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Fender Player II Telecaster Electric Guitar Black Maple Fingerboard
Fender Player II Telecaster Electric Guitar Black Maple Fingerboard – Step into the spotlight and experience iconic Fender® sound and style with the Player II Telecaster® — a stage-ready guitar with contemporary updates to power your performance and inspire your playing. The Player II Telecaster radiates timeless Fender charm, but under the hood, it’s primed for today’s players. Everything about the neck is designed for fast and fluid playability, from the Modern “C”-profile with silky satin urethane finish on the back to the comfy 9.5”-radius slab rosewood or maple fingerboard with smooth rolled edges and 22 medium jumbo frets. Choose from alder, chambered ash or chambered mahogany bodies available in both classic Fender finishes and never-before-seen colours unearthed from the archives. Player Series Alnico V Single-Coil Tele® pickups offer crystalline highs, musical mids and tight lows that elevate any genre. The 3-way blade switch lets you dial in everything from smooth neck pickup chime to cutting bridge pickup twang and all points in between, while a 6-saddle bridge, block steel saddles and ClassicGear™ tuners ensure precise tuning stability for the flexibility to explore endless sonic possibilities. Perfect for crafting your own sound, the Player II Telecaster has the looks, tone and feel that only a Fender delivers.
Fender Player II Telecaster Electric Guitar Black Maple Fingerboard
Fender Player II Telecaster Electric Guitar Black Maple Fingerboard – Step into the spotlight and experience iconic Fender® sound and style with the Player II Telecaster® — a stage-ready guitar with contemporary updates to power your performance and inspire your playing. The Player II Telecaster radiates timeless Fender charm, but under the hood, it’s primed for today’s players. Everything about the neck is designed for fast and fluid playability, from the Modern “C”-profile with silky satin urethane finish on the back to the comfy 9.5”-radius slab rosewood or maple fingerboard with smooth rolled edges and 22 medium jumbo frets. Choose from alder, chambered ash or chambered mahogany bodies available in both classic Fender finishes and never-before-seen colours unearthed from the archives. Player Series Alnico V Single-Coil Tele® pickups offer crystalline highs, musical mids and tight lows that elevate any genre. The 3-way blade switch lets you dial in everything from smooth neck pickup chime to cutting bridge pickup twang and all points in between, while a 6-saddle bridge, block steel saddles and ClassicGear™ tuners ensure precise tuning stability for the flexibility to explore endless sonic possibilities. Perfect for crafting your own sound, the Player II Telecaster has the looks, tone and feel that only a Fender delivers.
Alder and maple — the essence of Fender tone
We’ve all heard the saying, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!” And that’s undoubtedly one guiding principle behind the Player II Telecaster. Classic construction and an alder body grant balanced comfort, whether sitting or standing. Alder oozes with quintessential Fender sonics: lively harmonic colour, a fast response, and middle-of-the-road sustain that lends body to solos and chords. The Player II Telecaster has a revered solid maple neck and fingerboard, supplying you with bell-like note clarity and snappy touch-sensitive attack to fingerstyle or plectrum play. In keeping with contemporary tastes, the neck offers speed-friendly agility with a more modern “C”-shaped profile suitable for virtually any player.
Player II perks
The Player II Series Telecaster features small changes that, although departures from yesteryear’s Teles, tend to suit today’s players and help them reach their goals quickly, even if that goal is spending less time on guitar maintenance! The Player II Tele has a 6-saddle string-through bridge. Compared to the original Tele’s 3-barrel bridge, this pivot brings huge intonation benefits, along with better tuning stability and a moderate bump in sustain. ClassicGear tuners by Fender frame the Tele headstock just right and perform more accurately with higher ratios than vintage tuners. Lastly, rolled fingerboard edges are an incredibly high-value addition. The superior comfort can’t be stressed enough — you get the smooth, musical feel of a worn fingerboard, all without losing that attractive mint-condition look and factory-fresh performance!
Famous pickups with a twist
You’re sure to cut through the mix, thanks to the Player II Series Telecaster’s Alnico V pickups. These single-coil pickups deliver classic sounds that have been with us since the dawn of the Tele, but with increased punch and output. The extra brawn of Alnico V pickups brings firepower and sizzle to chicken pickin’ and leads. But the added oomph is also suitable for driving effects pedals or for getting stadium-sized tones when plugging into low-wattage combos, amp sims, and recording interfaces. Need less twang? The neck pickup smooths the cadence and body of clean jazz, country lines, and mellow riffs. Full-on amp distortion sounds great in either position, yielding tight lows and stinging highs. Aggressive twang, smoky jazz, saturated high gain — everything sounds great through these pickups.
The Fender Telecaster: a brief history
This is it: the original guitar that started Fender’s march into contemporary music history. It appeared in the early 1950s and was first named the Broadcaster. The ingeniously simple design, the bolt-on neck, and the slab body all contribute to the guitar’s trademark tones and player-friendly feel. From Nashville twang to blistering rock tones, the Telecaster sound has made its presence felt in nearly every musical category. The diverse list of Telecaster players — including Muddy Waters, Keith Richards, James Burton, Bruce Springsteen, Joe Strummer, and John 5 (and quite a few of us here) — attests to the guitar’s universal appeal.
Fender Player II Telecaster Features:
- Timeless Telecaster tones, tweaked and refined for modern playability and performance
- Solid alder body delivers well-balanced brightness and sustain for classic Fender versatility
- Player Series Alnico V single-coil pickups fuel classic tone with extra output for today’s players and gear
- Modern 6-saddle string-through bridge supplies a mean bite and excellent intonation
- Maple neck with an all-encompassing Modern “C” profile
- 22-fret maple fingerboard with a 9.5-inch radius
- Rolled fingerboard edges for an instant bump in comfort and playability
- Synthetic bone nut enhances vibrational transfer through the neck
- Fender deluxe ClassicGear tuners
Tech Specs
- General
- Number of Strings 6
- Left-/Right-handed Right-handed
- Body
- Body Type Solidbody
- Body Shape Player II Telecaster
- Body Material Alder
- Body Finish Gloss Polyester
- Color Black
- Neck
- Neck Material Maple
- Neck Shape Modern C
- Neck Joint Bolt-on
- Radius 9.5″
- Fingerboard Material Maple
- Fingerboard Inlay Dots
- Number of Frets 22
- Scale Length 25.5″
- Nut Width 1.650″
- Nut Material Synthetic Bone
- Hardware
- Bridge/Tailpiece 6-Saddle String-Through-Body Tele Bridge with Block Steel Saddles
- Tuners Fender ClassicGear
- Electronics
- Neck Pickup Fender Player Series Alnico V Tele Single-coil
- Bridge Pickup Fender Player Series Alnico V Tele Single-coil
- Controls 1 x volume, 1 x tone
- Switching 3-way blade pickup switch
- Miscellaneous
- Strings Fender 250L, .009-.042
- Case/Gig Bag Sold Separately
- Model #: 0140552506
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