Fender American Standard Telecaster

Made in the USA. 2002. Black with solid maple neck. I replaced the standard white pickguard with a black one, other than that it has all the standard features. Mine also came with a molded case, a strap and a good quality cable.

I typically play blues and rock and this guitar suits both styles very well. I'm currently using a Fender Blues Junior tube amp and a Marshall 40w valvestate amp. The tele sounds very bright and rich through both amps, especially the Blues Junior. I find that I can get a really good range of sounds out of this guitar, which is great given its relatively simple set features.

The factory set-up was pretty good. The frets and hardware were all in excellent shape when I bought it. I find that the chrome hardware looks really good against the black finish on my tele. The only problem that I noticed was a small blemish in the finish on the inside of the cutaway. Other than that it was in great condition.

This is definitely a solid guitar that you can depend on. I've only had it for about a month now, but I'm already impressed with the overall quality of this guitar.

I've never had to deal with Fender directly, but I found their web site to be a very useful resource in looking for a new guitar. I've also owned a strat (USA) for 12 years and I've never had a problem with it.

I've been playing guitar for 15 years now. I've owned several types of guitars in the past, but every since I bought my first strat I've been a Fender fan. I think that a tele is a great investment for any player out there, beginner or pro. Its simplicity and durability make it a great guitar for playing live and its surprising range and playability make it a great guitar for home or studio use. If it were lost or stolen I would definitely replace it. I don't think any guitar deserves a 10, but when you consider what you get for this price, the tele comes pretty damn close.

Made 1989 USA.

I'm in band doing Elvis show I also play modern country - this Tele is perfect for this. I go straight in to class A tube amp. Tele has full sound right across the range, much fuller sound than Strat and more power. Yeah, it's got that twang off course. But for Rock I prefer Strat as too much full sound isn't always good for rock.

I've got quiet few guitars also couple of Tele copies. I must say that I find the paint job on copies is better than on USA Teles, I can also see where the timber was joinded on the body. Can be seen on most USA Teles. For the price I'd like to see better finish specially when often cheap copies can do better. Even crappy Mexican ones seem to have better finished body. The chrome job on the control isn't real smooth either, my copies have chrome like mirror. Beats me how come! Otherwise the USA Tele is made well, neck is great. Playing US Tele is the fun part when compared to Tele copy. It's like stepping from VW Beetle to Cadilac. I can't explain why it feels that way but no copy have a chance on US Tele when it comes to feel and the genuine sound and thats that.

No problems what so ever.

never needed

Tele is a great guitar but does require certain style of playing but for rhythm only it don't matter. Teles are harder to play for some reason i've never figured that one out, LET ME KNOW if you have an idea. I'd rate it 10 but for the finish I'd give it 9 even I don't really care much about the paint job. It should be better, not like almost a spray can job - too much "orange peel" and wood joints shouldn't be see under light. Otherwise US Tele is great!

Buying this one was more or less an accident. Had ordered a replacement for my old 1977 Telecaster Custom from Custom Shop through the swedish agent. After year nothing had happened, and it turned out that the agent never sent the order. I got so pissed off that I just pointed on the wall in my local shop and without looking I just said.."Well then..I take that one instead". It turned out to be a silver coloured American Standard with rosewood fretboard. After talking to the "set-up" guy in the shop (Estrad Musik in Stockholm, in my mind the only swedish shop worth mentioning)We decided to alter the Tele a bit. We added a chrome pick guard and some Fender Texas Special pick ups. The day after I had a phonecall from the set-up guy. He said the guitar was ready and that it was time to name it since it had so much personality. Well, I said all my guitars were women..His answer was short.."Well if this one's a woman..She is surely a bitch". I couldn't wait to pick it up for testing...Since then "Chrissie" and I have been inseparable. The tele is an American Standard made 1999. It was all standard with all stadard features like 22 fret rosewood neck. Schaller tuners. The usual tele volume and sound controls and three-way switch. Guitar was delivered with hardcase. I don't like the shape of it since I prefer square shaped cases for easier packing in van..But there we are. Somebody at fender have strange taste in case-design. All standard "tools" were there..If you can call two keys for adjusting saddles and neck "all tools". Fender strap and schaller strap-locks added by Estrad Musik. Also got a broad leather strap included.

Thanks to the Texas Special pick-ups, this Tele has all the sound I want. From clean twangy typical Tele-sounds for soft pop, to all the raw powerful distortion I could ever need. My band playes really high speed r&b (Yes, Rythm and blues..Not the crap they call R&B in today's music world), a bit like "The Hives", but better, and this one's bitchy charcter suits me as a glove. I play it through a 4x10 fender Blues DeVille, and together this combo can open up Fort Knox just from the power of the sounds..

