A completely dialed-in vintage Strat!

The best of old and new Fender craftsmanship creates a fantastic guitar built for the serious player! Fender starts with a Vintage American '62 Stratocaster and adds a list of sought-after Custom Shop upgrades: top-of-the-line thin-skin nitrocellulose lacquer finish; larger, vintage C-shape neck profile with satin-finish back, 9.5" fingerboard radius, medium-jumbo frets; a reverse-wound, reverse-phase middle pickup for noise-canceling; and the second tone control is wired to bridge pickup. The rest is true-blue '62 Strat: comfort-contoured alder body, Fender/Gotoh vintage-style tuners, mint green pickguard, and chrome hardware.

The U.S. Vintage Hot Rod Series from Fender offers new instruments with the looks, specs, and features that make them feel as if you were the third owner of a vintage instrument. Here's your chance to own that beautiful player's guitar but in brand new shape and freshly set-up from the Fender factory!

Fender American Vintage Hot Rod '62 Stratocaster Electric Guitar Features:

• Thin-skin nitrocellulose finish
• Comfort-contoured alder body
• Maple neck
• Vintage C-shape profile with satin finish on back
• Rosewood fingerboard
• 9.5" fingerboard radius
• 21 medium-jumbo frets
• 25.5" scale length
• Nut width: 1.650"
• Chrome hardware
• Fender/Gotoh vintage-style tuners
• American Vintage Synchronized Tremolo
• 3-ply mint green pickguard
• 3 American Vintage Strat single-coil pickups with reverse-wound/reverse-phase middle pickup
• 5-position blade pickup switch
• Master volume control
• Tone 1 (neck pickup)
• Tone 2 (bridge pickup)
• Setup with Fender Super 250R Nickel Plated Steel strings (.010, .013, .017, .026, .036, .046)
• Includes Deluxe Brown Hardshell Case, Strap, Cable, and Meguair's care kit

Fender American Vintage Hot Rod '62 Stratocaster Electric Guitar Includes:

• deluxe brown hardshell case, strap, cable, 5-position switch update kit

These subtle mods will stand out loud and proud when you plug this baby in and start to wail. Order now!

Fender American Vintage Hot Rod '62 Stratocaster Electric Guitar

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Why buy anything else?

Posted by mattstratocaster from CT on Jul 14, 2009

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: Active Musician

Reviewer's Play Style: Blues, Rock

This is buy far the best strat i have ever played. I saw it an a store and decided that this was what i wanted to save for instantly. i Just knew it was for me. It looks the part, feels the part, plays the part, and even smells the part. I set this up with 11's and med-high action and it just sings. The resonance is like nothing i have ever experienced before. When you play it on you lap your own body vibrates with the guitar. The pickup are voiced perfectly. It has lower output single coil like the real vintage strats which give you those big clear soaring highs, but with such a resonate body, you get the big warm mids and lows. Fender can still make well priced and exceptionally well built guitars. I cant say the same with new G*&$@n! I was looking into a Custom shop NOS '62 but the have the original vintage narrow frets and a slightly smaller neck. They also did not have the mint green guard and just didn't seem right. For me this was perfect.

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SWEET!

Posted by Ksguitarpicker from Wichita, KS on Jun 7, 2009

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: Been there and have the T-shirt

Reviewer's Play Style: Rock, Country, Blues, Gospel

This is the sweetest strat I have ever owned/played in my 35 years of guitardom, (I have had my share). The finish is fantastic, the whole guitar resonates like nothing I have ever seen before. The vintage pickups crank out PURE ROCK AND ROLL, COUNTRY, JAZZ, AND THE DIRTIEST OF BLUES. Mine was set up pefectly out of the case, the intonation was "dead on" and the darn thing was even in tune!

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great axe

Posted by guitargeek from Boston, MA on May 6, 2009

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: Active musician

Reviewer's Play Style: Blues

I absolutely love this guitar. I was suspicious of it at first because I am not into vintage gear. I tried it at my local music store and fell in love with it. I've played it every gig since I bought it. It sounds great through my Traynor 100w combo

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Old School meets New!

Posted by Hot-rod23 on Apr 1, 2009

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: 8+ years

Reviewer's Play Style: Classic Rock/Blues

Just got this cool axe the other day and no regrets here! My favorite part is the way that they wired the pickups, which is exactly the same way that Eric Johnson does his! All fender pickups should be set up the way that this guitar is. It has Old School looks, and the fact the it looks Vintage makes people take a second glance every time! If your looking for that Classic Rock/Blues/Country sound than this is the guitar for you. Not recomended for Hard/Metal sounding music. Fender put alot of time into making this awesome axe! So get yours today :)

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62 hotrod

Posted by Fenderguy from Clarion, Pa on Mar 25, 2009

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: Active Musician

Reviewer's Play Style: Rock, Jazz, Praise

This guitar is one of the best. It is solid, it has a beautiful full sound, and it plays smooth with it's 10 gauge strings. I had an old American standard that played very well but couldn't beat the quality this has. This has that full classic strat tone that the American standard doesn't have. I am very pleased with this guitar and was lucky to get it at last year's price.

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