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Post subject: Re: Telecaster Plus, Telecaster Plus Deluxe, Telecaster Ultr
Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2012 7:55 pm
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Post subject: Re: Telecaster Plus, Telecaster Plus Deluxe, Telecaster Ultr
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 6:45 am
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Deluxe Tele Pluses always came with a snap-in tremolo arm.


Thanks - I stand corrected on that. While I've picked up and strummed on maybe 2-3 Tele Plus Deluxes in stores they didn't have the trem arm on them.

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Post subject: Re: Telecaster Plus, Telecaster Plus Deluxe, Telecaster Ultr
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 8:17 am
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Instead of offering the Tele Plus Deluxe with the mini Floyd, Fender chose to discontinue this model instead and redesign the regular Plus into a more streamlined version with three Gold Lace Tele pickups, 7-way switching and a regular Telecaster bridge.

The redesigned Plus with its bound contoured body became the basis for the American Deluxe Telecaster, introduced in 1998.

The first American Deluxe Teles came with the same pickup layout and wiring scheme as the Tele Plus, except the Lace Sensors were replaced by three Vintage Noiseless pickups - two Vintage Noiseless Tele pickups in the bridge & neck and a Vintage Noiseless Strat pickup in the middle.

The following year the American Deluxe Telecaster reverted into a 2-pickup guitar with a 3-way pickup selector.

The S1 switch and a contoured neck heel were introduced when Fender upgraded the series with SCN pickups in January 1st, 2004. Locking tuners and a compound radius neck made their debuts with the advent of the N3 era in March 23, 2010.

The American Deluxe Ash Telecaster has a plain slab body and a standard 4-bolt neck plate.


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Post subject: Re: Telecaster Plus, Telecaster Plus Deluxe, Telecaster Ultr
Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2016 11:35 pm
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I currently own a '91 Telecaster Plus Deluxe with all the bells and whistles as well as a few other things.

A bit of backstory: my dad bought the guitar at a guitar shop in Richmond, Virginia for about $400. He learned how to play chords and whatnot, but it never went anywhere. However, he never sold the guitar, and it sat in the corner of our playroom for ~20(ish) years. I found it when I was seven, and I had started playing guitar, but it was too big for my minuscule child hands.

I recently started playing guitar again about two years ago (I'm 17 as of writing this), and I had to re-learn everything, but this guitar allowed me to make the learning process easier because of the variety of sounds I can make with the guitar using the different configurations of pick-ups.

Now on to the specs.

Neck: The neck is the traditional maple neck on usual fender guitars. It has the classic Wilkinson rolling nut, and the black dot in-lays, but surprisingly, this person who owned the guitar before my father had taken the Schaller locking tuners out (probably to put them on his other tele). This has been a large problem of mine with the guitar. However, I plan to fix this problem in the coming days (It is December 22nd as of this writing). Thank God for Santa.

Body: The body is made of heavy swamp ash wood. The first thing one can notice that is different from other Tele Del. + s is that the pick guard is not your traditional 3 layer white-black-white pickguard with 7 screws, but it is the more vintage 1 layer black pickguard with only 5 screws. I know for a fact that the pickguard was definitely replaced due to the fact it has the more standard 3 layer tremolo cover in the back. It has the Strat tremolo system with a pop-in whammy and the usual electronics, that is unchanged, but the second thing one might notice is the pick-up configuration. If someone were to play the guitar and they didn't see the difference, they would definitely hear it. The guitar has the usual blue lace sensor in the neck, but it's a little different in the back. In the very back of the bridge is the usual red lace sensor, but in the front of the bridge position is a yellow lace sensor. This allows me to have the bright, woody tones of an old Tele or Strat while also being able to retain a nice light P90ish sound in the bridge when it is used in conjunction with the red. Not warm and dark like a humbucker, but definitely not bright and twangy like the yellow lace sensor is; it's about right in between the two.

To sum the guitar all up in just a few words: 10/10, would recommend.


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Post subject: Re: Telecaster Plus, Telecaster Plus Deluxe, Telecaster Ultr
Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2016 1:03 am
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B Cady wrote:
I currently own a '91 Telecaster Plus Deluxe with all the bells and whistles as well as a few other things.

A bit of backstory: my dad bought the guitar at a guitar shop in Richmond, Virginia for about $400. He learned how to play chords and whatnot, but it never went anywhere. However, he never sold the guitar, and it sat in the corner of our playroom for ~20(ish) years. I found it when I was seven, and I had started playing guitar, but it was too big for my minuscule child hands.

I recently started playing guitar again about two years ago (I'm 17 as of writing this), and I had to re-learn everything, but this guitar allowed me to make the learning process easier because of the variety of sounds I can make with the guitar using the different configurations of pick-ups.

Now on to the specs.

Neck: The neck is the traditional maple neck on usual fender guitars. It has the classic Wilkinson rolling nut, and the black dot in-lays, but surprisingly, this person who owned the guitar before my father had taken the Schaller locking tuners out (probably to put them on his other tele). This has been a large problem of mine with the guitar. However, I plan to fix this problem in the coming days (It is December 22nd as of this writing). Thank God for Santa.

Body: The body is made of heavy swamp ash wood. The first thing one can notice that is different from other Tele Del. + s is that the pick guard is not your traditional 3 layer white-black-white pickguard with 7 screws, but it is the more vintage 1 layer black pickguard with only 5 screws. I know for a fact that the pickguard was definitely replaced due to the fact it has the more standard 3 layer tremolo cover in the back. It has the Strat tremolo system with a pop-in whammy and the usual electronics, that is unchanged, but the second thing one might notice is the pick-up configuration. If someone were to play the guitar and they didn't see the difference, they would definitely hear it. The guitar has the usual blue lace sensor in the neck, but it's a little different in the back. In the very back of the bridge is the usual red lace sensor, but in the front of the bridge position is a yellow lace sensor. This allows me to have the bright, woody tones of an old Tele or Strat while also being able to retain a nice light P90ish sound in the bridge when it is used in conjunction with the red. Not warm and dark like a humbucker, but definitely not bright and twangy like the yellow lace sensor is; it's about right in between the two.

To sum the guitar all up in just a few words: 10/10, would recommend.


From my understanding someone replaced the stock red/red dually with a red/silver.

There's no yellow lace sensor unless you mean a gold lace pickup. Bear in mind there are only gold/gold and blue/gold lace sensors as humbuckers. Actodyne had never released red/gold duallies, only red/red and red/silver. They also offer purple and emerald sensors in that dually form.

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Having the Red/Silver Dually wired in full series mode gives you a hot humbucker sound with greater definition.


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