Guitarist

COLOURS & WOODS

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With a major range like this, you’d expect a broad colour choice, and combined with the two body woods – roasted pine and alder – plus maple or rosewood fingerboar­ds, the actual choice becomes quite staggering. There are 15 Stratocast­ers, 10 Stratocast­er HSS models, 11 Teles, five Jazzmaster­s and six Tele Deluxe models!

So, the three-single-coil Stratocast­er with a roasted pine body is available in its natural finish, called Roasted Pine (with both maple and rosewood fingerboar­d options), and Sienna Sunburst (maple only). All the other colours are over an alder body: Mercury with rosewood-only fingerboar­d, and Miami Blue and Black with maple only. The remaining colours – Miami Blue, Dark Night, Olympic White and Mystic Surf Green – are all available with both fingerboar­d woods.

Our Stratocast­er HSS is slightly more limited: the roasted pine body is only available with a maple fingerboar­d in Roasted Pine and Sienna Sunburst. The alder body models come in 3-Color Sunburst and Olympic White with both fingerboar­d options; Mercury, Miami Blue and Dark Night are only available with rosewood; and Mystic Surf Green is only offered with a maple ’board.

There are three Telecaster­s with a roasted pine body – Roasted Pine, Sienna Sunburst and Butterscot­ch Blonde – all with a maple-only ’boards. The alderbodie­d models, like our Mercury, and Mystic Surf Green, Dark Night and Olympic White come with rosewood ’boards only; 3-Color Sunburst comes with both fingerboar­d options and, finally, Black is only available with maple.

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