Fender Wayne Kramer Strat Hits Stores

By: Staff

Fender introduces the Wayne Kramer Stratocaster® model, a spot-on replica of the starred-and-striped Stratocaster that infamous MC5 guitarist and Detroit proto-punk Wayne Kramer used back in the late 1960s and early 1970s to kick out the jams and kill hate. It bears his distinctive U.S. flag finish, with a red-and-white striped body and white-stars-on-blue-background pickguard and headstock.

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Special features include a roaring Seymour Duncan® ’59 humbucking middle pickup and a commemorative neck plate engraved with “This Tool Kills Hate.” Other features include an alder body, maple neck with C shape and large ’70s-style headstock, 21-fret rosewood fingerboard with 7.25” radius and vintage-style frets, vintage-style single-coil Stratocaster neck and bridge pickups, American Vintage hard-tail string-through-body bridge, vintage-style tremolo arm, Fender/Schaller® vintage-style “F” tuners and chrome hardware. Deluxe gig bag included.

Wayne Kramer MC5

“I felt like this guitar could be part of (MC5’s) total assault on the culture,” said Kramer. “When I painted the guitar with this motif, it was to claim my patriotism in spite of what the country was doing at the time. I see myself as the curator to MC5’s legacy … And I think this guitar goes in some ways towards maintaining that legacy.”