Vintage REVISITED
The last few years have seen Fender work its way through its extensive catalogue, reorganising and revamping at key price points. With the American Performer, Professional, Original and Elite lines now bang up to date, the company’s big launch for Summer 2019 is Vintera–21 vintage-inspired electric guitars and basses made in the coastal Mexican city of Ensenada, available in a rainbow of vintage hues and priced between £689-999.
If some of the Vintera Series instruments (vintage… era… geddit?) look especially familiar, it’s because Vintera is essentially an amalgam of the old Classic Series and Classic Player Series. Popular models such as the Baja Telecaster and Classic Player Jazzmaster survive here, albeit in updated and rebadged form. In this first look at the 2019 range, we’ve got our hands on the ’50s Telecaster, ’60s Jazzmaster Modified and ’70s Stratocaster.
The Vintera Series can be split broadly into two, based on whether a model has ‘Modified’ in its name. Like their Classic Series forebears, the 15 models
