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The Fender Stratocaster is ubiquitous in the rock guitar world for a reason. The Strat has been an American icon since the 1950s, and it's the instrument of choice for countless rock n' roll pioneers ...

Join us on a trip through Fender's factory, Custom Shop, Master Builder department and head office, in celebration of a radically innovative instrument that continues to find new ways to move music ...

Over the last few years, Fender has gone back to the drawing board and re-imagined many of their most popular guitars, adding player requested specs to produce a factory-modded instrument, while still ...

In 1954, a guitar maker called Leo Fender introduced his second electric guitar, a companion to his 1950 Telecaster (originally Broadcaster). The new Stratocaster, drawn up with the help of musician ...

On the Elite Stratocaster, there is slightly deeper contouring, noticeably on the back rig-cage contour, and as before we have a compound-radius fingerboard with jumbo frets. Body wood is colour ...