What do you think of this New Fender guitar? (new model)

[StrangeDay]

New TC-90

Features:

Body: Semi-Hollow Ash

Neck: Set Maple Neck
No. of Frets: 22 Medium Jumbo Frets
Scale Length: 25.5
Abalone Dot Position Inlays

Hardware: Smoked Chrome
Bridge: Adjusto-Matic with
Anchored-Tailpiece

Pickups: Seymour Duncan:
SP90-1NRWRP Vintage P90 (Neck),
SP-90 3B Custom P90 (Bridge)

Pickup Switching: 3-Way

Controls: Master Volume, Master Tone

Colors: Black Cherry Burst (561),
Vintage White (541)

 

[Gearjoneser]

Pretty cool. I like that guitar in the Telesonic shape more.

The guitar that caught my eye was the new Fender Showmaster?
that is in the new thick Fender catalog.

It's the one that has a flamed strat body, neck through with a Tele headstock, and two Duncan humbuckers. it's like a
strat meets Tele meets LP. If someone can find a link for that guitar, I can sit here and salivate over it all afternoon. LOL

 

[mrid]

how much?

 

[StrangeDay]

I don't know how much, or if it's even a US model. It looks to me like a cross between a Strat and Tele, but with a semi-hollow body. Someone else said it looks like i's trying to emulate a Gibson.
I don't know but it looks good to me!

 

[TheProphet]

To me the top side is a direct mirror of the lower horn of a Tele.

So IMO it's a double cut tele

 

[jmv]

Pretty cool vibe, gotta love those P90s.....

 

[xerxes]

it disturbes me....

i dont know but something about it does

 

[Pandemonium]

it disturbes me....

i dont know but something about it does

Me too.

 

[presa_tito]

I like it. Kind of a strat tele mix. I just don't like the look of the pickguard.

 

[Guitarist]

Yuck. But if it sounds good...

 

[proxy]

I like it

 

[BluesNRock87]

seems very untraditional for a fender, knob placement is weird, the body shape is wierd.

when i think fender, i dont think cutting edge new guitars, i think timeless classics like strat, tele, jag, stang, etc.

i dont like it, something just isnt right

 

[Fresh_Start]

I agree about the pickguard.

Also, with symetrical cutouts like that on both sides, there's almost no neck pocket. That might have an effect on sustain & tone...

Chip

 

[StrangeDay]

Sorry,missed the link at the top.Interesting,not crazy about the bridge or the pickgaurd though.Looks like you could mod the hell out of it.What's it cost?

I did not find any other links on the guitar, just Fender.com.
However, someone else told me it retails for only $600!!!
maybe they meant the Guitar Center price?
I don't know, but I really want to try one.
I agree about the pickguard. Makes me think,
"D*mn it!! It could have been perfect!!"

 

[StrangeDay]

What adjustments would you guys have made to the pickguard if YOU were the designer?
I think that a straight cut on the side of the pickguard running parallel with the neck would have looked better. Like the one on this Tele here, but bigger.
Custom Tele

 

[StefanM]

Wow, I actually like it a lot. Not many 'new' fender guitar shapes/variants that I do, but I really dig this one.

Double cut tele is exactly right. I wonder how much of a neck angle it has, and whether the top if countoured somewhat to disguise it, and whether you can lay it flat.

 

[TattooedCarrot]

I saw them at NAMM and spoke to the Fender rep about them. They are made in Korea like the Esquire GT's, SCorpions, and Celtics of the specialty line. They look and feel much like the Samicks and Schecters. I liked the white one.

 

[StefanM]

Have double-cutaway teles been made before by anyone? I briefly contemplated it.... after I'd made my guitar

 

[Mr Wolf]

Quite a nice looking thing, i feel a bit of a gibson vibe from it, but its not bad, tho i have seen prettier double cuts. Uglier ones aswell

 

[Hoss]

i like it...very unique..imo...

would look great in butterscotch!