Fender announces Eric Clapton Crossroads Blind Faith Telecaster
Custom Shop recreates Clapton's iconic Tele/Strat mash-up
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Eric Clapton plays his Blind Faith Telecaster · Source: YouTube/Fender
Eric Clapton plays the Fender Blind Faith Telecaster · Source: YouTube/Fender
Brownie and Blind Faith Telecaster · Source: YouTube/Fender
Fender has announced a new Telecaster model, the Eric Clapton Crossroads Blind Faith Telecaster. It’s a recreation of a special guitar played by Mr Clapton during his Blind Faith era in the late 60s. Accompanying the release is a video of ‘God’ himself playing this recreation of his famous instrument.
Fender Eric Clapton Crossroads Blind Faith Telecaster
This limited-edition model recreates a Franken-Tele played by Eric Clapton when he was with Blind Faith, the supergroup he formed with Ginger Baker, Steve Winwood and Ric Grech. It has a Stratocaster neck grafted onto the body of a Telecaster Custom; this guitar proved an important ingredient in the Blind Faith recipe.
Guitar Center has published a new video that tells the story of how Eric came to playing this very unusual guitar, and how Fender’s Custom Shop Master Builder Todd Krause went about recreating it. Amongst the many tales he tells about the original guitar, Mr Krause mentions that the Strat neck came from a certain Stratocaster owned by Eric that he affectionately called Brownie.
Brownie and Blind Faith Telecaster · Source: YouTube/Fender
Fender Eric Clapton Crossroads Blind Faith Telecaster · Source: Fender
Crossroads
This guitar is being sold by Guitar Center as part its efforts to help raise money for Mr Clapton’s Crossroads foundation. They aren’t cheap, but they are certainly unique! This model has a Journeyman Relic finish on a two-piece alder body, a 21-fret, V-profile, maple-on-maple Strat neck. It also has hand-wound Custom Shop ’63 Tele pickups and comes with a vintage-style 3-barrel Tele bridge and matching vintage-style tuners.
Each guitar comes in a deluxe hardshell case and a Certificate of Authenticity personally signed by Eric Clapton. They aren’t cheap, but if it’s for a good cause, it at least gives you an added reason for splashing all that cash…
RRP – USD 11999
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4 responses to “Fender announces Eric Clapton Crossroads Blind Faith Telecaster”
I dont understand Why this guitar is so interesring. Its just a Telecaster Eric Clapton played 1969 and 1970. Both Telecasters and Stratocasters have the same length and size of the neck exactly. Head size does absolutely nothing to the sound. So whats sold is a Standard Fender Telecaster.
About Head size. Leo Fender tried to make the Strat head a lot bigger like the CBS Strats and found oit there is No difference in sound whatsoever. So the Clapton Blind Faith Tele is just a regular Telecaster.
And Clapton started his first professional 3 years on a Fender Telecaster ( 1963 to 1966) He has used a Fender Telecaster on every album he has made. The Telecaster was used very much live as well by Eric Clapton in the seventiees and eightees, not as main guitar though except for 2 tours Where the Telecaster was the main guitar. On the tours Japan 1975 and USA 1976 the Telecaster was Claptons Main guitar. The Fender Telecaster has been a staple for Eric Clapton his whole career.
You are correct Sir!