Fender Custom Shop Levi Perry Masterbuilt '63 Stratocaster Relic HSS with Clapton Volume Boost in Super Faded Aged Sweet Pea Green

Key Features

• Relic Nitro - Expertly aged in a genuinely authentic and tasteful way, this [model] looks like it's been someone's favourite guitar for over 50 years.
• HSS - Featuring a Seymour Duncan Antiquity in the bridge position accompanied by a duo of hand-wound Custom Shop Texas Specials this Strat has every tone covered from glassy and articulate single coil sounds to full-throttle humbucking richness!

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. Thanks to their overwound hotter design, these pickups are the perfect compliment to a vintage-styled bridge humbucker.

‘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.

Levi Perry

Unlike many other Fender Masterbuilders who spent years honing their guitar-building skills outside of Fender, Levi joined Fender straight out of high school. He was born and raised in California and began working as part of the American standard production final assembly team primarily taking care of final setups and checks. In 2015 he moved into the Custom Shop where he first became a Relic Artist before soon joining the Custom Shop service repair team. It was here that he had first-hand in the full day-to-day of a custom shop builder gaining experience in every area of a custom shop guitar build. During this role, he got the opportunity to work on a number of Masterbuilt guitars which eventually acted as his ‘in’ with the prestigious Masterbuilders. In 2018 Levi was promoted to Masterbuilder Apprentice. In interviews, Levi jokes how he was instantly thrown in the deep end getting the chance to work on legendary Fender Custom Shop Game of Thrones series of guitars. He spent 2 years working under John Cruz before getting the chance to work as a floater, learning the best bits from every Fender Masterbuilder. Finally, in 2023, Levi was promoted to Masterbuilder. His passion for the rich history and heritage of Fender as well as his love of learning, ambition and his desire to keep pushing as earnt him a prominent reputation among the Masterbuilder ranks.

Specifications

Body

• Body Style: 60 Stratocaster
• Body Wood: Alder
• Colour: Super Faded/Aged
• Top Colour: Super Aged Sweet Pea Green

Neck

• Neck Finish: Medium Tint Nitrocellulose
• Neck Wood: Maple Plain Grain
• Fretboard Wood: Guitar Cites Rosewood AAA 9mm
• Truss Rod: Early 60’s
• Head Style: Small
• Fret Wire: Vintage Upgrade
• Neck Shape: 60 Style Oval “C”
• Radius: 7.25"
• Dots: Vintage Clay
• Frets: 21

Hardware

• Hardware Colour: Chrome
• Tuners: Vintage With Fender Logo Relic
• Bridge: Vintage Strat Bridge Relic
• Pickguard: Late 60s Brownshell Relic

Electronics

• Controls: POMO Strat HSS Relic
• Neck Pickup: Handwound Stratocaster Texas Special Neck Relic
• Middle Pickup: Handwound Strat Texas Special Mid Relic
• Bridge Pickup: SD Antiquity HB BRG SE 4C NC
• Clapton Volume Boost (Triggered by Gilmour Type Switch)

Miscellaneous

• Fender Custom Shop Strat/Tele Brown