The Fender Telecaster has been a favorite amoungst guitar players for over 50 years! It's simple yet incredibly intuitive design has hardly changed in all the time it's been in production. This particular version is Fenders classic 'Butterscotch Blonde' finish giving it that traditional look and vibe which everyone has become very familar with. With the new American Professional Tele, players are treated to a host of new innovations previously unseen on past models. Brand new pickups, circuitry, hardware, neck profiles and finishes will immediately separate this guitar from it's predecessors. Ash Body Back in the early days of Fender, electric instruments were primarily made of Ash. The wood is very dense and resonates incredibly well but also holds an interesting property. It has very straight wood grains and holds a finish better than most other woods. The unique grain we see on vintage instruments, is this way because of the Ash body, this guitar is then a tribute to some of Fenders earliest models. V-Mod Single Coil Pickups The brand new V-Mod single-coil pickups have been designed for each individual pickup position from the ground up. These pickups actually mix alnico magnet types to allow for more powerful nuanced tones while still retaining the original Fender flavour. Sustain is improved, single-coil hum is eliminated and high end tones are actually clearer and more prominent. They don't sound like a rehash, these are totally reimagined to the point where you will 'feel' a difference due to the improvement on picking dynamics and response.  It's all fine and good that Fender have created incredible pickups, but does this new Telecaster fully take advantage of them? Well thanks to radical new 'Treble-Bleed' circuity, these pickups can sing their finest song without even a shred of tone loss. This new circuitry makes use of the very best transistors and capacitors to ensure that when you turn your guitars volume down, no brightness or attack is lost within the circuit. This is a huge innovation in its own right and will be instantly noticeable to players when they experience the versatility that comes from being able to clean up dirt tones and change the guitars entire dynamic just via subtle turns of a volume/tone control. That’s another one off the list for Fender. For 2017 Fender have an all new neck profile, the 'Modern Deep C-Shape'. Now any good player will tell you that a neck profile is subject from player to player and what works well for some, may not work as well for others. Somehow Fender have taken this rule and torn it out of the book. this new profile is expertly designed to feel amazing in your hands while you play. This is actually all to do with a brand new fret design, the 'Narrow Tall' fret. This new shape makes bending strings effortless and accurate while keeping the guitar perfectly intonated.