Since the guitar was all new, the basic set-up was great from the shop. But after playing it a lot, I have had to readjust it from time to tme since all wood and such needs some time to "settle". Now it is absolutely superb with my 011-149. But using 049 on e-string makes it a little bit hard to intonate properly. I do wich I could move the saddle back just a fraction for perfect intonation. (I have shortened the saddlespring a bit, but it was not enough). Butt all in all it is great. Finish is superb on this sample. And the chrome pickup guard makes this one a beauty in spotlights together with the silver metallic colour of the body.

This guitar as well as the spare American Standard tele I recently bought, is a true work horse. Impossible to break even through hard abuse. A true battle tank.

Since i bought it through Estrad Musik in Stockholm, the customer support is great. They never let anybody down and I have been a faithful customer of theirs for over fifteen years now. Why mess with something that is not the best.

I have been palying guitar for around 35 years now, and ever since I strated to use Tele's i have found that it is the only guitar needed, really. I have becomed a hardcore telecaster freak.

2000 USA built tele standard ash body maple neck nice 2 tone vintage sunburst usual 1 vol .1 tone. selector switch three way white scratch plate. came with standard fender hard case and a bag of extras, strap, Trem arm(?) I case these litle bags of extras all contain the same stuff if you buy a strat or a tele.

I play blues rock and i thing the tele sounds awesome thru my fender deluxe amp. Noisy as hell hums and farts like a mother when not being played. Why is there no shielding on a guitar of this quality.
I hate the pickups even though they sound great i played a tele with
Joe Barden pickups installed not only was it quieter when not being played it rocked twice the tone twice as loud with half the volume.
So it's bardems for me..

Set up sucked i had to redo it myself. Really low action e string hum
Can't really blame Fender I live in Sweden so the guitar had travelled a long way. I really don't understand why guitar shops let guitars out of there shops without being properly set up. A car dealer would'nt let you drive a new car out there showroom without it being clean. Would they??

No backup needed does the job. 100% dependable.

In Sweden anyway

Been playing all my life Wish I had bought one from a custom maker to my spec for the same money, If it where stolen I could buy my custom made one. Still I will love it even more when I change the pickups to Joe Bardens. Might even buy some Vintique (www.vintique.com) Hardware Best in the world for teles. to go with them.

you know the standards...well i decided to modify them...i put custom dimarzio pickups in it...graph-tech...saddles...changed the action....sperzal locking tuners...you name it...its rad

awesome after the mods

action sucked..had to change it...i dont blame fender....i blame guitar center...too many stupid kids in one store...playing the same old thing from 5 years ago...for everybody who plays nirvana still....let it go...trust me!

no problems....fenders are pretty tough

never had to use them

get rid of the pickups and change all of the hardware...and then play it...its worth it...

MAde in USA in 2000
22 frets
2 single coils. 3 way switch.
Standard Passive Fender Telecaster pickups.
Maple neck.
Typica Tele Body.
Included with case & neck adjustment allen wrench

I like bands like Muse, Radiohead, Manic Street Preachers. This guitar suits British Tones very much in general. I mainly play rhytms but occasionally solos. It is more a rhytm type of guitar. Has a creepy but solid sound. Not very clean. But consistent. Typical Tele twang. I used it in several systems. You have to be careful with distorted sounds. Fine tuning needed to get clear but strong distortion. The pickup (the metal one) is more suitable for clean tones. The black one is better for distortion.

The action was not very good. I adjusted it by myself. It is much better at the moment. Pickups were adjusted ok. The allen setup to adjust action rusted after 6 months or so. There are no other problems.

The reliability seems ok. It loses chord sometimes when I really go mad on it during live performance. This is the only problem, but I think it is normal. Strap buttons are ok, but I prefer straplocks anyway.

never dealt with it

I like the guitar. It was all I wanted to have foor a long time. I love the sound. Sometimes not very happy with its distortion performance. However this may depend on my pedal and bad configuration of the amp. I wished it had more tolerance against strong hits. It looses chord sometimes. However I love the guitar

the tag in the case said May 1, 2002. American Standard Tele, 22 fret (jumbos) maple neck with a maple fretboard. solid, 3-piece ash body. beautiful 3-tone sunburst. white/black/white (fender calls it parchment, but it's white) pickguard.

two single coil pickups. the bridge is open coiled and slanted, the neck is covered and straight.

controls: one volume, one tone, three way selector. first position is bridge pick up only, middle is both, third is neck only.

the neck has hand-rolled edges, which is actually not just a bunch of fender hype. it is beautiful. the best neck i've ever played. ever. it's fairly thick, but i wouldn't call it "fat," which is a pretty arbitrary term anyway. non-locking tuners that the get the job done but aren't the best.

comes with a strap (such as it is), straplocks, a cable, and a decent molded case. NOT TWEED! i was expecting a vintage-looking tweed case and this was a let down. but it's a fine case nonetheless. straplocks are great, but sometimes squeak. i turned them so the open end is up, and they squeak less. the cable is a standard fender 10 footer.

