The Telecaster isn’t exactly a fave among Fenders guitars anymore. Originally it was designed as a budget guitar (although a genuine, especially a vintage, will sell for great prices nowadays), its chunky, workmanlike look lacks the ease of use of the Strat (and the Strat has a far superior sound) and the slinky look of the Jaguar and Jazzmaster models. A few famous Tele fans include Dave Gilmour of Pink Floyd, Graham Coxon, Chrissie Hynde and Rod Jones of Idlewild. The idea of the Tele was never to be beautiful; rather it was designed to be practical. However, it is very easy for a guitar to be both, as the Strat demonstrates (little swot that it is). It ...  Read the complete review

The Telecaster is an engineers guitar. When Leo Fender first started making electric guitars, this is what came from it. It's a big ugly thing really, the somewhat neglected older, less perfect brother of the Stratocaster. The Telecaster has this big heavy body, carved from basic lines and very few contours, the pick guard reflects this further, just a big bit of plastic, no style whatsoever, just purely there to serve a purpose. The pickups are basic single coil affairs that buzz under halogen lights, only two of them, a neck and a bridge pickup. There's only one volume control, and one tone control too, and then a three-pole switch for selecting ...  Read the complete review

----<Looks>---- Telecasters, and especially the older ones, are like the "Stradivarius's" of the guitar world. I had the pleasure of once owning an "original" '72 Telecaster Custom, that was blonde in colour. Keith Richards from the Rolling Stones is quotes as saying, "I know guys who hang these guitars on the wall and just stare at them", coming from "The" Telecaster master, this statement is actually quite true. When I sold mine, I really "did" miss it, 4 yrs later when Fender announced the Re-issue of the guitar, I knew I had to have one. The month it was being "Re-issued", I had ...  Read the complete review

About 2 years ago I decided to move from acoustic to electric guitars, just to stretch my playing ability's. When I first started looking I was really after a Gibson Les Paul because at the time it was my absoloute dream guitar. However I stumbled across a tele and no matter how hard I tried, I could not convince myself that this guitar was not 100 times better than a Les paul. From the first moment it was plugged into the amp it gave that dull twang and every strum was like recreating 70's Rock And Roll. This guitar gives the best clean sound of anything I have ever heard, even a novice can make this guitar sound just like most mainstream music. Not only that ...  Read the complete review

2 pickups, 1 volume knob, 1 tone knob, 22 frets (although I believe the mexican version has 21) I bought my USA Telecaster for £600 around 6 years ago. When I got it home and opened the guitar case I was hit by a truly wonderful smell (that has sadly gone), I was so excited to play it. Plugged into my Fender red knob twin amp this thing really sounds amazing. The tones it produces are so familiar, you'll have heard many bands ranging from country to blues to rock that have recorded with that set up. When I originally bought this I was playing in a Radiohead Tribute band and can safely say that if you want to come anywhere close to ...  Read the complete review