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ElectricTurkey4369

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New Fender Blacktop Baritone Tele!
« on: January 08, 2012, 03:17:38 AM »
I don't know if anyone has posted this already, but Fender just announced some new Blacktop guitars including a Baritone Tele! http://www.fender.com/products/blacktop/models.php?prodNo=0148700

When these are released, I'm buying one of those Baritone's ASAP!

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Re: New Fender Blacktop Baritone Tele!
« Reply #1 on: January 08, 2012, 08:54:22 AM »
Hmmm...  I don't know about that.  Kinda like the concept, but the extra length on the neck looks a little wrong to me.

Love the pickup configuration though.
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Re: New Fender Blacktop Baritone Tele!
« Reply #2 on: January 08, 2012, 09:31:38 AM »
Mine!
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Re: New Fender Blacktop Baritone Tele!
« Reply #3 on: January 08, 2012, 10:20:15 AM »
I like it!  I think I'd be more interested in trying one of these for "extended range" than I would a 7-string.

I really, really like the look with the amp knobs, hardtail bridge and pickup layout.  In fact I think all the Blacktop guitars look fantastic.

Interesting that they're using Tele single-coils in this baritone and the HSH Strat.  Strat pickups would seem a more obvious choice, but the Tele pickups fit the black-and-chrome image better.
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Re: New Fender Blacktop Baritone Tele!
« Reply #4 on: January 08, 2012, 12:33:15 PM »
The knobs are not really for me, but besides that very interresting.
Canīt wait to see what happens when John 5 gets one of these^^

Now if they could make a baritone version of the Jim Adkins Tele (thinline semi hollow with P90s)....
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Re: New Fender Blacktop Baritone Tele!
« Reply #5 on: January 08, 2012, 01:02:03 PM »
I like the Blacktops, though I'm not really into baritones. They should make a tele with standard Nantuckets.  :)
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Re: New Fender Blacktop Baritone Tele!
« Reply #6 on: January 08, 2012, 01:57:47 PM »
a tele with humbucker in the bridge and an extended scale length, who does that remind me of?

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Re: New Fender Blacktop Baritone Tele!
« Reply #7 on: January 08, 2012, 03:05:24 PM »
a tele with humbucker in the bridge and an extended scale length, who does that remind me of?

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Re: New Fender Blacktop Baritone Tele!
« Reply #8 on: January 08, 2012, 04:01:39 PM »
Looks pretty good to me, maybe one too many pickups though.  :D

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Re: New Fender Blacktop Baritone Tele!
« Reply #9 on: January 08, 2012, 07:59:18 PM »
a tele with humbucker in the bridge and an extended scale length, who does that remind me of?

He'll love it!  Where is he?

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