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Fender Special Edition Custom Telecaster FMT HH - Amber

Solidbody Electric Guitar with Mahogany Body, Flame Maple Top, Mahogany Neck, Indian Laurel Fingerboard, and 2 Humbucking Pickups - Amber
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This Ain't Your Father's Tele

You can rock out on a Tele — Jimmy Page proved that. But the Fender Special Edition Custom Telecaster FMT HH takes it to a whole new dimension. A mahogany body topped with eye-popping flame maple delivers a muscular-sounding resonant bite. A pair of high-octane Seymour Duncan humbuckers infuses this Custom Tele with enough vintage-inspired output to thrust your amp into overdrive. It pulls off single-coil tones as well, courtesy of a push-pull coil tap. And this electric guitar's set Indian laurel-capped mahogany neck is built for sustain, speed, and playability. If you're searching for a Tele with a mean streak, you've come to the right place. The Custom Telecaster FMT HH is the right guitar for you.

Flame maple on mahogany — a classic tonewood recipe

Despite its familiar body shape, the Special Edition Custom Telecaster FMT HH isn't your typical Tele. It all starts with a mahogany body. This resonant wood has great musical properties, delivering warmth and sustain by the truckload. An eye-catching flame maple top infuses an already superb tone with a healthy bite, while further enhancing the guitar's sustain. Stylish cream binding completes the look of this exquisite instrument.

Dual humbuckers for fire-breathing rock tones

Thanks to its dual Seymour Duncan humbuckers, the Custom Telecaster FMT HH is a fire-breathing beast. A warm '59 neck pickup evokes a 1950s PAF-style humbucker. This vintage re-creation serves up slightly scooped mids and is vacuum wax potted for squeal-free performance. The Pearly Gates bridge pickup smolders with a sweet yet slightly rude sound that will inject your amp with loads of sustain and harmonics. This Custom Tele features 3-way pickup switching and a push-pull coil tap for achieving spanky single-coil tones.

Set neck yields endless sustain and playability

The Custom Telecaster FMT HH eschews the Tele's usual bolt-on maple neck for a glued-in mahogany version. The warmth and resonance of the mahogany meld beautifully with the set neck's heightened sustain, resulting in a killer tone that takes no prisoners. Beyond that, this neck's Modern "C" shape fills your hand perfectly, and its Indian laurel fingerboard was built for speed.

Fender Special Edition Custom Telecaster FMT HH Features:

  • Mahogany body topped with eye-popping flame maple delivers a muscular-sounding resonant bite
  • High-octane Seymour Duncan humbuckers yield enough vintage-inspired output to thrust your amp into overdrive
  • 3-way pickup switching and a push-pull coil tap for achieving spanky single-coil tones
  • Set Indian laurel-capped mahogany neck is built for sustain, speed, and playability
  • Graphite nut and 6-saddle strings-through-body hardtail bridge ensure maximum sustain
  • Matching painted headstock and cream binding elevate this instrument's already stylish appearance
  • Aggressive-looking black hardware

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Tech Specs

  • General
  • Number of Strings 6
  • Left-/Right-handed Right-handed
  • Body
  • Body Type Solidbody
  • Body Shape Telecaster
  • Body Material Mahogany
  • Top Material Carved Flamed Maple
  • Body Finish Gloss Polyurethane
  • Color Amber
  • Neck
  • Neck Material Mahogany
  • Neck Shape Modern C
  • Neck Joint Set Neck
  • Radius 15.75"
  • Fingerboard Material Indian Laurel
  • Fingerboard Inlay Abalone Dots
  • Number of Frets 22, Jumbo
  • Scale Length 25.5"
  • Nut Width 1.625"
  • Nut Material Graphite
  • Hardware
  • Bridge/Tailpiece 6-saddle String-thru Hardtail
  • Tuners Standard Die-cast Sealed
  • Electronics
  • Neck Pickup Seymour Duncan '59 SH-1N RP Humbucker
  • Bridge Pickup Seymour Duncan SHPGP-1B Pearly Gates+ Humbucker
  • Controls 1 x master volume, 1 x master tone (push/pull coil-tap)
  • Switching 3-way toggle pickup switch
  • Miscellaneous
  • Strings Fender Super 250L, NPS, .009-.042
  • Case/Gig Bag Sold Separately
  • Manufacturer Part Number: 0262004520

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Rated 5/5

Excellent guitar

Just received this last week and it's amazing. Action set right, intonation good and it plays smoothly as expected. Pickups are so hot!! Thanks to @Bart Amburn for the smooth sailing!!
Rated 5/5

YEAH! HECK YEAH!!!

