The Fender American Deluxe Series was a line of electric guitars and basses introduced by Fender in 1995 and discontinued in 2016. It was upgraded in 2004 and 2010 before being replaced by the American Elite series in 2016.https://www.premierguitar.com/articles/Fender_Introduces_New_American_Deluxe_Series_Guitars_and_Basses The American Deluxe line replaced the Plus Seriesmodels of 1987.
Features
The entire range came with options such as solid tonewood bodies made from alder or ash, chrome or gold-plated hardware, aged plastic parts, Noiseless pickups, abalone shell dot position fingerboard inlays, a dark aluminum "spaghetti" decal, 22-fret maplenecks featuring rosewood, maple or ebony fretboards, quilted or flamed maple tops, rolled fingerboard edges, Fender S-1 switching, highly detailed nut and fret work, a bound top with contoured back on Telecasters, a two-point synchronized tremolo with pop-in arm,https://www.sweetwater.com/sweetcare/articles/understanding-the-fender-pop-in-trem-arm/ LSR roller nut on the HSS model Stratocaster, and staggered locking tuning machines on certain models. fingerboard, S-1 switch and SCN pickups American Deluxe bass guitars came in 4-string, fretless, 5-string and left-handed versions and feature 9V-powered 3-band active electronics as well as a strings-through/top-load bridge with stainless brass saddles, Hipshot UltraLite tuning machines, an asymmetrical 5-bolt neck plate with a contoured heel, designed for easier access to the higher registers and a Posiflex graphite-reinforced 22-fret maple neck with rosewood, maple or pao ferro fingerboard. Jazz Basses are made with chrome hardware, a traditional control plate with classic black bakelite knobs, a downsized body shape and a redesignedpickguard with nine holes. Fender also produced models with rear routed controls featuring flamed or quilted maple tops, gold hardware and bound necks with white pearloid rectangular block-shaped position markers from 2003 to 2007. Models produced prior to 2002 used 4-bolt neck fixing, 5-in-line headstocks, black or white dot markers, Schaller die-cast tuners, 9V power supply and a new design of stacked "single-pole" Jazz Bass pickups. Vintage Noiseless pickups, a dark aluminum Fender "spaghetti" logo and abalone inlaid fingerboards were added in 1998; 5-bolt neck fixing, 4+1 tuners, 18V power supply and Schaller Lite Bass tuning machines followed 4 years later. As of March 23, 2010, all American Deluxe basses came with an active/passive switch, a Fender High-Mass Vintage bridge, Hipshot lightweight vintage tuners, a recessed string retainer bar on the A string, tinted necks with 21-fret compound radiused fretboards and 1970s-era styling. Some of the design elements found on the American Deluxe instruments were adopted on the American Series models of 2001 and the more recent American Standard Series instruments, introduced in 2008. The American Deluxe was later updated with Samarium Cobalt Noiseless pickups by Fender in 2004. As of March 23, 2010, all American Deluxe series guitars came with a tinted maple neck with compound/conical-radius fretboards, N3 noiseless pickups and the S-1 switching system has been reconfigured with a Passing Lane switch on the humbucker-equipped models. As of January 2016, the American Deluxe series was discontinued and they were replaced with the American Elite series.
