Fender American Ultra Luxe Vintage '60s Stratocaster Electric Guitar, Surf Green

Juggling the finest of modern innovations with the time-tested tenets of the past, we have the Fender American Ultra Luxe Vintage '60s Stratocaster. This icon of electric guitars gets fitted with unparalleled designs in cutting-edge design innovations and vintage aesthetics alike to deliver on the excellence the brand is known for. For any Stratocaster fan, this a model that stands tall among the pack.

The American Ultra Luxe Vintage '60s Stratocaster lines up with a suite of high-quality specifications that lay the foundation for a marvelous musical trip. This kicks off with a premium select alder body that takes the iconic Fender double-cutaway shape while bearing keen carved contours. Intended to inspire the best in comfort, these body contours work alongside the body's new Heirloom lacquer finish. This finish treatment, relatively unseen before in Fender models, sticks its landing in the American Ultra Luxe Vintage series with the right touch of wear and age to match the guitar's timeless sensibilities.

Here, a quartersawn maple neck joins in with a Modern D profile and a satin lacquer finish. This neck, fitted for smooth and seamless performance, fills the hand comfortably alongside Fender's Ultra rolled fingerboard edges. This American Ultra Luxe Vintage model plays effortlessly with a rosewood fingerboard, twenty-two stainless steel Medium Jumbo frets, and a speedy compound fingerboard radius. Measuring from an (already fast and flat) ten inches at the nut and flattening to a blisteringly quick fourteen toward the body, playability is a clear priority at every juncture for this American Ultra Luxe Vintage Strat.

For this model, Fender treats us to a new set of electronics. Onboard, Pure Vintage '61 Strat single-coil pickups produce all the charming shimmer, sparkle, and snap you've come to know and love from Fender's electronics. This Ultra Luxe Vintage model is then fitted with auxiliary S-1 switching on the volume control that enables the neck pickup to be added to pickup configurations 1 and 2 for an expanded palette of tones. CTS 250K potentiometers make mixing through these single coils a journey time after time.

This American Ultra Luxe Vintage finishes this whole trip off with a suite of fine hardware specifications. At the headstock, a Graph Tech TUSQ nut and sealed locking tuning machines align to grab hold of strings solidly and ensure smooth stringing and sturdy intonation. At the bridge, a two-point Deluxe synchronized tremolo bridge lands with a cold rolled steel block and polished steel block saddles. Welcoming in those classic vibrato bends while retaining absolute precision in intonation and tuning accuracy, these hardware points are responsive and reliable. This American Ultra Luxe Vintage model travels with an included Fender Deluxe hardshell case.

A true step forward with reverence to the past, the Fender American Ultra Luxe Vintage '60s Stratocaster is a masterful balance of features old and new.