The man who invented history’s most iconic electric guitar couldn’t play ... what a genius Leo Fender was.” The Stratocaster also had timing on its side. It came out amid two other ...

The most pervasive, enduring and imitated of all guitar designs ... rest of the C-profile neck has a satin urethane feel. It’s your classic ‘best of both worlds’ scenario. Its pickups are slightly ...

2008 THE world's most famous electric guitar, the Fender Stratocaster, owes its name to two people. The first was Leo Fender, who founded the instrument-making company in 1946. The second was ...

The neck profile is a 60s C profile, so it should fill the palm quite nicely. But vintage feel or not, this Strat was designed to be something different. "Ultimately, I wanted to create a new guitar," ...

As it celebrates its 50th anniversary the Strat, which startled with its innovative design, has been named the "ultimate" guitar by experts at What Guitar? in a list to be published this week.

To celebrate the guitar’s 70th birthday ... October 2024 issue of Smithsonian magazine The Stratocaster also had timing on its side. It came out amid two other transformative innovations ...