INCREDIBLE is the word that I used to describe this guitar! Not your normal Telecaster and Thank Goodness for that! I chose the amber top because so many guitars these days are a shade of red, cherry or black. The amber top is out of this world in looks and color. I love that this guitar also has binding. The neck is perfect, no dead notes, no fret buzz or sprouting, and the action is set to how I like it and is fast and smooth. What the biggest draw for me is the Seymore Duncan pickups, especially having a SD pearly gate in the bridge position. Let's face it, single coil pickups make guitars sound like you're playing in a hollow tin can. Some people like that sound, but no me. These Seymore Duncans turn this guitar into a rock n roll beast! It has the push/pull pot that you can change the guitar into a single coil as well. Also, you'd be crazy not to buy this guitar at the price it's at. The quality control is amazing.

I love this Telecaster! As always, Sweetwater customer service is top-notch, and my sales engineer Shaka Dhladhla is great and always gives me great customer service! My guitar arrived in great shape and double boxed.
Music background: 40+ years of playing electric guitar (rock/electric blues/heavy metal)
Rated 5/5

You gotta play one

Great Guitar!! Stunning looks,fabulous feel, powerful and unique sounds. Read the other reviews. Get one!
Music background: Proud Boomer Bender
Rated 5/5

Wow, just, wow!

Like a lot of dudes who grew up on 70s rock, when guitars ruled supreme, I always wanted to take it up. I even had an acoustic and an electric along the way and let them go, too hard when I've played drums for decades and that's easy. I finally decided, with all the apps and online lessons available that I'd get a nice instrument for myself for Xmas and actually do it.

FF a couple of months of research and based upon never really playing but figuring out what I wanted, and of course the reviews, settled on this instrument.

Enter your consultant Matthew Klopfenstein. He verified what I thought I knew and helped me pick a great starter amp to get going. The Fender LT50 is incredible for the money and so much fun right out of the box. Go watch vids on this and modeling amps. For just starting out you can't go wrong I think.

With Sweetwater, you get set up with text right to your consultant ( ask for Matt ;) )so odds and ends are available a text away (picks - a pedal for the amp and a case so far - once I saw this guitar I knew it had to be in a case most of the time).

The guitar arrived and I had high expectations based upon the reviews, but honestly, this is the most beautiful instrument I've ever seen, and I've been around probably hundreds of high-end guitars in bands along the way.

If you're thinking of learning, now is the best time ever. Fender has FenderPlay which has online lessons that are free to start and super-affordable for a year. Now's the time as there's a Xmas discount! The amp has a built-in tuner that's easy to use. There are tons of other youtube vids and apps and wyzant.com has tutors that can do online lessons. It was never like this the last time I tried to learn. Go for it!

Thinking of taking up guitar and willing to invest in it? Reach out to Matt and take a serious look at this guitar!
Music background: Started drums at 7 yo in 1975, still playing regularly.
Rated 5/5

A fabulous, unconventional Fender Telecaster

This FMT Tele is really, really nice!

The fit and finish is excellent, the light weight (six and a half pounds) is a delight, and the tones (both humbucking and single-coil) are unique and pleasing. Not exactly like any one other guitar I can name, which is value-added in my book.

And by that, I mean the guitar doesn't sound like a Les Paul, nor does it exactly offer up 'classic' Telecaster or Stratocaster tones.
Just tones unique to this model, I guess. And those tones are awesome.

I do like the red one, a lot.
It was literally down to a coin-toss between the red and amber.
And the lightest-weight of all those available won out in the end.

This old back of mine says, "thank you" every time I go for light-weight gear.
I love it.
She's a keeper!!
Music background: Lifelong guitar player, band leader, all around musician and guitar addict.

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