COLOURS & WOODS
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.