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Can the relic'ing on a Fender Mike McCready Road Worn Strat be 'improved'? This video finds out
It turns out that one of the key ingredients is a relic wax made by one of the UK's top pickup builders
Strats ’n’ stripes: Watch The Star-Spangled Banner played through dimed Marshalls in empty warehouse
Two gear nuts go full on Strats ’n’ stripes in a deserted 250,000 sq ft warehouse, and it sounds magnificent
Strats and Teles in spruce, sugar pine, sassafras? Fender unveils American Performer Timber series
New for summer 2024, the Timber series is right there for your tastes in adventurous tonewoods, with satin finished Mocha, Honey Burst and 2-Color Sunburst models on the menu
"It's a nuclear violin": Yngwie Malmsteen gives us a Strat history lesson
He loves Strats and he knows his muses intimately: "70 years ago this was very futuristic – it's a futuristic design now"
Watch what happens when you play a Strat through a cranked Fender Super Reverb in an empty warehouse
Pedal Pawn’s Chris King Robinson conducts an experiment that shows how strange and magical things happen when you dime old tube amps in large, empty spaces
“I can only say I am 1,000% happy with the end result”: Seymour Duncan and Eric Gales team up for a pickup set to give your S-style a “perfect balance of vintage warmth and modern clarity”
We might not be able to play like the blues-rock phenom but now we can feed our Strat what Gales' Magneto RawDog has been eating
“I saw the Olympic White with the pearl on it and I was just blown away”: Fender unveils Lincoln Brewster signature Strat – a vintage-inspired stunner with “stealth mods” and lots of them
The worship guitarist's new Strat nails the vintage vibe but with a trio of DiMarzios, a compound radius 'board and a midboost, it's no blast from the past. You're so cool, Brewster Strat!
"When I heard you play, I said, 'that sounds something like Guitar Slim, BB King and myself'. I've got to talk to you, to get to know you" – when Buddy Guy met Christone 'Kingfish' Ingram
The blues fire burns bright here
“My God, it’s hard to get in tune when they’re booing": when Bob Dylan faced down his detractors with a Strat and made rock n' roll history
In 1965, Bob Dylan strapped on a Stratocaster, then a Telecaster, and ushered in a bold new folk-rock sound. But he'd actually gone electric six months earlier…
“Jimi once said he’d been imitated so well that people had even copied his mistakes”: Watch Nile Rodgers, Tom Morello, Rebecca Lovell and more celebrate 70 years of the Strat in an all-star cover of Voodoo Child
To mark the Stratocaster's 70th Anniversary, Fender got 10 of today's Strat players to pay tribute to its most famous player – and turn loose the wah – on a cover of Voodoo Child (Slight Return)