- [John] Hey this is John with Fender.
I am so happy to introduce this amazing and beautiful
Telecaster guitar to you.
I hold in my hands the Jimmy Page Mirror Telecaster.
A recreation of Page's 1959 Telecaster once owned by Jeff
Beck and handed down to Jimmy in 1966.
We were really lucky to work very closely to Jimmy,
he was nice enough to come to our Corona factory to get the
specks as close as possible to the original.
Now the mirrors are yet to be applied,
we include them in the case and we leave that up to you to
place them on the guitar.
Or if you'd like, you can just keep them
as a collectors item.
The Telecaster is the perfect rock guitar.
Tone-wise, punchy, cuts through and gives you exactly what
you put in to it.
The Fender Jimmy Page Mirror Telecaster is an homage to
Jimmy's original Tele.
Which began life in it's factory white blonde
lacquer finish.
Then became the mirror guitar
before transforming into the one of a kind hand painted
instrument that we all know.
This is what the guitar would've looked like in it's
original state right out of the case.
The tones you heard me playing in the beginning of the video
were the guitar plugged directly into this Bassbreaker 30R
on the distorted channel.
So let's run through some clean tones to give you an idea of
the characteristics of the guitar and then later on we'll
explore some more distorted tones.
- [John] Alright let's get into the specks of the guitar.
So this Telecaster features
a two piece ash body with a lacquer finish.
The body will be extremely resident, it'll breathe and
wear over time.
It has a nice attractive ash grain to the wood.
Now, ash overall it's a nice combination of crisp highs
and strong low end so you have a nice balance of both.
And moving on to the neck we have a custom
oval C shaped maple neck.
Has a 7.25 inch radius with 21 vintage style frets.
Gives it a really smooth playing feel.
We've duplicated the exact neck profile
from Page's Tele.
Capped it with a period correct rosewood slab fingerboard.
Now, slab just refers to how the fingerboard is milled.
So it's milled flat on the bottom and then glued to the neck
as opposed to being curved.
And then moving onto the controls.
We have a master volume, master tone, and a Tele three way
toggle switch.
Alright let's talk about the bridge, this is really cool.
This is what we call a top loader bridge, which is a
reproduction of a rare 1959 bridge
that allows you to string the guitar traditionally through
the body or through the actual bridge itself.
Now, when you string the guitar through the bridge this
produces a rounder warmer tone and less tension.
So if you want to do those bends higher up on the neck
like this:
It's just easier to do so.
And for the pickups we have a pair of Jimmy Page custom 59
Tele single coil pickups.
Constructed with materials as close to the originals as we
could possibly get.
Full body tone that inspired all the unforgettable licks on
Zeppelin's first album.
Big and round, nice and balanced.
Let's hear a little bit more from this bridge pick up.
Some other really cool features I want you to know about.
We have a bow nut for better tuning stability and tone.
The machine heads are pure vintage single line Fender
deluxe tuning machines for authentic style and performance.
Jimmy's signature is featured on the back of the headstock
as well as the back of the neck plate.
We include a really beautiful
tweed case.
And as I mentioned up top we have eight round mirrors,
a tribute to the custom treatment that Jimmy applied
to the guitar.
A black coiled cable which I'm using right now.
And a vintage style stained glass strap.
As well we include the custom certificate of authenticity
all in the case.
Okay, so I've switched over to a Fender 68 custom deluxe
reverb amp.
You heard the distorted tones of the Bassbreaker 30R up top.
Now I have some pedals on the floor.
I have a phaser, a fuzz, and a delay.
So I'll give you the bypass tone and then I'll play
some stuff and add the pedals as I go along.
So let's take a listen.
And that's the Fender Jimmy Page Mirror Telecaster.
Check this guitar out and more at Fender.com
And stay tuned for more videos.