Fender Custom Shop '51 Nocaster Relic 2026, Copper

This 2026 Fender Custom Shop '51 Nocaster Relic in copper one leans into the earliest Broadcaster-turned-Telecaster blueprint: single cutaway ash body, maple neck and board, and the flat-pole pickup setup Fender used before they figured out staggered poles were the move. Neck pickup is the hand-wound OP-loaded '51 unit, bridge is the hand-wound RHLH-loaded version, so you're getting the twangy-but-thick voicing that made the original such a departure from anything else on the market in 1951. The relic work is aged rather than beat-to-death — checking, some edge wear, nothing that reads as costume. Case candy and Custom Shop paperwork included. If you've been holding out for a Nocaster that doesn't look like every other blackguard on the wall, this is the one to plug in.