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Ashington · April 2023

For sale is my custom Tele Custom, built a few years ago by Josh Parkin Guitars in York.

Josh made this for me using a slightly modified, contoured Telecaster body and his own neck heel adaptation. The body is 1-piece Brazilian mahogany, apparently decades old, with a nicely flamed ‘Euro’ maple and Indian rosewood neck. Rosewood on the neck is lovely and dark, with deep red/purple variation across the fretboard. The neck has a soft v-shaped back and is finished in a nice, slick flash-coating of nitrocellulose.

Star of the show is the 5A-flamed roasted maple drop top, which is stunning. So nice that the classic 3-tone sunburst is really only two-tone, utilising the natural wood colour in the centre. The same finish is applied to the rear, so you can see the darker mahogany colour there. The finish is nitrocellulose, not a thick coating so it’s not a crazy deep gloss – enough to show off the wood and make photographs a bit tricky.

I also had Josh make me a maple pickguard, which also looks awesome. It’s finished in a much harder-wearing polyurethane.

The pickups are in-house, wound especially for this guitar’s darker body wood. They sound really good, very versatile with a great tone sweep. Using my DMM I measure the neck at 9.8k and the bridge 11.4k. The rest of the electrics are top quality – CTS, Switchcraft, paper-in-oil etc.

There are a few very small signs of use, but the guitar is generally in super condition. Earlier this year I had it serviced by a local luthier (Matt Kersey, https://www.kerseyguitars.com/). Comes with the hard case in the picture plus its original black pearloid pickguard.

Viewing/demoing is entirely welcomed, I’m based in Hertfordshire and happy to drive a short distance if needed.

£1300 only - original cost was over double that. Collection is obviously preferred but I’m happy to ship it fully insured, with proper guitar-sized packaging.

Reason for sale is, I don’t play as much as I used to for health reasons and I’m looking at a couple of building projects – a guitar and an amp, not a conservatory. This guitar is the most underused of mine, considering its quality and value.

Any questions, or if you want any more photos etc, get in touch.

Full specs:

· 1-piece mahogany body

· 5A flame roasted maple drop top

· 3-tone sunburst nitro finish, front and back (centre is the natural roast maple colour)

· Masked-edge binding to top

· Contoured body and neck heel

· Lightly flamed maple neck with soft-v profile, satin nitro finish

· Rosewood fretboard, 10” radius, 43mm nut

· 6105 ‘Narrow/Tall’ frets, 25.5” scale length

· Flamed maple pickguard

· Gotoh bridge, Kluson trapezoid locking tuners

· JPG custom wound pickup set – wide range neck humbucker and tele bridge

· CTS/Switchcraft hardware, PIO tone capacitors

· 2 x vol, 1 x tone controls, 3-way toggle switch

· Hard case

Ashington · May 2023

I was asked about the neck on this guitar, along the lines of 'How chunky is it?' - in short, it's not very chunky.

Measuring at the 1st and 12th fret my calipers say 20.75/22.05 mm respectively, or 0.82/0.88 inch. The flash nitro coat gives it a slinky feel too.

axisus · May 2023

It's a cool looking guitar for sure. I'd stick the pix in the thread, always better than linking.

mikeyrob73 · May 2023

too pretty to hide behind a link that

Image: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AJFCJaWSJwPGMxPzEr63toVpvoBhqOhfxkFDwSYfPn_FVFARcU1q-p-H4vbvXFa-O-EBBV16MvGckfApMes6g94jMnejzngRe5oI6PBQ_6iSzUnLCr1tG81EvF5tYSjQZbC81INhZMK3yOF_L4UxvUUBZTgf=w700-h933-s-no?authuser=0

bobacco · May 2023

Very cool, beautiful guitar. GLWTS!

Ashington · May 2023

Thanks guys, I worked out a way of getting them in the original post

Ashington · May 2023

Small bump, small price reduction

chromatuna · May 2023

That is one beautiful guitar! I love the control layout and slight lower body change especially. Definitely worthy of a George Takei style ‘oh my’!

guitarmanessex89 · May 2023

What a beauty!

Ashington · May 2023

It is a beautiful instrument, the woods look and sound amazing, plus the pickups are awesome. Unfortunately, it was a choice between keeping this or my PJ Eggle 96

Ashington · June 2023

Bump

Ashington · June 2023

Bump

Ashington · June 2023

Another bump for the summer, and asking price down a bit more

Ashington · August 2023

August heatwave bump and a generous drop in asking price to £1300, in case you're tempted. This beautiful instrument is wasted on me

Ashington · August 2023

Nudge, wink

Ashington · September 2023

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