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Fender Blacktop Tele Baritone (Classic Copper)

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Baritone Solidbody Electric Guitar with Alder Body, Maple Neck, Rosewood Fingerboard, One Humbucking, and Two Single-coil Pickups - Classic Copper

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Fender Blacktop Tele Baritone (Classic Copper)

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Bari Tele!

The FENDER® Blacktop Telecaster® Baritone, with its 27" scale and B-to-B baritone tuning, is the perfect axe for laying down the glue between your guitars and basses. Armed with a Blacktop Tele® Humbucker™, two Blacktop Tele single-coils, and five-way switching, this guitar will never be at a loss for new and innovative sounds. You get a fast-action maple neck with a comfortable rosewood fingerboard, and a strings-through-body hardtail bridge with six cast saddles. If you're looking to inject your music with new tonal colors, we've got the solution: the Fender Blacktop Telecaster Baritone.



Fender Blacktop Telecaster Baritone Solidbody Electric Guitar at a Glance:
  • Legendary axe goes low
  • Bigtime tonal versatility
  • The Blacktop treatment

Legendary axe goes low
Fender's Blacktop Telecaster Baritone solidbody electric gives you the best of both worlds: earth-shaking low-tuned tones plus a legendary guitar design. Our Sweetwater Sales Engineers love this axe, and so will you! The Tele has been embraced by guitarists the world over for over six decades, and now you can elicit subterranean tones from it! The Blacktop Tele's long scale and fast-playing neck combine to give you an unbeatable sonic weapon - onstage, or in the studio.

Bigtime tonal versatility
Fender spec'd the Blacktop Telecaster Baritone with three pickups, instead of the Tele's usual two. You not only get a pair of Tele neck pickups (known for their warmth and sparkle) in the neck and middle positions - there's also a smokin' hot Humbucker™ at the bridge, waiting for marching orders. This sonic elixer gets poured through a 5-way blade - giving you bigtime tonal versatility.

The Blacktop treatment
Fender's affordable Blacktop Series has expanded the sonic frontiers of classic Fender instruments by powering them with high-gain humbucking pickups. With its HSS pickup configuration, the Blacktop Telecaster Baritone gives you a broad palette of deep, rich, even aggressive tones to up the intensity of your music. The Blacktop treatment also includes unmistakable styling touches such as skirted amp knobs and a reversed control plate. And perhaps best of all, Blacktop Series instruments are amazingly affordable!

Fender Blacktop Telecaster Baritone Solidbody Electric Guitar Features:
  • Alder body, maple neck; 27" scale
  • Rosewood fingerboard with 22 medium jumbo frets and aged white dots
  • One Blacktop Tele humbucker and two Blacktop Tele neck single-coils; 5-position blade
  • Strings-through-body hardtail bridge with 6 cast saddles
  • Skirted amp knobs: master volume, master tone

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Specification Detail
Body Type Telecaster
Left-/Right-handed Right-handed
Body Material Alder
Top Material Not applicable
Body Finish Urethane
Color Classic Copper
Neck Material Maple
Neck Shape C
Scale Length 27"
Fingerboard Material Rosewood
Fingerboard Inlay Aged white dots
Number of Frets 22, medium jumbo
Nut Width 1.650"
Bridge/Tailpiece Strings-through-body hardtail bridge with 6 cast saddles
Tuners Standard cast/sealed tuning machines
Number of Pickups 3
Neck Pickup Blacktop Tele neck single-coil
Middle Pickup Blacktop Tele neck single-coil
Bridge Pickup Blacktop Tele humbucking
Controls Master volume, Tone, 5-way blade
Case Included No case
Manufacturer Part Number 0148700584

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Reviews

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Baritone

by Don from Superior Wi
September 19, 2012
Music Background: Hobbyist
I can sum up this guitar in one word awesome !!!
I play blues ,an it has expanded my playing , new sounds ,
It is fun learning all that it has to offer !

Nice, well rounded beast

by Matt from Tampa, FL
September 13, 2012
Music Background: Professional Full Time Music Producer & Engineer
As a music producer working on a wide variety of music I'm thrilled to have picked this up. I've been interested in a baritone for quite some time, and finally got around to it - I'm glad i did. The b... read more [+]aritone is a wonderfully versatile instrument that can go from deep dark heavy metal, to psychedelic space-out, to country, to pop, funk, jazz, and so on. It has a weight to its sound that is really solid, and higher notes ring out with a tone that simply can't be easily matched on a normal guitar.

What led me to pick this particular guitar was that I felt it was one of the better overall values - good looking, good brand, good features, and of course good sound.

The fit and finish are perfect, it may be MIM but the quality of the body and neck do not lag far behind American made models. The action is good, while the heavier string gauge takes a little getting used to, the action is nice. The electronics are good - the middle pickup and 5 way switch give a very good range of options. I'm often very critical of bridge pickups, but this one sounds pretty decent. They don't stack up to my custom made harmonic designs pickups but for a stock option on a relatively inexpensive guitar, they are very respectable.

the tuners could probably be a bit better, and it would have been a nice touch to offer a push/pull pot to split the humbucker into a single coil, but of course those are both relatively easy mods to do later if you like. For the price though, I don't find any real shortcomings in the guitar, and while I will probably make a few upgrades to it at some point, it plays and sounds nice right out of the box.

If you are looking for a super-sparkling tele spank, this is only going to get you part way there due to the low tuning, bridge style, and pickup choices. It has a little tele spank, but its not so much of a specialist as it is a jack-of-all-trades, meat & potatoes kind of guitar that will provide you endless possibilities in a wide range of settings close [-]

not what I expectec

by Steveh from Monterey, CA
October 1, 2012
Music Background: Student
It has some problems right out of the box. inferior electronics and mim expected lesser quality pickups. I am doing upgrades because I like the versatilty of the ssh version. Thats just my taste. Into... read more [+]nation problems at the low end needing to work on the bridge to get it right. get a pro to do it, its too much to try unless your skilled at adjustments beyond normal. Does not fit in normal case, make sure you get a long neck case. Its not a pro but with additions it sings now. close [-]

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