New From Fender - American Special Models

January 29, 1998 -- Fender's Jimi Hendrix Voodoo Stratocaster® recreates the sound made famous by the voodoo music master himself--Jimi Hendrix--for the righthanded player. The Voodoo Stratocaster has a right-handed alder body, a one-piece maple neck with reverse headstock, 21 medium jumbo frets, vintage pickups with reversed staggered pole pieces and reverse angle bridge pickup, a right-handed vintage bridge, rosewood or maple fretboard, and vintage "F" tuners. Comes factory equipped with genuine Fender strings for optimum tone and performance.

Jimi Hendrix Voodoo Stratocaster®

Guitar players universally agree that Hendrix achieved his signature sound in part because he was a left-handed guitar player who played a right-handed Stratocaster strung left-handed. The reverse bridge pickup angled down towards the bass string produces a unique sound that differs from a standard Stratocaster bridge pickup. The low strings are much brighter and more articulate and the high strings are warmer and fuller. When a right-handed guitar is strung lefthanded, the change in string tension and the reverse staggered pole pieces on the pickups have a direct effect on the tone, which is how Hendrix made his high strings scream and achieved pure, clear tones on his low strings. Since it's a challenge to play a guitar body that's upside down with all the knobs and the tremolo in the way, Fender made it easy for the right-handed player to comfortably obtain the Hendrix sound. Everything on the Voodoo Strat is designed to give all the sonic benefits of playing an upside-down Strat like the original guitar that Hendrix used, only on a right-handed body.

90's Tele® Thinline

A modern version of a vintage classic, Fenders 90's Tele® Thinline has a double bound semi-hollow ash body with a single F-hole, and a one-piece maple neck. Features include American Standard hardware, American Standard Tele Pickups, master volume, master "no-load" tone control, a three position blade switch, rosewood or maple fretboard, and a '69 Thinline-style pearl pickguard. Includes a black tolex case with "red brick" plush lining. Comes factory equipped with genuine Fender strings for optimum tone and performance.

For players who want a more resonant tone, the semi-hollow 90's Tele Thinline combines a Thinline body with custom Tele binding. It's an elegantlooking, functionally-basic guitar with two pickups, two knobs and no tremolo. The lighter weight of the Thinline body makes it easy to coax expressive, warm, and ambient tones from the instrument.

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