Fender Artist Series Guitars

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Fender Artist Series Billy Corgan Stratocaster Electric Guitar Black View

Fender’s Billy Corgan Stratocaster guitar is designed for the millennium and built for modern high-gain sound. Made to Corgan’s exact specs to create his famous mid-’90s buzz-saw tone, this instrument features three DiMarzio® pickups (two custom for this instrument), a string-through hardtail bridge and a satin nitrocellulose lacquer finish.

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Fender Artist Series Dave Murray Stratocaster Electric Guitar Black View

Guitarist Dave Murray of seminal U.K. metal heroes Iron Maiden has been banging his head with Fender since the mid ’70s. Murray recently joined forces with Fender to create a signature model based on his own ’57 Stratocaster, previously owned by late, great Free guitarist Paul Kossoff. The Dave Murray Stratocaster guitar boasts a supercharged HSH configuration—a DiMarzio® PAF® 36th Anniversary DP103 neck pickup, a DiMarzio® Super Distortion® DP100 bridge pickup and a Fender vintage-style middle pickup. Other features include a lacquer finish, and a flatter soft V-shaped neck with satin back.

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Fender Artist Series Eric Clapton Stratocaster Electric Guitar Olympic White View

Among the “cream” of the crop, this signature Strat offers special features including a trio of Fender Vintage Noiseless™ pickups, plus powerful active mid-boost and TBX circuits, all of which make it one of the most versatile instruments Fender offers. Other features include a special soft V-shaped neck and a blocked original vintage synchronized tremolo bridge.

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Fender Artist Series Eric Johnson Stratocaster Electric Guitar Candy Apple Red View

The long-awaited Eric Johnson Stratocaster guitar arose from Johnson’s express wish to give something back to the collectors, players and fans who’ve supported him throughout his career.

Designed by Johnson himself with his own personal features and preferences, this signature model has a highly contoured two-piece alder body with a very thin nitrocellulous lacquer finish. The one-piece quarter-sawn maple neck has a V-shaped profile, 12” fingerboard radius and 21 polished frets. The staggered vintage-style machine heads eliminate the need for a string tree, and the custom pickups are wound to Johnson’s specs. Other features include a parchment ’57-style pickguard, four-spring vintage tremolo, silver-painted block and ’57-style string recess with no paint between the base plate and the block.

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Fender Artist Series Eric Johnson Stratocaster Electric Guitar Dakota Red View

There is no greater example of guitar hero Eric Johnson’s devotion to his art than his new signature model Stratocaster guitar. With singular attention to detail, the new Eric Johnson Stratocaster RW features a two-piece alder body finished in thin-skin nitrocellulose lacquer, a quartersawn maple neck with bound round-laminated 12”-radius rosewood fretboard, a three-ply parchment pickguard, pickups voiced by Johnson himself, staggered vintage-style tuners, a custom tremolo block, and four brand-new finish options, three of which (Lucerne Aqua Firemist, Tropical Turquoise and Medium Palomino Metallic) are exclusive to this model.

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Fender Artist Series G.E. Smith Telecaster Electric Guitar Black View

As a child during the early 1960s, George Edward “G.E.” Smith got a Telecaster guitar for his birthday one year, and never looked back. Through his six hit-making years with Hall & Oates, his decade-long run as Saturday Night Live bandleader and his touring stints with Bob Dylan, Smith is widely hailed as a modern master of the Telecaster.

Fender is honored to present his new signature Tele®, a special guitar that combines a ’40s-era Fender lap steel with a ’50s-era Telecaster. Features include a large U-shaped maple neck, lap steel “oval and diamond” fingerboard inlays, custom cutoff vintage-style bridge plate and body-mounted bridge pickup.

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Fender Artist Series James Burton Telecaster Electric Guitar Red Paisley Flames View

Like its brother, the James Burton Standard Telecaster guitar, the James Burton Telecaster pays homage to the legendary guitarist.

Features include a basswood body with "fiery" finish, U-shaped ’60s neck, three special-design James Burton pickups, special five-way Strat-o-Tele switching, gold-plated Fender/Schaller® deluxe cast/sealed tuning machines with pearl or black chrome buttons, and gold hardware.

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Fender Artist Series Jim Adkins JA-90 Telecaster Thinline Electric Guitar Crimson Red Transparent View

When Jim Adkins, guitarist and frontman for platinum-selling Jimmy Eat World, cheerfully challenged Fender with designing his perfect guitar, a collaboration began that resulted in the new JA-90. Fender sat down with Adkins and went over his old Fender TC-90 spec by spec, making some important changes that subsequently produced this unique new model. Features include a mahogany neck set into a semi-hollow ash body, Seymour Duncan® soapbar pickups, independent volume and tone controls, an Adjusto-Matic™ bridge and anchored tailpiece. Sweetness, indeed!

