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Angled view of a candy tangerine American Deluxe Stratocaster HSS with the optional deluxe locking tremolo system. Fender also produced models with rear routed controls featuring flamed or quilted maple tops (FMT/QMT), gold hardware and bound necks with white pearloid rectangular block-shaped position markers from 2003 to 2007.
The pickups installed on Strat Plus guitars display "Fender Lace Sensor" on the cover. Later "post-Fender" versions sold by the Lace Music Co. have "Lace Sensor" embossed on the cover. The Gold Lace Sensor model was the pickup of choice for years by Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, and Buddy Guy on their Signature Series Stratocasters. The Strat Plus ...
The Stratocaster was the first Fender guitar to feature three pickups and a spring tension vibrato system, as well as being the first Fender with a contoured body. [9] The Stratocaster's sleek, contoured body shape (officially referred to by Fender as the "Original Contour Body" [ 10 ] [ 11 ] ) differed from the flat, squared edge design of the ...
The "'3000'" sported a HSS configuration on a Fender Stratocaster-type pickguard. The 6000 sported a HSS configuration, like the Kramer Pacer. earlier 6000 configurations had 3 individual switches for pickup switching, in 1988 Kramer switched to a regular 5-way lever switch. The other two guitars both sported two humbuckers and a Floyd Rose and ...
The Fender HM Strat was an electric guitar produced by Fender Musical Instruments from 1988 until 1992. A relatively radical departure from Leo Fender's classic Stratocaster design, it was Fender's answer to Superstrats produced by manufacturers such as Jackson Guitars and Ibanez. The HM in the guitars name stands for heavy metal.
The STRAT featured a hotter bridge pickup, marketed by Fender as the X-1. The controls and hardware were gold plated and included a uniquely massive synchronized tremolo. There was no standard neck for The STRAT, but three shapes were available: C, D, and U. Some colors featured matched headstock painting.
In January 2016, Fender introduced the American Elite Series Stratocaster. [7] Features include: Gen 4 Noiseless™ pickups; 5-Position blade switching with S-1™ switch [8] Maple neck with Compound C-to-D shape [9] Spoke wheel Bi-Flex™ truss rod system [10] 9.5" to 14" fingerboard radius [11] Maple, rosewood (discontinued in 2017) or ebony ...
The pickup configuration could also be routed for a single neck/ single middle/single bridge. They do not have the infamous "swimming pool" rout. The single coil pickups used on this Stratocaster model are Fender pickups, in the usual 3-single coil arrangement, or the 2-single coil and 1-humbucker in the bridge position ("Fat Strat") arrangement.