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Front · 2-Color Sunburst
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2-Color Sunburst
About this model
The Fender® American Vintage II series presents a remarkably accurate take on the revolutionary designs that altered the course of musical history. Built with period-accurate bodies, necks and hardware, premium finishes and meticulously voiced, year-specific pickups, each instrument captures the essence of authentic Fender craftsmanship and tone.
With its alluring curves, sparkling sounds and groundbreaking tremolo bridge, Fender's new 1954 Stratocaster® was a phenomenon, unlike anything the world had ever seen. By 1957, the Stratocaster had crystallized into a mid-century masterpiece.
Featuring a trio of Pure Vintage '57 Stratocaster pickups, sweeping body contours and a supremely comfortable "V"-shape neck with a 7.25" radius maple fingerboard, the American Vintage II 1957 Stratocaster reproduces the quintessential tone and feel of the original. Other appointments include a vintage-accurate synchronized tremolo with cold rolled steel block and bent steel saddles, single-line "Fender Deluxe" tuners and a single-ply pickguard.
Offered in three stunning nitrocellulose lacquer finishes - 2-Color Sunburst and Sea Foam Green over alder and Vintage Blonde over ash - the American Vintage II 1957 Stratocaster celebrates a true icon of Fender instrument design.
The instruments in the American Vintage II series are direct descendants of the original Fenders: designed for players with a fine appreciation for vintage Fender tone and feel and built with unmatched quality, down to the last screw. These are Fender electrics in their purest form: Fender American Vintage II, the stuff of legends.
Core specs
- Brand
- Fender
- Model
- American Vintage II 1957 Stratocaster®
- Family
- American Vintage II
- Series
- American Vintage II
- Body style
- Stratocaster®
- Body material
- Alder
- Top
- N/A (solid body; no separate top)
- Neck material
- 1-Piece Maple
- Neck profile
- 1957 "V"
- Neck joint
- bolt-on
- Fingerboard
- Maple
- Scale length
- 25.5" (648 mm)
- Nut width
- 1.650" (42 mm)
- Fingerboard radius
- 7.25" (184.1 mm)
- Frets
- 21
- Fret size
- Vintage Tall
- Bridge
- Pure Vintage Synchronized Tremolo with Bent Steel Saddles
- Tuners
- Fender® Vintage-Style
- Pickup config
- SSS
- Pickups
- Neck: Pure Vintage '57 Single-Coil Strat® / Middle: Pure Vintage '57 Single-Coil Strat® / Bridge: Pure Vintage '57 Single-Coil Strat®
- Controls
- Master Volume, Tone 1. (Neck/Middle Pickups), Tone 2. (Bridge 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
Extended specsShow
- Nut material
- Bone
- Hardware finish
- Nickel/Chrome
- Tailpiece
- Includes Chrome Bridge Cover
- Inlays
- Black Dot
- Pickguard
- 1-Ply Parchment
- Factory strings
- Fender® USA 250R Nickel Plated Steel (.010-.046 Gauges), PN 0730250406
- Case / gig bag
- Unknown
- Country of origin
- USA
- MSRP (USD)
- $2,499.99
- LH finishes offered
- 2-Color Sunburst, Vintage Blonde
- Body finish type
- Gloss Nitrocellulose Lacquer
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