First impressions of the Strat played clean is that there’s plenty of breathy crispness. Is this ‘Super-Natural’ finish to the neck back a game-changer or even noticeably different from the original American Professional? No, but it does feel super smooth – this is good craft.Īs is the setup, which pairs 0.009s with string heights on both treble and bass sides at the 12th fret of a shade over 1.5mm. However, that increased fingerboard edge rolling is welcome and the radiusing seems slightly more on the maple fingerboard face of the Strat than the separate rosewood fingerboard of the Tele. The highs do seem a little more rounded here and there’s no shortage of midrange bite, which really pushes the Tele-ness to the fore on the bridge pickup It’s a very everyman shape, not too thin, not to thick, and along with that standard radius and narrow/tall frets there’s little change over the previous models. The necks’ ‘deep C’ profile is retained from the previous series, spec’d at 0.820 inches (20.8mm) at the 1st fret and 0.920 inches (23.4mm) by the 12th – pretty much the exact depths we measured.įor the record, the Tele’s neck is slab-sawn the Strat’s one-piece maple neck/fingerboard is rift-sawn. And why not?īoth guitars come in pretty similar weight wise, neither feather-light nor far from heavy. There’s no Strat HH this time around the launch range here seems very focused on the big-hitters. The range of models, at least the initial releases, tick all the best-selling boxes, too: Strat, Tele, Strat HSS, Tele Deluxe (now with a larger 70s Strat-style headstock) and Jazzmaster. The deep C profile of the Am Pro I is retained, but all in, along with the narrow/tall wire on that everyman 241mm (9.5inch) radius, it’s hard to think how Fender could have improved things further. Along with a ‘smoother’ satin back finish – coined ‘Super-Natural’ – and a rich but not overdone amber tint, there’s a heavier rolling to the fingerboard edges. The other subtler changes are to the necks. The contoured heel, for example, is hardly new, but it knocks the old square edge off the treble side of the heel, something Leo would have probably done back in the day had he realised there was money to be made noodling around in those high-fret positions.įender has sensibly retained the Micro-Tilt neck pitch adjustment here, too.
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