Fender Classic Player Baja Telecaster

Review

This customized '50s-style Classic Player Baja Telecaster has it all! With decades of combined guitar building experience, Fender Custom Shop Master Builders Dennis Galuzka, Gregory Fessler, and Chris Fleming were tasked with creating their own "dream list" of specifications for these new Classic series instruments. No ideas would be off limits, and no feature would be excluded in creating these customized and affordable guitars. What they came up with were features such as vintage-style hardware, custom wirings, custom '69 pickups, and unique neck profiles. This is the Classic Player Baja Telecaster with a soft V neck profile, 4-way switching, and custom pickups (a Twisted Tele in the neck with a Broadcaster in the bridge). Each individual instrument is the result of a collaboration between Fender's world renowned Master Builders and the company's state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico, offering Custom Shop features at a modest price.

When Leo Fender introduced the world to the original Telecaster in 1950, nobody could have possibly imagined just how this $169 "plank" body electric guitar would change the world of contemporary music. Even more surprising is the fact that after more than a half century, the "Tele" still looks as modern - maybe even radical - as it did when it was first introduced. Considering the fact that Leo Fender wasn't even a guitar player, you have to wonder just how this "magic" happened. Were the planets aligned just right? Was the design beamed into Leo's head by weird space aliens? No matter. The Tele is simply an inspired design. Since its introduction, guitarists in all musical genres have relied on the Fender Telecaster for its powerful tone and smooth playability.

Fender Classic Player Baja Telecaster Features:

• Custom Shop design at an affordable price
• Custom Shop designed neck plate
• Ash body
• 1-piece maple neck with a soft "V" shape
• Maple fingerboard with 9.5" radius and 21 medium jumbo frets
• Custom Shop Twisted Tele single-coil neck pickup
• Custom Shop Broadcaster single-coil bridge pickup
• Master volume and tone controls
• 4-position blade switch and 2-position push/push S-1 switch
• Vintage-style 3-saddle string-through-body Telecaster bridge
• Fender/Ping vintage-style tuning machines
• Chrome hardware