Fender American Vintage II '65 Stratocaster 2025 - Present - Shoreline Gold

This is a beautiful 2025 Fender American Vintage II ’65 Stratocaster in Shoreline Gold—a USA-made, vintage-correct Strat built around the look, feel, and tone of Fender’s mid-1960s era. The American Vintage II series is Fender’s higher-end historical reissue line, and this one captures the important ’65 details while still being an extremely practical guitar to own and play.

The Shoreline Gold finish is excellent in person. It has a soft champagne-gold metallic look that shifts depending on the lighting, with a subtle warm bronze tone that gives it much more character than a standard black, sunburst, or Olympic White Strat. Paired with the white pickguard, vintage-white plastics, and rosewood board, it has that clean, classy mid-’60s Fender look without feeling overly flashy.

Fender built these with an alder body, gloss nitrocellulose lacquer finish, a 1965 “C” shaped maple neck, and a round-laminated rosewood fingerboard. The neck has a proper vintage feel, but this particular one is especially nice in the hand. It has that slick, smooth feel people love from a well-finished Japanese Strat, but without the sticky or overly heavy gloss sensation. It feels fast, comfortable, and very easy to move around on.

The guitar is loaded with three Pure Vintage ’65 gray-bottom Strat single-coil pickups. They deliver exactly what you want from a good vintage-style Strat: clear top end, bell-like neck tones, glassy in-between sounds, and a bright, lively bridge pickup that still has enough body to be useful. It is a very articulate guitar overall, with excellent note separation and that unmistakable classic Fender response.

It also features Fender’s Pure Vintage synchronized tremolo with bent steel saddles, vintage-style single-line Fender Deluxe tuners, vintage tall frets, and the traditional 7.25-inch fingerboard radius. It is a genuinely convincing ’60s-spec Strat, but one that has been set up to play exceptionally well.

This one is in excellent, near-like-new condition. The body and neck are exceptionally clean, the frets are excellent, and it was recently set up with spot-on intonation. The original protective plastic is still on the pickguard. There are no major dings, scratches, cracks, repairs, or damage to note. Everything is original, the electronics test perfectly, and it sounds amazing.

It includes the original Fender vintage-style hardshell case, certificate of authenticity, manuals, paperwork, tremolo arm, adjustment tools, and complete original case candy.

What stood out to me

• 2025 Fender American Vintage II ’65 Stratocaster
• USA-made vintage-spec Fender reissue
• Shoreline Gold gloss nitrocellulose lacquer finish
• Alder body
• 1965 “C” shaped maple neck
• Round-laminated rosewood fingerboard
• Vintage-style 7.25-inch fingerboard radius
• 21 vintage tall frets
• Three Pure Vintage ’65 gray-bottom Strat single-coil pickups
• Bright, articulate, bell-like Strat tones
• Great clarity and punch across all pickup positions
• Pure Vintage synchronized tremolo with bent steel saddles
• Vintage-style Fender Deluxe tuners
• Recently set up
• Spot-on intonation
• Excellent fret condition
• Original protective plastic still on the pickguard
• Excellent, near-like-new overall condition
• No major dings, scratches, cracks, repairs, or damage
• Original Fender vintage-style hardshell case included
• Certificate of authenticity, manuals, paperwork, trem arm, tools, and complete original case candy included

Like all my guitars, this one’s been cared for and dialed in—no guesswork, no surprises, just a great instrument that’s ready to play. I personally inspect and test every guitar before it ships, making sure it’s in the exact condition I’d want to receive myself. These guitars come from me, not a shop—each one gets the kind of attention and care only a real guitar lover gives. Ships fast and insured.

⏳ Quick note: These guitars don’t usually sit. Most are purchased within 3–7 days, and I regularly hear from watchers after the listing has already sold. If this one’s on your radar, now’s the window!