Stratocaster

The greatest piece of design in the last two hundred years is Leo Fender's wonderful Stratocaster: a design so good that noone has managed to improve it at all since Fender invented it in 1954. Ok: maybe the introduction of a rosewood fretboard in 1959. But that’s it. And it kills fascists, too.

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Stratocasters aren’t really metaphors for anything in particular. I just like them.

a 1959, rosewood slab-board Stratocaster. ’59 was a good year.

See also

• Telecaster
• Electric guitar