Description
Fender went back to actual vintage instruments to get this one right. The American Vintage ’65 Stratocaster isn’t a reissue built from guesswork – it’s built from tooling dies, pickup voicings, and color formulas pulled directly from original mid-’60s guitars, then re-created with a level of accuracy that previous vintage series never quite reached.
What made 1965 a turning point for the Strat shows up here in full: a thick C-shaped maple neck paired with a round-laminated dark rosewood fingerboard and those larger pearl dot inlays players associate with the era. The lightweight alder body wears a three-ply white pickguard with the correct 11-hole layout, topped off in this listing’s Olympic White finish. Small details carry the vintage feel further, including aged plastic knobs, period-correct bridge saddle design, and accurate tuner spacing.
Underneath the pickguard sit three American Vintage ’65 Grey-Bottom single-coil pickups, wound to match the tone of the period rather than modern output standards. The familiar 5-position blade switch and dual-tone/master-volume control layout give you the full range of classic Strat voices, from glassy neck tones to that quacky in-between bridge/middle snap.
- Mid-’60s C-shaped neck, 21 vintage-style frets, 7.25″ fingerboard radius
- Round-laminated rosewood fingerboard with 1.650″ nut width
- Three American Vintage ’65 Grey-Bottom single-coil pickups (S/S/S)
- American Vintage synchronized tremolo bridge, bone nut
- Single-line Fender Deluxe vintage-style tuning machines
- Strung with Fender USA 250R NPS strings (.010-.046)
Built in the USA, this is a Strat for players who want the ’65 experience without hunting down an actual vintage original.
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