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Also released is the American Performer Tele Hum, which features a Double Tap humbucker on the neck position, and a push-pull pot to split the humbucker to single coil. Artist Series Telecasters have features favored by world-famous Fender endorsees James Burton , John 5 , Muddy Waters , Jim Root , G. E. Smith , Joe Strummer , Jimmy Page ...
Telecaster Custom was introduced just around the time that Fender began to lose its reputation as a quality instrument company. Blighted with Fender's allegedly unstable 3 bolt adjustable neck joint and the characteristic 1970's style “notchless” upper cutaway, the Custom was also tarnished by negative perceptions surrounding the Pre/Post-CBS quality control debate.
The Fender J5 Telecaster is John 5's signature model Telecaster, and was designed in part by John 5 himself. The prototype built by Fender Custom Shop Artist Relations representative Alex Perez has served as John 5's main guitar since around 2003.
The Fender Telecaster Thinline is a semi-hollow guitar made by the Fender company. It is a Telecaster with body cavities. Designed by German luthier Roger Rossmeisl in 1968, [1] it was introduced in 1969 and updated in 1972 by replacing the standard Telecaster pickups with a pair of Fender Wide Range humbucking pickups, bullet truss-rod and 3-bolt neck.
The Fender Performer was available in the following poly finishes: Brown Sunburst (532), Frost White (555), Burgundy Mist (566), Emerald Mist (567) and Gun Metal Blue (568). The two pickups are custom humbuckers which both sit at an angle opposite to that of a standard Stratocaster or Telecaster bridge pickup. It appears that the coils are ...
The Deluxe, originally conceived as the top-of-the-line model in the Telecaster series, was the last of these to be released, in 1973. [2] The "humbucker" Telecasters failed to draw potential customers away from competition like Gibson's Les Paul model, and the Telecaster Deluxe was discontinued in 1981. However, in 2004, Fender decided to re ...
In 2020, McCartney received a 1954 Fender Telecaster, a gift from his wife, which he used on McCartney III. [64] Richie Kotzen (born 1970) has a signature model Telecaster (TLR-155RK) made by Fender Japan. The guitar features an ash/brown sunburst body with laminated flame maple caps, maple neck and one piece maple fretboard with abalone dot ...
All Telecaster bodies of this particular series were routed for a humbucker pickup in the neck position. There were two options of the pickup configuration: Either a "Fat Tele" pickup arrangement with a Fender USA humbucker neck pickup and a bridge pickup or a Stratocaster single coil pickup in the neck position combined with a single coil ...