Fender American Deluxe Stratocaster

Fender American Deluxe Stratocaster Electric Guitar

The Fender Stratocaster has been made continuously since 1954 in Fullerton California by Fender Musical Instruments.

In recent years they have been importing Stratocasters from Japan, Korea, and Mexico, and perhaps other foreign places. The American Stratocaster is still made in USA and if that's important to you, then this is the one you want.

The American Deluxe guitar is a classic Fender Stratocaster with extremely versatile pickup configurations and superior tones.

Standard features -

The Stratocaster Premium contoured alder body, In comparison with their Gibson rivals a much more comfortable body style.

The Stratocaster has a modern "C" neck shape with slick finish and hand-rolled edges and the neck and fretboard are one piece rock maple.

* 3 Fender SCN (Samarium Cobalt Noiseless) pickups
* 5-way pickup selector
* S-1 switching system
* Polished chrome hardware
* String-thru-body bridge with polished stainless steel saddles
* Deluxe die-cast Schaller machine heads with locking feature
* 22 medium-jumbo frets
* Schaller strap-lock ready
* Fender Tremelo or whammy bar, if you will

The guitar is very comfortable to play and the five way pickup selector switch gives each pickup separately and out of phase sounds from two pickups in each middle position. The eerie sounds of Jimi Hendrix's music was often played in with the switch in these middle positions. There is an S1 switch that allows another five pickup combinations than the standard five settings.

The Fender Deluxe American Strat comes in about half a dozen color combinations with various style pickguards. See the advertiser to view the various colors.

A highly playable guitar that brings Fender squarely into the 21st century.