The American Vintage series introduces an all-new lineup of original-era model year guitars that bring Fender history and heritage to authentic and exciting new life. With key features and pivotal design elements spanning the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s, new American Vintage series instruments delve deep into Fender's roots—expertly preserving an innovative U.S. guitar-making legacy and vividly demonstrating like never before that Fender not only knows where it's going, but also remembers where it came from.

The American Vintage Series has long presented some of Fender's best selling guitars (their early-'80s introduction, in fact, was one of the first signs that Fender was "back" as the CBS era ended). Today, Fender has boldly cleared the slate to make way for a fresh American Vintage series with new features, new specs and the most meticulous level of vintage accuracy yet. Rather than just replacing the previous models with different ones, we've completely and comprehensively re-imagined the entire vintage-reissue concept—restoring original tooling dies, voicing new pickups, reformulating vintage colors and more—based on actual vintage guitars we tracked down to make sure we had it right. We did the work, and it shows, because there's pure tonal magic in each new American Vintage instrument.

The American Vintage '59 Stratocaster® presents two versions of that year's pivotal transitional model; one from early 1959 and one from later 1959. Both have the slim-profile C-shaped maple neck of that year, with the earlier version featuring a maple fingerboard, faded Three-color Sunburst finish and single-ply white pickguard with eight holes; the later version (in faded Three-color Sunburst, Black and limited faded Sonic Blue finishes) featuring a dark rosewood slab fingerboard and three-ply mint green pickguard with 10 holes and vintage-style edge bevels. Both also feature a lightweight alder body, aged plastic knobs and vintage-accurate pickups, bridge saddles, tuner spacing and more.

Specs

General	General
Model Name	American Vintage '59 Stratocaster®
Series	American Vintage
Color	Faded Sonic Blue
Body	Body
Body Shape	Stratocaster®
Body Material	Alder
Neck	Neck
Neck Shape	"D" Shape
Number of Frets	21
Fret Size	Vintage-Style
Fingerboard Radius	7.25" (184.1 mm)
Fingerboard	Slab Rosewood or Maple
Neck Material	Maple
Nut Width	1.650" (42 mm)
Scale Length	25.5" (648 mm)
Truss Rods	Vintage-Style Heel Adjust
Electronics	Electronics
Pickup Configuration	S/S/S
Bridge Pickup	American Vintage Single-Coil '59 Strat®
Middle Pickup	American Vintage Single-Coil '59 Strat®
Neck Pickup	American Vintage '59 Single-Coil Strat®
Pickup Switching	5-Position Blade: Position 1. Bridge Pickup, Position 2. Bridge and Middle Pickup, Position 3. Middle Pickup, Position 4. Middle and Neck Pickup, Position 5. Neck Pickup
Controls	Master Volume, Tone 1. (Neck Pickup), Tone 2. (Bridge/Middle Pickup)
Hardware	Hardware
Hardware Finish	Chrome
Bridge	American Vintage Synchronized Tremolo
String Nut	Bone
Tuning Machines	Single Line "Fender Deluxe" Vintage Style
Miscellaneous	Miscellaneous
Strings	Fender® USA 250R NPS, (.010-.046 Gauges)
Unique Features	Early-1959 model in faded Three-color Sunburst has slim-profile D-shaped maple neck and single-ply white pickguard with eight holes; Later 1959 model in faded Three-color Sunburst, Black and limited faded Sonic Blue has slim-profile D-shaped maple neck, dark rosewood slab fingerboard and three-ply mint green pickguard with 10 holes; All-new pickups wound to period-correct specs and sound; Vintage-accurate bridge saddles and tuner spacing
Accessories	Accessories
Control Knobs	Aged White Plastic