Fender has gone dark for Black Friday 2024 with a luxurious new high-end Stratocaster and Precision Bass in a gold and black Eclipse finish.
Limited to just 400 pieces each, American Professional II Anniversary Stratocaster HSS HT and Precision Bass also offer some unique features compared with the rest of the AmPro range.
The Strat features a hardtail bridge configuration – a relative rarity, especially on higher-end models, and perfect for maximum tuning stability – and a roasted maple neck, for increased resonance and resistance to temperature and humidity changes. And then of course there's the HSS pickup configuration, utilizing Fender’s V-Mod II single coils and DoubleTap humbucker, with a coil-split for extra flexibility.
It also looks killer.
The Precision Bass sticks to the AmPro II formula, with an alder body and maple neck and HiMass Vintage Bridge, while the V-Mod II split-coil pickup aims to occupy the middle ground between vintage and modern.
At $2,099 for the Stratocaster and $1,649 for the P-Bass they're not cheap. But as an added bonus, Fender has slashed $200 off its entire American Professional II guitar and bass range, including their left-handed models.
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