Super Sonic

If the soothsayers and experts of the social media world had their way, Fender’s 2019 launch of the Acoustasonic Telecaster would be erased from history, consigned to the ‘What Were They Thinking?’ lists. It was quickly dismissed as ‘ugly’, ‘too expensive’… ‘just plain wrong!’ Thankfully, that snapshot is not the real world, and 12 months on a Stratocaster joins the Acoustasonic ranks.

“The Acoustasonic Telecaster vastly exceeded our expectations,” beams Tim Shaw, one of the Fender design team responsible for the Tele model and the new Strat version, at this year’s NAMM Show. “I think one thing is that you give the Acoustasonic Tele to three players and they’ll all approach it differently. knew what it was.