Fender Highway Series™ Parlor, Rosewood Fingerboard, Natural
MODEL #: 0972522121
NOTHING BUT OPEN ROAD
At the intersection of time-honored acoustic guitar craft and relentless innovation, Highway Series™ instruments transport players to a new era of performance in a way that only Fender® can. Merging a thin, ergonomic form factor and a groundbreaking Fishman® Fluence® Acoustic Pickup system designed around a revolutionary bracing structure, Highway Series guitars exhibit the tactile charm and unplugged resonance of acoustics twice their size, adding unmatched on-lap comfort for a truly unique acoustic experience.
Crafted with either a solid Sitka spruce or genuine Mahogany top inlaid into a fully chambered Mahogany body, Highway Series guitars are engineered with a proprietary internal architecture including a tapered floating X bracing pattern and inventive thinline design, producing remarkable resonance and dynamic, organic tone. With fidelity and performance at its core, the Fishman Fluence Acoustic Pickup system incorporates an elegantly curved magnetic Fluence® Core™ pickup with innovative all-analog technology to deliver pure and truly musical amplified tone with astonishing sonic realism, clarity and feedback resistance.
The Fender Highway Series represents not a revision, but a re-imagining of the acoustic experience, inviting players to throw away the map and get lost on the open road of creativity.
FEATURES
Ergonomically contoured body, 2.25″ depth
Solid Sitka spruce or mahogany top, fully-chambered thinline mahogany body
Bolt-on mahogany neck with Indian rosewood fingerboard
Proprietary Fishman® Fluence® Acoustic analog electronics
Innovative body design and bracing architecture
REVOLUTIONARY ACOUSTIC BODY CONSTRUCTION
Representing a new evolution of modern performance acoustic guitar design, the body of the Highway series leverages Fender’s most advanced construction techniques including a floating “X” bracing pattern, inlaid solid top, and a unique 2.25“ thick chambered body for a a perfect harmony of comfort, resonance, and tonal quality.
FISHMAN FLUENCE ACOUSTIC ELECTRONICS
With a patent-pending curved form factor and all-analog electronics, the Fishman Fluence Acoustic pickup is the soul of the Highway Series. From its integrated mounting system to the unique internal architecture of the guitar every aspect of the guitar and pickup were innovated in tandem to provide pristine sonic clarity, responsiveness, and dynamic range all in a whisper-quiet noiseless design.
MULTI-VOICE CONTROL
Designed in collaboration between Fender and our partners at Fishman, the Highway Series features intuitive controls for volume and contour, which pans between two different EQ settings giving the player unique tonal control without coloring the natural acoustic sound of the instrument.
MADE IN MEXICO
All Highway Series instruments are crafted at our state-of-the-art acoustic guitar manufacturing facility in Ensenada, Mexico.
ROSEWOOD FINGERBOARD AND BRIDGE
With its pleasingly dark look, smooth tactile feel and rich tonal character, Rosewood is a premium hardwood for acoustic guitar bridges and fingerboards.
DELUXE GIG BAG
With comfortable padded backpack straps, durable outer material, and multiple pockets, the included deluxe gig bag provides the perfect balance of ample storage, road-worthy protection, and portability.
TYPE : Highway Series Parlour
MATERIAL
TOP : Solid Spruce
BACK AND SIDES : Mahogany
NECK : Mahogany
FINGERBOARD : Rosewood
FRETS : 20
BINDING : None
NUT : Graphtech Tusq
SADDLE : Graphtech Tusq
ROSETTE : Checkerboard
INLAY : White Dots
BRIDGE : Rosewood
BRIDGE PINS : White Synthetic
MACHINE HEADS : Fender Classic Gear
PICKUP : Fishman Fluence Acoustic
PICKGUARD : None
FINISH : Polyester Satin Matte
STRINGS : 11-52 Phosphor Bronze
CASE : Deluxe Gig Bag
STRAP BUTTON : Both
SPECS
OVERALL LENGTH : 1005mm
BODY LENGTH : 465mm
LOWER BOUT : 365mm
WAIST : 210mm
DEPTH : 55mm
SCALE LENGTH : 630mm
NUT WIDTH : 42.5mm
STRING SPACING NUT : 37mm
AVERAGE STRING SPACING NUT : 6.9mm
STRING SPACING SADDLE : 53.2mm
AVERAGE STRING SPACING SADDLE : 9.8mm
FINGERBOARD RADIUS : 12”
NECK THICKNESS @1ST FRET : 20mm
NECK THICKNESS @ 10TH FRET : 20.7mm
SOUNDHOLE DIAMETER : 94.5mm
