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Fender American Elite Stratocaster HSS Shawbucker, Maple Fingerboard, 3-Color Sunburst

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American Elite Stratocaster HSS Shawbucker, Maple Fingerboard, 3-Color Sunburst

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American Elite Stratocaster HSS Shawbucker, Maple Fingerboard, 3-Color Sunburst
American Elite Stratocaster HSS Shawbucker, Maple Fingerboard, 3-Color Sunburst
American Elite Stratocaster HSS Shawbucker, Maple Fingerboard, 3-Color Sunburst
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Mixing modern sound and a plethora of innovative features with traditional visual style, the American Elite Stratocaster HSS Shawbucker doesn't just push the envelope - it completely annihilates it. Designed for modern players who need tonal variety on tap, as well as unprecedented performance and supple playing feel, this top-notch performer delivers every single time you plug it in and play.

This American Elite HSS model combines a powerful Shawbucker open-coil humbucking bridge pickup with the exclusive New fourth generation Noiseless pickups, which represent a quantum leap in pickup design. The new Noiseless pickups' hum-free vintage-style sound and the Shawbucker's snarling midrange creates pristine cleans and gigantic overdriven tones for multidimensional classic Stratocaster sound turned up to 11. Push-push switching enables the "passing lane", which instantly rerouts your bridge pickup signal, bypassing the tone circuit. This kicks your tone into overdrive with enhanced overtones and high output. Designed for fast playing and effortless position changes, the compound profile neck with a 9.5"-14" compound radius fingerboard is ideal for all playing styles. A modern "C"-shape at the nut, the profile morphs along the length of the neck to a modern "D"- shaped profile at the updated neck heel, providing plenty of comfortable support for fret hand antics. New locking short-post tuning machines provide increased break angle at the new synthetic bone nut for buzz-free performance while the smooth two-point modern tremolo adds emotive touches to your performance without sacrificing your tuning. In a vintage-inspired touch, the new truss rod adjustment wheel has been moved to the butt end of the neck for easier access, making neck relief adjustments a snap.

Fender is renowned for mind-blowing style, and this guitar is no different - from the redesigned sleek contours that hug the player's body for an enhanced playing experience to the black chrome headstock logo, new modern string tree, large pearloid fret markers and unique new colors this instrument will dazzle the audience with classic aesthetics. The American Elite Stratocaster HSS Shawbucker is a bold new guitar for progressive players setting out to explore new musical frontiers. Includes a redesigned Elite Molded Case with TSA locks to provide increased protection for your cherished instrument.

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You have to play it to believe it. Last year I bought an American Deluxe HSS Shawbucker and I thought I had the best guitar ever. So this year when Fender came out with the new Elite series with a dozen refinements since last year I was shocked. How could they make my state-of-the-art Deluxe obsolete in a mere year. Well I tried the Elite yesterday for the first time at home thru my favourite amp. It rocked. The sound, the feel, the look, all superb. The new neck, the new body,:the new pickups. Strat playing Heaven. Fender has worked overtime and is miles ahead of any other guitar company. It feels vintage on the lower frets and modern on the upper frets. A very smart invention. The new Noiseless 4th generation pickups bloom with sweet vintage tone and the Shawbucker laser beams the high gain sound out of your speakers with force. Fender basically reinvented the wheel hear. Leo would be proud. The guitar is expensive but in this life you do not want to miss out on this experience.
Posted by Gord Ahl on Jun 11, 2016
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