US Fat Tele

The US Fat Tele is an electric guitar made by Fender Musical Instruments. It was introduced in 1998 and discontinued in 2003, replaced by the S1-equipped American Series Telecaster HS and HH.

This guitar replaced the California Fat Telecaster of 1997. It was renamed Hot Rodded American Fat Tele in 2001 and upgraded with a "rolled edge" neck, detailed nut and fret treatment and a non-veneered alder body with a sharper '52-style body radius.

The US Fat Tele featured an alder body, a 1-piece maple neck with maple or rosewood fingerboard and 22 medium-jumbo frets; Fender/Schaller deluxe die-cast machine heads; master volume/tone controls and a white shell pickguard. It came factory hot-rodded with a DeltaTone bridge single coil, a Fender DH-1 neck humbucker and a super 5-way switch delivering all the traditional Telecaster tones as well as new humbucking tones previously unavailable from a stock guitar.

From 2001 until its discontinuation in 2003, the US Fat Tele was available only with a rosewood fingerboard.