Fender Musical Instruments Corp. and Mad Catz, the official third-party developer of Rock Band, peripherals and accessories, have come together to co-develop a full-scale, wooden Stratocaster replica controller to be used in Harmonix Music Systems’ wildly-successful Rock Band video games.
The controller will be the only wooden replica controller compatible with the Xbox gaming platform and [...]
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Fender is very active lately with its signature products having released models for David Gilmour, Billy Corgan and now Kenny Wayne Shepherd, who started playing a Stratocaster many years ago. The Fender Kenny Wayne Shepherd Stratocaster Guitar is based on a 1961 Strato owned by Sheperd which can be heard in many of its recordings, [...]
This is not exactly a new product, although it will be, but I found interesting to see, specially for the Yngwie fans, that Fender has added more info than the coming soon label that is in the Fender Yngwie Malmsteen Tribute Series Stratocaster micro-site.
This tribute guitar looks like an aged model, well looking deeply it [...]
Another guitar today, this one from Fender that makes bigger its signature line with a model designed with Gilmour (and his guitar tech) and based on the Black Strat that the Pink Floyd guitar player has been using from 1970 and that appears in most of his albums. The Fender David Gilmour Signature Stratocaster Guitar [...]
We come back, after a long hiatus, with one of the most surprising models released during the Summer NAMM show is the Fender Billy Corgan Signature Stratocaster, developed by Fender and the frontman of the recently-regrouped Smashing Pumpkins. The guitar includes almost all the specifications of an American Fender but with some improvements made by [...]
Here we have another model to include in the not-for-everyone guitar list, the new Fender GT500KR Stratocaster Guitar, released in collaboration between Fender and Ford to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Ford Shelby GT500KR. The guitar is a very limited edition, only 100 units will be available, and includes the classic car’s cobra logo.
The [...]
Have you ever seen a 12-string Stratocaster, me not I must confess, but last month Fender introduced the Fender Stratocaster XII 12-String Special Edition, a reissued version of the original 12-string Stratocaster model released in the 80s. The guitar has the same body and look of a standard Strat but with 12-string headstock that does [...]
We are getting some news from Fender, to celebrate the George Fullertone return to Fender and the 50th Anniversary of the first Stratocaster models success Fender is releasing a guitar & amp signature limited edition pack, The Fender George Fullertone Guitar & Amp pack includes a ‘57 Stratocaster and a Pro Junior Amp.
The Fender George [...]
There have been 2 announcements about signature guitars last week, the first one is about the Fender Stevie Ray Vaughan “Lenny” Tribute Stratocaster, an exact replica of the ‘65 Strat owned by Stevie Ray Vaughan which was used to write the song Lenny. After a few changes, like the new maple fretboard, and the tragic [...]
Seems like, lately, a lot of guitar companies, specially Fender and Gibson, want to have all the limited edition products they can. We have the Guitar of the Week series, the Andy Summers Tribute Telecaster, Jimmy Page Double-neck guitar or the relic series, and the series that produces more units is under 500 models. Now [...]
