Fender Custom Shop Wildwood 10 1962 Telecaster Custom "Relic Ready" Wildwood 10 Telecaster – Are you Relic Ready? "Relic Ready" sells you a blank canvas and hands you the brush. Three things ended up aging this guitar, and the owner was the least of them." Phillip Gajewski • Fender Custom Shop
Photo of Fender Custom Shop 1963 Stratocaster Heavy Relic The Unicorn: The Guitar that Shouldn't Exist. "A Fender Custom Shop '63 wearing a maple fretboard — the one spec a '63 isn't supposed to have. A year of chasing, two misses, and the rule I paid to learn: never balk." Phillip Gajewski • Collector
2016 Fender Custom Shop Limited Edition Heavy Relic Mischief Maker Some Assembly (and Mischief) Required. "Hendrix started it. Ian Moore and a Sling Blade cameo kept it going. A kid named Gary Vann with a Squier Bullet sealed the deal. This is the story of how a strat with a tele neck became an obsession — and the Custom Shop guitar I finally chased down." Phillip Gajewski • Fender Custom Shop
Two Blondes are Better Than One. "I couldn't decide between two blonde Telecasters, so I didn't. Here's what happens when you buy both..." Phillip Gajewski • Telecaster
2017 Ltd Heavy Relic ’59 Strat The Cookie Monster and Breaking My Own Rules. A Guitar Center used-market cautionary tale — hacked body cavity, a roasted neck too good to return, and a nickname that stuck. Phillip Gajewski • NAMM
Photo: courtesy of Pierre Journel of https://theguitarchannel.biz/ Patience, Cash, and a Police Station: Chasing FCS NAMM Editions. I've never been invited to the Fender Custom Shop's annual NAMM showcase. Chances are, you haven’t either. The event is dealer-invite only, held behind closed doors somewhere inside the Anaheim Convention Center each January. For the rest of us, it exists mostly through a Phillip Gajewski • NAMM
