The Fender Richie Kotzen Stratocaster is made in Japan and features a contoured ash body with a stunning figured maple top, and comes with DiMarzio pickups and Gotoh tuners. Image 4 of 6 ...

W e don’t often feature the fruits of Fender’s renowned Custom Shop here for the simple reason that nearly all the guitars it ...

Fender unveils DiMarzio-loaded Strat and Jazz Bass for Khruangbin’s Mark Speer and Laura Lee; Image 1 of 4. Like the rest of the series, the Flame Maple Top Stratocaster is a limited-edition release, ...

The Fender American Ultra II Stratocaster is a fantastic music machine! With locking tuners, a comfy D-shape neck, a 10" - 14" compound radius, and balanced feel. ... Quartersawn Maple; ...

Fender Stratocaster celebrates 70 years in style with special edition guitars. T3. ... (£2649) has a two-piece ash body and one-piece maple neck, with 1954 single-coil Strat pickups. Finally, ...

Crucially, they haven’t tried to reinvent the iconic silhouette, and for good reason. The classic double cutaway was ...

The Fender Vintera ’60s Stratocaster is certainly a nice guitar and I enjoyed playing it. The tones are nice and the new pickups do a decent job of giving you that ’60s tone.

The Stratocaster was born in 1954. Fender's customers loved the Tele but requested some spec tweaks. They wanted an extra pickup, a more comfortably contoured body, and a vibrato unit. Rather than ...

The AVRI2 '57's 10-gauge strings sit high above the 7 1/4-inch radius maple fretboard with its 21 low-profile vintage frets. ... I reckon Leo Fender could rest easy if the Stratocaster was his ...

Fender has now released two sets of anniversary models, four of which were available last year. As of now, models include the 70th Anniversary Vintera II Antigua Stratocaster, the 70th Anniversary ...

Richie Kotzen’s signature Stratocaster was one of those instances where the Japanese market is treated to a super-cool Fender electric guitar that the rest of the world wants and wants badly ...

I haven’t gotten to try the rosewood model, but I love the maple necks on these new Strats. ... Fender American Professional II Stratocaster. Rating: 9/10. $1,840 at Amazon.