Tone… Tradition… Innovation. Fender’s new American Deluxe Stratocaster has all the modern features today’s guitarists require. A compound radius fretboard allows effortless string bending anywhere along the neck, and new N3 Noiseless(TM) pickups provide improved Stratocaster tones for sparkling bell-like chime with no hum. Reconfigured S-1(TM) switching offers other distinctive tonal options; other features include staggered locking tuners, two-point synchronized American Deluxe tremolo bridge with pop-in arm, and beveled neck heel.

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Feature:
The American Deluxe Strat’s components are top shelf. The locking/staggered tuners will definitely help with tuning etc. In fact, I blocked my old American Standard’s tremolo but my new Strat seems to be much more stable and I can bend strings without the tremolo changing the pitch of the other strings.

Quality:
see Features above

Value:
Price seems to be in line with other price increases over the years. My last American Std Strat cost about $500 20 years ago

Desirability:
I love the wood grain visible with the Amber finish

Sound:
I was very pleased with my new American Deluxe Strat. The low action makes it a breeze to play, the N3 noiseless PUs are just that (noiseless) and S1 switching adds a bunch of new sounds to the Strat’s palette

Ease of Use:
see Sound above

Support:
I have not required any service but I’m going to assume that it would be prompt etc based on the promptness of the delivery

Overall:
Hopefully another 20 years….I’ll really be old by that time but if I’m still around I hope I’ll still be jammin

Guitarist Dave Murray of seminal U.K. metal heroes Iron Maiden has been banging his head with Fender since the mid ’70s. Murray recently joined forces with Fender to create a signature model based on his own ’57 Stratocaster, previously owned by late, great Free guitarist Paul Kossoff. The Dave Murray Stratocaster guitar boasts a supercharged HSH configuration–a DiMarzio(R) PAF(R) 36th Anniversary DP103 neck pickup, a DiMarzio(R) Super Distortion(R) DP100 bridge pickup and a Fender vintage-style middle pickup. Other features include a lacquer finish, and a flatter soft V-shaped neck with satin back. Vintage tweed hardshell case included.

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Fender’s Nashville B-Bender Telecaster guitar was inspired by the customized instruments of top Nashville players, and produces those plaintive country bends and spine-tingling steel guitar glissandos. The Fender American Nashville B-Bender model features a Texas Special Stratocaster pickup in the middle position, five-way Strat-o-Tele(TM) switching, and the B-Bender string bending system, which puts those beguiling pedal steel licks right at your fingertips.

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G.E. Smith is a guitarist’s guitarist, from his varied stints with Hall & Oates, Bob Dylan and David Bowie to his decade-long tenure as Saturday Night Live bandleader to his status as a collector of fine instruments. Fender proudly collaborated with Smith on his signature Telecaster guitar, which was inspired by old Fender lap steels and which features a large neck shape, custom inlays and body-mounted bridge pickup.

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There is no greater example of guitar hero Eric Johnson’s devotion to his art than his new signature model Stratocaster guitar. With singular attention to detail, the new Eric Johnson Stratocaster RW features a two-piece alder body finished in thin-skin nitrocellulose lacquer, a quartersawn maple neck with bound round-laminated 12 inch-radius rosewood fretboard, a three-ply parchment pickguard, pickups voiced by Johnson himself, staggered vintage-style tuners, a custom tremolo block, and four brand-new finish options, three of which (Lucerne Aqua Firemist, Tropical Turquoise and Medium Palomino Metallic) are exclusive to this model. Deluxe blonde hardshell case included.

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The rich history of Fender guitars begins with the Telecaster, an enduring marvel of form and function; of style and substance. Still elegantly simple after six decades, it is the versatile voice of remarkably diverse and creative players worldwide.

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Features include an alder body with gloss urethane finish, 9.5″-radius maple neck, jumbo frets, Texas Special(TM) pickups, and vintage-style three-brass-saddle strings-through-body Telecaster bridge. The American Special Series–guitars for the times.

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Feature:
It’s a Tele, so it’s pretty basic as it should be. I don’t mind it not coming with a case, because I prefer gig bags. But the one fender provides is kind of low end, if this is a deluxe bag, then the basic bags must be made by Hefty.

Quality:
Perfect set up from the factory, intonation was dead on, even with the barrel saddles. I’ve owned american standards, that did’nt come set up this nice from the factory. Very impressed.

Value:
I think it’s better than the American standards. They can keep the case, this is a better guitar period

Desirability:
nice and simple.

Sound:
The bridge pickup is great, but I’m most impressed with the neck pickup. I have never cared for the neck pickups on a Tele, so I was surprised at how good this one is.

Ease of Use:
It really is a great Tele.

Support:
hope I never have a need for support.

Overall:
Best Tele I’ve ever owned. And I’ve owned many.

Fender introduces the American Special Series Stratocaster HSS. Everything you want in an affordable U.S.-made guitar is within your reach.

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Feature:
22 Frets for great playing field and a neck as smooth as butter, the pickups are great a atomic Humbucker and two tex mex picks which i also have on my Tele sound great for lead yes lead or rythem can give u so many tones with the Greaesbucket tone circuit.

Quality:
no problem out of the box and it feels just right not to much weight and a soil feeling put togeather ax.

Value:
Fender will find that yeses will only increse in value over the next few years.

Desirability:
every guitar player should grab one before the price goes up.

Sound:
Sounds great as i have allwats said the wood fender uses for it guitars is worth every cent and produce guitras, that age with a great sound love them.

Support:
had a dume question and fender answered me withn 24 hours on a thing i made a mistake on and they are there to answer your questions even ones i should have know if i had just read the care for your guitar.

Overall:
I would say this was the guitar along with my fender nashville deluxe are all guitars i will nmeed for a long time, I just wished ZZounds would carry fender roland ready guitars try and get these please;

Fender introduces the American Special Series Stratocaster. Everything you want in an affordable U.S.-made guitar is within your reach.

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Feature:
nothing special for the simple reason it copies the Brilliant highway one strat. doesnt have its own features other than the texas special pick ups and they suck! they are not in the same leage at all as the Brilliant Alnico III pu’s that are in the highway one sss strats.

Quality:
i ranke it low because it just doesnt have its own voice its mostly a copy of another strat.

Value:
its not worth a damm to me

Sound:
it’s simply a half assed version of the legendary highway one sss strat. doesnt have the tone versatilty or sustain the highway one sss strat has.personaly theres nothing classic when it comes to tone with the american special strat. its a waste of wood and money.

Overall:
its nothing more but a half assed version of the Brilliant highway one sss strat period end of story.

Special features of the Thurston Moore Jazzmaster include two Seymour Duncan(R) Antiquity II(TM) for Jazzmaster pickups, two-piece black anodized pickguard, American Vintage Jazzmaster tremolo with Adusto-Matic(TM) bridge and tremolo lock button, single master volume control, and a Forest Green Transparent satin nitrocellulose lacquer finish and black-painted headstock, plus a Sonic Youth ‘zine and sticker sheet.

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