Fender American Ultra Stratocaster - Black with Roasted Maple Fingerboard, Sweetwater Exclusive Reviews
Introducing the Fender American Ultra Stratocaster: Fender's high-performance iteration of the modern Stratocaster. It offers several upgrades over traditional designs, including Fender's latest Ultra Noiseless Vintage Strat pickups, a 10"–14" compound radius fingerboard on an effortless Modern "D" roasted maple neck, and S-1 switching to roll in fat neck tones on pickup positions 1 and 2. Even if you're a traditionally bent player, don't be dismayed: the American Ultra Stratocaster is a Strat through and through. Its lightweight body is built from traditional Strat tonewoods (alder or ash, dependent on color) and outfitted with a flawless gloss poly finish and coordinating pickguard. Sealed locking tuners and a 2-point Deluxe Synchronised Trem with pop-in arm equip today's players for classic Strat colorization with demanding modern intonation. One feature all our reviewers were quick to note is the tapered low-profile neck heel, which gives you access to fret positions you'd never dare into on your vintage Strat. The whole instrument has been thought out and designed in painstaking detail, all the way down to the embossed Fender headstock logo and extra comfortable trem arm.
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Highest Rated Reviews
Beautiful Stratocaster
This Strat turned out to be so much more than I had anticipated, partly because of the gorgeous neck of "roasted maple" that makes going up and down effortless. The guitar is worth it, if only to have a good Strat with that neck, but wait! There's more! The guitar itself is simply lovely: from the locking tuners to the noiseless pickups and the S-1 switch for added dynamic this is the Strat of all strats without having one custom built. It's aesthetically beautiful and as would be expected, plays smooth as ice. I could not recommend it more. As an added bonus, the support received from Noah, my sales agent, was spot on. He made this purchase a no-brainer.
Best Strat I have ever played.
I got one of these a year ago and it has become one of my favorite guitars. The roasted maple neck is fantastic. It is one of the best necks I have ever played. Sounds great. Plays great. Looks great. My older boutique strat sits in the closet most of the time now. For the money this guitar plays and feels like a guitar twice the price. Can't recommend this highly enough.
My goodness
This axe is the sweetest. I have another Ultra, an Ultra Luxe, several American Pro IIs...This one within about 15 min jumped into a tie for number one with my Luxe...Fit and finish? It is flawless, and set up perfectly at Sweetwater for a fee (I usually set intonation and such myself but figured I'd just let a pro handle it this time, nice work) The reason for buying this particular axe is the roasted maple...I have several MiM Charvels with "carmelized" maple necks (not exactly sure if that means they went through the same process as "roasted.") but those necks are sweet, I figured a USA Strat with a roasted maple neck would be super sweet, I was right, this is the nices neck I ever laid hands on.
