Found this today and thought it was pretty cool info on Keith's guitar that he calls Clarence:
Mark Kendrick - Fender
USA
Jul 19th, 2004 01:11 PM Edit Profile
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You know... I've been watchin' the Keith Urban threads for quite some time. The guitar Keith plays, is a 1988 C/S, 40th anniversary Telecaster. It has an ash back with a figured maple top. The guitar also has a "swimming pool" route. Sometime after Keith recieved the guitar from our Nashville A/R office, he decided to put another pickup in it with a 5 way switch. In 1999, Keith decided to go back to the original wiring configuration. The middle pickup was removed and later the neck pickup, but there wasn't another pickguard, in the same material (ivoroid) to replace it. So the pickguard(with 2 pickups routes)remains intact. There is kind of a cool factor in that. It gave the guitar it's own personality. The pickup in the bridge, was a Texas Special Tele. I hope that clears things up a bit.
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