Fender Chris Shiflett Cleaver Telecaster Deluxe Electric Guitar – Dakota Red

Description

The Chris Shiflett Cleaver Telecaster Deluxe is a no-frills workhorse built to withstand grueling tour schedules while also delivering a level of performance that meets the demands of top-tier pro players. You’ll appreciate the exceptional long-wearing comfort afforded by this guitar’s belly-cut-contoured body, which is matched by a 25.5-inch scale and a Custom Oval C-shaped neck with a satin finish that feels great — even on sweaty stages. In a similar fashion, the Chris Shiflett Cleaver Tele Deluxe’s 12-inch-radius rosewood fingerboard, which includes 21 medium-jumbo frets, facilitates crunchy chording, red-hot leads, and silky bends with equal aplomb. Sweetwater guitarists are duly impressed by the Cleaver Tele — it’s as tailor-made for high-octane live performance as anything we’ve played.

Plug the Fender Chris Shiflett Cleaver Telecaster Deluxe into your favorite amp, crank it up, and prepare yourself for serious bone-rattling, stadium-shaking tone, thanks to a set of Custom Chris Shiflett Cleaver Noiseless CS-90 single-coil pickups. You’ll be blown away by the muscular output and throaty midrange punch of these soapbar-style pickups, which are reminiscent of early Kalamazoo designs. Moreover, CS-90s also yield the singing high end that is common with vintage Fender single-coils. Best of all, thanks to Fender’s state-of-the-art Noiseless design, you won’t have to worry about unwanted hum or buzz throwing a monkey wrench into your performance.

Don’t let the Chris Shiflett Cleaver Telecaster Deluxe’s no-nonsense design fool you; from stem to stern, it’s replete with high-end appointments. For starters, you get a generous complement of rock-solid hardware, including a Pure Vintage string-through-body hardtail bridge with six bent-steel saddles and Pure Vintage Fender F-stamped tuning machines. Next, a bone nut and a wing string tree with a nylon spacer ensure reliable intonation. You’ll appreciate the Chris Shiflett Cleaver Tele Deluxe’s charming aesthetic touches, such as a 3-ply pickguard, skirted plastic knobs with numbered indicators, pearloid block fingerboard inlays, and a gloss matching headstock. Finally, the gloss nitrocellulose lacquer finish on this solidbody electric guitar’s alder body is eminently head-turning.