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Jonathan Horsley

“I just got some prototypes in different colours… It sounds really good”: Foo Fighters guitarist Chris Shiflett has a new signature Telecaster incoming – here’s everything we know about it so far

Chris Shiflett plays live with Foo Fighters in Washington D.C., with what looks like one of his new signature Tele prototypes.

This week has already delivered Foo Fighters fans the signature guitar they have all been waiting for, with Epiphone announcing the launch of the Dave Grohl DG-335, the brand’s latest high-end collaboration with the Gibson Custom Shop. But there is another Foos signature model coming, with Chris Shiflett revealing that Fender is releasing another US-made Telecaster with his name on it.

Speaking to MusicRadar, in an interview during which Shiflett discussed his embrace of digital amp modellers with Neural DSP Quad Cortex, and argued why the Gibson Les Paul was a great guitar for country music, Shiflett let on that Fender has been developing a new signature model for him based on his master-built Custom Shop Telecaster Deluxe.

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