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Photo Credit Things are getting a bit cold over here in sort of sunny Southern California, and while the rest of the country is enjoying the warm nudge of Spring, us west enders are being punched in the face with thunder and rain. What can we say? We’re not used to anything but precisely 70.3453454 degree weather (as we all...

From the Guitarchive over at Fender comes a history lesson on the Telecaster Deluxe: Fender’s third and final late-’60s/early-’70s experiment with redesigned Telecaster models was the Telecaster Deluxe, developed in 1972 and introduced in 1973. Along with its predecessors, the Telecaster Thinline (1968) and the Telecaster Custom (1972), the Deluxe represented Fender’s first forays into the world of humbucking pickups...

Fender's new and innovative Blacktop guitar series expands the sonic horizon of classic Fender Stratocaster®, Telecaster®, Jazzmaster® and Jaguar® guitars by powering them with high-gain humbucking pickups. The Blacktop series delivers on modern player demands for a thick and heavy sound. These guitars drive a wide array of deep, rich and aggressive tones that match the intensity of any playing...

U.K. film producer Bob Hewitt and his cameras are at it again with the new DVD release of Leo Fender’s Telecaster: The Original Twang, which documents the 60-year history of Fender’s first successful electric guitar model. Hewitt, a former Guitarist magazine contributor, and director Michael Bayley Hughes continue the collaboration that created acclaimed 2007 documentary Strat Masters, assembling a stellar...

The latest incarnations of Fender's acclaimed American Deluxe series Stratocaster and Telecaster guitar models are designed to deliver high-tech cutting-edge tone, tradition and innovation to the modern guitarist. All seven—four new Stratocaster models and two new Telecaster models—are conceived as tonally sophisticated modern iterations of both timeless instruments. All feature a trio of groundbreaking advances—new compound radius fretboards for exhilaratingly...