Dood

9 hours ago, ezbass said:

It looks like they were introduced in 2012.

https://www.thegearpage.net/board/index.php?threads/fender-custom-shop-fat-50s-pickups.1132302/

It looks like the 2011 had ‘Hot American’ or ‘Tex Mex’ p/ups.

You diamond! Great, I have a bit more breadth to my search now! The Tex pickups are nicer than the current pickups I think but the fat 50's do sound delicious.  CHEERS!!

My guitarist has a 2017 Am Standard Strat, Maple fretboard. It sounds absolutely beautiful. Having done much (a little) research, it features the Fat 50's pickups. I'm trying to find out how many years the AmStd had these pickups (and thus I have more of a chance of just buying one of these Strats, rather than getting the pickups separately as the whole guitar is really nice!)

Anyone know how I can find out?

And dear lord if there is a Candy Apple Red version out there, please hide my credit card....

9 hours ago, charic said:

@dood, i knew it wouldnt take you long to show up

I’ll be off to find the Guitar Porn thread to post pictures of my machines of mass distraction!

I saw the thread title in the side bar and I actually started laughing. Then I opened the thread.. and laughed some more  nice

Hi, my name is Dan and I play quite a lot of guitar too. There, I’ve said it lout loud at last.