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Gorgeous carved flamed maple top and 2 chunky humbuckers.
The Fender Custom Telecaster FMT Electric Guitar has tonal versatility and looks that make it welcome in any venue at a price that makes it a real Tele value. Mahogany body and set mahogany neck with rosewood fretboard and 6-saddle string-thru-body hardtail bridge provide great resonance and longer sustain. Cast sealed tuning machines keep tuning spot-on while stunning transparent finishes let the brilliance of the maple figuring shine through.
Fender Special Edition Custom Telecaster FMT HH Electric Guitar Features:
- Flamed maple top
- Mahogany body
- Set mahogany neck
- Rosewood fretboard, 15-3/4" radius
- 2 Fender humbuckers
- 3-position toggle
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Korean Fender FMT
I bought this guitar based on the tone of the timber ( I used my ear against teh body unplugged ), it's appearance and play ability.
It's Korean made with a straight thru neck and fixed bridge, thru the body string and dual humbickers with a single coil tap on the the tone control. There way switch for neck, bridge or both and jumbo frets. Body is light, arched top with a chamfered back.
Positives:
Pretty guitar that is light and playable.
Greatest asset is the variety of tones it can produce that suit Jazz players to hard rock soloists.
Excellent solo guitar, the tones are sharp and sustain is great very good.
Fits a after market Tele case perfectly.
No EM noise very clean.
Negatives:
Jumbo frets cause strings to bend with open play
and create fret buzz on the low E
On delivery, neck seems to be too flat and requires a little additional setup to remove fret buzz.
Strap posts are weak and require better fixings.
Too twangy with cheap 9's
Output plug could be better quality
Finish, mother of peral inlays were glued badly, excess glue.
Pots are now scratchy after 2 years and three way switch is ordinary.
Overall:
All the negatives are easily remedied and I am now using Elixir 10's and the twang turned to a bling with zing. I run it with a RT2100 amp, and thru Digital effect via PC in my studio.
Very versatile guitar that's relatively light, some say neck is heavy but for me that's becuase the body is light.
Price was right, the sound quality very nice and versatility excellent
Till death do us part.
Reviewed by blis on 11/1/2006 who plays All roudner.
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Not Your Pappy's Tele
The Fender Custom Telecaster FMT is a truly beautiful guitar.....and it's beauty is much more than skin deep.
The flamed maple finish is absolutely stunning. I own the Crimson Red version, and the pictures on this site will never do the guitar justice.
Both the classic tele-style body and neck have a cream colored binding, and the headstock is finished to match the body. The body also has a carved top. Black Chrome hardware rounds out the package.
OK, now that we know this guitar is gorgeous, let's talk about what's under the skin.
My Custom Tele is actually equipped with Seymour Duncan humbuckers...not the Fender humbuckers. I'm sure the Fenders are designed similar, as I believe the Fender pickups are a newer upgrade.
The neck pickup is warm & bluesy, the bridge pickup is crisp. The single tone knob controls both pickups, and there is a 3-way pickup selector toggle switch. Just when you thought that's it, pull up the tone knob and you've got coil-tapping also....a great feature in a guitar in this price range. In single-coil mode, the pickups sound great....very close to the sound of my Stratocaster. Overall, both pickups sound great clean or distorted.
Tuners are good....but could be upgraded. The fixed string-through-body bridge and set neck deliver lots of sustain. Plability wise, the neck feels great to me, and action is set low with no string buzzing. The neck is also equiped with jumbo frets.
I believe there is also a USA-built version of this guitar, but I honestly can't see paying at least double for that model. With an upgrade to high-quality tuners, this guitar is stage ready. I am extremely happy with my decision to purchase this guitar.
I would recommend the Fender Custom Telecaster FMT to anyone that loves the look of a tele, but wants something a little more versatile and unique.
Reviewed by Mike_D on 9/20/2006 who plays Classic Rock, Alternative, Rock.
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Telecaster. PAF tone. Versatility. Heaven.
This guitar is a workhorse. In the best of ways. The telecaster style makes it a comfortable, easy playing guitar -- The neck is fast (and has those great jumbo frets), and playing it is just nice and comfy.
Tone heaven, really. The mahagony body lends to the dark, classic sound that you usually don't find in a Fender -- But that's the whole point, right? It mixes the classic Fender sound with the more modern rock tone, right down to the PAF pickups. My model came with the fender buckers. And wow. They're great.
Very similar to duncan pups, but a little more mellow and mild, great for anyone who wants to go from jazz tones, right up to hard rock.
With the coils tapped the fender pickups give a convincing strat tone -- Blues players welcome!
This guitar covers pretty much every spectrum of tone. If you need a backup, this is your guitar! If you need a guitar for the studio, this is your guitar! It does everything. It even looks beautiful enough to gig with if that's what you want.
For the price, you can't go wrong.
My only complaint, and the ONLY complaint I could ever have with it is the tuners and set neck. The set neck is great, don't get me wrong, but the tuners have trouble keeping it in tune. If they could have included some locking tuners, then this guitar would be a perfect 5.0 instead of a 4.5. Because I personally feel set neck guitars need locking tuners.
Reviewed by Klisk on 10/12/2006 who plays Punk grunge rock.
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My third one of its kind, technically
This is technically my third humbucker korean setneck tele. My first two have a single humbucker in the bridge with no neck pickup. They have been my main performance guitars for a while. I wanted another one, this time with a neck pickup.
I have no opinion on the pickups. I swapped them out for EMG 89s. I also swapped the machine heads and strap locks for locking schallers.
Those differences aside, this is a pretty mean guitar. It goes from clean to growl and sounds great in all styles - I attribute this to the mahogany body and neck. It is super-light, which is a problem for some but not for me. The neck with its modern C shape neck is uber-comfortable for those of us who DO NOT have spidery fingers.
I have to say that of the 3 korean teles I now have, this one was the least perfect. The fingerboard had some blemishes and the abalone dot inlays are beautifully colored but some of them are chipped just a bit at the edges. This is also my first Korean tele with subtly imperfect fretwork. My last two were perfect.
I am very happy anyways and look forward to having these minor things touched up.
Reviewed by Age of Anchors on 12/20/2006 who plays Rock but a very versatile version of Rock.
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Flame Maple Top Dream
Fortunately for me I found this truly amazing guitar on another website about a year and a half ago (Guitar Trader) for $399.00! My FMT HH Custom Tele is a beautiful translucent blue and has a Fender Black Canyon Humbucker and a Fender Atomic II Humbucker that sound incredible! Better than
Seymours. Once again, the finish and quality of this Korean made, set neck guitar are much better than my American made Strat that cost twice as much! I love the tap switch tone control that sends me into overdrive on my Fender Princeton Chorus Amp, which, by the way sounds as close to a Fender tube amp as you could possibly get, no joke! I highly recommend this guitar and would pay alot more for it. It is the second favorite guitar in my collection.
Reviewed by Gutrock on 10/23/2006 who plays classic rock, jazz, blues.
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