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Full details emerge on Joe Bonamassa's signature Fender Custom Shop '51 Nocaster, The Bludgeon

By Matt Owen

The $8,500 signature model will be part of an ultra-limited run of 100 units, and will be handmade in Fender's Custom Guitar Shop by legendary luthier Greg Fessler

Fender's Masterbuilt Surf Green with Envy Collection

Fender celebrates its history – and iconic Surf Green finish – with the Masterbuilt Surf Green with Envy Collection

By Richard Bienstock

One-off Custom Shop models are joined by amps, pedals and even a Gretsch drum kit

Fender unveils stunning 2021 Custom Shop Prestige Collection, featuring “guitars with no boundaries”

By Richard Bienstock

One-off Master Built creations include the Sugar Surprise Strat, Acrylic Jazzmaster and Double Neck Marauder

Fender and Barrett-Jackson team up for a Custom '69 Strat and matching Fender Mustang – with a Tone Master amp in the trunk

By Richard Bienstock

The Resto-Mod will be documented in a 10-episode YouTube series

Mike McCready of Temple Of The Dog performs at The Forum on November 14, 2016 in Inglewood, California.

Fender discovers Mike McCready’s fabled ’59 Strat is actually a 1960 model during the creation of new Custom Shop replica

By Michael Astley-Brown

60-piece run of guitars will recreate every scratch, dent and ding on the Pearl Jam guitarist’s prized Stratocaster

Wildly customized Fender Stratocasters to be auctioned to raise funds for The Big Issue

By Sam Roche

The event will be live-streamed on November 4, and will feature video messages from the artists involved

Behind the scenes of Fender Custom Shop's bass creations

By Joel McIver

We visited Fender’s Custom Shop in Corona, California for a peek behind the curtain and some pearls of wisdom

Fender recreates Brent Mason's heavily modified triple-pickup Tele as the Stories Collection Brent Mason Telecaster

By Richard Bienstock

New model, with special controls and wiring, Glaser B-Bender system and Primer Gray finish, is also available in exacting Custom Shop version

Prince's one-of-a-kind gold-leaf Fender Custom Shop Strat is going up for auction

By Richard Bienstock

Prince requested that "Goldfinger", which also boasts a tiger stripe maple neck, never be duplicated

Founding Fender Custom Shop builder George Blanda retires after 35 years

By Richard Bienstock

Blanda was a key figure in American Standard series, Clapton, Malmsteen and Hendrix signature model guitars

70 years later, the Fender Broadcaster is back

By Richard Bienstock

The company’s first-ever two-pickup solid-body electric guitar receives a modern-day makeover

Fender resurrects the mid-'60s Marauder offset, this time with a built-in delay circuit

By Richard Bienstock

Trace the design path of the Custom Shop creation in the latest episode of the Dream Factory

Ah via Stratocaster: Fender replicates Eric Johnson's iconic 1954 ‘Virginia’ Strat

By Richard Bienstock

Custom Shop and production line models sport sassafras bodies, custom wiring and more

Fender's carbon fiber Stratocaster 1 is a souped-up, built-for-speed six-string

By Richard Bienstock

Custom Shop collaboration with Saleen Automotive boasts carbon fiber shell, tinted glass pickup cover and pedalboard volume and tone control

NAMM 2020: The $560,000 Coronation Stratocaster leads Fender's jaw-dropping Custom Shop line-up

By Sam Roche

The American guitar giant introduces the Annual and Prestige collections, as well as Jimmy Page and Eric Johnson signatures

Two guitars from Eric Clapton’s personal collection are up for auction

By Richard Bienstock

You can bid on a Gibson Custom 1964 Firebird I prototype and Fender Clapton Blind Faith Telecaster now

Andy Summers' Monochrome Strat has an actual photo finish

By Jackson Maxwell

The Police guitarist's new Fender signature model combines his two biggest passions

Watch Eric Clapton put the Strat-necked Fender Blind Faith Telecaster through its paces

By Richard Bienstock

The limited-edition model is chronicled in a new Guitar Center video

Bring the thunder and lightning with Fender’s new Phil Lynott Precision Bass

By Richard Bienstock

Limited edition Custom Shop offering recreates the late Thin Lizzy frontman’s 1978 model, mirrored pickguard and all

Fender Custom Shop Unveils the Stevie Ray Vaughan Signature Stratocaster Relic

By Richard Bienstock

Aged version comes with a new relic lacquer finish.