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Fender® is currently one of the premier electric guitar manufacturers out there. The instrument manufacturing aspect of the company had its beginnings in 1946 when Leo Fender began building them. However, the company actually started in 1938 and was called Fender's Radio Services. He was actually a skilled technician who repaired radios, phonograph players, amplifiers, and other electronic instruments.
His experience repairing amplifiers actually marked the beginning of the Fender® manufacturer as we know it today. As a technician he had first hand knowledge of the design problems and issues. He began building his own amps in an effort to solve some of these problems.
He then partnered with Clayton Orr Kauffman to form a company called K & F Manufacturing Corp. which specialized in various electric devices and instruments (they made and designed them as well as sold them). Together they created an electric Hawaiian steel guitar. It was shortly after this that Fender and Kauffman had different visions for the business. Kauffman wanted to focus more on repair and Fender wanted to focus on the design aspect. This is when Fender started his company, the Fender Electric Instrument Manufacturing Corporation and is now called the Fender Musical Instruments Corporation.
Fender® played a huge role in creating solid body guitars and making them widely available. One of their most popular models, the Fender® Stratocaster, or "Strat" for short was the first electric guitar with a solid body. Each year, they expand on their current guitar line while still making those old favorites available.
Now, there are over 26 styles of Fender® electric guitars available. The Stratocaster line has expanded to include special series modeled after celebrity artists such as David Gilmour of Pink Floyd, Eric Clapton, Eric Johnson, and Stevie Ray Vaughn. Other models include other Stratocaster models, the Toronado, the Jazzmaster, the Bronco, and the Mustang. For a complete list, visit the official Fender® website.
Fender® also boasts a list of artists who play their electric guitars. These include Sting, Eric Johnson, the late Stevie Ray Vaughn, Yngwie Malmstein, Roscoe Beck, and Robert Cray. For a complete list of artists and their profiles you can visit the Fender® website.
Here is what some users have to say about their Fender® guitars:
Fender '62 Stratocaster Reissue
The tone is fantastic. you really get those screaming highs and the piano like projection of the low strings is gorgeous. through my line 6 flextone II amp it's just a HUGE tone. great looks. great neck, great pickups, no shoddy parts anywhere! refreshing at this price. its an utterly brilliant package and it's the business. epiphone, ibanez...they cant rival this. great super 250's strings. oh yeah...free deluxe gig bag too...winner!
Fender Deluxe Fat Strat
I love the array of sounds. The texas special pickups are hot, and between the 5 pickup combinations with a little tweaking on the tone adjustment, i can't think of a tone you can't get out of this guitar. The neck is smooth, and construction is solid. The Floyd Rose tremelo is easy to make quick tune adjustments with...
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Used Squier Double Fat Stratocaster Hh Champaigne $149.99 In Store Used USED SQUIER DOUBLE FAT STRATOCASTER HH CHAMPAIGNE |
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Used Fender Fat Stratocaster Usa Red $899.99 In Store Used USED FENDER FAT STRATOCASTER USA RED |
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Stratocaster $29.99 Gordon Powles Stratocaster - Photographic Print |
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Fender Stratocaster Electric Guitar Pickup Blue White $59.95 The Fender Lace Sensor Stratocaster guitar pickup offers high output with low noise and incredible response and sustain. Gold model offers crisp top end and glassy bell-like tones. The silver pickup is designed for higher output and it has more pronounced midrange tone like a Fender Fat Strat. The blue Stratocaster pickup is warmer with a '50s humbucker sound. The red version delivers extreme output, hot humbucker pickup sound. The Fender Lace Sensor Stratocaster pickups are available with black or white covers. |
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Fender Stratocaster Electric Guitar Pickup Silver White $59.95 The Fender Lace Sensor Stratocaster guitar pickup offers high output with low noise and incredible response and sustain. Gold model offers crisp top end and glassy bell-like tones. The silver pickup is designed for higher output and it has more pronounced midrange tone like a Fender Fat Strat. The blue Stratocaster pickup is warmer with a '50s humbucker sound. The red version delivers extreme output, hot humbucker pickup sound. The Fender Lace Sensor Stratocaster pickups are available with black or white covers. |
