Anderson Guitarworks Icon Classic HSS Strat-Style Guitar, Distressed Shell Pink over Tobacco Burst, Roasted Maple Fretboard

Tom Anderson guitars are some of the best electric bolt-on guitars you're going to find. This Icon Classic model is a remarkably well-balanced instrument built with a staggering level of precision and poise. It's going to look reminiscent of other guitar shapes from the past, sure, but make no mistake about it, this is not your father's Strat! If you're going to rock a pink guitar, we can't think of a better instrument to do it with! The lightly distressed finish-over-finish treatment on this one is really cool and this was instantly one of our favorite Anderson guitars to roll through the store.

This Anderson Icon Classic can go head-to-head with any bolt-on guitar of this shape and style in the world (and we'd put our money on it winning)! No doubt about it.

We chose one of the lightest levels of distress for this that Anderson has to offer and we couldn't be happier with the results. Up-close, there is some light checking on the nitro finish and the very beginnings of some signs of wear in the normal places you'd expect it after maybe 10 years of use. The chrome on the guitar (hardware and pickup cover) also have a lightly distressed look to them. Overall, the relic job is very tastefully done and the thin nitro finish really allows the instrument to breathe.

The way this guitar feels and how effortless it is to play is indescribable... but we'll try. The Even-Taper + 0.030 neck shape may be our favorite so far that we've tried on a guitar of this design. The neck is still slim and super easy to maneuver on, but it has just a tiny bit of extra wood on it so your hands really have a something solid to hold onto and it feels great. While being far from anything we'd consider "chunky" this neck also doesn't feel like you're playing a toothpick, and we really like that. The fretwork and overall fit-and-finish are beyond perfect. The guitar arrived into the shop with really low action and plays like an absolute dream. As with every Anderson guitar that we've seen before, we couldn't help but to just marvel at this for a while when it first arrived.

Along with a standard 5-way blade pickup selector, the push/pull tone knob adds some really cool options when in position 3. You can have a traditional strat-style middle position with the tone knob pushed down. With it pulled up, position 3 has a tele type wiring where the neck and bridge pickups are active. That means that position 3 is instantly switchable between either having the middle pickup solo or having the neck and bridge pickups working together. This is a new and really cool addition to Anderson's electronics offerings. Combine all of that together and you've got yourself one heck of a Swiss Army knife of a guitar.

Sure, this might look like a familiar body shape, but this is sure to redefine your idea of what a strat is supposed to be. Vintage sound meets elite construction quality, modern versatility, and unparalleled ease of playability.

Our in-house guitar tech will inspect, test, set up, and clean all of our instruments on site prior to shipping. All of our instruments are guaranteed to be fully functional upon arrival.