Fender is excited to welcome four new, out-of-the-ordinary models to its innovative Pawn Shop series–the Pawn Shop Offset Special, Pawn Shop Jaguarillo, Pawn Shop Fender Mustang® Special, and the line’s first ever bass guitar, the Pawn Shop Reverse Jaguar® Bass. These stylish models offer bold personality, striking looks and daring tones.
The Pawn Shop Jaguarillo guitar hot-rods traditional Jaguar design through the roof with a scorching HSS configuration in which all three pickups –two standard Stratocaster® single-coils and an Atomic humbucking bridge pickup – are angled for enhanced bass and treble response.
With a standout design that calls for double-take reactions, the Pawn ShopReverse Jaguar Bass features a “reverse” body and “reverse” headstocks, new pickguard shape, two Reverse Jaguar humbucking pickups and a streamlined control layout of a single three-way pickup toggle switch and two knobs (volume and tone).
A guitar from the past and the future, the Pawn Shop Offset Special guitar is one of Fender’s most offbeat designs ever. Features include a semi-hollow double-cutaway body with an f hole and sleek offset waist, a pair of large JZHB humbucking pickups with three-way toggle switching and an Adjusto-Matic™ bridge with vintage-style floating tremolo tailpiece.
The enormously popular Pawn Shop Mustang Special returns with a brand new 3-Color Sunburst finish, expanding color choices for players of all tastes. Features include a rosewood fretboard with modern 9.5 radius and medium jumbo frets, pickup toggle switch, three-way coil selector slide switch foreach humbucking pickup (enabling 15 different tonal options), mint green pickguard, ’70s-style hard-tail Stratocaster bridge, vintage-style tuners and strap buttons, and deluxe gig bag.
Fender Musical Instruments Corp. has released “A Strat is Born,” a new short film that takes viewers on a high-speed ride through the creation of a Fender Stratocaster guitar. The film, shot in Fender’s main U.S. manufacturing facility in Corona, Calif., showcases the vast amount of consummate handcraftsmanship that goes into every Fender instrument, and presents the manufacturing process that can now be experienced at the Fender Visitor Center and Factory Tour, located next to Fender’s Corona-based facility. The piece is set to a high-energy soundtrack by Wayne Kramer, co-founder of the seminal Detroit rock group MC5 (Motor City 5) and Fender Signature Artist. “A Strat is Born” distills the impressive journey of materials into music and highlights the very essence of longstanding Fender craftsmanship into one four-minute viewing experience
Fender’s acclaimed American Standard series guitars and basses have been upgraded for 2012, resulting in the latest iterations of the company’s four archetypal instruments—the Telecaster®, Stratocaster®, Precision Bass® and Jazz Bass® guitars. They’re the same great best-selling go-to instruments they’ve always been, and now feature Fender Custom Shop pickups, as well as other distinctive new design touches.
Washburn is proud to announce a new addition to the popular HB35 model. The HB35 Hotrod maintains the same structure that made it such a great guitar. What changes is that these will be available in limited, partially customizable quantities. The HB35 Hotrods include a hardshell case.
The HB35 Hotrods are available in white, black, wine red, and vintage finishes. They feature a maple tops except for the wine red and vintage finishes which are flame maple. The back and sides are also maple, lending a brighter sound to this model. The neck is hard maple, with a 2-way truss rod. The fretboard is rosewood with mother-of-pearl split block inlays. Nut width is 43mm.
There are two pickup configurations available. First is a Seymour-Duncan® Jazz Bridge, with a Seymour-Duncan® ’59 in the neck, second is a pair of Phat Cats, with either gold or chrome pickup covers and Tone Pros® Tune-O-Matic / Stoptail bridge in gold or chrome. For an upcharge, players can have a Bigsby® tremolo, available in gold or aluminum. Grover® 18:1 tuners are available in either gold or chrome. The knob options are either gold top hats or chrome domes.
Washburn Guitars is owned by US Music Corp, located in Mundelein, IL. US Music Corp is an international music company that manufactures and distributes products worldwide under Washburn Guitars, Parker Guitars, Randall Amplifiers, Eden Electronics, Oscar Schmidt, Hagstrom, Jay Turser, Jay J, Warwick, Natal Drums, Phonic, Quik Lok, and Profile brand names. US Music Corp is a subsidiary of Jam Industries, Ltd.
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Stu Hamm’s prowess on the bass is the stuff of legends, and he has partnered with Washburn to release a fretless model of his signature electric bass, ‘The Hammer’. The SHBH3FLTSS is a fretless version of the SHB3, adding warmth and the expressiveness of tone only a fretless bass can provide.
Hamm’s fretless features 2 Exclusive EMG® X Series Stu Hamm pickups, Ghost® piezo pickups in a black hipshot bridge, and a double cutaway alder body. The bass is available in matte tangerine, tobacco sunburst sparkle or natural matte and will be sold at a price of $3139.90.
The bolt on maple neck of the SHBH3FLTSS features Washburn’s proprietary Radial Neck Joint. The fretboard itself is rosewood with fret lines, pearl dot inlays and Stu’s yin/yang bass clef insignia inlaid at the 12th fret. Black Hipshot® lollipop-style tuners with a D-tuner on the E string allows for extended range playing.
Washburn Guitars is owned by US Music Corp, located in Mundelein, IL. US Music Corp is an international music company that manufactures and distributes products worldwide under Washburn Guitars, Parker Guitars, Randall Amplifiers, Eden Electronics, Oscar Schmidt, Hagstrom, Jay Turser, Jay J, Warwick, Natal Drums, Phonic, Quik Lok, and Profile brand names. US Music Corp is a subsidiary of Jam Industries, Ltd.
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Fender is excited to welcome four new, out-of-the-ordinary models to its innovative Pawn Shop series–the Pawn Shop Offset Special, Pawn Shop Jaguarillo, Pawn Shop Fender Mustang® Special, and the line’s first ever bass guitar, the Pawn Shop Reverse Jaguar® Bass. These stylish models offer bold personality, striking looks and daring tones.
