{"id":2661,"date":"2020-12-16T11:41:57","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T09:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/?p=2661"},"modified":"2025-07-14T08:38:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T06:38:42","slug":"fender-american-professional-ii-stratocaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/?p=2661","title":{"rendered":"Fender American Professional II Stratocaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In late 2020, Fender introduced the American Professional II Stratocaster as successor to the American Professional, the mid-range US model. As usual, the changes are evolutionary. There are new pickups (V-Mod II), a new cold-rolled steel vibrato block, and a sculpted neck heel (like the Deluxe\/Elite\/Ultra). Also new is the addition of roasted pine as body wood for some colors. Street prices are around \u20ac1,700. Also available is an HSS and a left-hand model.<\/p>\n<p>There a new colors, too. The color choices are 3-tone sunburst, Black, Dark Night (a very nice dark blue\/black reverse burst), Mercury, Miami Blue (my favourite), Mystic Surf Green, Olympic White, Roasted Pine, and Sienna Sunburst. Fretboards are maple or rosewood, with not all colors available with both.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2662\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ampro2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1458\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ampro2.png 1458w, https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ampro2-300x97.png 300w, https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ampro2-1024x330.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ampro2-768x248.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1458px) 100vw, 1458px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In late 2020, Fender introduced the American Professional II Stratocaster as successor to the American Professional, the mid-range US model. As usual, the changes are evolutionary. There are new pickups (V-Mod II), a new cold-rolled steel vibrato block, and a sculpted neck heel (like the Deluxe\/Elite\/Ultra). Also new is the addition of roasted pine as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[102],"tags":[65],"class_list":{"0":"post-2661","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-guitar","9":"czr-hentry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ampro2.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/plKIk-GV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2664,"href":"https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2661\/revisions\/2664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}