Get classic U.S.-made Tele features with a modern twist.
Carefully crafted in Fender's Corona, California facility, the American Performer Series is designed to bring an authentic Made-In-USA Fender experience, from tone to feel, to performing guitarists. Packed with player-oriented features and utilizing a range of modern materials, these are instruments that inspire.
The American Performer Telecaster packs all the twang and spank you expect from a Tele in an alder body/maple neck package. Featuring Fender's Yosemite single-coil pickups, with a flat-staggered pole design that evens out string response for incredible dynamic range and subtle shellac and wax potting that controls feedback while still letting the pickup "breathe," along with Fender's renowned Greasebucket tone circuit, it's got classic Tele versatility that fits into almost any genre or playing style.
The American Performer Telecaster packs all the twang and spank you expect from a Tele in an alder body/maple neck package. Featuring Fender's Yosemite single-coil pickups, with a flat-staggered pole design that evens out string response for incredible dynamic range and subtle shellac and wax potting that controls feedback while still letting the pickup "breathe," along with Fender's renowned Greasebucket tone circuit, it's got classic Tele versatility that fits into almost any genre or playing style.
Specifications
Body
- Body shape: Single cutaway
- Body type: Solid body
- Body material: Solid wood
- Body wood: Alder
- Body finish: Gloss
- Orientation: Right handed
- Neck shape: C modern
- Neck wood: Maple
- Joint: Bolt-on
- Scale length: 25.5"
- Truss rod: Dual-action
- Neck finish: Satin
- Material: Rosewood
- Radius: 9.5"
- Fret size: Jumbo
- Number of frets: 22
- Inlays: Dot
- Nut width: 1.65" (42 mm)
- Configuration: SS
- Neck: Yosemite single-coil
- Bridge: Yosemite single-coil
- Brand: Fender
- Active or passive pickups: Passive
- Series or parallel: Parallel
- Control layout: Master volume, tone
- Pickup switch: 3-way
- Bridge type: Fixed
- Bridge design: 6-saddle
- Tailpiece: String thru body
- Tuning machines: Fender Classic Gear
- Color: Nickel/chrome
- Number of strings: 6-string
- Case: Gig bag
- Country of origin: United States
Features
- Gloss-finish solid alder body
- 25.5"-scale maple neck with 22-fret, 9.5"-radius rosewood fingerboard
- Fender Yosemite staggered pole, single-coil pickups, 3-way switch
- Thru-body-strung Fender 6-saddle Tele bridge, ClassicGear tuners
WARNING: This product can expose you to chemicals including Di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate (DEHP), which is known to the State of California to cause cancer, and to cause birth defects or other reproductive harm. For more information go to www.P65Warnings.ca.gov.