Great tone! received in absolute wonderful condition! plays flawlessly! modern electronics can dial in any sound you want. Neck is shaped just right for medium sized hands. Comfortable to stand and play all day long. Sound again is absolutely outstanding no matter if using tubes, pedals or solid-state amplification. Certainly, recommend this telecaster for versatility. this has 2 options for running strings either thru the body like all tele's or you can run thru the rear of the bridge. I always run thru the body and cannot speak to the bridge style string set up. Ian from Sweetwater followed up with me as guitar was shipping to say thank you for purchase and to say anything you need help with, please call me! That is great customer service! Can never go wrong with that!

Had this guitar for over a year and love its look, sound, and playability. One flaw is the bridge Fender installed on it. The strings would slide all over the place and was generally a cheap feeling piece of hardware.

I replaced with a Babicz bridge and this has made the guitar perfect.

When I first got this guitar I didn't really fall in love with it. The big headstock was and is not tele-like more like a 70's strat, I can live with that. The split coil option didn't impress me at first either. I have another fairly new tele with shawbucker pups with a rosewood fingerboard that kicks butt. The pick ups on this guitar are "hotter" and for some reason not called shawbuckers. After playing the new guitar for a few months I figured some things out. I usually play with volume and tone on 10 and adjust level at the amp, these pups sound better if ya back off a tad on both V&T. I also found I like the neck pup in single coil leaving the bridge in humbucker mode and adjusting volumes as needed. This guitar is not a vintage remake it is a modern guitar so why put on a piece of crap bridge ? The bridge is the worst component on this guitar. Who ever built this bridge should have cleaned up the machining burrs with a 2 second belt sander smooth, instead the edges of the bridge have terrible burrs which are chrome plated, the barrel saddles while edged for intonation lack clearance between the string and the set screw holes. The bridge sucks. I am replacing it with a babicz bridge. The maple neck is smooth and no fret edges sticking out, it is a joy to play. The tuners are smooth and the guitar like all my fenders stays in tune just fine. I switched to 10-46 bullit strings and the tone improved and the intonation stayed. So I'm not a fan of the big headstock nor the bridge but it is now my favorite geetar. It is at the luthiers now getting the new bridge.

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Obviously this guitar is beautiful. It arrived perfectly set up and is flawless. I like the coil split option on the neck and bridge. If I'm singing I like a single coil at the neck pickup for rhythm but the ability to switch for jamming is nice. This guitar chords great but as much as I tried I was hindered by the narrow thin frets so much that when I tried a normal Std Telecaster with medium jumbo frets it was like weights had been removed! I was actually taking chances and scoring but also overextending because of the ease of fingering on the normal c neck with medium jumbo frets. My inability to adapt is causing me to return this but I've seen others having no problem with this guitar. As usual Sweetwater is top rate to deal with for online shopping!