This is a review for the Fender Modern Player Tele Plus Electric Guitar, Honey Burst, Maple Fretboard.
I love this guitar! The maple neck is heavily lacquered in a beautiful gloss finish, which makes it very smooth and glassy, the fingerboard is also very well finished and feels glassy and fast to play on. The contour of the neck is great for old school thumb-round-the-neck blues as well as modern faster arpeggios and finger technique. The combination of sounds you can get from the HSS with coil tap is really flexible - 1) traditional tele neck sound 2, 3 and 4) are roughly equivalent to the strat sounds, with 4 having both humbucking and single coil tap bridge pickup pairing. In 5) you get the humbucking bridge tone, which to be honest is more SG like and far less trebly and nasal than the typical tele bridge pickup. When coil tapped, this gets thinner and slightly quieter, but still doesn't really sound like the traditional telecaster bridge sound. However it's a very usable sound with plenty of bite.
The guitar came packed in a box within a box for protection and was pretty well set up. Action was low, there was a tiny bit of fret buzz when I attacked the A and D strings hard, intonation was perfect. It comes with extra light 9-42 gauge strings fitted which makes for very easy bending and vibrato. I tightened the truss rod a quarter turn to get the neck perfectly straight and tweaked the bridge saddles just a tiny bit to get a consistent string feel. Now it plays like a charm.
The guitar looks great, has many good sounds, and is a joy to play. My only minor criticism is that the neck and middle pickups are rather noisy, being genuine single coil designs. I am considering replacing these with noiseless pickups, just to make it a bit less intrusive when I play with slightly more gain. I'm usually going for a bluesy Freddie King's 70 type of sound, but I occasionally play some rock and metal. This guitar works great for clean tones, blues and some classic rock, but to be honest you don't want to be playing metal on it.
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- Two MP-90 pickups offer a huge range of sweet and aggressive tones.Dual Modern Player MP-90 single-coil pickups.
- With a 9.5" radius and 22 medium jumbo frets, this model offers comfort and speed.
- Six-saddle hard-tail bridge allows for more precise intonation and individual string-height adjustment.
- Four skirted amp knobs (volume and tone for each pickup
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| hand orientation | Right | Right | Right | Right | Right | Right |
| number of strings | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 |
| fretboard material | Maple Wood | Maple Wood | Rosewood | Okoume | Laurel Wood | Laurel Wood |
| back material | Maple Wood | Ash Wood, Maple Wood | Mahogany Wood | Poplar | — | — |
| top material | maple | Ash Wood, Maple Wood | Maple | Poplar | — | — |
| string material | — | Stainless Steel | — | Nickel | Nickel | Nickel |
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