Fender Aerodyne Strats. Explain them to me?

Good luck selling an Aerodyne to a shredder. No notable shredders with the exception of Malmsteen use SSS platforms, they are thin, weak and brittle in gain applications. In Malmsteen's case, he uses high output stacks that have more in common with modern rock humbuckers than they do with any true single coil.

And he has had signature Fender guitars (the scalloped fingerboard models) for decades. The YJM fanbois want the YJM guitar and nothing else, an Aerodyne would be a very hard sell.

When you have a 70-year old product in which its core market doesn't want the core product to change, cosmetic twists are safe gambles. The Aerodyne is a bound, slimmer and lighter bodied, rear-loaded MIJ Strat with direct mounted SSS. Appeals to S players who want those attributes.

And ... solidbodies without pickguards are typically referred to as "rear loaded," in that the electronics go into the cavity via access from the backside.

Agreed on all points. The MIJ stuff that Fujigen Gakki historically ghost-built for Fender and other MIJ brands is typically the top notch stuff. They built everything in the 80s and 90s up until recently.

But I'm seeing more and more online about Dyna being Fender's more recent Japan-based ghost builder. Aerodyne ... Dyna ... hmmmm?? But a factory switch could definitely explain a decline in quality and consistency.

Fujigen specifically is why the MIJ vintage reissue stuff in particular is held in such high esteem. There was a period in the 1990s where Fender was takign flak from their dealers because Fugigen's vintage reissue guitars were more vintage accurate and actually played and sounded more like Fullerton-era Fender guitars than the much-more expensive MIA vintage reissues.

Here's Dyna's consumer direct online presence ... Dyna Gakki Japan Web Store

Here's FujiGen's ... these guitars are in my opinion among the best guitars on the planet for pure bang for the buck. HIGHLY HIGHLY recommended ... FGN (FujiGen) Japan official website

Franklin Guitar Works, in Franklin, Tn. has a bunch of these for sale at about 1/2 price on Reverb.
They are a refurbisher for Fender. So I guess there were some problems with them.
I really like the way they look though.
If the problems have been fixed, it might be a great deal.