Visiting Fender’s enormous facility in Southern California, it’s fascinating to observe how the modern Stratocaster is made. While I expected to see a highly mechanised operation in which the ...

[Frank] made the guitar using almost exclusively hand tools and glued everything together, but did use a few donor parts from a modern Stratocaster-type guitar. With most of the rough shape of the ...

The new Stratocaster, drawn up with the help of musician and regular ... Jonathan has written and edited 15 books, including Concept Car Design, 21st Century House, and The New Modern House. He is ...