Fender Custom Shop 1957 Telecaster B-Bender Relic Masterbuilt by John Cruz, Honey Blonde

This guitar was played out of the box with factory strings, no additional set-up and no audio post production.

Serial# JC2610, Weight: 8.34 lbs.

Signal chain used on this guitar:

Cables: Mogami

Pedals: Ibanez TS9 Tube Screamer → → MXR M169 Carbon Copy Analog Delay → → Boss DD-7 Digital Delay

Amp: Fender Vintage Reissue '65 Deluxe Reverb Guitar Combo Amp

Mics: Shure SM57 & Neumann U87Ai

Recorded at Musician’s Friend in July 2015.

[alfredomanccini]

WOW i don´t know why, but the guitar tone in this video is insane

[charleswagner]

Gorgeous guitar. B-Bender telecasters really helped me continue on my guitar playing journey and kept my relationship with the guitar interesting.

[matte]

Was not expecting this guy to completely shred in the jazziest way possible opening a telecaster demo lol

[luke-xzgb]

when he starts playing that jazz i was blown away

[sukoelpiucho]

Man you sure know how to make it sound like heaven and roses! Wonderful guitar sounds and magnificent paying technique...

[MPLSprintmaking]

Great playing, beautiful guitar.
That thing costs as much as a used car. wow.

[RSKYBZ]

That might be one of the best looking Teles I've ever seen

[BCTGuitarPlayer]

I’ve been playing guitar for 59 years and I’m just now learning about the B bender telecaster?! Now I understand all of those years ago, watching pickers on Hee Haw and that bent note happening and wondering how they were doing it. Now I know!....

[massimosoddu]

che bella chitarra.great sounds jazz..incredible for country the best...jimmy page-thank you for this video prof

[santiagogutierrez]

I got to work on a tele b bender, 68’. In love

[Drjackdempsey]

Great playing. He looks like a Country Outlaw, talks like a college professor, and plays like a badass! I bet that guitar is expensive. How much?

[CC-fipp]

Pitch bending is a beautiful thing. Teles are so customisable. A different flavour of pitch manipulation - but even a Bigsby is fun. Teles take all the awesome mods so well.

[georgeasimakos]

I typically put a Bigsby on every one of my guitars, but now I know what guitar I’m getting next. Those B bends sound amazing.

[thefrankly]

When he introduces himself as Brian, it sounds like he is not quite sure he is in fact, Brian.

[tristannolan]

man thats one sweet guitar..sounds amazing

[TheKitchenerLeslie]

Jimmy Page on In Through The Outdoor is about his obsession with his new B-Bender toy. I love that sound so much!

[manifestgtr]

Teles lend themselves particularly well to stuff like this. The teles I’ve owned over the years (and the thinline I own currently) have been among the most stable guitars I’ve used for bending chords, etc. Somehow they just seem more solid than Les Pauls for that type of playing which is counterintuitive with the bolt on and the string tree. It’s just one of those things…guitars are *always* the sum of their parts. It’s never the wood, the nut, the bridge, the block, the frets, the joints. It’s always *all of that stuff*

[Bbendfender]

I have one but mine is an older Parsons/White B-bender model on a '68 Tele. Very early serial number.

[gushutchinson]

Nope...I am still in the dark as to what exactly IS a B Bender when it's at home...it sounds like a nice tele played rather beautifully...lovely tone, nice bends played by the Brian ...I'm going to be listening to this demo of said B BENDER until the cows come home...to roost!

[zellarecords]

These Tele videos are Amazing!!! Great Job Brian!! And you have a great day too