Fender

Leo Fender started out repairing radios in Fullerton, California, and by 1954 his workshop had produced the Telecaster and the Stratocaster — two body shapes still built, largely unchanged, seventy years on. Fender is the brand we write about more than any other on GuitarBomb: new Player and American Professional releases, Custom Shop one-offs, the Squier models bought as first guitars, and the odd relic'd rarity that gets us asking what a few thousand pounds of nitrocellulose and hand-wound pickups actually buys you. Here's everything we've covered.