Fender

The Fender Design Team operates within Fender Musical Instruments Corporation, the American manufacturer founded in 1946 by Leo Fender in Fullerton, California. The team is responsible for the design and refinement of Fender's catalog of solid-body electric guitars, basses and amplifiers.Iconic instruments include the Telecaster (1950, the first commercially successful solid-body electric guitar), the Stratocaster (1954, designed with George Fullerton and Freddie Tavares), the Precision Bass (1951) and the Jazz Bass (1960). The Fender Custom Shop in Corona, California, produces master-built and limited-run instruments.The 3D Model Unity catalog of the Fender Design Team includes high-precision NURBS models built for Rhinoceros 3D, with native rendering profiles for V-Ray, KeyShot and Corona, suitable for retail, music studio and product visualization projects.