Allen Abbassi might not be a household name to every guitarist, but the products he’s helped to develop during his 24 years at Fender most certainly are. As Director of Fender Electric Guitars, every ...

The first guitar to emerge from Fender’s Corona, California Custom Shop is the Altadena Telecaster. Its body is carved from ...

HOLLYWOOD, Calif. --Fender Musical Instruments Corporation (FMIC) announced a new line of hybrid acoustic-electric guitars being made in California. Dubbed the American Acoustasonic Series Telecaster, ...

Fender is continuing a revamp of its iconic guitars with new versions of its legendary made-in-Mexico instruments. The Standard Series is being replaced by the Players Series. The guitars cover the ...

Since 1987, Fender’s Custom Shop has been turning wild ideas into playable realities. Naturally, it’s learned a lot about what makes a guitar truly sing over the past four decades, and now its Master ...

Clarence Leo Fender, founder of the Fender Musical Instruments Corporation, would have celebrated his 115th birthday this year, which also marks the 70th anniversary of the company’s the iconic ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. US guitar maker Fender is set to open its first-ever retail store this month in Japan, hoping that its ...

There have been numerous news stories about the impending death of U.S. guitar business. Not without some reason. The instrument long ago lost its central role in pop music. Iconic brand Gibson is in ...

Here's more about Fender, which produces the Stratocaster, the Telecaster, and a broad range of other models through these ...

Nearly 70 years later, workers still making the famous instruments by hand. — -- From Bruce Springsteen and The Police to Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix, the Fender guitar has graced many a ...