First Fender Stratocaster on sale for $250,000 "This is effectively like having the right Rembrandt or Van Gogh or Da Vinci," said the shop owner selling the guitar. Kashmira Gander.

Talking on the latest episode of his podcast, Suicide Silence guitarist Chris Garza has shown off the first-ever seven-string Stratocaster made by Fender. It's a striking axe that, ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The first production model Fender Stratocaster has been sold for $250,000. George Gruhn of Nashville sold the 1954 guitar on consignment for owner and guitar historian Ri ...

Like the Lone Star Strat back in 1996 – that was the first Stratocaster with a humbucker bridge pickup on it from our factory. But people had been chiseling out their Strats and putting ...

The Strat just turned 60, but it's barely aged a day. Music News. Weapon Of Choice: Why The Stratocaster Survives. January 3, 2015 5:18 AM ET. ... first introduced three years earlier.

Was your first electric guitar a Strat? It was the first guitar I owned that wasn’t a cheap Japanese copy of another guitar [laughs].It was the first proper, professional-grade guitar I ever bought.

In the 1940s, Fender revolutionized the industry with the release of the Telecaster (the first mass-produced solid-body electric guitar), the Stratocaster and the Precision Bass.