In this video from Fender, John 5 talks about the Fender Telecaster Ultra II. He says:

I loved television. I just was obsessed with TV and my dad would always watch Hee-Haw, and everybody had a Telecaster. And I always thought, 'Oh, that's what an electric guitar looks like.' It burned into my mind as a Telecaster. And that was that was what it was for me. And it was all because of TV. So you never know when influence is going to hit you and how much it will affect your life. And how it affects my life still to this day. You know, thank God for the Telecaster, 'cause I don't know what I'd be playing.

The genius about the Telecaster, if you think about it, nothing really has changed from all these years. You know, they got it so right in the beginning. But now you have this beautiful high-performance Telecaster that can do everything. It's just it it really you can go on stage with the highest gain or the cleanest tone, and this guitar will absolutely do anything you want. It feels perfect and it's so easy to play. It's just one of the greatest Teles I've held.

When I first picked up this guitar, I was blown away by how easy it was to play and how it just felt really comfortable to me. And the first thing I felt was the Contour back here. And when I started playing also the incredible cutaway here that felt just so comfortable. And again, on most Teles you don't get that, but you can get have such easy access way way way way way up in the neck. You can bend this guitar and it does not fret out. It's the radius and that's what's so cool. I mean, you can bend as far as your hand will let you go. Just does not fret out. And that is this beautiful radius. And you have this nice round feel up here and then it gets flatter up the neck so you can just really bend those notes and it just does not fret out. Things like that which, guitar players it's so important, so important with weather changes and stuff like that. You know, your guitar will start to fret out, but this thing is just incredible. You can bend it as much as you can and it's just sounds perfect.

Another thing, if this guitar wasn't top top top super cool, is the dots here on the side of the neck glow in thee dark like Luminlay and like I've been on every stage I've been on I'm like trying to like look and stuff and I'm just using the Jedi mind force and just hopefully I'm hitting the right notes but with these that glow in-the-dark it is you know what more could you ask for, it's amazing. I love these locking tuners here and because most of my guitars don't have a tremolo I do a lot of stuff behind the nut and bending it having these locking tuners on here is just a godsend. You can really go crazy on it and you will always be in tune and how brilliant is that.

Another really cool thing about this is the S1 switch here which is super super smart because it's in the top of the volume knob. Now this will control both pickups in series also in any position which is super cool, so it will work in any position which is pretty incredible to me. Okay, this is something that's so smart. You have your pickup selector at a slant. It's absolutely brilliant. Any Telecaster picker can totally agree with me cause you're picking like this, okay, you're picking like this and when that toggle switch was that way you're 100% hitting that you're hitting that pickup selector so this slant here has got to be the smartest thing ever. It's just like putting the plastic ends onto a a shoelace or something. What a smart idea.

What's really special about this guitar and I would say probably my favorite thing about the guitar are the pickups. Now I'm playing with high gain and you know there's noise and all that stuff, but with these noiseless vintage pickups you don't get any of that hum, you don't get any of that 60 cycle hum, and you can do that with these pickups. They're absolutely brilliant. So yeah, you get no noise and no 60 cycle hum from these noisless vintage pickups from the Ultra 2. It's incredible.

Here's the deal. I'm being honest. This is to me just the incredible incredible guitar and I would definitely pick this over a 60s, 70s Telecaster just because of all of the upgrades, the S1 switch, the side toggle, I the side pickup selector, the glow-in-the-dark inlays, the the locking tuners, the contour, the cutaway, I mean the noiseless pickups. It is the perfect Telecaster in my eyes.

In a video from IV's Instagram account, IV's guitar tech, Billy, confirms that Vessel plays the song "Missing Limbs" on a Fender American Ultra II Telecaster Electric Guitar, which was gifted to the band by Fender during their 2023-2024 "Teeth of God" tour. The guitar is visible about halfway through the video.

Shutoku Mukai uses the Fender American Ultra II Telecaster, as evidenced by its appearance during the ZAZEN BOYS performance at the Fender Flagship Tokyo presentation. This guitar, in Avalanche color, has been consistently seen in various photos from concerts since June 2025, including performances such as "ZAZEN BOYS × PEDRO" on April 11, 2025, at Shibuya CLUB QUATTRO and "70号室の住人 LIVE!!!!" on August 9, 2025, with Perfume and ZAZEN BOYS. Further proof is provided by a live video from June 28, 2025, at Ebisu The Garden Hall, produced by THE PERMANENT PICTURES, showcasing Mukai with the guitar.

In an Instagram post by josemacariomusic, Jose Macario is seen using a Fender American Ultra II Telecaster, as evidenced in the caption where he mentions testing new equipment.