Fender GDC-100 SCE
Fender Acoustics just announced that they will develop its line of recent special run guitars into a complete line of acoustic instruments, which is to debut at this winter's NAMM show. The new family, the Global Design Series, offer a wide range of body styles with different sizes and tonal qualities.
Two new Concert-style guitars head up the Global Design Series. Both the GDC-100 SCE with its soft cutaway and GDC-200 SCE with sharp cutaway, feature natural finished solid spruce tops. Highly figured stained ash backs and sides on both models add distinctive tone and visual character, and a rosewood fretboard with only a Fender "F" inlay on the twelfth complete this classically modern look. Both models feature die-cast tuning machines and Piezo pickup with electronics.
For a bit of color on an "OM" sized acoustic guitar, the Global Design Series offers the GDO-200 and GDO-300. The GDO-200 features a quilted ash top with a transparent violet finish, with matching ash back and sides, offering a warm tone that highlights the guitars mid-ranges. For a slightly brighter tone, the GDO-300 is made with a quilted maple top in a transparent amber finish, and matching mahogany back and sides.
Completing the new Global Design Series is the parlor sized GDP-100. The smaller body offers both a comfortable guitar to play and, with its mahogany back and sides, a tone unique to this body design. The GDP-100 comes in a natural finish with rosewood fretboard. As with all other guitars in the Global Design Series, the Fender "F" inlay will adorn the twelfth fret.
