Fender Modern Player Tele Plus Electric Guitar, Honey Burst, Maple Fretboard
Throughout its history, Fender has always made a special point of welcoming new players to the family by offering entry-level instruments of remarkable style and substance (such as the Duo-Sonic, Mustang and Music master models), with great sound, classic looks, solid performance and eminent affordability. The Modern Player series continues that great my-first-Fender tradition, with thoroughly modern features and several distinctively unconventional new take son our most revered instruments-all with outstandingly attainable value. The Modern Player Telecaster Plus HSS is that rare bird among Telecasters-a triple-pickup model-further distinguished by apine body and mini-toggle coil-split switch for the Modern Player humbucking bridge pickup. Other features include C-shaped maple neck, maple freeboard with 9.5″ radius and 22 jumbo frets, Modern Player single-coil Telecaster neck pickup and Modern Player Stratocaster middle pickup, five-way pickup switching, three-ply pickguard, knurled “chrome-dome “control knobs, vintage-style Stratocaster string-through-body six-saddle hard-tail bridge, vintage-style tuners and nickel/chrome hardware. Available in Honey Burst and Charcoal Transparent.
Product Features
- With a humbucking bridge pickup, Strat middle pickup, and Tele single-coil neck pickup, this model offers a ton of useable tones.
- With a 9.5″ radius and 22 jumbo frets, this model is built to play fast.
- 5-way switching, plus a coil splitting mini-toggle for the humbucking pickup allows for easy access to a huge range of sounds.
Fender’s Modern Player Line Delivers This is my second purchase of a Modern Player Fender. I purchased a Telecaster bass several months back and have been so impressed with it that when I was looking for a thinline Telecaster guitar, I opted to purchase the Modern Player. This guitar is fantastic for the price range and is a professional guitar minus the high end bells and whistles. It stands up to my significantly more expensive Fenders in the most important respect, playability. The finish is clean and attractive for the price…
and then God made the Fender Thinline, and there was light. Having played guitar for 40 years I was planning on getting this as a project guitar for upgrades and setup. However I am amazed at the quality of this guitar. Someone clearly took a lot of care and meticulous inspection on this one. It is absolutely flawless. The setup is perfect and the intonation is spot on. The P90 pickups are a bit hotter than traditional but I like that. This is one of the best sub 500 guitars I have ever played. There is just something about this guitar that reminds me…
Arrived with messed up Pickups I’m wanting to learn the guitar and have just started on the path. With all the great reviews this guitar has received, I was eager to start with this one. When It arrived, the inner box was busted and it looked like it was opened and then re-sealed with packing tape. It was only the inner box and so I wasn’t too alarmed but I documented just in case.After taking the guitar out of the box and taking a look at it, I was happy to see it didn’t look damaged. But after examining it…