Fender launches Avril Lavigne signature acoustic

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Newporter is singer's second Fender model

Fender has released a second Avril Lavigne signature guitar in the form of the Avril Lavigne Newporter.

The black acoustic features a Telecaster headstock, skull and crossbones inlay, laminated mahogany top and Fishman preamp.

For more information visit the official Fender website.

Fender press release

Fender Acoustics is pleased to release the Avril Lavigne Newporter guitar.

Fender´s Avril Lavigne Newporter acoustic is based on her signature Squier® Telecaster® guitar, with all the distinctive punk-pop charm you´d expect from the top-selling Canadian songstress. It´s a concert-size beauty with all black finish, binding and tuners, and featuring a specially designed "star" rosette, 12th-fret skull and crossbones inlay and Lavigne´s signature on the Telecaster headstock.

Other features include an all-laminate mahogany top, back and sides with quartersawn scalloped “X” bracing; black-bound mahogany neck with “C”-shaped profile and 19-fret rosewood fingerboard, Fender “Viking”-style rosewood bridge with white pins; three-ply black pickguard; and Fishman® preamp system with built-in tuner.

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