

The difference you are hearing is much more likely to be due to the higher output Texas Special pickups.

 

I think op has read to many articles by guitar experts.. The Ash Deluxe is everything he wants if someone could convince him that Nitro/Poly debate is a hoax. The 50s hot rod ticks most boxes including locking tuners & compensated bridge.. The compound neck is killer and if vintage truss rod irks him Stew Mac has the tool that'll squeeze in there without pulling the neck. Or he can get another 52 Hot Rod and learn how to string up the vintage tuners.