Fender's American Ultra Luxe Vintage series of guitars is a groundbreaking group of instruments. Featuring robust arrangements of specifications, the American Ultra Luxe Vintage series holds reverence for the timeless pillars of the past while looking definitively to the future. For any player, the Fender American Ultra Luxe Vintage series is a lineup that offers a bold look in both directions.
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Fender American Ultra Luxe Vintage Guitars
The timeless qualities of Fender's classic designs are alive and well in the American Ultra Luxe Vintage series. This series centers around two iconic Fender models, the Stratocaster and the Telecaster, as stages on which Fender's newest, most imaginative and futuristic features can strut their stuff.
Fender's American Ultra Luxe Vintage Stratocaster models step up to the plate in '50s and '60s-inspired iterations. Among them, perfect for fans of Fender's earliest innovations, is the Fender American Ultra Luxe Vintage '50s Stratocaster. This model, establishing itself with a number of the fine features that unite the series totally, gives a glimpse into Fender's philosophy approaching this new series.
The Fender American Ultra Luxe Vintage '50s Stratocaster features a deeply contoured alder body and satin-finished quartersawn maple neck. A sculpted neck heel, rolled fingerboard edges, and body contours place playability as a paramount priority in this model and the series universally. Modern "D" neck profiles appear across the series, likely familiar to players of other Fender American Ultra guitar series, along with compound fingerboard radiuses measuring from ten inches to fourteen. Models like the Fender American Ultra Luxe Vintage '50s Telecaster follow in a similar path for comfort and playability to inspire the absolute best in their player.
Playability isn't everything in the series, however. Sounds and aesthetics come to life with vintage-inspired features designed to bridge the gap between today and Fender yesteryear. Onboard each Fender American Ultra Luxe Vintage series model, Fender Pure Vintage pickups align with dedicated S-1 switches that expand their electrical wiring capabilities. These capabilities include, across the series, coil splitting and series wiring configurations.
Each American Ultra Luxe Vintage series model gets its own personal aesthetic flourish with Fender's Heirloom finish treatment – a relatively new feature in Fender electric guitars. This finish treatment works to simulate the aging a nitrocellulose lacquer finish can exhibit after decades as it presents tasteful checking textures without overwhelming damage. Threading the “relic” needle in the American Ultra Luxe Vintage series, this is a feature that must be seen to be believed.
Fender Innovation. Vintage Inspiration.
Fender's latest series of American Ultra Luxe Vintage guitars balances the breakneck innovations of modernity with the indispensable pillars of design of the past that make instruments into icons. With history, there's always something to learn. With the future, there's always a corner to turn.
