Fender Select Carved Blackwood Top Telecaster® SH

Model : 0170318

The highly acclaimed Fender Select series introduces an all-new lineup for 2013. These finely crafted guitars and basses put decades of Fender expertise on display, with elegant features and design options for discerning musicians everywhere. Experience the latest figured tops, beautiful finishes, choice tone woods, figured and quartersawn maple necks with compound-radius fingerboards, an innovative new "inlaid" fingerboard design on two of the models, specially voiced pickups, and several new first-rate features that mark Fender's top-line best as remarkable instruments.

The new Fender Select Carved Blackwood Top Telecaster® SH is powerful, beautiful and light, with a chambered alder body, gorgeous carved Tasmanian blackwood top and hand-stained black cherry burst finish with gloss lacquer topcoat. Its modern "C"-shaped flame maple neck has a satin lacquer finish and Bi-Flex™ truss rod system; the compound radius rosewood fingerboard (9.5"-14") has 22 medium jumbo frets.

Other premium features include a new Wide Range Special humbucking neck pickup and Fender Select Telecaster single-coil bridge pickup with three-way switching, heavy-knurled chrome control knobs, American Standard Telecaster bridge with bent steel saddles and stamped brass plate, deluxe staggered locking tuners and Fender Select headstock medallion.

General

General

Series:

Fender® Select

COLOR/MSRP/PART#:

Black Cherry Burst
0170318861


Body

Body

Body Material:

Chambered Alder with Carved Tasmanian Blackwood Top

Body Finish:

Hand-Stained with Gloss-Lacquer Topcoat

Body Shape:

Telecaster®


Neck

Neck

Neck Material:

Flame Maple

Neck Shape:

Modern "C"

Scale Length:

25.5" (648 mm)

Fingerboard Material:

Rosewood

Fingerboard Radius:

9.5"-14" Compound Radius (241 mm-355.6 mm)

Number of Frets:

22

Fret Size:

Medium Jumbo

Nut Material:

Synthetic Bone

Nut Width:

1.685" (42.8 mm)

Position Inlays:

Dot

Truss Rods:

Bi-Flex™

Truss Rod Nut:

1/8" American Series


Electronics

Electronics

Neck Pickup:

Wide Range Special Humbucking

Bridge Pickup:

Fender® Select Single-Coil Telecaster®

Pickup Switching:

3-Position Blade: Position 1. Bridge Pickup, Position 2. Bridge and Neck Pickups, Position 3. Neck Pickup

Pickup Configuration:

HS

Controls:

Master Volume, Master Tone


Hardware

Hardware

Hardware Finish:

Chrome

Bridge:

6-Saddle American Standard Strings-Through-Body Telecaster® with Bent Steel Saddles and Stamped Brass Plate

Tuning Machines:

Deluxe Staggered Cast/Sealed Locking

Pickguard:

None

Control Knobs:

Heavy Knurled

Strap Buttons:

American Series

Neck Plate:

4-Bolt


Accessories

Accessories

Case/Gig Bag:

Fender® Select Tweed

Included Accessories:

Cable, Strap, Cloth


Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous

Strings:

Fender® USA, NPS, (.009-.042 Gauges)

Other Features:

Fender Select Headstock Medallion, Black "Barrel" Switch Tip, Black Pickup Bezels


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