Tele Classic
The historic design, uncorrected. Ash or alder, two single-coils and a circuit that hides nothing: the most honest guitar in the catalogue.
- Tabacco
- Panna
- Carminio
- Cielo
- Boreale
- Ossidiana
- Verde acqua
- Rosa antico
8 finishes available — and this is not a closed list
What sets it apart
Swamp ash or alder
This is not a line for the spec sheet: ash is open and light, alder tighter and fuller through the middle. On this shape the choice of wood makes itself heard more than on any other.
250 kΩ electronics, DiMarzio
The historic values, not the convenient ones. A higher-value pot would make the sound brighter and easier to record, and would take from a Tele exactly what people choose it for.
Wooden pickguard
Instead of plastic: it picks up the figure of the body and changes the guitar more than a piece that small suggests it could. It is the detail that tells a De Gattis from a copy.
Photographs of Tele Classic
Soft relic: the finish aged just slightly, along the edges and where the hand rests. Available on request.
The neck
The light running the length of the neck.
Ten seconds from the bridge to the headstock, no editing. It is the way to see a roasted neck for what it is — colour that lifts and fades as the shot travels — and the logo at the end only reads once the light reaches it.
Specifications
What is settled, and what you settle.
It is the model
They do not change: they are what makes this a Tele Classic.
- Scale length
- 648 mm25.5 inches
- Frets
- 22, jumbo
- Bridge
- Gotoh
- Pots
- 250 kΩ DiMarzio
- Truss rod
- Dual action, with two carbon fibre rodsThe rods can be left out on request
- Body finish
- Gloss polyurethane
- 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.
- Body wood
- Swamp ash · Alder
- Fretboard radius
- 12" · 16"9.5" and 12" on request — the vintage radius
- Pickup configuration
- SSS · HSS · HH
- Pickguard
- Wood · Plastic
- Nut
- Bone · Tusq
- Tuners
- Gotoh · Schaller
- Neck joint
- Bolt-on · Set neck
- Headstock
- 6 in line · 6 in line, reverse · 4 + 2 · 4 + 2, reverse · 3 + 3 · Slotted
- Neck finish
- Gloss · Satin
- Fretboard finish
- Tru-Oil · Satin · Gloss
The body cuts
It is born with a flat top and a contoured belly. The rest is up to you.
No cuts: the full board, like the earliest ones
Belly only: the cut on the back, and that is how it is born
At the front, with no bevel: the edge stays square
At the front, with the forearm bevel
The switch
What it sounds like, in every position.
As standard
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.