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- Purpose: Fender Musical Instruments
- Debut - Production Life: 1954 - Present
- Nickname: Strat
- The Fender Stratocaster is the most widely copied electric guitar instrument.
- American made Fender guitars are made in Corona, California. The original factory was at Fullerton, California.
- MIJ (made in japan) or CIJ (crafted in japan) Fender guitars are not allowed to be sold in the USA.
- Only MIM (made in mexico) or CIM (crafted in Mexico) Fender Guitars are lower cost Fender guitars are allowed to be sold in the USA.
- Squier is a guitar string manufacturer acquired by Fender. Today Squier produces quality low cost copies of Fender guitars
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Background
The Fender Stratocaster, often called short for "Strat" is an electric guitar designed by Leo Fender, John Fullerton and Freddy Tavares in 1954.It's a double cutaway, solid body guitar with a bolt on neck and bridge tremolo. In its traditional form it comes with 3 single coil pickups, 5 way switch, Master Volume and 2 Tone control.
Originally came with a 3 way pickups switch but guitarist later figured out that lodging the switch between 1&2 or 2&3 can get out-of-phase humbucker pickup like tones.
Other Pickup Variations:
Fat Strat: H-S-S pickup combination. Humbucker Bridge, Single coil - Middle, Single coil - Neck
Super Strats: H-H or H-S-H a. Humbucker - Bridge, Humbucker - Neck b. Humbucker Bridge, Single coil - Middle, Humbucker - Neck
Scale Length: 25.5 inch
Fretboards: Maple 21 frets, Maple with Rosewood fingerboard 22 frets.
Body: Alder, Basswood, Poplar. Limited editions - Koa, Mahogony Quilted Maple Top.
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Mahalo Answers for Fender Stratocaster
How does a Capacitor affect a Potentiometer's tone. I plan to do a Greasebucket Tone control using a 500k Pot. 1 AnswerTheoretically yes if you want it to sound like the original Greasebucket tone control but practically it may not matter. Ceramic disk capacitors are notoriously... read more
I've heard the quailty of the MIM's after 2006 have improved. What can be said of the early '90's MIM's compared to the early 2000's. 1 AnswerNot much comparison at all, the current MIM strats are great guitars (depending on model) the Roadworn series play very nice, and though the MAP is around $999... read more
Did you know that today, 10 Aug, is Leo Fender's birthday? 1 AnswerYes, he was born in 1909 and died in 1991 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Fender read more
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Le compré un strap de peluche rosa a mi Fender Stratocaster de Hello Kitty, ¿cuál es su pedo? Eh, ehh?
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@bressane compre uma fender stratocaster pro guri. só que não tem no extra.
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