Fender American Vintage '59 Stratocaster (Rosewood - 3-Color Sunburst)

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

roots-expertly 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 where it came from. 

The American Vintage Series has long presented

some of Fender's best selling guitars (their early-80's 

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 concept

restoring original tooling dies, voicing new pickups, 

reformulating vintage colors and more - based 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.

1959 was an important and highly evolutionary year

for the Stratocaster, because that's when slimmer

necks, rosewood fingerboards and multi-ply

laminated pickguards first appeared.  The American Vintage '59 Stratocaster

presents two versions of that year's

pivotal transistional model;  one

from early 1959 and one from later 1959. Both have

the slim-profile D-shaped maple neck of that year,

with the earlier version featuring a maple

fingerboard, faded Three-color Sunburst finish and

single-ply white pickguard with eight holes; the later

version (in faded Three-color Sunburst, Black and

limited faded Sonic Blue finishes) featuring a dark

rosewood slab fingerboard and three-ply mint green

pickguard with 10 holes and vintage-style edge

bevels. Both also feature a lightweight alder body,

aged plastic knobs and vintage-accurate pickups,

bridge saddles, tuner spacing and more.

MSRP $2874.99 

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