DAN AGOSTO: Hi. Welcome to Gearwire. I have the Fender American Standard Telecaster here. We have it in a nice black finish with a white pickguard. It’s a solid-body guitar made out of alder, and if we move them on up to the neck, this is a maple neck with a rosewood fingerboard. You can also get it with just the maple fingerboard so it wouldn’t have the rosewood on it. We have the standard white dot inlays, double at the 12th fret, 22 of these frets, and all the fret wires are jumbo.

So if we move on up to the headstock, you see we have six Fender Schaller tuners. They are closed back. You can check that out there. We got the serial number back there too. Standards Tele style headstock with a one-string tree, and we have a nut which is a traditional wooden nut, hand cut, and of course the adjustable truss rod.

We move back down the guitar to the bridge. Here we have the standard bridge saddles that go on the American Series Telecasters and also the Stratocasters. This is through-body strung, so if we look at the back, this is where the ends of the strings are anchored. We turn it back over and take a look at the controls. All right, so here we have a volume knob and a tone knob. This is a Delta Tone knob from Fender. That’s what they’re calling this one, and we have a three positions pickup selector switch so you get the neck, middle, bridge. So, if we take a look at the pickups, first one up at the neck, we got the American Standard Tele-style single coil that sounds kind of like this.

[DAN AGOSTO PLAYING THE FENDER AMERICAN TELECASTER, NECK PICKUP ENGAGED]

All right, then we can put it in the middle and that would be a combination of both the neck and the bridge and it will sound like this.

[DAN AGOSTO PLAYING THE FENDER AMERICAN TELECASTER, BOTH PICKUPS ENGAGED]

And then of course we can just go to the bridge pickup alone, and this is an American Standard Tele-style bridge pickup.

[DAN AGOSTO PLAYING THE FENDER AMERICAN TELECASTER, BRIDGE PICKUP ENGAGED]

I want to mess around a little bit with the tone knob and see what different kind of sounds we can get.

[DAN AGOSTO PLAYING THE FENDER AMERICAN TELECASTER, BRIDGE PICKUP ENGAGED, TONE KNOB BEING TWEAKED TO LOWER SETTINGS]

Turn it up a little bit.

[DAN AGOSTO PLAYING THE FENDER AMERICAN TELECASTER, BRIDGE PICKUP ENGAGED, TONE KNOB BEING TWEAKED TO HIGHER SETTINGS]

So that’s the Fender American Standard Telecaster, a classic in my book, and thanks for checking it out here with us on Gearwire.Com.