Fender American Professional Hot Shot Telecaster Electric Guitar, Rosewood Fingerboard, Oxblood

Taking the road less traveled in the American Professional series, the Fender American Professional Hot Shot Telecaster is a classically alternative track for Tele fans. This awesomely off-the-wall Tele variant revs up in the revamped American Professional series, showing some of the best the series has to offer, with highly musical features found throughout while making a name for itself in the American Professional line and throughout the wider Telecaster legacy.

The Fender American Professional Hot Shot Telecaster spins off classic Tele musicality in the American Professional series. Dynamite Fender specifications shuffled throughout the Tele mix with the series' thrilling innovations to bring in both old and new players with thoroughly modern features at the forefront. The heart of this classically alternative Tele starts with a single-cutaway alder body. A timeless Fender tonewood if there ever were one, this alder serves as an excellent musical base with a light and resonant tone. What's more, the model's impressive gloss finish stands out onstage through a rich Oxblood color.

Essentially as iconic as its single-cut Tele form, the American Professional Hot Shot Telecaster brings on a maple neck in a Deep "C" profile. A smooth "C" shape makes for quick moves from lower to higher registers with speed alongside a Fender "Super-Natural" satin finish. Complementing the comfort of the neck in the palm on the fingers, a rosewood fingerboard matches with rolled edges. Exceptionally sleek when playing low or high, the Hot Shot Telecaster features a sculpted neck heel, allowing for easy access to higher frets when soloing. Twenty-two Narrow Tall frets line up along this rosewood board for a great balance of articulation and comfort along with a modern 9.5" radius for equally easy power chords and solo note bends.

For its voice, the American Professional Hot Shot Telecaster comes alive with a great, off-the-wall electronics setup. Two Fender V-Mod III Telecaster single-coil pickups match up in the bridge and neck positions for that classic Tele twang and snap. In its middle position, the Hot Shot Telecaster brings on a V-Mod III Stratocaster single-coil pickup. This addition introduces classic Strat sparkle to the table to mix in and shake up your usual Tele tonality. Even better, a push-push switch on the tone control adds the Strat neck pickup into pickup positions 1 and 2 for unique tonal mixing. Fender's ClassicGear Precision potentiometers then shape this mix of single-coil tones for smooth, consistent control and custom torque, making playability all the more precise.

This American Professional Hot Shot Telecaster backs up its musical experience with a number of striking hardware specifications. Firstly, this Tele features a new top-loading/string-through Telecaster bridge with three compensated brass saddles. Offering either through-body or top-load stringing, this bridge retains intonation solidly with warm, brass-saddle tone. Toward the headstock, standard cast/sealed staggered tuning machine and a bone nut make for smooth stringing and sturdy intonation. This American Professional Hot Shot Telecaster travels with an included deluxe molded hardshell case.

A charmingly alternative take on Telecasters, the Fender American Professional Hot Shot Telecaster is a road less traveled begging to be taken on.