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Fender Custom Shop '56 Heavy Relic Stratocaster in Aged Olive
Weight 7.9lbs
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Want to Click and Collect or try items at our Guildford Store?
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 at 01483 456777 to place a 10% deposit.
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, unless you have paid a deposit to reserve the item, it will continue to be free, both online and in-store, for another customer to buy. Therefore we would advise you to place a 10% deposit by either using the on-line click and collect service or calling us 01483 456777.
SKU: JE23-42_R137910
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Product Description
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.
- '54 Soft V - Favoured by many of the greats, the Soft V is the perfect neck for players who like to feel the neck but still want the comfort of a more rounded neck profile.
Custom Shop ‘56 Strat Pickups
Wound in-house by the Fender Custom Shop these ’56 Stratocaster pickups capture the heart and soul of one of the most desirable periods of the Strat's long history. Made using Alnico V magnets with a vintage correct stagger, Formvar wire along with black fibre bobbins and cloth pull-back wire, these pickups produce the desirable bell-like glassy chime of the originals. The middle pickup is reverse wound/reverse-polarity for noise-free performance in positions 2 and 4.
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: ’56 Strat
- Top Colour: Olive Green
- Finish: Heavy Relic
- Pickguard: ’54-’58 Strat .060 Vinyl Black Relic
Neck
- Bolt-On Neck: 4 Bolt
- Neck Finish: Light Tint Nitrocellulose
- Neck Wood: Maple Quartersawn
- Truss Rod: ‘50s
- Frets: 21
- Tuning Keys: Vintage with Fender Logo Relic
- Head Style: Small
- Fret Wire: Medium Vintage
- Facedots: Micarta Black .250
- Dot Spacing: Wide
- Fretboard Radius: 9.50”
- Neck Shape: ’54 Strat Soft V
- Neck Spec 1st Fret: .900”
- 12th Fret: .985”
- Nut: Bone (Guitar & Jazz Bass)
- Side Dots: Micarta Black 3/32”
- Decal: 54-60 Stratocaster with OCB
Hardware
- Controls: Strat Modern Relic
- Bridge: C/S Vintage Strat Relic
- Neck Plate: R Ser Vintage Relic
- Hardware Colour: Chrome/Nickel Hardware
Electronics
- Neck Pickup: Handwound ’56 Strat Relic
- Middle Pickup: Handwound ’56 Strat Reverse Wound Relic
- Bridge Pickup: Handwound ’56 Strat Relic
- Pots: 250k 10% Taper Split
- Tone Knob: Strat SM FT Tone Black Relic
- Switch Tip: Black Relic
- Volume Knob: Strat SM FT Vol Black Relic
- Selector Switch: Switch 5-Way Lever Control
Miscellaneous
- Case: Fender Custom Shop Strat/Tele Brown
- Certificate of Authenticity