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Fender Stratocaster Electric Guitar Pickup Red White $59.95 The Fender Lace Sensor Stratocaster guitar pickup offers high output with low noise and incredible response and sustain. Gold model offers crisp top end and glassy bell-like tones. The silver pickup is designed for higher output and it has more pronounced midrange tone like a Fender Fat Strat. The blue Stratocaster pickup is warmer with a '50s humbucker sound. The red version delivers extreme output, hot humbucker pickup sound. The Fender Lace Sensor Stratocaster pickups are available with black or white covers. |
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Fender Stratocaster Electric Guitar Pickup Gold White $59.95 The Fender Lace Sensor Stratocaster guitar pickup offers high output with low noise and incredible response and sustain. Gold model offers crisp top end and glassy bell-like tones. The silver pickup is designed for higher output and it has more pronounced midrange tone like a Fender Fat Strat. The blue Stratocaster pickup is warmer with a '50s humbucker sound. The red version delivers extreme output, hot humbucker pickup sound. The Fender Lace Sensor Stratocaster pickups are available with black or white covers. |
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Used Fender Stratocaster Electric Guitar Pickup Silver White $52.16 The Fender Lace Sensor Stratocaster guitar pickup offers high output with low noise and incredible response and sustain. Gold model offers crisp top end and glassy bell-like tones. The silver pickup is designed for higher output and it has more pronounced midrange tone like a Fender Fat Strat. The blue Stratocaster pickup is warmer with a '50s humbucker sound. The red version delivers extreme output, hot humbucker pickup sound. The Fender Lace Sensor Stratocaster pickups are available with black or white covers. |
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Fat $6 Fat - Patton Oswalt |
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Fender Highway One Stratocaster Electric Guitar $729.99 The American-made Fender Highway One Stratocaster is ready for the open road. Wide '70s headstock, fat frets, scorching alnico pickups, upgraded vintage-style bridge, and super-light nitro satin finish make this electric guitar a real hot rod. Also features an alder body, C-shaped maple neck, and Greasebucket tone circuit.Check the drop-down menu to the right to select colors and/or other options.Alder bodyC-shaped maple neckRosewood or maple fretboard3 single-coil pickups with Alnico III magnetsReverse-wound, reverse-polarity middle pickupVintage-style 2-point trem |
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Roland Vg Stratocaster Electric Guitar Black $1299 Roland rewrote guitar-tech history with the debut of COSM technology, which first appeared on the pioneering VG-8 guitar-modeling system. Today, the new G-5 infuses a coveted Fender Stratocaster with advanced features realized by Rolands COSM technology. In addition to offering all classic Stratocaster sounds and functionality, the G-5 provides a new world of electric and acoustic guitar tones recreated by COSM including instantly accessible alternate tunings and 12-string sounds for all COSM guitar tones! The G-5 also offers a built-in library of coveted modeled pickup tones, and, thanks to COSM technology, also enables unique ideal-performance pickups, such as a humbucker with ultra-wide tone and a single coil with full, bold tone.Stratocaster with VG engineBorn through a combination of Roland's latest guitar modeling technology and Fender's traditional Stratocaster, the G-5 is a guitar overflowing with creative possibilities. With COSM guitar modeling onboard, the G-5 lets you create custom instruments virtually, including different guitar body shapes, pickup types, and tunings. COSM is what allows this guitar to reproduce the sounds of a Telecaster in perfect detail, or humbucker pickups, or acoustic guitars. COSM can also take you to creative places never imagined, into sonic realms that have been impossible to reach with traditional electric guitars.Divided pickup dramatically enhances expressionIn addition to normal Stratocaster pickups, this model comes with divided pickup that realizes new possibilities for guitar. This pickup transmits signals from each string individually, and is capable of accurately capturing performance information for each individual string. In addition to capturing the performance techniques and nuances characteristic of guitars, such as bending, vibrato, and hammering, the divided pickup also enables an entirely new level of