Fender Strat

2000 Fender American Standard Stratocaster, Excellent Condition, Made in U.S.A. All Original. Previous original owner was a Classical Guitarist and only played her for 6 months. Excellent Condition for this 10 yr. old Stratocaster. Only mild normal wear on frets and body. Bridge adjusted and strung with new #10 Reg. Slinkys Comes with Original Hardshell Moulded Case. The case has a small surface crack at the top latch (see photo). This is a Beautiful Strat. From Soft and Clean to Crunch/Grunge/Metal this Strat puts out the true Fender American Strat Sound!

These are some of the additional features that Fender made to the 2000 Fender American Standard:

1. Addition of an extra fret (from 21 to 22),
2. Pickups with flush polepieces,
3. Ezy-Glider string retainers and vibrato bridge with two screw mounts for added tuning stability,
4. More consistent use of alder wood for the body (ash was a heavier and more inconsistent wood),
5. Use of Biflex truss-rod,
6. Return of the four-bolt neck mounting (from previous use of three in the 70’s),
7. Schaller tuners,
8. A polyurethane finish.

   Year 2000 marks the end of the American Standard Stratocaster line and the introduction of Fender’s new American Series Stratocaster - End of an Era

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On Oct-31-10 at 08:22:28 PDT, seller added the following information:

Additional information about this 2000 Fender American Standard Stratocaster: In 2000 Fender also replaced the TBX tone circuit with the Delta Tone system which has a no-load tone control. The TBX tone controls had a notch at the ‘5’ position on the knob. The Delta Tone is the 2nd Tone knob and works on the bridge and middle pickups. It’s basically a potentiometer with a switch at the ‘10’ position on the knob. When the tone is set at 10 it clicks and the tone control is essentially removed from the circuit. This gives the pickup a wide open full treble sound. The vintage strats for instance do have a tone control for the bridge pickup and the Delta Tone system is meant to replicate that as well as allow you to roll some of the high-end off.

The  pickups are three American Strat Single-Coils that have similar staggered height pole pieces to that found on the 50’s pickups. One change is they’ve lowered the ‘G’ string polepiece down a little. This was done because the strings in the 1950’s had a wound ‘G’ string but most strings today have a plain non-wound one. This gives a more balanced sound with no string being louder. The middle pickup has been reverse wound for hum canceling in the 2nd and 4th pickup selector positions. The electronics consist of the Delta Tone control for the bridge and middle pickups with a normal tone control for the neck. The 5-way pickup selector is in the standard configuration:

Pos 1: bridge
Pos 2: bridge+middle
Pos 3: middle
Pos 4: middle+neck
Pos 5: neck

Features

• Alder body
  
• H/S/H Pickup routing
  
• Maple neck with rosewood or maple fretboard
  
• Three modified pole pieces 50's style single-coil pickups
  
• rolled edges neck shape
  
• Staggered machine heads
  
• Micro-Tilt Neck
  
• knobs, toggle tip