For sale, no trades thank you.

My 2012 Fender American Special Stratocaster is finished in Candy Apple Red with a maple fretboard. All original, no replacement parts, pup upgrades, etc.

Low hours playing time, I’m truly a drummer who dabbles in the guitar, and have found that I’m more of a dual humbucker, Les Paul style guitar kind of dude.
This guitar is freakishly clean for a 2012. See the pics.

Details :

• Candy Apple red metallic finish with a ton of depth and flake

• 2012-spec Custom Shop Texas Special™ Single-Coil Strat® pickups

• Maple neck and maple fingerboard

• Comfortable Modern C neck profile

• rolled edge fingerboard for comfortable playing

• 9.5" radius and medium-jumbo frets

• Frets are still in excellent condition

• Pickup heights are dialed in correctly

• Comfortable, clean setup

• Spot-on intonation

• Original pickups: SSS

• Electronics fully tested and working properly

• Exceptionally clean condition for a 2012 guitar

TSA hard case, immaculate.

Condition is Excellent. The body, neck, backside and fretboard are all in excellent condition. No chips or scratches . The matching clean white plastics and maple board make the red stand out even more. Tremolo cover has somewhat yellowed on its own. No clue why. see pic

More info:

Finish: this is one of those finishes that looks dramatically better once light hits it. The metallic flake has a lot of depth to it — from some angles it reads as a deep wine red, and under stronger light it turns into a much brighter candy red with the metallic coming through.

This is also from a really good period for the American Special Stratocaster. The 2012 version received the Custom Shop Texas Special™ Single-Coil Strat® single-coils, which are a big part of why these later models are so well liked. They still have that open, glassy Strat sound, but there’s a little more fullness and body behind the notes than some of the thinner-sounding Strat sets. Pickup heights are right where they should be on this one, and all five positions sound balanced.

The guitar plays exactly how you would want a Fender Strat to play. The Modern C maple neck feels familiar immediately, the 9.5" radius gives you plenty of room for bends, and the medium-jumbo frets are in excellent shape. It just had a pro set up with Ernie Ball Slinky 10’s, done by pro luthier and guitar tech for many high level touring acts.

This era Strat has a two-point tremolo, rolled fretboard edges, modern radius and larger frets that make them much easier to live with than a strict vintage-spec instrument.

The photos shown are real photographs of this exact guitar. I do not use AI-generated imagery, replacement backgrounds, or image manipulation to misrepresent the condition of my guitars. What you see is what you will get.