The Fender Select Stratocaster HSS takes the refined elegance of its triple-single-coil brother and amps it up through the roof with the extra power of a humbucking bridge pickup. Features include a striking gloss-lacquer finish on a sleek flame maple-top body. Its modern “C?shaped birdseye maple neck has a comfortable contoured heel, Bi-Flex? truss rod system for rock-solid stability, a satin lacquer finish and rear-headstock “Fender Select?medallion. The smooth-playing compound radius rosewood fretboard (9.5?14? has 22 medium jumbo frets and stylish white pearloid position inlays. Full-throated sound roars from the Fender Select Stratocaster humbucking bridge pickup, with singing tone from new Fender Select Stratocaster single-coil neck and middle pickups-all combined with five-way switching and a no-load tone control that delivers the natural uncolored sound of the humbucking bridge pickup when dimed.