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hi again everyone welcome to another video from 2tu Guitars and this week

we're gonna feature one of my favourite guitars

it's the American-made Fender Highway 1 Telecaster

season's greetings to all this video was going out just after Christmas 2018 so I hope you all had a

very Merry Christmas best wishes to all and good luck for 2019

so back to the video here we have a 2006 American-made Fender Highway 1 Telecaster

the Highway 1 series was Fender's most affordable USA made range of guitars they were brought

out in the early 2000s and they lasted until 2010

they were replaced in the Fender catalog by the American Special series which has recently had the revamp

and is now called the Fender American Performer series

the Highway 1 series went through one complete revision during its time in catalog and that was around 2006

it has a alder body with a daphne blue finish and the finish has a satin

feel to it so that once it's been played it ages along with the guitar

it has a three ply white pickguard two hot vintage style single coil Telecaster pickups

with Alnico 3 magnets a vintage style three saddle chrome bridge the

usual Telecaster controls master volume master tone and a 3-way selector switch

as is usual for a Telecaster the jack input is side mounted to the body

we have through body stringing and we have a four bolt blank neckplate

the neck is made of maple it has a maple fingerboard and 22 Jumbo style frets

the scale length of the guitar is the usual twenty five and a half inches for a Fender

and the fretboard radius is nine and a half inches it's a modern C shape neck profile

the position inlays are black dot and it has a synthetic bone nut which is 42 millimeters wide

we have one string tree and a 70 Style Fender Telecaster logo

we have the serial number on the back with six Fender cast sealed tuners

next we'll give a little introduction to the pickup's will do each position in turn

on the 3-way selector switch and we'll start off with the neck pickup

[guitar playing]

so that was the neck people and now we'll go to the middle position which is the

neck and bridge pickups together

[guitar playing]

so that was the middle position and that was the neck and bridge pickups together

and now we'll go to the final position which is the bridge pickup on its own

[guitar playing]

so that was the bridge pickup and that was just a little introduction to the

pickups and the positions on the 3-way selector switch

so that's the 2006 Fender Highway 1 Telecaster

an alder body with a daphne blue finish

three ply white pickguard

vintage style Telecaster bridge with three chrome saddles

usual Telecaster controls master volume master tone and 3-way selector switch

it has two hot vintage single coil Telecaster pickups with Alnico 3 magnets

the jack input is side mounted to the body and we have through body stringing and a blank four bolt neckplate

the neck is made of maple it has 22 jumbo style frets a modern C shape neck profile

nine and a half inch fingerboard radius a scale length of twenty five and a half

inches a synthetic bone nut 42 millimeters wide

and black dots position inlays

a Fender 70 style Telecaster logo with one string tree

the serial number is on the back and we have six cast sealed tuners

I hope you've enjoyed this quick look at the 2006 Fender Highway 1 Telecaster

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and I hope you'll join us again soon for another video from 2tu Guitars

until then it's bye for now

For more infomation >> Fender Highway One Telecaster Review & Demo - Duration: 7:47.

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Trump makes unannounced visit to US troops in Iraq US news - Duration: 1:53.

Trump makes unannounced visit to US troops in Iraq US news

Trip comes one week after president stunned advisers with announcement he would withdraw troops from Syria

Trip comes one week after president stunned advisers with announcement he would withdraw troops from Syria

Donald Trump has made an unannounced visit to Iraq, leaving behind a partially shuttered US government to greet American troops.

The visit comes a week after the president stunned his national security advisers by announcing that he would withdraw US troops from neighboring Syria, where they have been fighting Islamic State militants.

The defense secretary, Jim Mattis, abruptly resigned following the announcement, and Trump's decision rattled allies around the world, including in Iraq.

Trump's trip was shrouded in secrecy. Air Force One flew overnight from Washington, landing at an airbase west of Baghdad under the cover of darkness Wednesday evening. It is his first visit with troops stationed in a troubled region.

Fifteen years after the 2003 invasion, the US still has more than 5,000 troops in Iraq supporting the government as it continues the fight against remaining pockets of resistance by Isis. Isis has lost a significant amount of territory in Iraq and Syria but is still seen as a threat.

Trump, who speaks often about his support for the US military, had faced criticism for not yet visiting US troops stationed in harm's way as he comes up on his two-year mark in office. He told The Associated Press in an interview in October that he "will do that at some point, but I don't think it's overly necessary". He later began to signal that such a troop visit was in the offing.

Trump had planned to spend Christmas at his private club in Florida, but stayed behind in Washington due to the shutdown. It's unclear whether his trip to Iraq was added after it became apparent that the government would be shut down indefinitely due to a stalemate between Trump and congressional Democrats over the president's demand for a wall along the US-Mexico border.