Editing Fender American Deluxe Series

[[Image:Fender Jazz Bass American Deluxe.JPG|right|thumb|American Deluxe Jazz Bass]]
The '''Fender American Deluxe Series''' was a line of [[electric guitar]]s and [[electric bass|basses]] introduced by [[Fender Musical Instruments Corporation|Fender]] in 1998 and discontinued in 2016. It was upgraded in 2004 and 2010 before being replaced by the American Elite series in 2016. 

The American Deluxe line replaced the '''Plus Series''' models of 1987.

==Features==
The entire range came with options such as solid [[tonewood]] bodies made from [[alder]] or [[Ash tree|ash]], chrome or gold-plated hardware, aged plastic parts, [[Vintage Noiseless|Noiseless]] pickups, [[abalone]] shell dot [[position marker|position fingerboard inlay]]s, a dark aluminum "spaghetti" decal, 22-fret maple [[Neck (music)|necks]] featuring [[rosewood]], [[maple]] or [[ebony]] fretboards, quilted or flamed maple tops, rolled [[fingerboard]] edges, [[Fender S-1 switching system|S-1 switching]], highly detailed nut and fret work, a bound top with contoured back on [[Telecaster]]s, a [[Vibrato systems for guitar#Fender two-point "synchronized tremolo"|two-point synchronized tremolo]] with pop-in arm, LSR roller nut on the HSS model Stratocaster, and staggered locking tuning machines on certain models.<ref>[http://intl.fender.com/en-CA/guitars/stratocaster/american-deluxe-stratocaster-hss fender.com American Deluxe Stratocaster HSS]</ref><ref>[http://intl.fender.com/en-CA/guitars/stratocaster/?series=american_deluxe fender.com American Deluxe Stratocaster]</ref>

American Deluxe [[bass guitar]]s (introduced in 1995) came in 4-string, fretless, 5-string and left-handed versions and feature 18V-powered 3-band active electronics (including a new design of [[humbucker]] on the [[Precision Bass]] models) as well as a strings-through/top-load bridge with stainless brass [[Guitar#Saddle|saddles]], Hipshot UltraLite tuning machines, an asymmetrical 5-bolt neck plate with a contoured heel, designed for easier access to the higher registers and a Posiflex graphite-reinforced 22-fret maple neck with [[rosewood]], [[maple]] or [[pao ferro]] fingerboard. [[Fender Jazz Bass|Jazz Basses]] are made with chrome hardware, a traditional control plate with classic black bakelite knobs, a downsized body shape and a redesigned [[pickguard]] with nine holes.

[[Fender Musical Instruments Corporation|Fender]] also produced models without a pickguard and control plate featuring flamed or quilted maple tops (FMT/QMT), gold hardware and bound necks with white pearloid rectangular block-shaped [[position marker]]s from 2003 to 2007.

Models produced prior to 2002 used 4-bolt neck fixing, 5-in-line [[headstock]]s, black or white dot markers, [[Schaller Electronic GmbH|Schaller]] die-cast tuners, 9V power supply and a new design of stacked "single-pole" Jazz Bass pickups (designed by [[Suhr Guitars|John Suhr]]). [[Vintage Noiseless]] pickups, a dark aluminum Fender "spaghetti" logo and abalone inlaid fingerboards were added in 1998; 5-bolt neck fixing, 4+1 tuners, 18V power supply and [[Schaller Electronic GmbH|Schaller Lite Bass]] tuning machines followed 4 years later (replaced by Hipshot UltraLite tuners as of 2006). As of March 23, 2010, all American Deluxe basses came with an active/passive switch, a Fender High-Mass Vintage (HMV) bridge, Hipshot lightweight vintage tuners, a recessed string retainer bar on the A string, tinted necks with 21-fret compound radiused fretboards and 1970s-era styling.

Some of the design elements found on the American Deluxe instruments (such as the rolled fretboard edges, the HSH pickup routing and the nut and fret work) were adopted on the '''American Series''' models of 2001 (which replaced the first-generation '''American Standard''' line produced between 1986 and 2000) and the more recent American Standard Series instruments, introduced in 2008.

The American Deluxe was later updated with [[Vintage Noiseless|Samarium Cobalt Noiseless]] (SCN) pickups by Fender in 2004. As of March 23, 2010, all American Deluxe series guitars came with a tinted maple neck with compound fretboards, N3 noiseless pickups and the S-1 switching system has been reconfigured with a Passing Lane switch on the humbucker-equipped models.

As of January 2016, the American Deluxe series was discontinued.

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[[Category:Fender electric guitars]]