Modern and upgraded, the Fender Deluxe Blackout Tele guitar features edgy black and chrome ... more
aesthetics and gives Telecaster fans a modern instrument with a wide range of great tones. The Fender Deluxe Blackout Tele is a deluxe three-pickup version of ...
Postage & Packaging: £6.00 Availability: 1 working day delivery available...
Advantages: Amazing value for money! Disadvantages: None, unless you want a guitar with a tremolo arm.
I bought my cherry red 2005 Nashville Tele from a New Jersey guitar dealer because it looked like a bargain - second hand, but new condition. It cost $389. After paying for postage and import duty, it cost me about £340 overall.
This is the best value for money guitar I have ever bought!
The finish is superb quality, and it looks every inch as good as any of the USA models. Telecaster purists may not like the individual bridge segments for each string, but they work better than the old style bridge in my opinion, and the machine heads work well with a good feel.
Playability is superb - the intonation is excellent. The guitar is the best playing Telecaster I have ever encountered, with a fast action and good string spacing.
Tonal variation is extremely wide. There is a 5 position switch fitted. Positions 1, 3, and 5 select ...
Advantages: Great sounding and playing guitar by the masters! Disadvantages: There are none
Pauls.' It was like entering an Aladdin's cave for me really. Then I saw the Fender?! it was an acoustic and it was hanging there saying 'Play me, Borg, play me.' I slowly walked over and with a shaking hand I touched the strings.
Grrrllinnggg!
Few boring facts:
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No. of Frets - 20
Position Markers - Dot Position Inlays
Bridge/Tailpiece - Sonokeling with Compensated Saddle
Case - Hardshell
Body Type - Fender Style Dreadnought
Finish - Polyurethane
Neck Wood - Nato
Top Wood - Laminated Spruce
Back Wood - Laminated Mahogany
Side Wood - Laminated Mahogany
Machine Heads - Chrome, (Die-Cast)
Scale Length - 25.3"
Fingerboard - Sonokeling
...and back to the tale...
An assistant saw me and asked if I wanted to have a go. I did not need asking twice. He removed it from its place and I put it in my hands. The guitar felt so ...
Advantages: Three pickups, five way switching, great Fender Classic Disadvantages: Teles are quite heavy! No tremelo. not suitable for real heavy metal.
The Deluxe Nashville Telecaster is from the acclaimed Mexican division of the Fender empire. You should expect to pay about £400, although if you look around you might find a bargain!
What makes this guitar so different from other Telecasters is the fact that it has a third pickup between the two others. This, combined with a five way switch (taken straight from a USA strat) gives you a huge variety of sounds, from twangy pop, to dark melodic blues.
The pickups themselves are Tex-Mex (two tex-mex tele pickups, and one tex-mex strat pickup), which means that although made in Mexico, they have the same components as the American ones. The bridge pickup being very bright, getting bassier and bluesier as you switch towards the neck. All three pickups are adjustable, by screws, so that you can customize your sound by raising ...
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Product details
Long Name
Deluxe Blackout Tele
Type
Guitars
Genre
Electric Guitars
Subgenre
Telecaster; 6 String
Manufacturer
Fender
Header / Model
Deluxe Blackout Tele
Manufacturer's product description
Modern and upgraded, the Fender Deluxe Blackout Tele guitar features edgy black and chrome aesthetics and gives Telecaster fans a modern instrument with a wide range of great tones. The Fender Deluxe Blackout Tele is a deluxe three-pickup version of our Ensenada-made Telecaster, with vintage style pickups, five-way switching and a tinted C-shaped maple neck with a maple fingerboard. Fender Deluxe Blackout Tele main features include: Body: Alder Neck: 1-Piece Maple, Modern C Shape, (Satin Urethane Finish) Fingerboard: Maple, 9.5 Radius (241mm) No. of Frets: 21 Medium Jumbo Pickups: 3 Vintage Style Single-Coil Tele Pickups Controls: Master Volume, Master Tone Pickup Switching 5-Position Blade: Position 1. Bridge Pickup, Position 2. Bridge and Middle Pickup, Position 3. Middle Pickup, Position 4. Middle and Neck Pickup, Position 5. Neck Pickup Bridge: Standard 6-Saddle Strings-Thru-Body Bridge Machine Heads: Fender/Ping Standard Cast/Sealed Tuning Machines Hardware Chrome Pickguard 3-Ply B/W/B Scale Length 25.5 (648 mm) Width at Nut 1.650 (42 mm) Tinted Maple Neck 3 Pickup Configuration, Black Dot Positions Inlays Strings Fender Super 250L, Nickel Plated Steel Gauges: (.009, .011, .016, .024, .032, .042), p/n 073-0250-003 Accessories: Standard Gig Bag
