Supreme x Fender Standard Stratocaster
Supreme vs. Original
Supreme version
Original — Fender
Standard Stratocaster
About the original
The Fender Stratocaster is a solid-body electric guitar designed by Leo Fender, Freddie Tavares, and Bill Carson, and introduced in 1954. It has a contoured alder or ash body, a 25.5-inch-scale bolt-on maple neck, three single-coil pickups, a 5-way pickup selector, and the synchronized tremolo bridge Fender patented at launch. The Standard Stratocaster was the brand's Mexico-built production model for several decades before being phased out in 2017 and replaced by the Player Series. Fender Musical Instruments Corporation has operated from California since 1946. The Supreme version is a US-made Strat with a red box-logo pickguard, produced only for the FW17 collaboration.
About Fender
Fender Musical Instruments Corporation was founded in 1946 in Fullerton, California, by Clarence Leonidas Leo Fender, a radio repairman with no formal musical training. Fender mass-produced the first commercially successful solid-body electric guitar, the Telecaster, released in 1950 as the Esquire and Broadcaster before its final naming in 1951. The Stratocaster followed in 1954, and the Precision Bass, introduced in 1951, defined the electric bass guitar as an instrument. The company has built guitars continuously for eight decades across its American, Mexican, and Japanese factories. Supreme's collaboration produced a limited-run Stratocaster with box logo branding on the headstock.
