He enjoys calling upon his extensive and varied experience as a craftsman to create highly distinctive guitars such as the Resophonic Thinline Telecaster®.
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He did repair work and mods in a small guitar shop right out of high school in the late 1980s subsequently, he moved on to stints at Dobro and Rickenbacker before arriving at Fender, where he worked on Guild, Gretsch and Benedetto guitars before beginning his apprenticeship with various Custom Shop Master Builders. Woodworking runs in the Wilson family, and the requisite Custom Shop zeal for outstanding craftsmanship has long been part of Dale’s DNA. I was equally enthralled with the guitars just as much as I was with the players." "I didn’t dream of being a rock star I dreamt of building the ultimate guitar. "Ever since I can remember, I’ve always loved guitars," he said.
Building guitars has been a driving passion for the California native since childhood. Dale Wilson arrived at Fender in 2003, joined the Custom Shop in 2005 and became a Master Builder in 2011.