Fender Standard Stratocaster Electric Guitar Rosewood Fingerboard Black Includes Gig Bag

Item# 013-4600-306
List Price: $571.41
Your Price: $399.99
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Buddy Holly, Dick Dale, Jimi Hendrix, David Gilmour, Billy Corgan & The Standard Strat!
More than any other electric guitar, the Fender? Strat? is all guitars to all people.

Featuring a fast-action maple neck, gloss black finish, comfort-contoured body, three single-coil pickups and a standard synchronized tremolo, the Fender Stratocaster is known as both a working musician`s tool and as an international cultural icon.

The contoured alder body fits comfortably against your ribs enabling you to play for hours on end, add a three-ply pickguard, maple neck with rosewood fretboard, Two-point synchronized tremolo which is one of the best modern designs, and three single coil pickups that deliver all the "spank" and "sparkle" you`d expect from a Strat?,
and you have a guitar that?s adaptable to almost any musical situation.

The beauty of this guitar is the simplicity and practical engineering. The most amazing thing about this guitar is despite all the advancements in modern technology
No one has been able to top the basic design.

Leo Fender the ?Henry Ford? of guitars founded the first company to build a modular mass produced guitar.

Fender`s early instruments were revolutionary, and their introduction contributed to the birth of something now commonplace: the "musical group".

Live performances up to this era had relied upon large bands and orchestras to fill concert halls. Now, armed with the proper instruments, bands or groups consisting of only 3 or 4 musicians could perform large venues. The "Big Band" era began to fade as musicians began to discover the Fender electric guitar and Fender bass.

Released in 1954, Fender named his new creation the Stratocaster to invoke images of the high flying, supersonic jets filling America`s skies in the 1950`s.

The modern Standard Strat incorporates several refinements into its timeless design, like hand-rolled fingerboard edges, five-way switching and a two-point synchronized tremolo along with a very reasonable price.

Though the original Stratocaster was first introduced more than 50 years ago, it`s unquestionably more popular now than ever! It`s also available today in more configurations than Leo Fender ever dreamed of when he first designed it.

The original Strat had three single coil pickups, so it was able to produce sounds that no other guitar could deliver, particularly once players discovered they could lodge the three-position blade switch in those "in-between" positions to access neck / middle and bridge / middle pickup combinations.

These were often erroneously referred to as the "out-of-phase" settings. The Fender Standard Stratocaster comes with three sweet-sounding single coil pickups but with a five-position blade switch, making it a snap to access those glossy Strat sounds with a simple flick of the finger.

Leo Fender wasn`t afraid to "think outside the box" when it came to guitar designs and guitarists of the world sure are thankful!

Features:

Alder Body
Maple Neck, Modern ?C? Shape (Satin Polyurethane Finish)
Rosewood Fingerboard 9.5? Radius (241mm)
21 Medium Jumbo Frets
3 Standard Single-Coil Strat? Pickups (Ceramic Magnets)
Controls Master Volume, Tone 1. (Neck Pickup), Tone 2. (Middle Pickup)
Pickup Switching 5-Position Blade:
Position 1. Bridge Pickup
Position 2. Bridge and Middle Pickup
Position 3. Middle Pickup
Position 4. Middle and Neck Pickup
Position 5. Neck Pickup
Bridge: Vintage Style Synchronized Tremolo
Fender?/Ping? Standard Cast/Sealed Tuning Machines
Chrome Hardware
Scale Length 25.5? (648 mm)
Width at Nut 1.650? (42 mm)
Unique Features: Vintage Styling