Fender Custom Shop '61 Heavy Relic Stratocaster in Ocean Turquoise Over Sunburst

Key Features

• Heavy Relic - Aged to replicate the mesmerising aesthetics of a working guitarist's workhorse instrument. This relic treatment features the typical playwear, dings and decolourisation found on many of the most lusted-over instruments.
• Quarter Sawn Maple - Straight-grained and around 50% more stable than a traditional plain-sawn neck.
• 9.50” Radius - Fender’s modern fingerboard radius favoured by many for its comfort and versatility.

Texas Specials

Originally introduced in the early ‘90s, the Fender Texas Special pickups were designed to reproduce the esteemed fiery-hot Texas blues Strat tones that rose to popularity in the 1980s. These over-wound vintage-styled Stratocaster pickups offer a bell-like chime, sweet highs, and a snappy bass with cutting mids that help push overdriven tones to the next level! Made using Alnico V magnets with Enamel-coated magnet wire along with period-correct pull-back cloth wire and black fibre bobbins these pickups are perhaps the ultimate Strat pickups.

‘60s C Oval Shape Neck

The neck that can do everything! Not too thin and not too fat, just right no matter what style of playing you want to play that day. The neck is big enough that you can still wrap your thumb over and feel the whole guitar shake as you strum the strings as hard as you can yet still thin enough that you can effortlessly shred up and down the neck.

Fender Custom Shop

The Fender Dream Factory… Fender’s best luthiers, using the best materials and tools all under one roof with the single unified mission of building the best guitars that Fender has ever produced. Founded in 1987 the Custom Shop was established to take Fender’s manufacturing back to its roots with smaller production numbers and higher quality. Famed for pushing Leo's designs to their absolute limits, the Custom Shop is the benchmark to which all other Fender electric guitars are compared to!

Specifications

Body

• Body Wood: Alder
• Body Style ’60 Strat
• Body Finish: Lacquer
• Pickguard: ’60 Strat GBG Tortoise Nitrocellulose Relic
• Colour Option: Heavy Relic

Neck

• Neck Finish: Light Tint Nitrocellulose
• Neck Wood: Maple 5/4 Quartersawn
• Fretboard: Guitar Sites Rosewood AAA 9mm
• Reverse Headstock: Flat Lam
• Truss Rod: Early 60’s
• Frets: 21
• Radius: 9.50"
• Tuners: Vintage with Fender Logo Relic
• Fret Wire: Narrow Tall
• Facedots: Vintage Clay
• Neck Shape: 60s Style Oval “C”
• Nut: Standard FB Blank

Hardware

• Bridge: C/S Vintage Strat Relic
• Neck Plate: R SER Vintage Relic

Electronics

• Neck Pickup: Handwound Strat Texas Special Neck
• Middle Pickup: Handwound Strat Texas Special Middle
• Bridge Pickup: Handwound Strat Texas Special Bridge
• Controls: Strat Modern Relic
• Selector Switch: Switch 5-Way Lever Control
• Tone Knob: Strat Vintage White
• Volume Knob: Strat Vintage White
• Pots: 250k 10% Taper Split

Miscellaneous

• Case: Fender Custom Shop Strat/Tele Brown