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Fender Introduces Upgraded American Standard Series Models for 2012

The guitars now feature Fender Custom Shop pickups, as well as other distinctive new design touches.


Scottsdale, AZ (March 21, 2012) -- Fender’s acclaimed American Standard series guitars and basses have been upgraded for 2012, resulting in the latest iterations of the company’s four archetypal instruments—the Telecaster, Stratocaster, Precision Bass and Jazz Bass guitars. They’re the same great best-selling go-to instruments they’ve always been, and now feature Fender Custom Shop pickups, as well as other distinctive new design touches.

The American Standard Telecaster has been upgraded with a comfortable new body contour and classic-sounding Fender Custom Shop Twisted Tele (neck) and Broadcaster (bridge) pickups, making it ring more fully, brightly and crisply than ever. Left-handed model also available.

The American Standard Stratocaster has been upgraded with aged plastic parts and full-sounding Fender Custom Shop Fat ’50s pickups for the very essence of Stratocaster tone. Its high-output hot-rodded sibling, the American Standard Stratocaster HSS, has also been upgraded with aged plastic parts, with Fender Custom Shop Fat ’50s pickups in the neck and middle positions and a Diamondback humbucking bridge pickup for an added measure of muscle that makes it more graceful and powerful than ever. Both instruments are also available in a left-handed model.

The American Standard Precision Bass and five-string American Standard Precision Bass V are now upgraded with a seismic Fender Custom Shop ’60s Precision Bass split single-coil pickup, making the latest incarnations of the indestructible workhorse instrument that revolutionized popular music, stronger and more indispensable than ever. The four-string version also comes in a striking new Jade Pearl Metallic finish option, and both basses are available in a left-handed model.

The American Standard Jazz Bass, in right- and left-handed models, is now upgraded with Fender Custom Shop ’60s Jazz Bass single-coil pickups and a striking new Jade Pearl Metallic finish option, making the latest incarnation of our timeless bass hit sing, snarl, groove and growl more powerfully than ever. The five-string American Standard Jazz Bass V and the gracefully voiced American Standard Jazz Bass Fretless now feature the Custom Shop ’60s Jazz Bass single-coil pickups; the fretless model is also available in the new Jade Pearl Metallic finish.

For more information:
fender.com


     

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John
on 04/16/2012 		Love my fat strat now that I changed out the humbuckers. Prefer it to look new. Agree with new colors. Never did like Sunburst on my Tele. Apparently alot of others do.
Vince
on 03/30/2012 		You guys miss the point. If you want a Floyd, buy one, or buy a Strat with one on it. A Strat and Tele are the only guitars that have endless options on customization. The one and true Swiss army knife of a guitar!
Christian Castro
on 03/25/2012 		Still a blues guitar. Shame on you Fender. Modernity is Floyd Rose + humbuckers. Blown away that fugly 50's tremolo.
monk
on 03/23/2012 		I wish fender would just use EMGs it would be best for all of us
Scott
on 03/21/2012 		I agree, stop with the typical sunburst and give us some color choices. Stop with the aged plastic (keep that for the road worn junk)and give me a NEW looking guitar. If I'm buying a NEW guitar, I want it to stay NEW looking, not to look old straight out of the box. This is why Fender Japan is kicking USA's butt.
Bill Newsome
on 03/21/2012 		Just checked on the Lefty's. Black, White, and Sunburst as usual. I bought a special run earlier this year in Surf Green. Fender,please give us some color choices!!!
Bill Newsome
on 03/21/2012 		Glad to see they are making the improvements in Left Handed as well. Somehow we usually get LEFT OUT! Thanks Fender...
Michael
on 03/21/2012 		Been using the Fat 50's in my '89 Strat for almost 10 years now, love them!!!



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