The Fender Player Stratocaster HSS PF, Polar White is designed for the aspiring guitarist, featuring Fender's iconic tones and style coupled with modern components. The classic Stratocaster body is crafted from alder, delivering a well-balanced, and dynamic tone. The maple neck enhances the tone with plenty of brightness and sustain, whilst the pau ferro fingerboard provides sparkling highs and good depth.The neck has a modern 'C' profile, designed to offer superb comfort and smooth play. This Fender Player Strat is loaded with HSS configured Player Series pickups. The pickups consist of a New Player Series Humbucker and two Single-Coils, which produce classic Fender tones packed with plenty of punch. The Fender Player Stratocaster HSS PF is also equipped with a 2-point Synchronised Tremolo, providing players with unique pitch bending effects and increased versatility. Finished in sleek Polar White with a cream pickguard, the Fender Player Stratocaster is the perfect companion for guitarists who appreciate tone and style.
High-Quality Electronics & Hardware
This Stratocaster is equipped with a range of high-quality components, delivering a professional performance to players on a budget. The set of Player Series pickups are in HSS configuration, with a New Player Series Humbucking and two Single-Coils. These pickups are infused with the soul of Fender, providing all the classic tones associated with many guitar legends. A toggle switch, tone controls, and volume control provides excellent tone shaping capabilities, allowing players to dial in the perfect tone for their playing style. The 2-point synchronised tremolo provides players with stunning pitch shifting effects, while the addition of a synthetic bone nut help enhance the natural resonance and string stability.
Crafted With a Solid Alder Body
Alder is favoured by most players for its incredibly balanced tone, offering the perfect dynamic range to suit most musical styles. The alder body is perfect for playing a wide range of musical styles, with its excellent sustain and resonance ensuring each note is heard. Its bright, sizzling highs, rounded lows, and beefy midrange sets up the foundation of the guitar's overall tone, allowing players to achieve the perfect sounds for most playing styles.
Maple Neck & Pau Ferro Fingerboard
This Fender Player Stratocaster features a Modern 'C' shaped is designed for an incredibly comfortable playing experience, allowing the hand to fully cup the neck and deliver smooth navigation of the fingerboard. The maple neck provides beautifully bright tones, with searing highs and strong mids for a dynamic performance, whilst the pau ferro fingerboard offers a balanced tone with sparkling highs and good depth.
The History of the Stratocaster
When many people think of an electric guitar, this is the one that leaps to mind. The Stratocaster is one of the world's most popular guitars and is an elegantly versatile creation. Not long after Fender revolutionised music with the Telecaster and the Precision Bass, in 1954 they debuted the Stratocaster and it quickly became universally regarded as the archetypal electric guitar. Sleek and stylish aesthetics, smooth playing and tonally versatile, at the heart the Stratocaster remains a fantastic instrument - producing unmistakable sound with a timeless design. A first choice among players worldwide, there is simply nothing that sings, screams, whispers, moans, roars, rocks and rolls like a Fender Stratocaster.
Specifications:
Body:
Series: Player
Body: Alder
Shape: Stratocaster
Construction: Bolt-On
Finish: Polar White
Neck & Fingerboard:
Neck: Maple
Profile: Modern "C"
Scale Length: 25.5"
Fingerboard: Pau Ferro
Radius: 9.5"
Frets: 22 Medium Jumbo
Inlays: White Dots
Nut: Synthetic Bone
Nut Width: 1.650"
Electronics & Hardware:
Bridge Pickup: New Player Series Humbucking
Middle Pickup: New Player Series Single-Coil
Neck Pickup: New Player Series Single-Coil
Controls: Master Volume, Tone 1 (Neck/Middle Pickups), Tone 2 (Bridge Pickup)
Switching: 5-Position Blade
Tuning Machines: Standard Cast/Sealed
Control Knobs: Parchment Plastic
Bridge: 2-Point Synchronised Tremolo w/Bent Steel Saddles
Pickguard: 3-Ply Parchment
Hardware: Nickel/Chrome
Strings: Fender USA, NPS, (.009-.042 Gauges)
Case Included: No