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TheĪmerican Specials we received for review do To the former’s five and the latter’s seven. Only two available for each model, compared Standard and American Standard models, with Minimal compared to those offered for both the Whereas the Standard and American Standardįinish options for the American Specials are Highway One, the American Special offers onlyĪ maple fingerboard on the single-coil Strat (theĪmerican Special HSS Strat board is rosewood), Important detail to point out is that, like the In mostĮvery aspect of the neck, the American Special Spacing of other Fenders might wonder why
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Thing to note, but players used to the 42 mm Width at the nut-this might seem like a trivial Part of thatĭifference might be due to the extra 1 mm of The neck isįinished in a satin urethane and capped off withĪ large ‘70s-era Fender headstock, but it has aĭifferent feel compared to the satin urethane The American Special features a standard truss
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There areĢ2 frets instead of the Standard’s 21, and the fret size is full jumbo, as opposed to the medium The American Special Strat and Tele both have In relation to its south-of-the-border brethren,
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It’s best to compare the American Specials toĪmerican Standard series and the Mexican-made Produces bearing the Strat and Tele namesakes, With the number of models Fender currently To their more expensive domestic brethren, Important is how they measure up in quality The bills (or at least some of them), it’s lessĬlear how important that will be. Workhorse Fender electric with which to pay To whom it means a lot, it means a lot, butįor the price-conscious buyer looking for a They’re of a higher quality simply because Purchase them based on the assumption that Players will only buy US-made guitars forĮthical reasons, and want to feel that they’re In the U.S.A.” label, but that might turn In the American Special recipe is the “made Legendary American-made quality at a price United States? As we’ve said, props shouldīe given to Fender for answering the callįrom players and addressing the desire for Important is the fact that they’re made in the Price point-quite effectively blurring the Right around $800, and Fender has numerous Trade-off become reasonable? Street price Themselves aren’t a radical departure from Have expressed a desire for an American-made Justify replacing the trusted and well-wornįender guitars already in their possession. If they have anything new to offer, and if they Looking at this new series will rightly wonder So particular that it’s totally unlike anythingĪlready available in Fender’s lineup, so those The Highway One and Classic Player seriesīefore it, isn’t out to offer an instrument These storied instruments as there are kinds Namely the Telecaster and the Stratocaster-Īnd there are nearly as many iterations of Offering ever more variations on two of the Has been very successful at its strategy of To working guitarists, however, turns out Finding the LineĪssessing the value these newcomers offer Is, we think, a testament to the company’sĭemands become more… well, challenging. That Fender appears to have pulled it off To have an American-madeįender in 2010 is some dream, and the fact So many foreign-made guitars have clearlyĭemonstrated themselves as equals to theirĭomestic rivals in quality, even exceeding (once you’ve adjusted for inflation) a fractionĪmerican manufacturing-and at a time when US-made Fender for a price that is basically Have been, since in practice it means giving We assume that even the functionally cluelessĬan appreciate what a challenge that must Guitar to the workingman without emptying
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The new American Special series representsįender’s efforts to “bring the full FenderĮxperience of a terrific-sounding, smooth-playing,
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