A versatile Tele loaded with a groundbreaking neck humbucker.
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 HS packs all the twang and spank you expect from a Tele in an alder body/maple neck package, but with a little extra muscle. Featuring Fender's flat-staggered-pole Yosemite single-coil pickup in the bridge, plus the versatile, patent-applied-for DoubleTap humbucker in the neck position, both with subtle potting that controls feedback while still letting the pickups "breathe," in combination 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 in.
- Truss rod: Dual-action
- Neck finish: Satin
- Material: Maple
- Radius: 9.5 in.
- Fret size: Jumbo
- Number of frets: 22
- Inlays: Dot
- Nut width: 1.65 in. (42 mm)
- Configuration: SS
- Neck: DoubleTap humbucker
- Bridge: Yosemite single-coil
- Brand: Fender
- Active or passive pickups: Passive
- Series or parallel: Parallel
- Special electronics: Push/Pull coil-tap
- Control layout: Master volume, tone
- Pickup switch: 3-way
- Coil tap or split: Yes
- Bridge type: Fixed
- Bridge design: 3-brass saddle
- Tailpiece: String thru body
- Tuning machines: Fender ClassicGear
- 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 maple fingerboard
- Fender Yosemite staggered pole, single-coil, DoubleTap humbucker, 3-way switch
- Thru-body-strung Fender 3-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.