Txxx Custom Thinline '72 Partscaster with B5 Bigsby - 2022

Every now and then we get some wonderful Partscasters through the door at Premier Guitars - and this one is certainly a goodie. Expertly assembled by a professional and well respected luthier, this guitar is good to go, ready for action!

Some of this guitar-building activity has been motivated by the fact that unless you’re in a big city, you may have some challenges finding the right Custom Shop Telecaster with just the right specs….until you realise that you can actually build it yourself!

This is a fabulous 70s style Txxx Thinline ‘Partscaster’ in beautiful Gold Sparkle created from genuine Fender USA components. Of course, it plays brilliantly and sounds great.

Weight is 3.4kg /  7.49lbs

When you add up the $$$ plus Aussie GST + import duty + shipping, it actually comes to an amount similar to a (second hand) Fender Custom Shop guitar. Except it was built specifically to the owner’s requirements, and it’s pretty much new. So, this thing is an incredible deal!

Features:

Double bound Gold Sparkle Telecaster Thinline body, Alder.

Fender “American Vintage II” 1977 Telecaster Custom maple neck with laminated Rosewood fingerboard, 7.25 inch radius.

Fender “American Series” Micro-Tilt neck adjustment and matching 4-bolt neck plate (similar to the Fender Eric Clapton Stratocaster).

Fender CuNiFe Wide Range Humbucker pickup in the neck position.

Fender American Vintage Telecaster single coil bridge pickup.

2 x Volume and 2 x Tone controls with Fender black “witches hat” knobs (as per a Fender 1972 Telecaster Deluxe).

Highest quality CTS “450 series” 275k pots for the Volume and Tone on the Bridge pickup and 1 Meg pots for the Wide Range Humbucker. Pots supplied by Armstrong Music in the UK.

Bigsby B5 Vibrato, bridge and bridge plate.

Customised Parchment Pearloid pickguard computer-designed and CNC cut by David Fletcher of Fletcher Handcrafted Guitars: the upper bout pays homage to the form of a 1969 Thinline; the lower bout is a recreation of a 1972 Telecaster Deluxe (with the addition of the switch position of a Thinline); and the area around the bridge is a recreation of a 1972 Telecaster Custom.

Fender Gig Bag. (Hard case can be organised on enquiry)

This special guitar is a Thinline with a 1972 Telecaster Custom pickup arrangement and 1972 Telecaster Deluxe 2 x Volume and 2 x Tone controls, together with the 3-way switch in the same position as a Telecaster Thinline.