This guitar probably left the factory around 1975, but it was put together earlier on by Philip Kubicki in Fender’s R&D department. It was likely made around 1971, and finally completed around ’75 as ...

Fender never offered a “deluxe” rendition of the Stratocaster until 1987, more than three decades after that model’s introduction. By contrast, the Telecaster proved ripe for modification on several ...

GUITAR SHOWCASE 2022: Few designs evolve from prototype to showroom floor in just a couple of years and then go on to remain relevant - and, in their essence, unchanged - for the next 70 years. Here, ...