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Fender Artist Series Jim Root Stratocaster Electric Guitar Flat Black View

Jim's signature guitar is a bare bones hot rod with dual EMG pickups, one knob and no inlays. No nonsense, just a great axe. Other features include black hardware, a compound 12-16 inch radius, and a flat finish.

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Fender Artist Series Jim Root Telecaster Electric Guitar White View

Plenty of modern features for big sounds! The Jim Root Telecaster (designed for the Slipknot/Stone Sour guitarist) will go to 11! Special features include a mahogany body, 12"-radius fingerboard, EMG® pickups, 22 Dunlop 6100 jumbo frets, black locking tuners and hardware, and a single volume knob. Available in a flat black finish with a maple neck and fingerboard with a white pickguard or in flat white with a maple neck, ebony fingerboard and a black pickgaurd. Includes black tweed hardshell case with red interior.

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Fender Artist Series Jimmie Vaughan Tex-Mex Stratocaster Electric Guitar 2-Tone Sunburst View

The Jimmie Vaughan Tex-Mex Strat guitar “borders” on the sublime, with an alder body, specially shaped tinted maple neck with medium jumbo frets, vintage hardware and single-ply white pickguard. The single-coil Tex-Mex pickups in the neck and middle positions, and extra-hot Tex-Mex pickup with special wiring in the bridge position, stir in tones with just the right amount of southwestern spice and rattlesnake bite.

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Fender Artist Series Jimmie Vaughan Tex-Mex Stratocaster Electric Guitar Black View

The Jimmie Vaughan Tex-Mex Strat guitar “borders” on the sublime, with an alder body, specially shaped tinted maple neck with medium jumbo frets, vintage hardware and single-ply white pickguard. The single-coil Tex-Mex pickups in the neck and middle positions, and extra-hot Tex-Mex pickup with special wiring in the bridge position, stir in tones with just the right amount of southwestern spice and rattlesnake bite.

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Fender Artist Series John Mayer Stratocaster Electric Guitar 3-Tone Sunburst View

Grammy® winner John Mayer has teamed up with Fender for this must-have signature guitar. Features include an alder body and satin urethane-finish maple neck with a slightly larger C-shape, topped by a buffed headstock with a vintage ’50s decal. The African rosewood fingerboard has a 9.5” radius and Dunlop® 6105 frets.

Other features include three new “Big Dipper” single-coil pickups with a special “scooped” mid-range voicing wound to Mayer’s exacting specs, an American Vintage synchronized tremolo with five tremolo springs (no back plate), Fender/Gotoh® vintage-style tuning keys and a three-ply brown shell pickguard.

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Fender Artist Series Kenny Wayne Shepherd Stratocaster Electric Guitar 3-Tone Sunburst View

Grammy®-nominated artist Kenny Wayne Shepherd has been carrying the blues torch since he exploded on the scene in the mid-’90s. Fender is proud to offer Shepherd’s new signature model Stratocaster model, inspired by his own vintage ’61 Stratocaster (currently on display at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame). The Kenny Wayne Shepherd Stratocaster features vintage styling coupled with modern appointments including Graph Tech® bridge saddles, a 12”-radius fretboard, a custom neck shape and jumbo frets.

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Fender Artist Series Kenny Wayne Shepherd Stratocaster Electric Guitar Arctic White Finish View

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Fender Artist Series Lee Ranaldo Jazzmaster Electric Guitar Sapphire Blue Transparent View

Special features of the Lee Ranaldo Jazzmaster include two new Fender Wide Range humbucking pickups re-voiced to original vintage spec, black anodized pickguard, American Vintage Jazzmaster tremolo with Mustang bridge and tremolo lock button, single master volume control, and a Sapphire Blue Transparent satin nitrocellulose lacquer finish and black-painted headstock, plus a Sonic Youth ’zine and sticker sheet.

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Fender Artist Series Mark Knopfler Stratocaster Electric Guitar Hot Rod Red View

The Mark Knopfler Stratocaster guitar is a true “Sultan of Swing,” with a Hot Rod Red ’57 Stratocaster ash body and vintage tinted ’62 C-shaped maple neck with rosewood fingerboard. Knopfler’s unmistakable tone comes from three Texas Special™ single-coil pickups and a five-way switch. Other features include Fender/Gotoh® vintage tuners, an American Vintage tremolo system, and Mark's signature on the headstock.

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Fender Artist Series Ritchie Blackmore Stratocaster Electric Guitar Olympic White View

Legendary guitarist Ritchie Blackmore has been creating memorable guitar riffs for decades. His deft phrasing and unmistakable tone have helped make the phrase “guitar solo” a household term. Blackmore and Fender are now proud to introduce the Ritchie Blackmore Signature Stratocaster guitar, based on his favorite ’70s model and featuring a maple neck with a graduated scalloped rosewood fretboard, Seymour Duncan® Quarter Pound Flat™ pickups, and ’70s-style “F” tuners. Deluxe gig bag included.

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