Fender American Performer Maple FB Telecaster (Vintage White)

An American-made Tele at an unbeatable price — that’s exactly what you get with the Fender American Performer Telecaster. Experience balanced tone and extreme comfort, courtesy of a lightweight alder body, maple modern C-shaped neck, and easy-playing 9.5″-radius maple fingerboard. Heat things up with an awe-inspiring combination of vintage-tinged sonics and modern output, thanks to two Yosemite single-coil pickups. On top of that, Fender’s Greasebucket tone control keeps things from getting muddy. The American Performer Tele includes ClassicGear tuners for rock-solid intonation.

Fender’s American Performer Series exists to do one thing: give you a genuine US-made Fender at an unbeatable price. The American Performer Telecaster gives you a great selection of cool Tele features, including a supremely playable maple neck and fingerboard, jumbo frets, Yosemite pickups, and Fender’s innovative Greasebucket tone control. All in all, it’s quite a potent music-delivery system. And it’s made right here in the USA, in Fender’s state-of-the-art Corona, California, factory.

While the Fender American Performer Telecaster is teeming with vintage-tinged tone, its modern output and wiring give it a sound all its own. This Tele’s Yosemite single-coil pickups feature flat-staggered pole pieces, yielding a vintage tonal balance and amp-brutalizing punch. There’s plenty of tone shaping onboard, with a master tone knob, tone control, and 3-way pickup selector switch.

Fender has fitted their American Performer Telecaster with their Greasebucket tone control, which rolls off highs without adding bass or affecting your volume. This is seriously cool, because it gives you explicit control over your tone onstage without your having to compensate for volume loss — making the American Performer Tele a serious tone machine.

Tech Specs:
GENERAL
Number of Strings 6
Left-/Right-handed Right-handed
BODY
Body Type Solidbody
Body Shape American Performer Telecaster
Body Material Alder
Body Finish Gloss Polyurethane
Color Vintage White
NECK
Neck Material Maple
Neck Shape Modern C
Neck Joint Bolt-on
Radius 9.5″
Fingerboard Material Maple
Fingerboard Inlay Black Dots
Number of Frets 22, Jumbo
Scale Length 25.5″
Nut Width 1.685″
Nut Material Synthetic Bone
HARDWARE
Bridge/Tailpiece 3-saddle String-thru Tele Bridge
Tuners Fender Classic Gear
ELECTRONICS
Neck Pickup Yosemite Tele Single-coil
Bridge Pickup Yosemite Tele Single-coil
Controls 1 x master volume, 1 x master tone, Greasebucket tone circuit
Switching 3-way blade pickup switch