FENDER REPRESENTATIVE: Thank you for tuning in. We have here an American Standard Stratocaster, chrome red body, a very beautiful guitar. This is another classic guitar. These guitars have been around for a very long time.

It’s a 25.5” scale, it’s an alder body, and it’s kind of a lighter wood. It gives it a very unique tone. A maple neck; it’s a bolt-on neck, flip it around and you can see the classic Fender. Twenty-two medium jumbo frets, maple fretboard. This is actually I really enjoy this fretboard. Very comfortable. Black dot inlays. It’s got a biflex truss rod. If you take a look up at the top, it’s got the Fender Schaller tuners. Again, this is a classic headstock, Fender style. This is a string tree right here. And if you take a look at the back, you got your serial number and your Fender Schaller tuners.

Also, you can get a whammy bar for this guitar, which is a lot of fun, down at the bridge here, and it comes with American Strat single-coil pickups. This is the American two-point synchronized tremolo, which is a lot of fun. I recommend getting one of those as soon as you purchase this guitar. It’s a five-voice selector toggle switch, one volume, two tone knobs. Let’s take a listen. So, this is in your neck position.

[FENDER REPRESENTATIVE PLAYING THE FENDER AMERICAN STANDARD STRATOCASTER, NECK PICKUP ENGAGED]

Now we’re going to slowly move it on towards the bridge position, one selection at a time.

[FENDER REPRESENTATIVE PLAYING THE FENDER AMERICAN STANDARD STRATOCASTER, UTILIZING NECK AND MIDDLE PICKUP COMBINATION THEN SUBSEQUENTLY USING THE MIDDLE PICKUP AND BRIDGE PLUS MIDDLE PICKUP COMBINATION]

Again, another different tone. This guitar is capable of producing a lot of different tones.

[FENDER REPRESENTATIVE PLAYING THE FENDER AMERICAN STANDARD STRATOCASTER, BRIDGE AND MIDDLE PICKUPS ENGAGED]

And then finally the bridge position.

[FENDER REPRESENTATIVE PLAYING THE FENDER AMERICAN STANDARD STRATOCASTER, BRIDGE PICKUP ENGAGED]

This is your classic Fender sound.

[FENDER REPRESENTATIVE PLAYING THE FENDER AMERICAN STANDARD STRATOCASTER, BRIDGE PICKUP ENGAGED]

If you throw a little distortion on that, just about anything is possible.

[FENDER REPRESENTATIVE PLAYING THE FENDER AMERICAN STANDARD STRATOCASTER, BRIDGE PICKUP ENGAGED WITH DISTORTION]

You can already hear the sound. That’s the classic Fender sound that people have been using...

[FENDER REPRESENTATIVE PLAYING THE FENDER AMERICAN STANDARD STRATOCASTER, BRIDGE PICKUP ENGAGED WITH DISTORTION]

...and greats have been using for years.

[FENDER REPRESENTATIVE PLAYING THE FENDER AMERICAN STANDARD STRATOCASTER, BRIDGE PICKUP ENGAGED WITH DISTORTION]

So, that was the bridge pickup. We can go ahead and move back towards the neck pickup here.

[FENDER REPRESENTATIVE PLAYING THE FENDER AMERICAN STANDARD STRATOCASTER, NECK PICKUP ENGAGED WITH DISTORTION]

Get more of a blues sound.

[FENDER REPRESENTATIVE PLAYING THE FENDER AMERICAN STANDARD STRATOCASTER, BRIDGE PICKUP ENGAGED WITH DISTORTION]

And here you have the Fender Deluxe molded case that comes with the American Standard Stratocaster. Very soft interior. You got a little packet here with all your little toys and gizmos in there, and it’s a great case to keep your guitar from getting crushed. You can’t put a price on that.