Fender Player II Telecaster Electric Guitar, with Rosewood Fingerboard
A Tele made for modern guitarists, this Player II model boasts professional features like a slab rosewood fingerboard and Player Series Alnico V pickups.
Comes in 4 Colors
$849.99
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Submitted November 19, 2024 by a customer from gmail.com
"Fantastic guitar!"
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My first Fender guitar, this is a beautiful telecaster! Plan on upgrading the pickups at some point, as they are a tad thin sounding, but for just playing and recording in my home studio, this is a fantastic instrument. The rosewood is beautiful and feels great, rolled fingerboard edges and satin neck are extremely comfortable. zZounds does a great job packing and shipping, my guitar was snug inside a box, inside another box. Going to be ordering from them again!
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Submitted November 19, 2025 by Ingrid R
"It Really Does it All"
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...and that means everything.I was nervous about getting a new one - indeed many will urge you to never buy new for reasons ranging from 'it lacks x aftermarket item' like locking tuners or not having the metal finish you like. But, it all just works. When I got it I gave it a restring and a setup, and it stays perfectly in tune, sustains for nearly a minute, and the finish was thin and delicate, with the inner chamber fully masked without so much as a drop of overspray. This was built with love in Mexico and it shows.I've always used cheaper guitars and built them into the finished instrument I use, and this is the first one I bought with a clean finish out of the box. As you can expect the laurelwood fretboard is unfinished, so it needs a good oiling, but the frets were even, the neck unbowed, and the bone nut cut right. For those on the fence about the modern bridge: don't be. It makes it easier to tune, even if it doesn't look old fashioned. It lacks the 'wow' factor you get with the old gibson case candy treatment, but the tools you get are all solidly built. The green color is absolutely gorgeous. Warmer than seafoam green, more leaning toward a pistachio/desaturated olive drab.
Sound
The quality is clear and clean without offering a quack or chicken pick unless you go looking for it. That neutral character is an incredible canvas for sound design and expression. Easing back on the tone knob playing in bridge position lets you get more into metal tones, while backing off on the volume lets you get more expressive with your playing, offering a huge amount of sonic options when ran through different effects and amps. The electronics behave in a vintage fashion, offering a relatively sharp falloff in tone on the controls.
Features
The finish of this guitar is pristine. The paint itself is thin and doesn't orangepeel, even in the body cavities. The tuners are vintage, but stay in perfect tune if you make your final tune adjustment in a tightening direction.
Ease of Use
Its fairly effortless getting decent tones out of this, but its also just as effortless to get bad tones. Its expressiveness and resonant sustain sits somewhere between an aria classic and a silvertone electric, and I find it easy to make this guitar ring harmonically.
Quality
I fully believe that this guitar will outlive me, and that one would have to be pretty deliberately destructive with it in order to damage it - and even then its likely to still finish playing a set and stay in tune.
Value
Just get it. The money spent on cheaper hardware will often be spent on getting the machine reliable. The tusq nut, locking tuners, and other bells and whistles genuinely do not matter to a new player and this is the kind of guitar that you can purchase sight unseen and trust that it'll do the job every time. The standard sizes means domestic aftermarket offerings wont require major modifications and this is a guitar that can grow with you over the course of your life. Just get it.
The Wow Factor
If you wish to buy the Fender for the name, I'd go for the deluxe ones, but this model is a solid demonstration that the brand still means something. The Player II tele is gonna be in session gig bags and studio racks for decades to come. This is still a working class guitar.
Musical Background:
Some formal training
Musical Style:
Post Punk, Gothic, Experimental, Punk, Grunge, Metal, Industrial Metal
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