{"product_id":"squier-paranormal-troublemaker-telecaster-deluxe-bigsby-laurel-fingerboard-black","title":"Squier Paranormal Troublemaker Telecaster Deluxe Bigsby Electric Guitar, Laurel Fingerboard, Black","description":"\u003ch1\u003eSquier Paranormal Troublemaker Telecaster Deluxe Bigsby Electric Guitar, Laurel Fingerboard, Black\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSquier's Troublemaker line takes a Telecaster and gives it everything a Telecaster is not supposed to have. This one is the full version: a black bound body, twin chrome-covered humbuckers, four knobs, a big '70s Deluxe headstock, pearloid blocks down the fingerboard, and a licensed Bigsby B50 hanging off the end. It is the guitar for players who came up on Teles but keep reaching for something with more weight behind it — and it costs about what a plain one does.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eTwo humbuckers, four knobs, no compromises\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBoth positions carry a Fender-Designed alnico humbucker, and each one gets its own volume and its own tone control rather than sharing a master pair. That is the Deluxe wiring, and it is the reason this layout has stuck around since 1972: you can set the neck pickup clean and the bridge pickup hot, then use the toggle as a channel switch mid-song. Roll one volume back a touch in the middle position and you get blends a single master control simply cannot reach.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eCoil splits on both pickups, independently\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePull up on either tone knob and that pickup drops to a single coil — bridge and neck split separately, not together. Four knobs and two splits is a lot of ground for one guitar: full humbuckers for the loud end, both coils split for a thinner and more percussive attack, or one of each for the half-and-half sound that a hardtail Tele has never been able to produce. It is genuinely worth an evening working through the combinations before you decide where you like it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eThe Bigsby, and why the bridge matters\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe B50 is the lightweight licensed Bigsby, the right one for a flat-top solidbody — a shallow, controllable wobble rather than a divebomb, the movement that makes a held chord shimmer at the end of a line. Underneath it sits an Adjust-O-Matic bridge with individually adjustable saddles, which is what keeps a Bigsby-equipped guitar workable: the strings return over fixed saddles you have set yourself, so intonation stays put after the arm has been used. Chrome hardware throughout, and vintage-style tuners at the other end.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eDressed like a Deluxe\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhite binding runs around the body and again around the Indian Laurel fingerboard, with pearloid block inlays set into it — the appointments Fender saved for its upscale models, sitting against a gloss black body and a three-ply parchment guard. The headstock is the large Stratocaster-style outline the Telecaster Deluxe has always used, left natural maple with a gold Squier script, and the knobs are black skirted amp-style. It is a lot of contrast for one guitar and it works, particularly on stage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eThe neck and the numbers\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNyatoh body under gloss polyurethane, bolt-on maple neck in a \"C\" profile, Indian Laurel fingerboard at a 9.5\" radius with 22 narrow-tall frets. Micarta nut at 42 mm, 25.5\" scale length, .009–.042 nickel-plated steel strings as it ships. Right-hand orientation. The flatter radius and taller wire are the modern part of this guitar — bends run out clean to the top of the neck, which the vintage guitars this borrows from could never quite manage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSet up in-store by Guitar World Australia's techs before it ships to you, so it plays perfectly the moment it arrives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eBrand\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSquier\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eModel\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eParanormal Troublemaker Telecaster Deluxe Bigsby\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eSeries\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eParanormal\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eColour\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBlack\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eBody\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eNyatoh\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eBody Finish\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eGloss polyurethane\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eBody Shape\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eTelecaster\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eBody Binding\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBound\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eNeck Finish\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePolyurethane\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eFingerboard\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eIndian Laurel, bound\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003ePosition Inlays\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePearloid block\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eHeadstock\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eLarge Stratocaster-style, natural maple\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eNeck Pickup\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFender-Designed alnico humbucking\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eBridge Pickup\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFender-Designed alnico humbucking\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003ePickup Configuration\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHH\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003ePickup Switching\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e3-position toggle: bridge \/ both \/ neck\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eControls\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eVolume and tone per pickup; 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