2013 Fender Select Guitars Announced
With Winter NAMM being right around the corner in Anaheim (Jan 24-27) the plethora of new guitar introductions is already beginning. Today we learned of a new set of Select Series instruments from our friends at Fender. In case you don’t remember, the “Select Series” is Fender’s answer to the “ten-top” guitar bodies made famous by PRS and others. In honesty though, if you ever get a chance to play one of these beauties you’ll see that it’s more than just a gorgeous hunk o’wood that makes these… well, select.
For 2013 there is only one new Select Stratocaster, but it’s a beauty. The 2013 edition of the Fender Select Stratocaster® HSS improves upon its 2012 predecessor with several new features. Among these is a channel-bound rosewood fingerboard, a flame maple-top with traditional contours, a Tobacco Sunburst finish with a gloss lacquer topcoat, neck with hand-rubbed oil finish, and a comfortable contoured heel. MSRP for the model is a cool $2,999.99.
Other non-Stratocaster models that are new for 2013 include: Fender Select Telecaster® HH, Fender Select Carved Top Telecaster SH, Fender Select Telecaster Thinline, Fender Select Telecaster Thinline with Gold Hardware, Fender Select Carved Maple Top Jazzmaster®, and a Fender Select Active Jazz Bass® in the lineup as well.
We’ll provide more info when we see these in person at NAMM in a few weeks.
Just ordered the SSS Select Strat.
This is my 1st guitar purchase and I will be beginning to learn with it at 53 years old.
My wife thinks it is a midlife crisis.
I am looking forward to delivery.
Tell her as far as midlife crises go, this one isn’t bad. It costs less than an expensive sports car and a cheap girlfriend.
Very well said!
Good for you Woodfloor, I’m 53 and relearning, it’s great, don’t listen to her indoors!
Thanks for the info, Select Series certainly named well, drop dead gorgeous… And very pricey in Blighty.
Wouldn’t mind moving to USA just for Fender prices.
Drooool.
Wow….WoodFloor….the selects are nice but are they a little over priced…i bought an american standard and my wife thought i was nuts lol tc percy
wow i just played this same one at guitar center about 2 hours ago! it is hands down the nicest block wood i have ever touched. big baseball bat neck, smooth as a babys butt, and the inlayed rosewood fretboard is just unreal!!! i have a good mind to go to the pawn shop with the wife’s engagement ring to fund it. (yea its that nice!!!)