The Fender Telecaster Deluxe is a solid-body electric guitar originally produced by Fender from 1972 to 1981. Designed to compete with Gibson's Les Paul as rock music grew heavier in the 1970s, the Deluxe differs from most Telecaster models by featuring two humbucker pickups, each with its own volume and tone controls, and a larger pickguard. The Deluxe failed to find an audience during its initial production run, but it became popular beginning in the 1990s among rock guitarists, especially in Britpop and indie, and Fender resumed production in 2004.
History
thumb|left|[[Alex Kapranos of Franz Ferdinand playing a Telecaster Deluxe.]]
The popularity of hard rock in the late 1960s led Fender to re-think its strategy of exclusively using single coil guitar pickups, The solidbody Deluxe launched the following year alongside the revamped Telecaster Custom, the latter of which now featured a Wide Range humbucker in the neck and a single-coil in the bridge position, compared to the Deluxe's pair of Wide Ranges.
These humbucker-equipped Telecasters, however, failed to draw many customers away from competition like Gibson's Les Paul model,
Multiple signature models based on the Telecaster Deluxe have been made by Fender, including for Deryck Whibley of Sum 41, John 5, Christone "Kingfish" Ingram, and Chris Shiflett of the Foo Fighters.