SEEKING TO REFINE its vintage roster by offering models that embody the coolest and most interesting aspects of various production years, Fender recently launched a new line of guitars called Anerican Vintage II, which comprises five Telecasters, three Stratocasters, a Jazzmaster, and a Jazz Bass and two Precision Basses. They were chosen from years spanning 1951 to 1977, with a primary focus on getting the details correct for any given year that Fender produced these instruments..
“The idea was to go back to the original recipes and make sure we’re adhering to them,” says Justin Norvell, executive vice president of Fender products. “Because even if we’re doing guitars with stainless frets and compound-radius necks, there’s always that baseline of the vintage stuff. Over the many iterations of vintage reissues we’ve done, even our most recent American
