Fender Stratocaster

:Strat redirects here. For the drinking game see: Strat (drinking game).

Current models

Fender now offers an extensive line of vintage Stratocaster reissues and more modern variants (with the same basic shape and features)—built in California, Mexico, Japan, and Korea—as well as maintaining a Custom Shop that builds guitars to order. Those who wish period-accurate replicas can obtain Strats and other Fender instruments with original-style cloth-coated wiring, pickup and electronics designs, wood routing patterns, and even artificial aging and rusting of components using the Custom Shop "relic" process.

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Fender also offers both Custom Shop and regular production Artist Series guitars, featuring replicas of the Stratocasters played by famous guitarists such as Adrian Belewhttp://www.adrianbelew.net, Bonnie Raitt, Eric Clapton (see Eric Clapton Stratocaster), Mary Kaye, Yngwie J. Malmsteen, Buddy Guy, Mark Knopfler, Robert Cray, Eric Johnson, Dick Dale, Jeff Beck, the late Stevie Ray Vaughan and many others. Other notable Strat players include Buddy Holly, George Harrison (in the later years of the Beatles), David Gilmour (who owns Strat #0001), John Mayer, Robin Trower, Ritchie Blackmore, John Frusciante, Craig Nicholls, Brian May, Kurt Cobain, and Jimi Hendrix. Very few electric guitarists, amateur or professional, have not played a Stratocaster at some point in their careers.

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Bonnie Raitt - Eric Clapton - Eric Clapton Stratocaster - Mary Kaye - Yngwie J. Malmsteen - Buddy Guy - Mark Knopfler - Robert Cray - Eric Johnson - Dick Dale - Jeff Beck - Stevie Ray Vaughan - Buddy Holly - George Harrison - Beatles - David Gilmour - John Mayer - Robin Trower - Ritchie Blackmore - John Frusciante - Craig Nicholls - Brian May - Kurt Cobain - Jimi Hendrix

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See the article on the Fender company for further details on the Stratocaster's various designations and countries of manufacture.

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