Fender Player II Mustang: The Compact Offset That Punches Above Its Weight
The Mustang might be the most underrated guitar in Fender's entire catalog. Originally designed as a student model in the 1960s, it became the weapon of choice for punk and grunge players who prized...
Fender Player II Jaguar: The Offset That Finally Makes Sense
The Jaguar has always been the oddball in Fender's lineup — the guitar that indie kids, shoegaze musicians, and surf-rock obsessives gravitate toward while everyone else reaches for a Strat or...
Fender Player II Telecaster HH: Humbucker Tone Meets Tele Style at $799
Fender's Player II series launched in 2024 as the successor to the massively popular Player series, and the Player II Telecaster HH is the variant for players who've always wanted Tele aesthetics...
Fender American Performer Timber Telecaster: Sassafras, Spruce, and Pine Change the Tele Game
If you read our coverage of the American Performer Timber Stratocaster, you already know the concept: take Fender's proven American Performer platform, swap the standard alder body for exotic...
Fender American Performer Timber Stratocaster: Three Exotic Tonewoods, One Proven Platform
Fender has been building Stratocasters out of alder and ash for seventy years, so when the American Performer Timber Stratocaster showed up with bodies made from spruce, sassafras, and roasted sugar...
Fender is marking seven decades of the Stratocaster with a guitar that goes well beyond the usual anniversary decal-and-certificate treatment. The 70th Anniversary American Professional II...
