A classy Strat with a classic ash body.

The Fender American Deluxe Ash Stratocaster Electric Guitar is instantly comfortable, with irresistible tone and playability. You won't believe your fingers and ears. The ultimate in high-performance electric guitars, this premium model has an ultrasmooth, sweet neck with hand-rolled edges to make it play fast, smooth, and sweet. SCN (Samarium Cobalt Noiseless) pickups dish out vintage Strat sounds without the hum, while a hot bridge pickup and S-1 switching provide versatility, extra punch, and sustain. Classically contoured ash body fits like a glove. Other features include polished chrome, locking machine heads, American Deluxe tremolo with polished steel saddles, highly detailed fret and nut work, abalone dot inlays, and aged plastic parts. Includes Fender hardshell case.

Samarium Cobalt Noiseless pickups

It's no secret that pickup designers have been striving to develop the ultimate noise-free single-coil replacement pickup. In pursuit of as little 60-cycle hum and extraneous noise as possible and the classic bell-like tones and fidelity of the original Fender designs, Fender has poured their energy into discovering a new world-class pickup for the ages. With open minds and a willingness to seemingly question everything, Fender partnered with legendary pickup designer Bill Lawrence. The pickup that was birthed from this extraordinary partnership is the Samarium Cobalt Noiseless pickup. It has no hum, no microphonics, close to zero magnetic interruption of the string path; and the widest sonic parameters possible-from Fender classic single coils to tones not yet imagined. Truly a revolutionary design in guitar pickups.

Fender American Deluxe Ash Stratocaster Electric Guitar Features:

• Premium contoured ash body
• Modern C neck shape with slick finish and hand-rolled edges
• 3 Fender SCN pickups
• 5-way pickup selector
• S-1 switching system
• Polished chrome hardware
• String-thru-body bridge with polished stainless steel saddles
• Deluxe die-cast machine heads
• 22 medium-jumbo frets
• Schaller strap-lock ready

Fender American Deluxe Ash Stratocaster Electric Guitar Includes:

• Fender hardshell case, cable, strap, and straplocks

There's no question-this is it. You will never lay your fingers on a better Strat outside the Fender Custom Shop. Order yours now.

Fender American Deluxe Ash Stratocaster Electric Guitar

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ALMOST PERFECT

Posted by Peter from South Pasadena on Oct 30, 2009

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: hobbyist

Reviewer's Play Style: rock

I got the Cherry burst with maple neck. Gorgeous looking piece of art, smooth, and the satin finished maple neck makes you play very fluid without snags. The SCN pickups are great sounding. The only weaknesses I find are the switching configuration and the capacitors used. The tone control on the bridge affects the tone of position 2 (neck +middle pick ups)and this can be very frustrating if you jump from a lead position 5 to position 2 if the lead is set at 6-7 in the tone control. My Lonestar Strat does not do this and it is a better set-up. The tone control by the bridge should not affect the position 2. The other weakness is the choice of capacitor for the S1 switching. The capacitor(s) used bleeds too much of the high frequencies resulting with a sound like a wah-wah stuck in the closed (cupped)position when the S1 is engaged. This also significantly reduces the bite of high frequencies. That function should be left to the tone controls. If these are corrected, the Ash Deluxe can become a true classic

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Quality Instrument

Posted by LukeW from Coolville, Ohio on Oct 19, 2009

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: Active Musician

Reviewer's Play Style: Classic Rock

I have owned this guitar for about 3 years and it's my favorite to gig with. The versatility of this guitar is amazing, I play a variety of music from different genres and this guitar covers the whole gamut. I would strongly recommend this guitar to anyone looking for a quality instrument. Looking for a clean sound, no problem, looking for some distortion, no problem. I play through a couple of different amps a Line 6 Spider II and a Marshall TSL 100 half stack and this guitar sounds awesome on each amp. Awesome tone and feel.

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Mean and Tasty Neck pickup

Posted by TDubbs from Minneapolis on Jul 11, 2009

Experience w/product: I have used it

Reviewer's Background: Hobbyist

Reviewer's Play Style: Rock/Alt/Blues

Compared an American Fat strat Deluxe HSS and a Fender Ash on a Eganter Rebel 20 (same settings on amp and both had rosewood fingerboards)

The ash's neck pickup was Meaner than heck!!! The bridge pickup had to much high end for me. The Amer Fat Strat Deluxe HSS had more low end overall.

Conclusion? If you're wanting Stevie or John Mayer Blues sounds, go with the Ash for sure. If you're into alternative/rock sounds, go with the Fat Strat Deluxe HSS.

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AMASING GUITAR!!!

Posted by FenderManiac from Louisiana on Apr 23, 2009

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: Active Musician

Reviewer's Play Style: Rock, Alternative

I bought this guitar and honestly I can't say a negative thing about it. I am 14 and have been playing guitar for about 1 or 2 years. I have been mainly sticking to gibsons, but when I played a american strat I was blown away. My uncle bought the exact same guitar and I played and I was even more blown away. I got it in the mail and it is beautiful. I got the tobacco sunburst with a maple fretboard. When I pluged it in oh my God it was amasing how many styles of music you can play with this guitar. AMAZING playability and overall great guitar. GOOD JOB FENDER!!!!!

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It's Like Butter...Scotch

Posted by RedEd from New York,NY on Apr 1, 2009

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: N/A

Reviewer's Play Style: Rock,Blues

I got my deluxe ash strat about 6 months ago. I tried all the other models before making my choice. My butter scotch w/ maple neck sounds as pretty as it looks. I play her through a Ledgend A30 and Peavey studio chourus 210 and she sounds sweet out of both. When I put a TS9 Tube Screamer in line the sound is heavenly. The S1 system is great for that extra boost when needed. If you want to sound like Hendrix, Clapton, or SRV then this is the axe for you.

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