Finally, another choice for these -- the Products listings now includes black as a color choice for the CP 50's and Candy Apple Red for the CP 60's...

Yawn...

Not very nice.

Oldguy, interesting news. I have the CP 60s in 3 tone sunburst, and I love it. Now they're bringing it out in CAR - if they reverse-wound the middle pick up, it would be pretty much by my dream stratocaster. Makes me wonder what other color variations Fender will unleash this year.

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'10 Gibson LP Studio Faded
'09 Fender American Standard Stratocaster
'08 Fender Classic Player 60s Stratocaster
'07 Fender Classic Player Baja Telecaster
'05 Breedlove AC 25 SR Plus

I have a shoreline gold cp50s and I have been hoping they would offer the cp60s in CAR. I really like the classic player guitars. Excellent quality and features...

I really love my CP.. here it is in Surf Green

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Hey, Boy Blue is back!

Didn't mean to offend, sorry. Just that it's hard to find a used Fender that isn't black or candy apple red.

Definitely two babies deserving each other a set of VNs and "Elite" circuitry!

Hey Chromeface, can you show the first Strat photo (the black one) a little larger? I couldn't quite see it on my 21" monitor.

Why does Fender use the modern 2-pivot bridge instead of 6 if these are supposed tp be 50s and 60s guitars? That would stop me from buying one even though I deck my trem with 5 springs screwed fully tight and don't use it.

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Bill

Because the 2-point pivot with the vintage style bent-steel saddles was unique for the Classic Player series.

Still seems odd.

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Bill

Isnt this a classic series 50 and not a CP 50?

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Totally gratuitous gear list
2011 Mustang Special LPB (pawn shop series)
2011 Les Paul 50s Tribute series
2010 Highway one Strat Satin black with maple neck
1999 Fender Toronado
1959 Strat slab neck on a 1969 Strat body
1967 Gretsch Double Anniversary

Crap your right

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Hey, Boy Blue is back!

The Classic Player series was not intended to be faithful representation of 50's and 60's Strats. Rather, they are a hybrid of old-school Strat vibe (Classic) with modern, player-centric features. So while they have the overall look of vintage Strats, they depart from tradition with flatter fingerboard radius's, bigger frets, and the 2-point vibrato.

During their first years of production, the Classic Player Strats were made at the CS. These guitars featured select alder or ash bodies, C or V-shaped necks with abalone-dot inlaid rosewood or maple fingerboard, 22 medium-jumbo frets and Sperzel Trimlock staggered tuners. They also sported three Vintage Noiseless pickups with a dual-coil Ceramic pickup in the bridge position and an 8-hole gold anodized aluminum pickguard.

You always post some really cool stuff chromeface.

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