Stratocaster

Fender American Standard Strat Left Handed Metallic Red, 2007

On December 17, 2018 /

The Fender American Standard Left Handed was built from 1987 to 2017, offering a blend of vintage and modern ideas – bent steel saddles and a fingerboard extension with larger frets. In general, the guitar showed improved build quality and hardware. The next step up from this model added locking tuners, a great idea for most guitars, and modern Fender locking tuners would fit directly on this guitar (a left handed set of course).

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Fender Custom Deluxe Custom Shop Stratocaster Blonde, 1999

On November 5, 2018 /

The Fender Custom Deluxe Stratocaster sourced from the Custom Shop and featured a combination of vintage features and modern components. For this example, a vintage style blonde finish on an Alder body, rosewood slab fingerboard on a birds-eye maple neck with 1965 profile were paired with locking tuners, 2-post modern bridge, and noiseless pickups.

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Fender Stratocaster Plus Maple and Black, 1991

On August 7, 2018 /

The Fender Stratocaster Plus was one of the key developments following the 1985 sale of Fender by CBS to its management, which didn’t include the historic Fullerton plant. The Strat Plus features Lace Sensor pickups, a Wilkinson roller nut and two-post trem bridge.

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Fender 25th Anniversary Stratocaster Faded Silver, 1979

On August 2, 2018 /

For 1979, the 25th Anniversary of the Fender Stratocaster’s 1954 introduction, Fender naturally wanted to release a commemorative model. It was first available in white, then the silver associated with 25th anniversaries, and finally also in a translucent red. Many of the silver finishes have yellowed to a gold colour, as can be seen here.

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Fender Eric Clapton Stratocaster ‘Blackie’, 2017

On July 30, 2018 /

The Fender Eric Clapton Stratocaster is based on ‘Blackie’, the 1950s Stratocaster used by Clapton for a lot of his post-Cream work. That particular guitar is put together from a 1956 body and 1957 neck, with some 50’s pickups and one 1970’s. The Blackie version body is Alder with a gloss black urethane finish, and the neck is a quite comfortable 1957 style soft V shape. The frets are thankfully a somewhat taller Vintage style. For electronics, a set of Vintage Noiseless single coil strat pickups is used.

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Fender Stratocaster Natural Finish, 1972

On July 23, 2018 /

For most of the time since its 1954 introduction, the Fender Stratocaster has been very popular and has been available in a myriad of colours, though natural has not always been one of them. The first versions were often sunburst or translucent white, but automotive based colour schemes followed quickly.

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Stratocaster

Fender American Standard Strat Left Handed Metallic Red, 2007

Fender Custom Deluxe Custom Shop Stratocaster Blonde, 1999

Fender Stratocaster Plus Maple and Black, 1991

Fender 25th Anniversary Stratocaster Faded Silver, 1979

Fender Eric Clapton Stratocaster ‘Blackie’, 2017

Fender Stratocaster Natural Finish, 1972

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