Fender Custom Shop '57 Relic Stratocaster 2014 Black
Fender Custom Shop '57 Relic Stratocaster 2014 Black
Showroom Buren
Randweg 34
4116 GH Buren
Netherlands
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Black nitro lacquer worn through to the alder at all the places where real hands and real belt buckles would have done it, over a deep contoured body that takes you straight back to the year the Strat was largely perfected. This Fender Custom Shop Stratocaster from the Time Machine series pairs that classic look with a quartersawn maple neck in a comfortable '57 soft V profile, a one piece maple fingerboard with a 9.5" radius that make bends feel effortless. This guitar has been refretted! The single ply parchment pickguard, vintage white plastics and aged nickel and chrome hardware complete a '57 Relic Stratocaster that looks every bit the part.
Three Custom Shop hand wound '50s Strat pickups with Alnico 5 magnets give you the sound that started it all: bright, chimey and dynamic, with vintage correct clarity and articulation that responds to every change in your pick attack. The reverse wound, reverse polarity middle pickup keeps positions 2 and 4 quiet, and the dedicated tone control for the bridge pickup lets you tame the bite without losing the sparkle. Black was a rare custom color in 1957, and this model has been discontinued since 2017, which makes a black '57 Relic from the Fender Custom Shop a guitar you will not run into often.
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- Weight
- 3.38 kg
- Color and finish
- Black, nitrocellulose lacquer, Relic
- Body
- 57 Strat style body, Alder, deep contours
- Neck
- Quartersawn Maple neck, 57 Soft V shape, 1 piece Maple fingerboard, 21 frets, Narrow Jumbo, 9.5" radius, Scale length 648 mm, Nut width 1.650 inch / 42 mm, Small headstock, Single wing string tree, Fender American Vintage tuning machines
- Pickups
- Custom Shop Hand Wound 50s Strat neck, Custom Shop Hand Wound 50s Strat middle (RWRP), Custom Shop Hand Wound 50s Strat bridge
- Controls
- 5 way blade switch, Master Volume, Tone 1 (neck and middle), Tone 2 (bridge)
- Hardware
- Nickel and chrome, American Vintage Synchronized Tremolo, Strings 10 to 46
- Pickguard
- 1 ply Parchment, 8 hole
- Plastics
- Vintage white switch tip, vintage white control knobs, vintage white pickup covers
