BA003 Finished

This one has been a long time coming and it’s finally here. I wanted a Fender Custom Shop La Cabronita telecaster, which is the high price of approx £4000 UK, however to have the options I wanted (fingerboard/neck wood/etc) I was quoted closer to £6000 UK, which for what I wanted, didn’t seem a nessasary price.  I loved the idea of the La Cabronita, the TV Jones pickups and the S1 switching are a cool feature that don’t produce a similar sound to any of my guitars, the problem I had is I like rosewood fingerboards, which the La Cabronita doesn’t come with and like necks without any finish on.  Due to the quality of what I needed, this guitar needed to be built right first time round, so I decided to work with USA guitar builder Warmoth. Warmoth do an excellent line in Fender licended parts at very reasonable prices, they didn’t however do a La Cabronita set of guitar parts. I had to do a lot of research and measurements (which also included a sneaker visit to a custom shop dealer with a hidden tape measure) to measure up for my La Cabronita body, and that’s what I did, submitted the details to Warmoth and had them build me a body. it’s a medium alder boday routed and positioned exactly the same as the Custom Shop model, the only difference is the electonics cavity which is more in line with a standard telecaster.