Tele Modern
A one-piece mahogany body, quilted maple top and translucent finishes. The most direct shape in the catalogue, built from its fullest-sounding wood.
- Miele
- Ginestra
- Amaranto
- Boreale
- Carminio
- Zafferano
- Grafite
- Tabacco
- Brace
- Nebulosa
10 finishes available — and this is not a closed list
What sets it apart
One-piece mahogany
Not two halves glued together: a single board, chosen because there is enough of it. It costs more in offcuts, and you hear it in how full the note stays on the way down.
Translucent finishes
The colour does not cover, it passes through. The maple quilt stays visible under every shade, and no two boards give the same figure.
Schaller 3D bridge
Every saddle adjusts on three axes. It is the bridge that lets you truly intonate an instrument instead of getting close, and on a Tele that matters more than anywhere else.
The whole of it
Tele Modern, headstock to bridge.
Photographs of Tele Modern
Classic headstock, available on request: as standard the Tele Modern leaves with the modern one.
The top
The quilt moves with the light.
Twelve seconds tracking across the body, no editing. Quilted maple has no fixed pattern: it changes with where the light lands, and a still photograph can only show one version out of many.
Specifications
What is settled, and what you settle.
It is the model
They do not change: they are what makes this a Tele Modern.
- Scale length
- 648 mm25.5 inches
- Fretboard radius
- 16″
- Body
- One-piece select mahogany
- Body thickness
- 37 mm45 mm on the tremolo and Floyd Rose versions
- Top
- Quilted maple
- Frets
- 22, 2.70 mm stainless steel jumbo
- Bridge
- Schaller 3D
- Pots
- 500 kΩ
- Truss rod
- Dual action, with two carbon fibre rodsThe rods can be left out on request
- Body finish
- Translucent gloss polyurethane
- Fretboard finish
- Tru-Oil
- Neck width
- 43 mm at the nut · 56.5 mm at the last fret1.69 · 2.22 inches
- Case
- ABS hard caseIncluded
- Certificate of authenticity
- Numbered, dated and signed by handIncluded
You choose
Every line here is a conversation, not a drop-down.
- Nut
- Tusq · Bone
- Tuners
- Gotoh · Schaller
- Fret markers
- Mother of pearl · Abalone
- Pickup configuration
- HH · HSS
- Neck joint
- Bolt-on · Set neck
- Headstock
- 6 in line · 6 in line, reverse · 4 + 2 · 4 + 2, reverse · 3 + 3 · Slotted
- Headstock shape
- Modern, standard · Classical, on request
- Neck finish
- Gloss · Satin · Tru-Oil
The switch
What it sounds like, in every position.
As standard
Neck
Neck + bridge
Bridge
Neck coil split
A push-pull leaves the neck humbucker running on one coil: it brightens up without losing body.
Neck
Neck + bridge
Bridge
Bridge coil split
The other does the same at the bridge, where it is needed more often: the attack stays, the humbucker’s compression does not.
Neck
Neck + bridge
Bridge
Both coils split
With both push-pulls up it becomes a two single-coil guitar, and the middle position is the furthest it gets from where it started.
Neck
Neck + bridge
Bridge
And now
Carry on building it.
The green lines above are yours to decide. In the Custom Shop you pick them one by one, and at the end it is the luthier who writes back, not a form.