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The American Vintage series introduces an all-new lineup of original-era model year guitars that bring Fender history and heritage to authentic and exciting new life. With key features and pivotal design elements spanning the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s, new American Vintage series instruments delve deep into Fender's roots--expertly preserving an innova-tive U.S. guitar-making legacy and vividly demon-strating like never before that Fender not only knows where it's going, but also remembers where it came from.The American Vintage Series has long presented some of Fender's best selling guitars (their early-'80s introduction, in fact, was one of the first signs that Fender was "back" as the CBS era ended). Today, Fender has boldly cleared the slate to make way for a fresh American Vintage series with new features, new specs and the most meticulous level of vintage accuracy yet. Rather than just replacing the previous models with different ones, we've completely and comprehensively re-imagined the entire vintage-reis-sue concept--restoring original tooling dies, voicing new pickups, reformulating vintage colors and more--based on actual vintage guitars we tracked down to make sure we had it right. We did the work, and it shows, because there's pure tonal magic in each new American Vintage instrument.

1959 was an important and highly evolutionary year for the Stratocaster because that's when slimmer necks, rosewood fingerboards and multi-ply laminated pickguards first appeared.

The American Vintage '59 Stratocaster presents two versions of that year's pivotal transitional model; one from early 1959 and one from later 1959. Both have the slim-profile D-shaped maple neck of that year, with the earlier version featuring a maple fingerboard, faded Three-color Sunburst finish and single-ply white pickguard with eight holes; the later version (in faded Three-color Sunburst, Black and limited faded Sonic Blue finishes) featuring a dark rosewood slab fingerboard and three-ply mint green pickguard with 10 holes and vintage-style edge bevels. Both also feature a lightweight alder body, aged plastic knobs and vintage-accurate pickups, bridge saddles, tuner spacing and more.

Fender American Vintage '59 Stratocaster Specifications:
Series: American Vintage
Body Shape: Telecaster®
Body Material: Alder
Body Finish: New Fender Flash Coat Lacquer
Neck: Maple, "D" Shape
Neck Finish: New Fender Flash Coat Lacquer
Fingerboard: Slab Rosewood or Maple on (800) 3-Color Sunburst; Slab Rosewood on (806) Black, (872) Faded Sonic Blue
Fingerboard Radius: 7.25" (18.41 cm)
Frets: 21, Vintage Style Frets
Scale Length: 25.5" (64.8 cm)
Nut Width: 1.650 (42 mm)
String Nut: Bone
Switch Tip: "Top Hat" Switch Tip
Truss Rod: Vintage-Style Heel Adjust
Pickups: New American Vintage '59 Strat® Single-Coil Pickup (Bridge) / New American Vintage '59 Strat® Single-Coil Pickup (Middle) / New American Vintage '59 Strat® Single-Coil Pickup (Neck)
Pickup Switching: 5-Position Blade: Position 1. Bridge Pickup, Position 2. Bridge and Middle Pickup, Position 3. Middle Pickup, Position 4. Middle and Neck Pickup, Position 5. Neck Pickup
Controls: Master Volume, Tone 1 (Neck) , Tone 2 (Middle and Bridge)
Hardware: Chrome
Tuning Keys: Single Line "Fender Deluxe" Vintage Style
Bridge: American Vintage Synchronized Tremolo
Control Knobs: New White Strat
Pickguard: Single-Ply White on MN; 3-Ply Mint Green with Vintage Bevel on RW
Strings: Fender® USA 250R NPS, (.010-.046 Gauges)
Incl. Accessories: Vintage '59 Strat Strap, Cable, and Cloth; Vintage 3-Position Switch, '50s Strat Information Kit, Bridge Cover, Owner's Manual, Saddle Height Wrench
Case/Gig Bag: New Deluxe Vintage Brown Case .

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