Fender didn’t keep particularly good records, but it’s estimated around 75 of each were made. “These models were incredible creations from such an interesting time in guitar-making history.
The Fender Stratocaster is the most successful electric guitar design of all time. No guitar has shaped popular culture like the Strat. Its double-cutaway design is the acme of guitar shapes ...
Early 1940s: During World War II, Fender meets Clayton Orr “Doc” Kauman, a musician and the chief designer of electric guitars for Rickenbacker (based in Santa Ana and the first maker of ...
The guitarist told us the history of his Strat, which he bought off the wall after his previous axe disappeared ...
A 1963 electric Fender Telecaster guitar played during Bob Dylan's infamous Newport Folk Festival appearance is on sale for ...
The white Fender Stratocaster was signed by Ravi Shankar’s daughter Anoushka Shankar, a celebrated sitar player in her own ...
Earlier this year Fender celebrated the seventieth anniversary of the iconic Stratocaster guitar, a part of music history that has been associated with everyone from Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton ...
Tom Cochrane sang Life is a Highway, but Fender’s new acoustic guitars are designed to be taken on the road. The new Highway Series are acoustic guitars with the gigging musician in mind.