i give it a seven because a Tele is inherently simple.

wonderful! this guitar has an amazing range of sounds, all of which are great. i'm using a Crate Vintage Club 50 310, all tube, and the tones are gorgeous! HOWEVER . . . you will need a fender amp to get that classic tele-through-a-fender-amp sound.

the bridge pickup is bright without being like an icepick to your eardrums. twang and nuance and clarity clarity clarity. neck pickup is full and round with a lot of warmth. great for jazz if you're not a Gibson snob. both pickups together acheive something i've never encountered on any other guitar . . . this is what both pickups together should sound like. all the brightness of the bridge and all the fullness of the neck, with no muddiness. by far my favorite setting. there is some single-coil noise, and the pups are not reverse wound, so there's no humbucking.

now for the bad news . . . there is no heavy metal tone in this guitar. i play blues, rock, and metal, in that order. right now, i'm still leaving the metal to my Steinberger.

the other bad news is that it takes awhile to develop your ear when you're playing this guitar. my 'Berger has two EMG humbuckers, and in comparison, the Tele can sound thin and whiny. you have to work to find the tone, but it's there! for the first hour i was really scared i'd wasted my money, but when i went back to the 'Berger, i realized how great the Tele is . . . it has the best of everything. fullness with clarity, brightness with warmth. such things that humbuckers can't give you in tandem.

but, i have to give it a 9 for its lack of metal tone. and as much as i love the sound alread, i will probably end up switching the neck pickup out for a humbucker. just because i can't leave well enough alone.

the guitar came to me straight from fender, basically. the guy at the story opened the box right in front of me. so i got it without a setup (although they'll set it up for free anytime in the next 12 months).

it plays very well. i had to intonate it (it was very off) and tune it up, but that's it. it still has the original strings, which are .009s, and there is slight buzz on the low E, which i think a small neck adjustment will correct. i don't mind any of these things, considering it flew to North Carolina from California in the most climate-fickle time of year.

the finish is flawless. it is very hard to see the seams in the wood. the neck is immaculate and the fretwork blows me away. the electronics are quiet. my only complaint is that the pickguard was cut a little crudely down by the bridge and the control plate. for that and the intonation/neck adjustment, i give it a 9, but honestly, how could it have been any better? i don't expect fender to send a rep with the guitar to make sure the neck doesn't react too much to a plane ride and a humidity change.

i know a guy that stands on his tele when he's talking on the phone. don't know why, but it's none the worse for wear. can you hurt it? sure. but that just makes it look vintage.

the only way i'd gig without a backup is if God personally told me i was immune to string breakage for the rest of my life.

i think the warranty is limited lifetime. i'm not sure. it was four days late coming from fender, and that was after the dealer FORGOT TO ORDER IT for two weeks. so basically it was three weeks late. which i was really pissed about. i don't really know enough to say, but i'm going to jump to conclusions and give them a 2.

i've been playing six years. i have a Steinberger Spirit GT-Pro, a Martin 000-15, an Oscar Schmidt nylon string, a Silvertone Strat Copy and a guitar i built myself out of spare parts (really spare . . . like not even guitar parts). the Tele is the flagship of my collection, although the Martin is very special, also. this is great guitar, exactly what i wanted. don't buy it if you want to play metal. and play it through some non-fender amps. but i can't recommend it highly enough.

i compared the American Standard to MIMs, including a 72 thinline and 69 custom reissue. this blows them away in terms of craftsmanship and sound.

I bought my telecaster just over 2 years ago from a fender dealer in Melbourne. (thats in Australia for you unenlightened Yanks) Stock standard tele features - 22 frets, volume and tone controls as well as 3-way selector for 2 single coil pickups. The bridge is, coincidentally, standard for the new teles as well (doesnt have that stupid ashtray thing that everyone lost for the reissues). Maple neck, maple fretboard. The neck is fat as (insert bad metaphor here), but I have big hands and anyway, i like the solidness of it. I use thin guage strings and keep the action as low as possible and I've never had a problem with fret buzz. Schaller tuners that are just perfect - I never went a bundle on floyd rose systems, and these are the best I've ever used. None of that active electronics bullshit, but if you wanted to play virtuoso rubbish, you wouldnt be looking at buying a tele anyway. It came with a very sturdy hard case (but for the price, you'd expect that sort of thing. Sometimes I wish that it had dual tone controls like the strat, but only sometimes.

