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With their hard edge Blacktop look and powerful over the top tone, these Blacktop Telecaster HH Electric Guitars from Fender provide raw humbucking power. Sleek and supercharged, it utilizes dual over-wound alnico humbucking pickups, with other distinctive touches including skirted black amp knobs and a hard-tail bridge. Other features include an alder body, maple neck, 9.5 inch radius rosewood or maple fingerboard, 22 medium jumbo frets, gloss polyester finish and chrome hardware.
Fender Blacktop Telecaster HH Features
- A Unique Telecaster Design with Powerful Humbucker Tone!
- Alder Body with Bolt-on Maple Neck
- Rosewood or Maple Fingerboard (as shown)
- Hot Vintage Alnico Humbucking Bridge and Neck Pickup
- String Through Body, Hardtail Bridge
- Standard Cast/Sealed Tuning Machines
Fender's innovative Blacktop guitar series expands the sonic horizon of classic Fender guitars by powering them with high-gain humbucking pickups. The Blacktop series delivers on modern player demands for a thick and heavy sound. These guitars drive a wide array of deep, rich and aggressive tones that match the intensity of any playing style.
Fender Blacktop Telecaster HH Electric Guitar Specifications
- Body: Alder
- Neck: Maple
- Plate: Vintage Style 4 Bolt
- Nut Width: 1.650 inches (42 mm)
- Scale Length: 25.5 inches (648 mm)
- Fingerboard: Rosewood or Maple (as shown)
- Radius: 9.5 inches Radius (241 mm)
- Inlays: Dots
- Frets: 22, Medium Jumbo
- Truss Rod Nut: 3/16 inches Adjustable Hex Nut
- Bridge Pickup: Hot Vintage Alnico Humbucking Bridge Pickup
- Neck Pickup: Hot Vintage Alnico Humbucking Neck Pickup
- Pickup Covers: Nickel
- Controls: Master Volume, Master Tone
- Pickup Configuration: H/H (Humbucker/Humbucker)
- Pickup Switching: 3-Position Blade
- Position 1: Bridge Pickup
- Position 2: Bridge and Neck Pickups
- Position 3: Neck Pickup
- Bridge: Strings-Through-Body Hardtail Bridge
- Hardware: Nickel/Chrome
- Straplocks: Vintage Style Strap Buttons
- String Nut: Synthetic Bone
- Switch Tip: Black
- Tuning Machines: Standard Cast/Sealed Tuning Machines
- Included Accessories:
- Strings: Super 250L's, NPS (.009-.042 Gauges)
- Control Knobs: Skirted Amp Knobs
- Dimensions (HxL): 5 x 42 inches
- Weight: 14.02 lbs
- Country of Origin: MX
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| Blacktop Tele; excelencia mexicana hecha! |
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| Would you consider this product to be made well? How dependable? |
| This Tele is surprisingly well made. I remember the very first run of MIM guitars, many years ago, and they left a lot to be desired. The Blacktop series absolves all the sins of previous inferior models, and really showcases the quality control at the Ensenada facility. |
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| Reliability |
| How has it stood up over time? |
| I have only had this instrument for a little over a week now, and forsee no issues other than normal maintenance and cleaning. If you take care of it, it will take care of you for many years to come. |
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| Your general opinion of this product. |
| In the realm of $500 tele's, this guitar has to be the king. Great feel, great playability, and great tone. It's hard to beat. You could spend a whole lot more, but why? |
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| Playability and Feel |
| How does it feel, Heavy, Fast, Chunky? How was the neck? Are the controls easy to get to while playing? |
| This thing plays exceptionally well. And after some tinkering on it, it now plays just as good as my American Deluxe Tele; wrap your mind around that for a minute! Not too heavy, and I love the belly scarf. The neck has a modern C profile, and feels great in my hand. The reversed controls took a little getting used to, and is no longer an issue. |
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| Tone |
| Bright and snappy? Dark and smooth? Were the pickups hot, mellow, thick, thin? |
| In my experience, the import guitars I have owned did not come equipped with very good pickups. They were mediocre at best. I was pleasantly surprised by the Blacktop pickups! I can best describe them as being of the 'hot vintage' variety, in fact, they sound a lot like a SD JB model, but with a slightly different eq tweaking and resonant peak. I would dare to say they will cover all but the most extreme types of musical styles. Run through my supersonic twin, they sounded wonderfully creamy, very touch sensitive, and meshed very well with the inherent tele twang. Run through my 6505+ half stack, I ran the cat out of the living room! These pickups work ridiculously well with high gain structure amplifiers. Crunchy, twangy goodness, with harmonics leaping of the neck from everywhere! I already had a set of Fralin's that I was going to put in there, but I decided to run with what I have. They are good. |
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| How did the stain or paint job look? |
| I received the guitar with a flawless silver finish. Great finish on the tinted neck as well. |
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| Action |
| How was the action out of the box? |
| The action was good for me right out of the box. My only beef with the instrument was, the intonation was not even close. You would think that this would be set up at the factory, but not on this one. Not a huge deal, I had it all dialed in in about half an hour. |
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