Fender Stratocaster

Excellent Condition

Case included

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Icon. Not a word to be used lightly. But the Stratocaster is just that. The new American Standard Stratocaster guitars are beauties to behold in sound, look and feel. We kept the hand-rolled fingerboard edges, alnico V pickups and staggered tuning machines for playability, tone and stability, and added several new features, including:

• A new bridge with improved bent-steel saddles and a copper-infused high-mass block for increased resonance and sustain.


• A new neck treatment—tinted for a richer presentation, with the maple or rosewood fingerboard buffed to a high gloss. The back of the neck still has that silky satin finish.


• A thinner finish undercoat that lets the body breathe and improves resonance.


• A new Fender-exclusive SKB molded case.


• Two beautiful new finish options, Sienna Sunburst and Blizzard Pearl.

Guitar Info

Your guitar was made at the
Corona Plant (Fender), USA
in the Year(s): 2000 - 2001

Fender: Corona

Corona factory was opened in 1985, Corona California, with major guitar production starting in 1987. With the addition of a custom shop in 1987 the plant currently employs about 700 workers. Apart from general and Custom Shop Fender instruments and amplifiers, it also encompasses Guild acoustic & electric guitars.

The idea of the American Standard Stratocaster was simple – take the best features found on the classic Stratocasters of the past and improve upon the other areas that could use some refinement. Some changes that were made included:

1. Addition of an extra fret (from 21 to 22),
2. Pickups with flush polepieces,
3. Ezy-Glider string retainers and vibrato bridge with two screw mounts for added tuning stability,
4. More consistent use of alder wood for the body (ash was a heavier and more inconsistent wood),
5. Use of Biflex truss-rod,
6. Return of the four-bolt neck mounting (from previous use of three in the 70’s),
7. Schaller tuners,
8. A polyurethane finish.

In addition, the bodies were now routed so that any number of pickup configurations could be used rather than just the traditional three single-coils. As the years progressed, further changes were incorporated from TBX tone controls and a new hotter Delta tone pickup system for increased output.

The American Standard Stratocaster changed relatively little during its existence, as Fender’s philosophy was obviously not to mess around too much with a good thing. By the time it came upon year 2000, American Standard Stratocasters were being produced in Fender’s newest Corona, California plant, with more attention to quality and detail being made than ever before.

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