performance through COSM.From traditional guitar sounds to the unimaginedThe G-5 comes with five different modes: Normal Stratocaster, Modeled Stratocaster, Telecaster, Humbucking Pickups, and Acoustic. With its five-way switch, you can create tonal variations with different pickup combinations from any of these modes. In addition, the G-5 enables tonal options that are not available on traditional electric guitars, including Wide Range (which gives you a fat tone while maintaining the wide range of single coil pickups) and Bright Humbucker (that delivers highs that cut through while maintaining the rich mids and lows hat are characteristic of humbuckers). You can also enjoy the sounds of Jazz Guitar and Electric Sitar in acoustic mode, all from a single guitar!G-5 Tone ListN - Normal StratocasterNeck (single coil); Neck + Middle (single coil); Middle (single coil); Bridge + Middle (single coil); Bridge (single coil)S - Modeled StratocasterNeck (single coil); Neck + Middle (single coil); Middle (single coil); Bridge + Middle (single coil); Bridge (single coil)T- TelecasterNeck (wide range); |
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Roland Vg Stratocaster Electric Guitar Sunburst $1299 Roland rewrote guitar-tech history with the debut of COSM technology, which first appeared on the pioneering VG-8 guitar-modeling system. Today, the new G-5 infuses a coveted Fender Stratocaster with advanced features realized by Rolands COSM technology. In addition to offering all classic Stratocaster sounds and functionality, the G-5 provides a new world of electric and acoustic guitar tones recreated by COSM including instantly accessible alternate tunings and 12-string sounds for all COSM guitar tones! The G-5 also offers a built-in library of coveted modeled pickup tones, and, thanks to COSM technology, also enables unique ideal-performance pickups, such as a humbucker with ultra-wide tone and a single coil with full, bold tone.Stratocaster with VG engineBorn through a combination of Roland's latest guitar modeling technology and Fender's traditional Stratocaster, the G-5 is a guitar overflowing with creative possibilities. With COSM guitar modeling onboard, the G-5 lets you create custom instruments virtually, including different guitar body shapes, pickup types, and tunings. COSM is what allows this guitar to reproduce the sounds of a Telecaster in perfect detail, or humbucker pickups, or acoustic guitars. COSM can also take you to creative places never imagined, into sonic realms that have been impossible to reach with traditional electric guitars.Divided pickup dramatically enhances expressionIn addition to normal Stratocaster pickups, this model comes with divided pickup that realizes new possibilities for guitar. This pickup transmits signals from each string individually, and is capable of accurately capturing performance information for each individual string. In addition to capturing the performance techniques and nuances characteristic of guitars, such as bending, vibrato, and hammering, the divided pickup also enables an entirely new level of performance through COSM.From traditional guitar sounds to the unimaginedThe G-5 comes with five different modes: Normal Stratocaster, Modeled Stratocaster, Telecaster, Humbucking Pickups, and Acoustic. With its five-way switch, you can create tonal variations with different pickup combinations from any of these modes. In addition, the G-5 enables tonal options that are not available on traditional electric guitars, including Wide Range (which gives you a fat tone while maintaining the wide range of single coil pickups) and Bright Humbucker (that delivers highs that cut through while maintaining the rich mids and lows hat are characteristic of humbuckers). You can also enjoy the sounds of Jazz Guitar and Electric Sitar in acoustic mode, all from a single guitar!G-5 Tone ListN - Normal StratocasterNeck (single coil); Neck + Middle (single coil); Middle (single coil); Bridge + Middle (single coil); Bridge (single coil)S - Modeled StratocasterNeck (single coil); Neck + Middle (single coil); Middle (single coil); Bridge + Middle (single coil); Bridge (single coil)T- TelecasterNeck (wide range); |
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Fender Fat '50s Strat Pickup Set $169.95 The Fender Fat '50s Strat Pickup Set gives you calibrated pickups constructed with hand-beveled, staggered Alnico V magnets and Formvar magnet wire. '50s Strat Pickups deliver enhanced bass response without the harsh midrange. The middle pickup is reverse wound/reverse polarity for hum canceling in positions 2 and 4. OEM on Custom Shop Fender Showmaster series Stratocaster guitars.Hand-beveled, staggered Alnico V magnetsFormvar magnet wireReverse-wound middle pickup |
