Tele Thinline
One-piece select mahogany, hollowed out and closed with a walnut or maple top. The Tele that weighs less and breathes more, built exactly like the others.
- Miele
- Marea
- Boreale
- Zafferano
- Panna
- Carminio
- Assenzio
- Gesso
8 finishes available — and this is not a closed list
What sets it apart
One piece of mahogany, hollowed out
The chambers are carved into the solid body and the top closes them again: the weight drops, the response opens up through the mids. In every other way it stays a Tele — attack, tension, the way it answers the right hand.
Three woods to choose the neck from
Wenge, maple or mahogany, with a fretboard in wenge, ebony, pau ferro or maple. This is not a colour chart: it is three different responses under the fingers and three different sounds, and the choice gets made together.
Schaller 3D bridge
Every saddle adjusts in three directions: height, intonation and lateral spacing. It is the part that lets the guitar be fitted to the hand instead of the other way round, and on a made-to-measure instrument it is where that shows.
The whole of it
Tele Thinline, headstock to bridge.
Photographs of Tele Thinline
The white
Twelve seconds on a body that breathes.
A solid white has no figure to show off, so what you look at is the shape: the carved chamber, the thin waist, the line of the pickguard. What a still photograph flattens, twelve seconds of moving light puts back into three dimensions.
Specifications
What is settled, and what you settle.
It is the model
They do not change: they are what makes this a Tele Thinline.
- Scale length
- 648 mm25.5 inches
- Fretboard radius
- 16″
- Body
- One-piece select mahogany, chambered
- Tuners
- Schaller M6
- Bridge
- Schaller 3D
- Pickups
- De GattisSpecial run
- Pot
- 500 kΩ with push-pull
- Frets
- 2.80 mm jumbo
- Number of frets
- 22
- Truss rod
- Dual action, with two carbon fibre rodsThe rods can be left out on request
- Body finish
- Gloss polyurethane · Gloss black · Pearl white
- Neck and 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.
- Top
- Walnut · Maple
- Neck
- Wenge · Maple · Mahogany
- Fretboard
- Wenge · Ebony · Pau ferro · Maple
- Nut
- Bone · Tusq
- Fret markers
- Abalone · Mother of pearl
- Neck joint
- Bolt-on · Set neck
- Pickup brand
- De Gattis · other brands on requestDe Gattis are standard because we make them ourselves; another brand gets fitted for anyone arriving with something specific in mind
- Headstock
- 6 in line · 6 in line, reverse · 4 + 2 · 4 + 2, reverse · 3 + 3 · SlottedThe 3 + 3 is angled
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 on a chambered body that is the lightest combination of all.
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.