Why Fender is building its $599 Standard Series in Indonesia – and how its ideological shift delivers better value for players
Fender’s EVP of Product Justin Norvell explains what convinced Fender to change its mindset on where its guitars are built – ...
12-string Teles, baritone offsets, and diamond-laced Strats headline the Fender Custom Shop's 2025 Prestige Collection
Featuring half-a-dozen Strats, a pair of Teles, a Meteora, and a rare Performer model, all handcrafted, the Prestige Collection aims to represent the best of the best from the vaunted Fender Custom Sh ...
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Why the Fender Esquire remains a stone-cold classic
Loved by Billy Gibbons, Steve Cropper and Jeff Beck, the Fender Esquire is one of those guitars that have stood the test of time and proved that sometimes one pickup is all you need ...
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The Electric Guitar Played During Bob Dylan’s 1965 Newport Folk Festival Set Could Be Yours
A 1963 Fender Telecaster has popped up for sale at ... and it’s being handled now by RetroFret Vintage Guitars in Brooklyn. The Telecaster—which sports a blonde lacquer finish, ash body ...
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“I had him mix some paint there on the spot, and finally we came up with Fiesta Red!” With one decision, Fender increased the desirability —and future value — of a ...
Fender custom colors were offered for a small upcharge after a handful of customers requested their guitars in special finishes ...
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You Can Own a Guitar Played on ‘Like A Rolling Stone’ and at Newport ’65 — For $275,000
In August 1963, a yellow Telecaster emerged from Fender’s original California ... New York’s Retrofret Vintage Guitars. Bloomfield, who was the guitar player in the Paul Butterfield Blues ...
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5 Guitars That Are Almost as Iconic as Their Players
From country to rock to blues, we explore five iconic guitars almost as distinctive as the musicians who play them.
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‘It Sat in the Closet, Haunting Me’: The Lie That Led to Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy Picking up His First Guitar (Video)
In a video interview with Reverb, Jeff Tweedy discusses how he got started playing guitar and shows off his collection of vintage gear.
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Help! British Airways Destroyed Our Guitar and Won’t Pay Up.
Two guitars belonging to a gospel band were ... True, the lost luggage was cooler than most Samsonites: a Fender Telecaster that was recovered, and a Casio MIDI so thoroughly destroyed that ...
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NAMM 2025 as it happened: rolling news from the world's biggest music-making gear show
It feels like only yesterday that Martin Guitars was honouring 2.5 million ... if you're into that kind of thing. Fender's invite-only event on Thursday saw its full Standard Series Strat, Tele and P ...
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Best electric guitars 2025: Our pick of guitars to suit all budgets
To be totally honest, it’s nigh on impossible to select the best electric guitar. Guitars come in such a variety of styles and configurations that finding a single instrument in such a crowded ...
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More than a dozen specialty guitars worth $70K reported stolen from Austin music studio
AUSTIN, Texas — Several Austin-based musicians are asking for help after they say more than a dozen unique guitars worth tens of thousands of dollars were stolen from their East Austin studio ...