Fender Blacktop Telecaster HH Electric Guitar (Maple)

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zZounds Gear Experts Say...
This Telecaster dishes out the attitude with dual high-gain humbuckers. Outfitted with chrome hardware, its alder body shines with a polyester gloss finish.

What's special about this item?

Feature: What it does:
Alder body Light weight with a wide tonal range
Fender Hot Vintage Alnico Humbuckers Classic humbucker tone, slightly higher output
Maple fretboard Delivers a bright, snappy sound
Maple neck Bright tone, full sustain and strength

Fender's innovative Blacktop guitar series expands the sonic horizon of the classic Fender Telecaster guitar by powering it with high-gain humbucking pickups.

Sleek and supercharged, the Blacktop Telecaster HH has dual over-wound alnico humbucking pickups, with other distinctive touches including skirted black amp knobs, a reversed chrome control plate and a hard-tail bridge. Other features include an alder body, maple neck with 9.5"-radius maple fretboard, 22 medium jumbo frets, gloss polyester finish and chrome hardware.

General

Model Name: Blacktop(TM) Telecaster(R) HH

Series: Blacktop(TM)

Body

Body Material: Alder

Neck

Number of Frets: 22

Fret Size: Medium Jumbo

Position Inlays: Black Dots on Maple

Fingerboard Radius: 9.5" Radius (241 mm)

Fretboard: Maple

Neck Material: Maple

Neck Finish: Gloss Urethane

Nut Width: 1.650" (42 mm)

Scale Length: 25.5" (648 mm)

Neck Plate: Vintage Style 4 Bolt

Truss Rod Nut: 3/16" Adjustable Hex Nut

Electronics

Pickup Configuration: H/H

Bridge Pickup: Hot Vintage Alnico Bridge Humbucking Pickup with Nickel Cover

Neck Pickup: Hot Vintage Alnico Neck Humbucking Pickup with Nickel Cover

Pickup Switching: 3-Position Blade: Position 1. Bridge Pickup, Position 2. Bridge and Neck Pickups, Position 3. Neck Pickup

Controls: Master Volume, Master Tone

Hardware

Hardware Finish: Nickel/Chrome

Bridge: Strings-Through-Body Hardtail Bridge With 6 Cast Saddles

Tuning Machines: Standard Cast/Sealed Tuning Machines

String Nut: Synthetic Bone

Switch Tips: Black Switch Tip

Tools

Truss Rod Wrench: 3/16"

Miscellaneous

Strings: Super 250L's, NPS (.009-.042 Gauges)

Unique Features: HH Pickup Configuration, Reversed Control Assembly, Black Skirted Amp Knobs, Contoured Body

Accessories

Pickguard: 3-Ply Black

Included Accessories: Truss Rod Adjustment Wrench, Saddle Height Adjustment Wrench

Control Knobs: Skirted Amp Knobs

For support or warranty questions, please contact the manufacturer:
Phone: 800-488-1818

Reviewers gave this product an overall rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars. (12 ratings)
Submitted July 14, 2011 by a customer from hotmail.com

"USA Deluxe Features on a MIM!"

Overall: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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I bought it, sold it, and had to buy another with a planned pickup change to Duncans. Just too much overall value on this guitar.

Sound
The tone is obviously not you father's telecaster. It does not have a lot of that telecaster spank that a typical single coil would have, but it does have a whiff of that tone at times. It is a rocker with high gain humbuckers and it can get just pain raunchy. I live for that sound, but don't buy one if you think it's just a tele that's grown some muscles. The damn things on steroids. The reason that I didn't rate it higher is because it has nice crunch, but can get a bit bright to me. I had blacktop strat that I sold because it was thin. This tele is not thin, just trebly - not like an ice pick, but I usually play a Les Paul and it's not as warm as a Paul. I plan to put a pair of Seymour Duncan '59's in it to warm it up a bit.

Features
Best aspect of this guitar are the features. I really appreciate a "belly cut" (contoured body to the layman)in a guitar this reasonably priced. It has 6 saddles for ease of intonation, 22 frets and a nice smooth neck. To top it off, it has a black pickguard (hence "blacktop"). You Fender freaks know that each of those features is normally on a much more expensive model - a real nice bit of features for the money. It would have been a 10 if it had barrel knobs instead of those amp conrol-looking things...easily changed out though.

Ease of… read more Use
Works like any good Strat or Tele. Nice neck, just wish it would have a soft V, but what am I buying a custom-made guitar? Of course not..

Quality
No issues that a good setup won't cure. Fine MIM quality.

Value
Great price point. Look at the features...It has gone up 50 bucks recently.

Musical Background:
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Musical Style:
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