When I bought the guitar most of my favourite guitarists used teles, (Jeff Buckley, John Greenwood, Graeme Coxon, Steve Cropper) so it seemed natural that i should at least pick one up and try it. In the store, I ran it through a marshall JCM job, and I'd never heard anything sound as good. I was, and still am, a firm believer that you can get a great sound from most guitars by fiddling with effects, tone, EQ and adjusting the way you play them, but this axe will sure give you a head start as far as intonation, action and all the other mechanical aspects are concerned. Nowadays, I play bluesy, jazzy stuff (I'm still not good enough to do this guitar justice, but i try). I run through Fender Deville 212 and the only pedal I use is Boss Bluesdriver (unless I can scrounge effects off my mates) and I just love the chunky, warm, wet sound I can get from the neck pickup. On the treble pick up the sound is a a lot brighter and sharper, but still retains the rich tele sound. With a little bit of practise, (and a lot of little finger training), you can throw away your wah pedal and use the tone control instead. I tried quite a variety of guitars (Les Paul, Guild, Rickenbacker, even a 335) before settling on the tele and I have never looked back.

When I bought the guitar, it wasnt set up fantastically. It still sounded great, but I soon found out that it could sound much better. However, this problem was not the fault of Fender, it was the fault of the lazy guitar techs at the store I bought it from, not setting it up before sale. Other than slight intonation problems immediately after purchase, this guitar is perfect. The frets are all perfect, the bridge is perfect, the pickups are perfect... you get the idea.

This is the perfect live guitar. Not only does it sound great through just about any PA, you could drop it 3 storeys and then drive over it and it would still sound great. I've had to have the frets filed down, just because I play the thing so much. A guitar you can rely on.

Never had to - I just go to my local guitar store.

If you have the money, and you like the sound, buy this guitar.

1995 MIA, 22 frets, rosewood fingerboard, beautiful chrome blue body alder,3 ay selector stock pickups. Medium jumbo frets hard case,
simply put a standard Tele.

This thing can produce so many differnt sounds I can't believe it. Anyone who thinks Les Pauls or strats are the cat meow had bettr try a good Amercian Series Tele or Standar Tele! Get ready to be blown away with quality, rich full sound, fender sound, quack , funky jazzy, rock, country, I can't begin to think I can name them all!
used with a Boss VF-1 effects processor (red Box) to set the EQ which makes just about any pickup combination sound vintage, and a Mesa Boogie amp, look out.
The only thin I dislike is the fact i didn't play one for the past thrirty some years. What a waste. I should have started with a tele years ago, and probalbly would not have purchased so many Strats, LKes Pauls and such. Sure the others are hallmarks in sound, but this is too!

I bought this used, and it had some fret wear and stock pickups, which I immediately changed out to VZ's and A texas Tallboy in the bridge. Mistake. These are super sounding pickups, but the stock really just blew these away to me. Thats to me I just said. I know others feel differently. Anyway back into the guitar went the stock pickups so off and running I went with a stock American Standard Tele.
Knopler sond never sounded so good. I normally use a strat to get Marks sound but this Tele oozes knopler sound. Wonderful vintage fender sound. The acxtion was just how I like it, and the strings this one had were 10's. Very quite guitar to me! Finish for being 7 years old was near mint. this is a eBay steal. Thank you GOD!

typical Fender state of the art tank.

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I have been playing for many years at least 10 total over a 320 year period. If this was stolen I would be deeply hurt, buy another one and move on. From this day forward I will always try to have a Tele in my arsenal.

Remeber people, if you are about to purchase a Tele of any kind. Do it. I waited way to long!

late 99 am std telecaster which already has the features of the new ameican series. i modified my tele after the danny gatton tele. so i switched to joe barden pickups and also buckled (i hope this is the right word for it) the pickup-switch upwards, so that i don't touch the volume-poti when switching (just watch pics of danny with his guitar and you will see what i mean).
i just give a seven here, because for the price you have to pay you can expect more features in details, like shielding,etc

well, when i purchace a guitar, i try as many as possible of the same model before deciding which one i will buy. there is a lot of trash out there and only a few, where all parts (especially wood) are of good quality. this guitar is better than any custom shop i've ever played.
stock pickups aren't bad. i think, they are much better than most reviewers point out.
i've decided to get one with alder body and maple fretboard because this combination is the most flexible in sound.
i've changed pickups to joe bardens. this makes a tremendous upgrade in sound. the twang is still there but now i can get from heavymetal in the bridge- to jazz in the neckpostion and all styles in between. imho the best thing for people who play a lot of different styles. bardens are very expensive, but woth every single cent. give them a try!!

great job here. the only thing i miss is shielding. for the price you have to pay for it, this should be included

you can't destroy this baby.

cutomer support could be better for europeans. online guitar registration ist only available for americans

i've been playing electric guitar for 12 years. i've played fender strats, ibanez js1000, yamaha pacifica, gibson sg (i will never play a gibson again). this is by far the best guitar of all i've owned. it offers everything i expect from a pro's axe. only critisism here is the price. you can get teles of the same quality from other manufacturers for a better price. on the other hand fenders are the originals and there are other companies who sell copies of them for a much higher price.