Fender 75th Anniversary Player II Telecaster Rosewood Fingerboard Daphne Blue

The Telecaster turns 75, and Daphne Blue gets the invite it always deserved — a limited-edition Player II Tele that pairs one of Fender's most-loved vintage custom colours with a rosewood board, an anniversary neck plate and thoroughly modern playability.

The Limited Edition 75th Anniversary Telecaster Collection

Fender's Limited Edition 75th Anniversary Telecaster Collection marks 75 years since the Tele put the solid-body electric guitar on the map — and rather than a glass-case museum piece, this is a working player's tribute. The giveaway is on the heel: a commemorative 75th Anniversary neck plate, fitted to a short run of exclusive finishes you won't find in the regular Player II range. When this run sells through, that's it.

Daphne Blue over contoured alder

Daphne Blue is one of the great early-'60s Fender custom colours — light, breezy and instantly recognisable from the back of any room. Here it comes in gloss polyester over a contoured alder body, the rounded-over edges giving the classic single-cut shape a distinctly modern feel against your picking arm, set off by a 3-ply parchment pickguard.

Modern "C" neck with rolled edges

The Modern "C" maple neck wears a smooth satin urethane finish that never drags, topped with a rosewood fingerboard for a slightly rounder edge to your attack. You get a 9.5" (241 mm) radius with comfortably rolled edges, 22 medium jumbo frets with white dot inlays, a synthetic bone nut at 1.650" (42 mm) and Fender's standard 25.5" (648 mm) scale length.

Player Series Alnico 5 Tele twang

Two Player Series Alnico 5 Tele Single-Coil pickups deliver the real thing: biting twang and snap at the bridge, glassy warmth at the neck, and that hollowed-out quack when the 3-position blade switch runs both together. Master volume and master tone with knurled flat-top knobs keep the layout exactly as a Tele should be — simple, direct and fast to work mid-song.

String-through sustain, ClassicGear stability

The 6-saddle string-through-body Tele bridge with block steel saddles gives every string its own intonation and height adjustment, with the extra resonance that through-body stringing brings. Fender ClassicGear tuners keep pitch honest set after set, nickel/chrome hardware ties the look together, and it ships strung with Fender USA 250L Nickel Plated Steel strings (.009–.042).

Set up in-store before it ships

Built at Fender's Ensenada factory in Mexico and set up in-store by Guitar World Australia's techs before it ships to you, so it arrives playing the way a Fender should — plug in and it's pure Telecaster from the first note.

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