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Fender -American Vintage '56 Stratocaster - Aged White Blonde

Description

The American Vintage series introduces an all-new lineup of original-era model year guitars that bring Fender history and heritage to authentic and exciting new life. With key features and pivotal design elements spanning the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s, new American Vintage series instruments delve deep into Fender's rootsexpertly preserving an innovative U.S. guitar-making legacy and vividly demonstrating like never before that Fender not only knows where it's going, but also remembers where it came from.

The American Vintage Series has long presented some of Fender's best selling guitars (their early-'80s introduction, in fact, was one of the first signs that Fender was "back" as the CBS era ended). Today, Fender has boldly cleared the slate to make way for a fresh American Vintage series with new features, new specs and the most meticulous level of vintage accuracy yet. Rather than just replacing the previous models with different ones, we've completely and comprehensively re-imagined the entire vintage-reissue conceptrestoring original tooling dies, voicing new pickups, reformulating vintage colors and morebased on actual vintage guitars we tracked down to make sure we had it right. We did the work, and it shows, because there's pure tonal magic in each new American Vintage instrument.

The American Vintage '56 Stratocaster takes you straight back to mid-1956, when the model was still new and when what is quite possibly the most prized and popular neck ever affixed to the instrument first appeareda thick one-piece maple neck with a soft "V" shape and comfortably rounded edges. Such meticulous authenticity even extends to the single-ply white pickguard with eight holes, lightweight alder body (ash on White Blonde) with deep contours, and vintage-accurate pickups, bridge saddles, tuner spacing and more.

BODY
Body Material: Alder
Body Shape: Stratocaster
Body Finish: Fender Flash Coat Lacquer

NECK
Neck Shape: Thick Soft "V"
Number of Frets: 21
Fret Size: Vintage-Style
Position Inlays: Dot
Fingerboard: Maple
Fingerboard Radius: 7.25" (184.1 mm)
Neck Material: Maple
Neck Finish: Fender Flash Coat Lacquer
Nut Width: 1.650" (42 mm)
Scale Length: 25.5" (648 mm)
Truss Rods: Vintage-Style Heel Adjust
Truss Rod Nut: Vintage-Style Slotted

ELECTRONICS
Pickup Configuration: SSS
Bridge Pickup: American Vintage Single-Coil '56 Strat
Middle Pickup: American Vintage Single-Coil '56 Strat
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
Controls: Master Volume, Tone 1. (Neck Pickup), Tone 2. (Bridge/Middle Pickup)

HARDWARE
Hardware Finish: Chrome/Nickel-Plated Steel
Bridge: 6-Saddle American Vintage Synchronized Tremolo
String Nut:Bone
Tuning Machines:Single Line "Fender Deluxe" Vintage Style

MISCELLANEOUS
Strings: Fender USA 250R NPS, (.010-.046 Gauges)
Unique Features: Mid-'56 thick maple neck with soft "V profile and comfortably rolled edges-one of the most popular Fender neck styles ever; All-new pickups wound to period-correct specs and sound; Vintage-accurate bridge saddles and tuner spacing
Pickguard: 1-Ply White
Control Knobs: White Plastic