Fender Custom Shop: Inside the Limited Edition Waylon Jennings Telecaster

To celebrate Jenning's legacy, Fender Custom Shop partnered with the Jennings family to replicate Waylon’s iconic leather-covered mid-’50s Telecaster. Using two of his go-to guitars as inspiration, Masterbuilder David Brown meticulously selected modifications and details from both to recreate a version of what Waylon’s guitar would have looked and sounded like in the mid-to-late ’70s.

The Limited Edition Waylon Jennings Telecaster features a two-piece ash body finished in period-correct Butterscotch Blonde and wrapped in a distinctive, hand-tooled leather cover designed by renowned craftsman Cody Hixon. Other notable details include Custom Shop Hand-Wound ’50/’51 Blackguard pickups and Schaller M6 tuning machines with a low E banjo tuner to capture Waylon’s signature tone and sound.

The result is a rare, refined and remarkable instrument worthy of the legend it is inspired by. To hear the origin story of Jennings’ leather-clad Tele, how Custom Shop designed this limited edition model and hear it in action, check out this video featuring Shooter Jennings and David Brown. Click here to purchase.