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Post subject: NEW American Vintage Series Guitars: Pure Vintage!
Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2012 10:00 am
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FENDER® INTRODUCES NEW AMERICAN VINTAGE SERIES GUITARS

Fresh lineup has new features, new specs and most meticulous level of vintage accuracy yet

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (August 21, 2012) — Fender’s American Vintage series introduces an all-new lineup of original-era model year guitars that bring Fender history and heritage to authentic and exciting new life. With key features and pivotal design elements spanning the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s, new American Vintage series instruments delve deep into Fender’s roots—preserving an innovative U.S. guitar-making legacy and vividly demonstrating how many of the most desirable instruments of the past can be expertly recreated in look, feel and sound.

The American Vintage Series has long presented some of Fender’s best-selling guitars (their early-’80s introduction, in fact, was one of the first signs that Fender was “back” as the CBS era ended). Today, Fender has boldly cleared the slate to make way for a fresh American Vintage series with new features, new specs and the most meticulous level of vintage accuracy yet. Rather than just replacing the previous models with different ones, the entire vintage-reissue concept has been completely and comprehensively re-imagined—restoring original tooling dies, voicing new pickups, reformulating vintage colors and more—based on actual vintage guitars designers tracked down to ensure even greater accuracy.

All the new American Vintage Series guitars feature thick and slim necks with profiles and edges carefully re-sculpted to reflect even greater period-correct authenticity, with both maple and rosewood fingerboards, vintage-style frets and bone nuts; all-new vintage-style pickups wound to period-correct specs and sound to accurately reflect specific model years, and even specific periods within specific model years; retooled pickguards, parts and hardware designed to accurately reflect specific model years (and again, even specific periods within specific model years), and standard and custom-color finishes re-formulated for even greater period-correct authenticity.

The new guitars are the American Vintage ’56, ’59 and ’65 Stratocaster® models (’56 model also in left-handed version), American Vintage ’58 and ’64 Telecaster® models (’64 model also in left-handed version), American Vintage ’65 Jazzmaster® and American Vintage ’65 Jaguar®. Also, the American Vintage ’52 Telecaster returns to the fold (in right- and left-handed versions) with body, neck and pickups refined with the best features—tones, curves, perimeters, radii and more—from a handful of extraordinary ’52 Telecaster specimens examined by Fender craftsmen.

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Post subject: Re: NEW American Vintage Series Guitars!
Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2012 10:17 am
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'57, '62 and '70s Strats, '62 Custom Tele, '62 Jag and Jazzmaster - discontinued.

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Did Fender has more plans for new AVRI basses? Perhaps a '54 P-Bass with a single-coil pickup, a '70s fretless with an unlined maple fretboard or a '66 J-Bass with a bound dot neck?


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Post subject: Re: NEW American Vintage Series Guitars!
Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2012 10:37 am
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Those Strats look nice. Might have to get a 56. That 65 looks nice, surprised they picked that year to do one.

I'm waiting for some International Series resissues to come out, those colors would be cool.


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Post subject: Re: NEW American Vintage Series Guitars!
Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2012 10:41 am
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Those Strats look nice. Might have to get a 56. That 65 looks nice, surprised they picked that year to do one.

I'm waiting for some International Series resissues to come out, those colors would be cool.


I think they picked 1965 to get a Strat with a round lam fingerboard into the mix.

Brad - by the way there is an error in the page for the '59 Strats with rosewood boards - the specs say they have a slab fingerboard (which they clearly do per the photos - and a very nice touch on getting the shape up on the headstock behind the nut correct to vintage and CS Time Machines) but the clickable links at the bottom of the page next to the thumbnails of each guitar read that they have a round lam fingerboard.


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Post subject: Re: NEW American Vintage Series Guitars!
Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2012 11:36 am
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I want one, if they had one when I got my USA deluxe tele I would have snapped one of them up!! Still I win all round because I have a superb guitar.

I'll have to save up the pennies and start sweet-talking the wife!

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Post subject: Re: NEW American Vintage Series Guitars!
Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2012 1:22 pm
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Now I know what I want for Xmas -and I also know that I'll have to buy it myself :lol:
It has to be the new AVRI '52 tele

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Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2012 5:44 pm
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Brad - how about a 9.5" radius / medium jumbo frets option on each of these models. I would grab one of each no question!!! Please put in the good word!!! Thanks :D


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Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2012 9:05 pm
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For those asking about upcoming additions to the series ... my lips are sealed but I can certainly put in a good word. :-)

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Post subject: Re: NEW American Vintage Series Guitars!
Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2012 9:48 pm
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They finally got the string-tree location correct on the Strat, Jag, and JM!

Now if they'd only widen the available color palette a skosh......

Think "Ocean Turquoise Metallic", "Ice Blue Metallic", and "Shoreline Gold".

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Post subject: Re: NEW American Vintage Series Guitars!
Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2012 12:45 am
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Pathetic choice for us lefties yet again, sunburst and the BSB, both already available to buy now. where's the LPB? Or the White? Would it actually hurt them to offer more finishes for us? Geez, Gibson they ain't!!

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Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2012 2:06 am
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and all I want for Christmas is.....decisions decisions......they all look so sweeet :wink:

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Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2012 12:07 pm
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Brad Traweek - Fender wrote:
For those asking about upcoming additions to the series ... my lips are sealed but I can certainly put in a good word. :-)



Well in that case....


56 RI P bass, 66 RI Slab Body P bass, and 78 RI P Bass with A width P neck...


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Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2012 11:59 pm
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Fender has done it again, beautiful series!

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