Trying the Thinline, Spruce-Top Strat! | Fender Suona

The Fender Suona series is an interesting one! F-hole Spruce top with chambered Ash body among an unadorned ebony fretboard and matching headstock - this is one unique strat. Let’s dive in!

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[tonyhills]

Thanks, I’ll never be able to unsee that MJ impersonation 😂

[palin]

“Suona” means “it plays” in Italian. Since the guitar has an Italian spruce top (like Stradivari’s violins), I guess that’s the reasoning behind the name.

[leamanc]

Two Fender Fridays in a row? We are blessed!

[michaelborn]

These are made from not only Italian spruce, but spruce from the Val Di Fiemme, which is the valley where Stradivari sourced the spruce for his famous stringed instruments. These trees came down in a severe storm in 2018 and the wood was saved during the pandemic from being chipped up and going to landfills.

[IamtheFerryMan]

Those cases are originally the EJ strat cases. I have a Pale Moon strat. The case is so pretty. Love the interior!

[beerwolf]

I pushed 'like' on this specifically for the Michael Jackson impression. That guitar looks awesome. I really wanted one of those Eric Johnson thine line strats for a while. So cool.

[joermnyc]

Just found an apparently very rare Fender Japan Thinline Jazzmaster from around 2011 on Reverb. No f-hole, but it’s still chambered out and it looks really nice. Out of my price range, but it was nice to learn about something I never knew existed.

[rikkousa]

They remind me of the matching Fender Elite Walnut (Gold) series from 1983-84. Fender had three very unique guitars—-Elite Tele, Strat, and P-bass II —all had active electronics, noise free pups, a treble boost. The Fender strat had three button pup selector. Gold hardware, special ATA gold cases…very cool series

[whiteninja]

Fender Japan had a Thinline Strat they made a couple of years ago. A friend of mine got one in cherry red, it has a double bound body (no contour at all), two humbuckers, a bound rosewood fretboard with block inlays. Interesting instrument for sure.

[georgeoh-well]

Congratulations David.
Interesting specs. Beautiful guitar.

[frankwebster]

I really like it! It does have some projection acoustically over a normal solid strat imo. I learned and grew up playing a strat, so I am pretty stoked to see a thin line version being made. I agree the price is out there but it's very different in construction and I can see it warranting somewhat of a premium. Hopefully it is successful and becomes a standard with more standard pricing. I think it is really great! The pups sound great as well. Thanks to the guy that NGD'd this and you for sharing it.

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And a strat bridge is notoriously ice picky. You learn to tone knob it.

[brianfurry]

Yeay!! Fender Friday. A nice break from the all mighty Les Paul's indeed!!

[ralphwest]

Naah ' Strat chambered with an F hole ' Yikes ' ...sounds great though and a variety of tone too. The case harks back to the early 60s with the Blonde tolex that adorned the amps 62-63, it was also used on the Fender cases for the then top of the range Jazzmaster and just then introduced Jaguar.

[marcolombardomusic]

We like to bash on Gibson's QC but can we talk about the tooling marks on that fretboard?

[clarkbabin]

Looks like a good day to be fender Friday.

[AutismRocksOfficial]

I wish Fender did the matching headstock more often

[pepmasters-]

9.5" is hardly a vintage radius. It's on like 95% of all current Fender output.

[LockRocker]

A hard tail HSS might help the acoustical and electric qualities. I'd prefer a modern F hole and some dots personally. Some of that wood is pretty choice, that streak knot will get cooler with age. If it was my new purchase I'd be stressing over the dinged ebony at the first fret though.

[jonathanhudak]

Nice to see another Fender Friday guitar! This is a cool Strat imho, congrats to its new owner!

[superserioes]

Thanks for giving us a break from Gibsons more often recently