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Fender Introduces American Special Tele and Strats

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The American Special Telecaster and two Stratocasters are designed to bring terrific-sounding, smooth playing, rock-solidly-built U.S.-made Fender guitars to players everywhere.


   
Anaheim, CA (January 14, 2010) -- The latest incarnations of Fender’s famous Telecaster and Stratocaster models comprise the new American Special series—built “by the people, for the people” as value-laden “guitars for the times.” They are designed specifically to bring the full Fender experience of a terrific-sounding, smooth playing, rock-solidly-built U.S.-made Fender guitar to players everywhere.

The three instruments in the new series—the American Special Telecaster, American Special Stratocaster and American Special Stratocaster HSS—are highly-affordable U.S.-made Fender electric guitars that are within the reach of an entire spectrum of players. As such, they share many features with their cousins in the acclaimed Highway One and American Standard series.

All three American Special guitars feature alder bodies with gloss urethane finishes, 9.5”-radius maple necks with jumbo frets, and Fender’s best-selling Texas Special™ pickups (the Stratocaster HSS also has an Atomic humbucking bridge pickup).

The American Special Telecaster has a vintage-style string-through-body Telecaster bridge with three brass saddles, a black pickguard, and is available in Olympic White and Three-color Sunburst. American Special Stratocaster has a vintage-style synchronized tremolo and white pickguard, and is available in Candy Apple Red and Two-color Sunburst. The American Special Stratocaster HSS has a rosewood fingerboard, black pickguard and vintage-style synchronized tremolo, and is available in Black and Three-color Sunburst.

“These new instruments are a result of listening to direct player feedback and acting on it,” said Justin Norvell, marketing director for Fender electric guitars. "The challenge was to maximize the value without compromising at all – in fact, in many ways, we upgraded the feature sets. Fender has long been considered the ‘workingman’s guitar’ by the player community – and these guitars have been brought to life in that spirit.”

The guitars have an MSRP of $1099.

For more information:
Fender American Special

     

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michael
on 03/20/2011 		well it seems for the day prices are excellant a tele in around the seventys was sixteen hundred dollars in canada when wages were about two dollars a hour for a mechanic then wages went up too six dollars an hour and a tele came down too about seven hundred dollars what changed ?? i know one thing that did, the necks where can you buy a good guitar with a good aged neck i cant find one . dont tell me going too the river and cutting down and aging a maple tree should raise the price . but if you compare todays mechanics wage of say seventeen dollars a hour about eight times more now.then that same tele should be about 7 times 1,600= 11,200.oo comparing too the seventys but we do have cheaper foriegn copies thank goodness even if you are tuning constantly and never relly in tune . buy a cheap copie and stick on a warmouth neck for couple hundred .
Green Beaver
on 01/01/2011 		Why don't all of you just shut up and play your guitars!
Streamz
on 03/08/2010 		For 900 bucks I want a premium guitar that is worth 900 bucks. Not a noisey guitar that I can only play in position 2 & 4 . I want premium color choices. I want premium everything. For 900 bucks it should jump out of the box and re-string itself.
King bee
on 02/05/2010 		Yes you do
Gibsonfrk
on 01/20/2010 		You Get what you pay for!
Blister
on 01/17/2010 		Ampdoctr - If they tinted the necks a little they would have to sell them as American Standards and it they tinted them a lot the would have to sell them as American Deluxes.
Buster
on 01/17/2010 		Stratman63 you are, of course, talking out of your butt. Wood is the problem? Environmentalists are the cause of price increases? Leave your politics out of it. The large custom body and neck companies, Musikraft, Warmoth and USA Guitars seem to have very little problem getting the standard body and neck woods (alder, ash, swamp ash, maple and mahogany). And if they are, it has not been reflected in their very moderate price bumps in the past 4 years as compared with Fender's substantial price hikes. Stratman, I love Fender guitars. I have owned many. Own 3 right now but I'm going to be real about marketing ploys about "guitars for the times" that are aimed at "the people". These don't seem to be true values. The true values coming from FMIC seem to come from the Squier line lately. The Classic Vibe series as well as the Jagmaster are excellent guitars for the money.
Fivenotechor d
on 01/15/2010 		There are so many better guitars for the money - check out Eastwood, check out the Eko Camaro (considerably cool); however ugly they are the Ibanez RG/Roadster low end beat hell out of this one; the Godin's are Bentley's compared to this piece of drek.
Tmojo
on 01/15/2010 		Special? Was this guitar held back a grade?
whocares
on 01/15/2010 		The red Strat looks exactly like my Squier Affinity. Stupid Fender.



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