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Fender Select Telecaster Flame Maple Top Chambered Ash Body Electric Guitar 

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The Fender Select Telecaster elevates Fender's very first guitar model to the epitome of elegant style and formidable sonic substance, with a stunning Violin Burst gloss-lacquer finish and natural binding on a resonant honeycomb-chambered ash body with a solid flame maple top. Its modern “C” shaped birdseye maple neck has a comfortable contoured heel, Bi-Flex™ truss rod system for rock-solid stability, a satin lacquer back finish and rear-headstock “Fender Select” medallion. The smooth-playing compound radius birdseye maple fretboard (9.5”-14”) has 22 medium jumbo frets, stylish black pearloid position inlays and a gloss lacquer finish. Crisp, clear signature sound comes from new Fender Select Telecaster single-coil neck and bridge pickups with three-way switching and a no-load tone control that delivers the natural uncolored sound of the bridge pickup when dimed.

Features

  • Chambered ash body with flame maple top
  • 25.5" Scale birdseye maple neck
  • 9.5" - 14" Compound radius birdseye maple fretboard
  • Fender Select single coil bridge and neck pickups
  • Master volume, master no-load tone circuit
  • American Tele bridge, New American bent steel saddles

Select the Fender Select: a stunning new take on a legendary instrument.

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FenderSelect Telecaster Flame Maple Top Chambered Ash Body Electric Guitar
 
4.8

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4.0

A little too light for me.

By maxdog

from florida

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        Comments about Fender Select Telecaster Flame Maple Top Chambered Ash Body Electric Guitar:

        This guitar plays and sounds great imho.The pick ups sounded crisp and clean ; better than my '52 Tele American reissue, and my American standard tele and almost as good ( to me of course )as my American deluxe tele.The set-up was perfect right out of the box. (Yes, I checked with gauges.) The neck looks and plays wonderfully. The finish was not as nice as the guitars I had seen on youtube. It had 3 thin brown stain lines on the top, about 4" apart from each other that looked like a stain application mistake. The real issue for me tho was that this guitar was neck heavy. When I strapped it on the neck took a nose dive like an old Hofner Beatle bass or Gibson SG I once owned. My other teles and strats weigh in at between 7.5 and 8.8 lbs. This guitar was 5.8 lbs. If I put 2 lbs of counterweight on the back end of the strap , the guitar hung like my other guitars.
        I know that they make straps and such to correct the neck issue, but for me I had tried this with other guitars and it did'nt work out.Regretably I sent the guitar back the next day.

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        (0 of 2 customers found this review helpful)

         
        5.0

        awsome peice

        By relaxing exscape

        from indiana

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        Pros

        • Fun To Play
        • Good Feel
        • Good Pick Up
        • Good Tone
        • Solid Electronics

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          Best Uses

          • Jamming
          • Practicing

          Comments about Fender Select Telecaster Flame Maple Top Chambered Ash Body Electric Guitar:

          just a great quitar at a affordable price, if you cant afford a custom, this is a spectactular peice

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          (3 of 3 customers found this review helpful)

           
          5.0

          Fender Select Telecaster Rundown

          By Alex Strekal

          from Cleveland, Ohio

          About Me Experienced

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          • Fun To Play
          • Good Feel
          • Good Tone
          • Solid Electronics

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              Comments about Fender Select Telecaster Flame Maple Top Chambered Ash Body Electric Guitar:

              This guitar looks beautiful and feels very comfortable to play for both chords and single-note lines. When playing chords, it is very resonant and there is great clarity of note-separation. The tone knob has a wide range that can take you from mellow jazz sounds to classic in-your-face tele twang.

              The pickups are pretty low output, and in combination with the chambered ash body this seems to make the guitar particularly open sounding, even with a kind of acoustic quality when playing clean. But I would say that the guitar overall sounds slightly warmer than a normal telecaster.

              The unusually light body weight is also ideal for a smaller-statured player such as myself, and the bellycut adds a nice touch for extra comfort.

              I'm very pleased to have gotten this guitar.

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              (4 of 13 customers found this review helpful)

               
              5.0

              Fender Select Series Telecaster (Violin Burst)

              By chris Rone

              from Tennessee

              Comments about Fender Select Telecaster Flame Maple Top Chambered Ash Body Electric Guitar:

              I love this guitar. It is the best guitar I have.
              This tele comes with a really nice case. The two-tone tweed case. It has a Select medallion in the case. There's even a guitar cable in the case. And a strap. And a big card saying it's one of the first 100 made. It is definitely the nicest guitar I own.
              It is, hands down, the nicest guitar I have ever owned.
              When you hold it, you would think it cost a lot more. It looks really expensive.

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              (6 of 8 customers found this review helpful)

               
              5.0

              Great Guitar

              By Michael Mead

              from Undisclosed

              Comments about Fender Select Telecaster Flame Maple Top Chambered Ash Body Electric Guitar:

              I wasnt sure what to expect when I purchased this high end Fender telecaster but I was glad I took the plunge and placed the order. Great quality and great tone similar to what you could expect when purchasing a fender Custome Shop Guitar except at a lower price. I have a Custom Shop telecaster that I purchased about 10 years ago and the Fender Select is right in line with the custom shop guitar in both tone and quality. Sounds Great, looks great and plays great

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