Can You Tell Me Little About Fender Stratocasters?

The Fender Stratocaster is a guitar designed and manufactured by Fender guitars. The Fender Stratocaster is also generally referred to as the Fender Strat. The manufacturing of the guitar began in the year 1954 and it is still very active in production. The body type of the Fender Strat is solid with Bolt-on construction. The body of a Fender Strat is generally Alder or Ash. The neck of the guitar is made of Maple. The Fretboard of the Fender Strat is made up of Maplewood, Rosewood or a Pau Ferro. The hardware of a Fender Strat includes a synchronized tremolo fixed on its bridge. It has 3-single coil pick ups.

A Fender Stratocaster is worth buy for any guitar player interested in Blues and Jazz. As the Fender Strat comprises of 3 single coil pick ups it give a very hard rockish rhythm crunch. The middle pick up delivers a very warm clean tone and the neck pick up delivers a very sweet and mellow lead tone.

Most famous guitar players that use or have used a Fender Strat include Frank Zappa, Erich Johnson, Jimi Hendrix and the famous guitar duo from Iron Maiden; Dave Murray and Adrian Smith.