Buy Fender Blacktop(TM) Telecaster® HH Electric Guitar, Candy Apple Red, Rosewood FretboardFender Blacktop(TM) Telecaster® HH Electric Guitar, Candy Apple Red, Rosewood Fretboard Product Description:
- Hot vintage AlNiCo humbucking neck and bridge pickups offer a great range of raw, aggressive tones.
- A 22-fret freeboard with medium jumbo frets and a 9.5" radius is made for intensity playing.
- Chrome pickup covers, reversed control plate, and skirted amp knobs offer a modern, more-aggressive look.
Product Description
Drive your sound with raw humbucking power. Fender’s new and innovative Blacktop™ guitar series expands the sonic horizon of classic Fender Stratocaster®, Telecaster®, Jazzmaster® and Jaguar® guitars by powering them with high-gain humbucking pickups. The Blacktop series delivers on modern player demands for a thick and heavy sound with guitars that drive a wide array of deep, rich and aggressive tones that match the intensity of any playing style.
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 rosewood or maple fretboard, 22 medium jumbo frets, gloss polyester finish and chrome hardware.
Specifications
Body
- Body Material: Alder Body Shape: Telecaster®
Neck
- Number of Frets: 22
- Fret Size: Medium Jumbo
- Position Inlays: Black Dots on Maple, White Dots on Rosewood
- Fingerboard Radius: 9.5" (24.1 cm)
- Fretboard: Rosewood or Maple
- Neck Material: Maple
- Neck Finish: Gloss Urethane
- Nut Width: 1.650” (42 mm)
- Scale Length: 25.5" (64.8 cm)
- Neck Plate: Vintage Style 4 Bolt
- Truss Rod Nut: 3/16" Hex Adjustment
Electronics
- Pickup Configuration: H/H
- Bridge Pickup: Hot Vintage Alnico Humbucking Pickup (Bridge)
- 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
- String Nut: Synthetic Bone
- Switch Tips: Black Switch Tip
Tools - Truss Rod Wrench: 0.1875"
Miscellaneous
- Strings: Fender® USA Super 250L's, NPS (.009-.042 Gauges)
- Unique Features: HH Pickup Configuration, Reversed Control Assembly, Black Skirted Amp Knobs, Contoured Body
Accessories
- Included Accessories: Truss Rod Adjustment Wrench, Saddle Height Adjustment Wrench
- Control Knobs: Skirted Amp Knobs
Customer Reviews
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
By Melody
This is not your classic Tele! Great as the classics are, I also love this guitar.This is my first electric, so my review is limited, but so far, this is a high quality specimen. The candy apple red color is more of a rich red, and it is beautiful! The HH pickups are great for lead or rhythm play. The cutout back is great for comfort. Anyone who has played a Tele knows that the body, though attractive, is a little bulky. The Blacktop series made an attempt here, and I would say it was a success.The sound is great also! You can have a rich, mellow tone with no distortion on the neck pickup. Then, you can switch it the other way, throw in some distortion and shred away. I have a really lame Marshall practice amp, and the sound is still awesome from this guitar! It is very versatile. You can play jazz, blues, pop, and rock in one guitar.Pros:Value, sound quality, appearance, comfort (?)Cons:It's not American-made. :)I would definitely recommend this guitar to anyone from beginners to intermediates. I can't speak to advanced players because I am not one.
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By F. Fahrner
Had lots of problems with this guitar and almost sent it back.My purpose in buying this was to use it as a platform for some TV Jones pickups.... so, a project guitar to begin with.Just a bit more of a project than I figured on.First problem; frets extending over the edge of the fret board, probably due to some shrinkage. But the frets were also unfinished with a lot of sharp edges or burrs where the frets were cut.Could not plug it in. The jack would not fit in to the plug due to lack of clearance for the jack.When I finally over came the jack problem, it was dead.... it would not play. This led to a lot of wire dressing cause the coax from the pickups looked like they were shorting. Really shoddy workmanship.The real culprit turned out to be the jack itself. Unsoldered and checked with a meter.... a dead short. Perhaps it was never meant to be force in to too small a hole.Why did I go through all of this? Cause in my mind it was a project guitar anyway.....and the candy apple red body is just drop-dead gorgeous. Besides, I like doing the work and am a firm believer that it's a good thing to become intimate with your instrument.The pickups on this guitar don't sound that bad. They are very loud (high output). Loud is not my thing so I am going forward with the pickup upgrade; Lollartrons was my final decision.Bottom line..... Fender did a crap job on this guitar. The frets cut my fingers and it didn't work. I know it's a cheap guitar but that's no excuse. If your gonna make crap, why bother. I think their expectation is that the dealers will fix all these problems.... but why should they. Rant over now. Two stars cause it's got a nice body.
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By Marcelo Serafico
Great guitar. Bought it a few months ago. Played it for a while the way it came from the factory. Today I took it to be set and put 0.11 strings. It is sounding wild. Use the neck pick up with zero tone and you'll get something like a Les Paul combined to a fuzz pedal. Impressing. Manage the volume in the clean channel and you might get some distortion (I use a Laney 40w Extreme amp). The more you bring back the tone on the neck pick up the warmer the sound gets. The bridge pick up keeps the tele twang. Great guitar for a great price.
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