Fender American Ultra Luxe Vintage 60s Stratocaster HSS, Rosewood Fingerboard, Sea Foam Green

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The Fender American Ultra Luxe Vintage ’60s Stratocaster HSS is built from a formula that blends modern playability with old-school vintage flair, resulting in a convincing Strat that is ready for professional studio and stage work. You get a lightweight alder body, which is shaped with the Ultra series body contour and a specially designed neck heel that gives you effortless access to the upper frets on the Strat. You also get a quarter-sawn maple neck in satin finish, which has a wide Modern D profile, a fretboard with rounded edges and compound radius, as well as durable stainless steel frets. This results in an electric guitar with playability that can compete with the most groundbreaking modern 6-string creations.

The tone is delivered by two Pure Vintage ’61 Stratocaster pickups, which produce a more polished and warm sound than the Fender pickups that are based on 1950s designs. In the bridge position, Fender has placed a Haymaker humbucker that delivers a powerful and articulate tone with plenty of crunch when you add gain. You also get expanded control options via an S-1 switch, and you get an exclusive selection of hardware, which includes a TUSQ saddle, lockable Deluxe tuning pegs and a 2-point American Ultra tremolo with polished stainless steel saddles and a cold-rolled steel block. The whole thing is rounded off with a semi-gloss Heirloom nitrocellulose finish that maximizes your Strat's resonance, and which over time will develop a beautiful patina.

With the Ultra Luxe Vintage ’60s Stratocaster HSS, you thus get access to the excellent playability that an electric guitar from the Ultra Luxe series is known for, while also getting a tone that is enriched with vintage flair. From the Ultra contours of the alder body to the tapered neck heel and the quarter-sawn maple neck with Modern D profile, every element in this Strat is built to provide optimal comfort and enable lightning-fast playability. This is further emphasized by a 10″ to 14″ compound radius, luxurious Ultra Rolled fretboard edges and Luminlay side dots. Sturdy medium-jumbo stainless steel frets round off the design with smooth bends and extreme resistance to fret wear.

To balance out the modern design elements of the Ultra Luxe Vintage ’60s Stratocaster, it is equipped with the same Pure Vintage ’61 Stratocaster pickups that are also found in the Fender American Vintage II 1961 Stratocaster. The sound is clear on top and contains the characteristic punch in the midrange that characterizes a Strat from the early 60s. The two Pure Vintage ’61 pickups are connected to a 5-way pickup selector, dual tone controls and a single volume control with a built-in S-1 switch, which gives access to bridge/neck and bridge/neck/middle pickup configurations.

If you really like the patina that a vintage electric guitar has, then only a traditional nitrocellulose finish can deliver this. Fender used exclusively nitrocellulose finish on their instruments throughout its golden age, and guitarists of all kinds appreciate the way that nitrocellulose finish cracks and ages. The American Ultra Luxe Vintage ’60s Stratocaster HSS has received a nitrocellulose finish with a semi-gloss shine, which is tinted in a way that the finish has an “aged” look. This thin nitro finish not only improves the instrument's appearance – it also gives the guitar's body better resonance and sustain.

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