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Fender Fat '50S Strat Pickup Set $169.95 The Fender Fat '50s Strat Pickup Set gives you calibrated pickups constructed with hand-beveled, staggered Alnico V magnets and Formvar magnet wire. '50s Strat Pickups deliver enhanced bass response without the harsh midrange. The middle pickup is reverse wound/reverse polarity for hum canceling in positions 2 and 4. OEM on Custom Shop Fender Showmaster series Stratocaster guitars.Hand-beveled, staggered Alnico V magnetsFormvar magnet wireReverse-wound middle pickup |
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Fender Stratocaster Backplate Black $11.99 Fender Stratocaster Backplate Black |
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Hal Leonard The Fender Stratocaster $15.95 Hal Leonard The Fender Stratocaster |
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Fat Music For Fat People $5.99 Fat Music For Fat People |
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Fender Highway One Stratocaster Electric Guitar 3-Tone Sunburst Maple Fretboard $729.99 The American-made Fender Highway One Stratocaster is ready for the open road. Wide '70s headstock, fat frets, scorching alnico pickups, upgraded vintage-style bridge, and super-light nitro satin finish make this electric guitar a real hot rod. Also features an alder body, C-shaped maple neck, and Greasebucket tone circuit.Check the drop-down menu to the right to select colors and/or other options.Alder bodyC-shaped maple neckRosewood or maple fretboard3 single-coil pickups with Alnico III magnetsReverse-wound, reverse-polarity middle pickupVintage-style 2-point trem |
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Fender American Standard Hss Stratocaster Electric Guitar $1049.99 The Fender American Standard Series Stratocaster HSS is a perfect electric guitar for players who like big, fat humbucker tone. Redesigned with improvements that include the modern C-shaped maple neck with glossed neck front and satin polyurethane finish on back for smooth playability. Bent steel Fender saddles with classic look and great tone. String spacing narrowed for modern playability, saddle height screws re-sized to reduce rough feel, and string slot on saddle elongated to reduce string friction or breakage. Custom staggered tuning machines eliminate the need for one of the string trees. Staggered pole pieces in the pickups provide balanced output across all strings, and specifically improves the G-string's tone. Two-point trem, rosewood or maple fretboard, and genuine Fender American craftsmanship add up to a Fat Strat style guitar that is a dream come true.The return of the American Standard Series Strat continues Fender's tradition of commitment to the people who play Fender instruments out there in the real world. Today's American Standard Stratocaster guitars are worthy heirs of their revered ancestors--mindful of player needs and taking full advantage of modern advances, yet remaining completely true to the elements and spirit that made these instruments legendary in the first place. Improvements include redesigned bridges, neck and body finishes, and a Fender-exclusive high-tech molded case. Still there are the beloved hand-rolled fingerboard edges, alnico V pickups and staggered tuning machines for tone and stability guaranteed to last a lifetime (with its limited lifetime warranty)! So make history with the redesigned American Standard!Redesigned American Standard Strat BridgeGives sought-after tone with modern smooth trem travel. Block retains the mass and tone of a vintage bridge block, but is chamfered for access to deeper dives. Saddles have the classic look and tone, but with modern improvements (spacing, slot elongation, height screw length).Bridge Component Specifics'American Standard' saddles- The original vintage-style Fender bent steel adjustable saddle is one of the components that give vintage Fenders their tonal 'mojo'. Fender conducted tone comparison tests, and fell in love with them all over again. They have a wider tonal range and more character many other saddles. Then Fender improved them; narrowing the spacing to afford more room (and complement the bigger frets and rolled edges), and also elongated the string slot to reduce friction and string breakage, while improving the string break angle over the primary contact point.'Tone-fusion' block- A typical cast bridge block is impregnated with a resin to eliminate 'voids' in the material and to bond it together this steel block is infused with copper, which makes the block 100% homogeneous metal. The result is a more musical, higher mass bridge that has more of that machined-block sound. Fender was also able to keep the same American Series profile for increased |



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