It’s 71 years since the Stratocaster was unveiled to a less than rapt audience. Over those past decades, however, it’s become the best-selling guitar of all time.
Well, we suspect that’s true. Many have lauded it as the ‘perfect’ design – ‘Leo got it right first time!’ – and countless non-Fender craftspeople have made their own-version ‘Stratocasters’ with just minor changes, or not.
