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The Blade Texas (TE-2) was introduced around 1997. Although the Blade Texas looks like a straight ahead strat copy - it has some additional features jumbo frets, staggered SG-36 tuners and built in active gain boost circuit (controlled by a microswitch on the pickguard). The FT-3 tremolo has specially designed roller saddles to increase tuning stability and sustain. I believe these were available with 3 Levinson VS-1 single coils with a white pickguard, or as HSS configuration with a black pickguard. The Texas was available with a Fender style vintage headstock - but not on models distributed in the USA for legal reasons - these had the Blade style headstock. By 2005 the Texas Standard had been replaced by the Texas Standard Pro model, with newly designed VSC electronics.
Specifications (23)
Body
Body material | alder body |
Body shape features | double cutaway |
Body style | Stratocaster style |
Pickguard material | white pickguard |
Hardware
Bridge | Levinson FT-3 tremolo |
Hardware color | chrome hardware |
Electronics
Circuit functions | gain boost electronics |
Pickups brand and model | Levinson V-1 pickup(s) |
Pickups configuration | 3 single coil pickups |
Fretboard
Fingerboard material | maple fingerboard |
Fingerboard position markers | dot fingerboard position markers |
General
Finish colors | Three tone sunburst, black finish, blue finish, green finish, red finish, white finish |
Finish effects | sunburst finish |
Number of strings | 6 strings |
Scale length | 25.5 inches scale-length |
Neck
Neck joint | bolt on neck |
Neck material | maple neck |
Number of frets | 22 fret |
Nut | graphite nut |
Tuner layout | six-in-a-row tuners |
Controls
Pickup selector controls | 5-way selector switch |
Tone controls | 1 tone control |
Volume controls | 1 volume control |