Fall is here, hear the yell
On the heels of many collaborations with the famed guitarist over the years, today Fender debuts the Jack White Triplecaster. As an exciting piece from Fender and White, this guitar marks the first collaboration between the two coming to retail.
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White All Along
An experienced artist, Jack White has cultivated a school of guitarcraft all his own. As a guitarist, White's influence on the instrument goes without saying with his time in the forefront of modern rock's limelight. As a conceptualist, White's work manifests in many different ways. From his earliest modified department store catalog instruments to today's high-profile Fender collab, White's mastery of experimentation not only in guitar playing but guitar design goes back decades. See his inherent curiosity for the guitar come to light in his custom-designed pieces onstage or in his hand-built cola bottle lapsteel in It Might Get Loud. In any instance, White's technical ingenuity, artistic wisdom and no-wrong-answers approach all come to life, bringing the electric guitar to places it's never been before.
White's prolific work on six strings is no real secret. In his experience as one of the twenty-first century's premier musicmakers, White can be seen across the years with a host of unique axes – rarely conventional but never dull. This Fender signature model punches a similar ticket to both fit White's eccentric design ethos and capture the imagination of today's players. For fans of White's extensive discography and Fender's skillful craftsmanship, this one-of-a-kind Tele is a treasure.
Three's Company
The Fender Jack White Triplecaster starts with a Telecaster single-cutaway body shaped from chambered ash. This body is matched with a maple neck in a Mid '50s Soft "V" profile wrapped in a silky satin finish. Filling out to the fingerboard, this maple bears twenty-two Medium Jumbo frets and an ultra-modern twelve-inch radius. Sonically, this signature model is loaded with three custom-designed Jack White pickups – a single-coil and two humbuckers. Playing with great bluesy tonality, these electronics clock in to mix with White's signature fiery riffage.
A number of intriguing onboard features appear to make this model truly shine. A Bigsby BC5 Vibrato tailpiece offers expressive vibrato bends for solos while a Hipshot Xtender drop "D" tuner joins six Fender sealed tuners to dip the low E string quickly to a deeper register. Alongside these string-based functions, the Triplecaster comes equipped with an arcade-style "Stutter" switch to introduce Morse Code-esque killswitching to the equation while an additional three-way "Direct-to-Jack" toggle offers new routing options by bypassing the guitar's volume and tone controls. So many of the performance-based mods White uses in his own shows make an appearance on this instrument in some form, so for fans of White, there's quite a bit to take in. This guitar ships with a Fender Vintage Style Black hardshell case featuring white end caps, a yellow Fender badge and an amber interior.
As a limited edition piece, White's personality as a musician quickly comes to light in the Triplecaster. With this collaboration, Fender matches White's boundless imagination and captures it as a capsule of his colorful musical fascinations.
