Dragging the Telecaster down into the darkest depths of tone, Jim Root partnered with Fender to create the Jim Root Telecaster, his signature Artist model Tele. Equipped with active EMG 60 and 81 humbucking pickups on the neck and bridge respectively, as well as three-way switching and a minimal control set, this Tele is nothing but heavy. Mahogany body, maple neck with 12″-radius ebony or maple fingerboard, 22 medium jumbo frets, hard-tail through-body bridge–submit or get out of the way. It’s that simple.
Founded by Leo Fender in 1938 as Fender’s Radio Service, what is now the Fender Musical Instruments Corporation began making electric guitars and amplifiers in 1945. The rest, as they say, is history. Creator of the world’s first mass-produced, and by far most popular, solid-bodied electric, Fender is now the world’s leading guitar manufacturer.
Developed hand-in-hand with some of the biggest artists of yesterday and today, the Fender Artist Series is a collaborative line of signature models incorporating hand-selected tonewoods and custom appointments and specs, voiced to specific tones and playing styles by our master builders and the artists themselves. Stratocasters, Telecasters, Jaguars, Jazzmasters, and Jazz, Precision, and Jaguar basses take on new life with the help of some of music’s most revered icons.