Main Features
- Updated bracing pattern
- Solid spruce top
- Solid mahogany back and sides
- New Fender/Fishman Sonitone Plus pickup with piezo and transducer
- Snowflake inlays
- Tiger Stripe pickguard
- Includes hardshell case
Built with a solid spruce top paired with solid mahogany back and sides, the PD-220E features an offset X-bracing pattern that has been carefully refined to optimise resonance and tone. A brand-new Fender and Fishman®-designed Sonitone Plus pickup amplifies the full, balanced tone of the PD-220E’s dreadnought body shape, while the soundhole-mounted controls preserve the vintage aesthetics. Under the top, a body-sensing pickup enhances the soundboard’s vibrations which can then be blended with the undersaddle Sonicore pickup.
Updated cosmetics include snowflake-shaped pearloid fingerboard inlays, feathered purfling, rosette, and backstrip, and a Black or Tiger Stripe pickguard. The PD-220E also features an ovangkol bridge and fingerboard, slim-taper mahogany neck, bone nut and saddle, and comes with a hardshell case.
Fender PD-220E Paramount Specifications
General
- Colour: Natural
- Orientation: Right-Hand
- Series: Paramount
Body
- Body: Solid Mahogany
- Body Back: Solid Mahogany
- Body Binding: Aged White with Feathered Checkered Purfling
- Body Finish: Gloss Polyester
- Body Material: Solid Mahogany
- Body Shape: Dreadnought
- Body Sides: Solid Mahogany
- Body Top: Solid Sitka Spruce
- Bracing: Quartersawn Scalloped “X”
- Rosette: Feathered Checkered
Neck
- Fingerboard Material: Ovangkol
- Fingerboard Radius: 15.75" (400 mm)
- Headstock Binding: 3-Ply W/B/W
- Neck Finish: Satin Urethane with Gloss Urethane Headstock Face
- Neck Material: Mahogany
- Neck Shape: “C” Shape
- Number of Frets: 20
- Nut Material: Bone
- Nut Width: 1.69" (43 mm)
- Position Inlays: Snowflake
- Side Dots: Black
- String Nut: Bone
- Truss Rod: Dual-Action
Hardware
- Bridge: Ovangkol
- Bridge Pins: Ebony with Mother-of-Pearl Dots
- Hardware Finish: Nickel-Plated
- Pickguard: 1-Ply Tiger Striped
- Strings: Fender® Dura-Tone® 880L Coated 80/20 (.012-.052 Gauges), PN 0730880303
- Tuning Machines: Nickel Open-Back
Electronics
- Controls: Volume, Blend (Body Pickup, Piezo)
- Special Electronics: Fender®/Fishman® Sonitone™ Plus Soundhole Pickup System