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The greatest design in the last two-hundred years is Fender’s wonderful Stratocaster: a design so good that they haven’t managed to improve it at all since its invention in 1954. Ok: maybe the rosewood fretboard in 1959. But that’s it.
{{g}}Super fun though badly out of fashion in these modern times, the best electric guitars were invented by Leo Fender between 1952-4, and they have never been improved upon by anyone, including a remarkable transistor radio salesman in Fullerton California by the name of Leo Fender.  
 
This masterpieces are the [[Broadcaster]], the [[Telecaster]] — actually, just the Broadcaster renamed, and the otherworldly, alien, but sublimely perfect [[Stratocaster]].
 
Gibson and others made electric guitars too but who cares frankly. Fender is where it is at.
 
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*[[Telecaster]]
*[[Stratocaster]]

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Super fun though badly out of fashion in these modern times, the best electric guitars were invented by Leo Fender between 1952-4, and they have never been improved upon by anyone, including a remarkable transistor radio salesman in Fullerton California by the name of Leo Fender.

This masterpieces are the Broadcaster, the Telecaster — actually, just the Broadcaster renamed, and the otherworldly, alien, but sublimely perfect Stratocaster.

Gibson and others made electric guitars too but who cares frankly. Fender is where it is at.

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