When it comes to musical icons there are arguably none bigger than the Fender Stratocaster ... 59 Single-Coil Strat pickups, a maple Modern C neck and an Alder body, finished in Nebula Noir ...

The auction’s top seller was a stunning 1954 Fender Stratocaster Sunburst Solid Body Electric Guitar from the first year of the transformative guitar’s production. The catalog noted “this ...

The guitarist told us the history of his Strat, which he bought off the wall after his previous axe disappeared ...

Aug. 10, 1909: Clarence Leonidas Fender is born in Anaheim ... to bring out a brighter tone. The Stratocaster has a unique “double-cutaway” body shape that features contours for the player ...

The driving sound of the Gibson Les Paul played by Jimmy Page, the upside-down and smooth Fender Stratocaster from Jimi ... he decided to build his own. The body of the clone guitar is hollow ...

because the Rei ‘R246’ is like no other Strat out there – it’s a mish-mash hybrid model that has a 24-fret fingerboard, the neck of a Fender Lead II, and a downsized body that features ...

Primitive solid-body electric guitars had been around since the 1930s, but Fender envisioned a mass-produced, affordable model that would be easier to hold, tune and play. In 1950, Fender released ...

Making these guitars much less hassle, even in a cramped corner of a bar. There are two models of the Fender Highway: the Dreadnought and the Palour. The Dreadnought is a slightly larger body than ...

Narrator: In the span of over 70 years, Fender has become a household name ... Once the neck is attached to the body, the guitars head to final assembly, where it receives its strings and ...