Fender Custom Shop '63 Stratocaster Journeyman Relic Electric Guitar in Aged Black Pearl

We are pleased to offer this outstanding Fender Custom Shop ’63 Journeyman Strat in a stunning Aged Black Pearl finish. With its dark Rosewood fingerboard and tortoise shell pickguard, this guitar looks the absolute business. 

Ozzing with vibe this Strat sounds and plays as good as it looks. With all the classic Fender tones of the '60s, this guitar sings! Perfectly resonant between the neck and the body it feels alive in your hands. Its hand-wound Texas Special pickups perfectly capture every nuance of this guitar. You won't ever want to put this one down!

Key Features 

• Compound Radius:Maximum comfort wherever you are on the neck, no matter what you are playing. 
• Vintage Upgrade:Vintage styled with a sprinkle of useful modern upgrades such as ‘Vintage Upgrade’ (taller) frets, a Compound fingerboard radius, Texas Special pickups and a 5-way switch.
• Quarter Sawn Maple:Superior neck stability and strength thanks to thehand-selected Quater Sawn Maple neck.
• Super Faded Aged Nitro Finish:A brand new guitar that looks authentic! 

Classic Combination

Fender’s classic 60s wood combination of an Alder body and Maple neck with a Rosewood Fingerboard. This ’63 Journeyman Strat comes equipped with a 2-piece Alder body, a Quarter Sawn Maple neck and a AAA Slab Rosewood fingerboard. All the glorious Stratocaster overtones and harmonics you'd hope for. 

'60s C Oval Shape Neck

Regarded by so many guitarists as Fender's best-ever neck, the 60s Oval C is the perfect best of both. Thin enough that you can shred up and down the neck effortlessly yet still enough chunk that you can wrap your thumb over, feel the vibration and most importantly feel connected with the guitar.

Fender Custom Shop

Founded in 1987 the Fender Custom Shop is famed for making the best guitars that Fender has ever produced. It’s Fender’s dream factory using the top luthiers, the best tools and the best of the best materials. Everything is hand-selected to ensure that whatever they build is stage and studio-ready.

Josefina

With a direct link right back to Leo Fender and the original production of Fender’s instruments in the 50s, Josefina Campos is keeping Fender's pickup-making torch burning brightly! Selected by the ‘Queen of Tone’ Abigale Yabarra (Fender’s original pickup winder from the early 50s) to be her apprentice before she retired, Josefina’s hand-wound pickups are the sum of all Abigale’s and Leo’s knowledge. These hand-wound Texas Specials give you everything you want in a Strat, sparkling highs, bell-like chime and tight bass but with increased output to help push your amps and dirt pedals for the optimum Strat tone. 

Specifications

Body

• Body Style: 60s Strat
• Body Wood: Alder
• Body Finish: Nitrocellulose Lacquer
• Body Colour: Super Faded Aged Black Pearl

Neck

• Neck Shape: 60s Style Oval C
• Neck Wood: Quarter Sawn Maple
• Neck Finish: Medium Tint Nitrocellulose Lacquer
• Fingerboard: AAA Rosewood
• Frets: 21 Vintage Upgrade (45085)
• Radius: Compound Radius 7.25” – 9.50’’
• Nut Width: 1.65”
• Nut: Bone
• Dots: Micarta White
• Decal: 63 Strat (3 Pat Numbers)

Hardware

• Bridge: American Vintage Stratocaster Bridge Relic
• Trem Arm: Vintage Upgraded 60s Relic with Vintage White Relic Tip
• Tuners: Vintage with Fender Logo Relic
• Pickguard: 63-76 Strat Brown Shell Nitro Relic
• Hardware: Chrome

Electronics

• Controls: Strat Modern Relic
• Switch: CRL 5-Way (Vintage White Relic Tip)
• Knobs: Vintage White Relic
• Pots: 250K 10% Taper Split
• Neck Pickup: Josefina Hand Wound Texas Special Neck Relic
• Middle Pickup: Josefina Hand Wound Texas Special Middle Relic
• Bridge Pickup: Josefina Hand Wound Texas Special Bridge Relic

Miscellaneous

• Strings: 10-46
• Case: Fender Custom Shop Brown Case