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Fender Custom Shop Limited Edition Brent Mason Telecaster, Masterbuilt by Kyle McMillin

Posted on: Wednesday 14 September 2022

With its Custom Heavy Relic finish and B-Bender system, here is the Custom Shop Limited Edition Brent Mason Telecaster, designed to perfection by master builder Kyle McMillin of the Fender Custom Shop.
A truly unique guitar, a faithful reproduction of the original model played by Brent Mason on countless country performances, limited to 60 copies worldwide.

Brent Mason, the country sound

Brent Mason is a highly sought-after session guitarist with a 36-year career, who has a track record of over 1,000 country album recordings. Initially spotted by Chet Atkins, one of his major collaborations includes big names such as Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, George Strait, Shania Twain and Carrie Underwood.

To top it off, Mason has been named “Guitarist of The Year” by the Academy of Country Music 12 times and was inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in 2019.

In 2020, Mason becomes a Fender artist and works closely with Kyle McMillin from the Custom Shop workshop to reproduce his original guitar.

Unique specs in an old school design

In the Fender Custom Shop workshop, it was Kyle McMillin, master luthier at Fender, who stuck to the delicate task of designing and giving birth to the Telecaster Brent Mason Limited Edition. It is a replica of the original Mason Telecaster: a modified and customized ’67 model that marked the history of modern country music.

Everything has been reproduced down to the smallest detail. The oil marks on the Custom Heavy Relic primer-gray finish and the wear and tear on the Relic maple neck are immediately reminiscent of the instrument long played and worked on by Brent Mason. From the choice of woods and pickups to the profile of the neck and frets, not to mention the B-Bender system under the neck plate, no detail has been spared.

Three Seymour Duncan pickups on premium quality woods

The Seymour Duncan pickup trio bring vast sonic versatility to the guitar, all hand-wired with custom controls. There is an SM-1N mini humbucker at the neck , providing powerful humbuckers, a Tele Vintage-Stack Single Coil at the bridge , which provides crisp and lively tones with an inimitable character. In the central position, an STF-2S Strat Single Coil hot-stack brings a singular soul to the guitar, with a push / pull to activate and deactivate it.

At the level of the body, other customizations are at the rendezvous. The woods chosen by Kyle McMillin are of a premium quality: there is a light and resonant two-piece ash body , with a traditional off-center seam, and an AAAA quality maple neck with Round-Lam maple fingerboard . The neck’s C profile was born from a careful analysis of the 1967 original, crafted with rigorous finesse and millimeter precision.

Joe Glaser’s B-Bender System

The icing on the cake of the Telecaster Brent Mason Limited Edition, without which the replica of the original would not be complete, is the B-Bender system developed by Joe Glaser.
This relatively rare system allows you to obtain classic Pedal Steel or Lap Steel guitar sounds, easily usable thanks to a pin located on the neck plate. By engaging the mechanism, the height of the B string can be increased up to two semitones, giving your playing that characteristic country soul.

Our guitar sector team is at your disposal to answer all your questions. A rare opportunity to discover this singular and special guitar, limited to only 60 pieces in the world! Also discover all our Fender Custom Shop guitars on our site.