The Telstar is reminiscent of the classic Telecaster. The body is made from a single piece of mahogany with a flamed maple cap and ivory binding. The mahogany is hollowed out to reduce the weight of the guitar and grain filled and stained to highlight the grain and natural colours of the wood. The maple cap is stained with a vibrant red, orange and yellow pattern to emphasise the flamed figure. The mahogany behind the f-hole is stained and finished before fitting the cap. The body is finished with polyurethane.
This model has a plain maple neck with double rosewood laminations and a maple fretboard. A dual action truss rod is fitted under the fretboard. The access hole is decorated with aged copper leaf. Eccentric aluminium fret markers with a rose pink epoxy fill are used. Hipshot locking tuners provide excellent tuning stability and wide Nickel-Silver fret wire is used and complemented with a hand-carved bone nut. The fret board comes with a big cat inlay. The neck has 22 frets and uses the a scale length of 25.0 inches or 638 mm. This reduces the tension on the strings compared to a standard telecaster. The neck is stained a light amber colour and made to look "rustic" in keeping with the autumnal body colours.
The Telstar features pickups from Iron Gear. The bridge pickup is a twin II single coil pickup that has a traditional telecaster sound but a second coil can be switched in to boost the sound. The neck pickup is a P90 that produces a beautiful clean sound. A 5-way switch is used for 'Bill Lawrence' wiring that enhances the range of tones available. Positions 1,2 and 3 are as standard and switch between neck, neck+bridge and bridge. Position 4 puts the two pickups out of phase to give a stratocaster style sound and position 5 adds a capacitor to the neck pickup to produce an even clearer tone.
The volume control is a push pull potentiometer that allows the additional windings of each pickup to be engaged for a high output boost to the sound.
A Gotoh top-loading bridge with 3 brass compensated saddles allows good intonation of each string.
