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Fender Custom Shop '63 HSS Stratocaster Electric Guitar in Aged British Racing Green
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Weight 8lbs
Sixties foundations with alternative modern touches like a 12-inch radius fretboard and Seymour Duncan El Diablo hot pickups
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The store is open 10am - 6pm Monday to Saturday and 11am - 5pm Sunday and bank holidays.
The stock information shows the quantity of units that are available to purchase at the Guildford store and the quantity of units that are available at our off-site Guildford warehouse. These stock levels are updated in real time.
Our Click and Collect service is available at our Guildford store from 10am - 6pm Monday to Saturday, and 11am - 5pm on Sunday. You can either choose Click and Collect as your delivery option online or, during store opening hours, call our sales team on 01483 456777 for assistance with placing your order.
If you have placed your order online, you will receive a confirmation email of your order and a separate follow-up text or email to confirm when your item is ready for collection.
Please do not come to the store before you have received the follow-up message, as your order may not yet be ready at the store.
If the only available stock is in our off-site warehouse it can be brought to the store location for you to try - you just need to contact the store within opening hours. Please note any requests received after 3.30pm will not arrive at the store until the following morning.
Please be aware that stock availability can change quickly both online and in-store, so we would always recommend placing your Click and Collect order as soon as possible to reserve your item.
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Product Description
Fender’s Custom Shop hand build some of the best guitars the world over in the style of their classic iterations, incorporating the finest woods and era specific hardware and electronics. This Stratocaster in a gorgeous aged British Racing Green captures the spirit of ‘63 from the nitro finish to the AAA rosewood fingerboard without sacrificing the ease of a modern approach when it comes to its snappier, quicker feel and fuller, more aggressive sound. This is a brilliant example of classic style, brilliant ageing techniques and craftsmanship, all the while leaning into a contemporary playability and hot-rodded sound.
Seymour Duncan El Diablo HSS pickups
The Seymour Duncan El Diablo pickup in the bridge position represents a departure from strictly mid-20th century tone. This is overwound to produce a fiery attack, muscly presence and greater output than your generic humbucker. You could easily adapt this voicing to all ranges or rock, hard rock, blues and funk – anything that requires the extra kick of high gain. Combine it with the middle pickup to round out the sound or switch over to the individual El Diablo single-coils for a funky, quacky Strat sound. The neck position has the spice of a middle-EQ-heavy tone but remains articulate like a modded Strat.
Strat Blender control
The Strat Blender control significantly expands the normal Strat palette. You can select both the humbucker and the neck pickups simultaneously for more fullness and clarity, making for excellent, rich clean tones.
Unique Custom Shop neck
The neck shape is the first thing you’ll notice to feel substantial about this Strat. It’s a modern C profile developing into a D as you move further up the neck, meaning it begins to fill out the hand for support when executing leads. Add in the much flatter-than-standard 12-inch fretboard radius and medium jumbo frets and this becomes an excellent choice, particularly for lead players, big expressive bends without fretting out and setting a low action for quick note changes. There’s a great balance of vintage-influenced neck profile – not as thin as a modern Strat – and current fretboard geometry.
Of course, the Custom Shop Strat incorporates outstanding woods and high quality fit and finish, with a fretboard made of a AAA rosewood and maple neck with a sleek lacquer treatment that feels lightly played in – just like the best Strats do even when you pick them up for the first time.
Features
- Two piece alder '60s style body with deep, comfortable tummy bout
- AAA rosewood fretboard and satin worn-in maple neck
- 21 Effortlessly playable medium jumbo frets across a flatter than standard 12-inch radius fingerboard
- Compound "C" to "D" neck shape filling out the hand for lead playing
- Overwound Seymour Duncan El Diablo humbucker and two single-coil pickups for denser, fiery sonic capabilities
- Strat Blender Control to combine the neck and bridge pickups for even wider tonal capabilities
- Custom colour and ageing to body, neck and hardware
- Complete with certificate of authenticity and hard case
Specifications
Body
- Body wood: Alder
- Body construction: 2-piece
- Body style: 60 Strat
- Body binding: None
- Body finish: Lacquer
- Colour option: Aged
- Body colour: Aged British Racing Green
Neck
- Neck style: 63 Strat
- Neck finish: Dark Tint NCL
- Neck wood: Maple, plain grain
- Fretboard wood: Rosewood AAA
- Truss rod: Bi-Flex AM Standard
- Mounting style: 4-bolt
- Headstock style: Small
- Head scoop: 60
- Head thickness: 0.575"
- Fret wire: Medium Jumbo / 6150
- Fretboard dots: Vintage Clay, relic
- Dot spacing: Narrow
- Fretboard radius: 12"
- Nut width: 1.650"
- Butt width: 2.200"
- Neck shape: Modern C to D
- Neck thickness, 1st fret: 0.820"
- Neck thickness, 12th fret: 0.890"
- Nut: Graphite
- Side dots: Vintage Clay
- Headstock decal: 63 Strat – 3 Pat
Electronics
- Pickup routing: HSS
- Controls: Strat Blender with GB/Saver, relic
- Selector switch: 5-way lever
- Switch tip: Vintage White, relic
- Tone knob: Strat small flat tone, Vintage White, relic
- Volume knob: Strat small flat volume, Vintage White, relic
- Pots: 250K, 10% taper split
- Neck pickup: HW Strat El Diablo, relic
- Middle pickup: HW El Diablo, middle RWRP, relic
- Bridge pickup: Seymour Duncan Antiquity Humbucker Bridge, aged, 4-conductor, nickel cover
Hardware
- Hardware finish: Chrome/Nickel
- Bridge: RSD Strat, relic
- Output jack: Vintage Strat, relic
- Neck plate: V Logo, satin nickel, relic
- Back plate: RSD Strat, parchment, relic
- String tree: American Vintage 1959–64 metal, spring, relic
- Tuning keys: Vintage locking, relic
- Tremolo arm: Strat RSD tremolo, relic
- Tremolo arm tip: American Vintage White, relic
- Pickguard: Late '60s Strat HSS BWB, relic
Misc
- Case: FCS Strat/Tele Blonde
- Strings: .010–.046
- Certification: 63 Strat
