Fender Custom Shop '64 Heavy Relic (SRV Charley Inspired) 2008 Olympic White
Fender Custom Shop '64 Heavy Relic (SRV Charley Inspired) 2008 Olympic White
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Aged Olympic White that has yellowed into a deep, creamy vintage tone, worn down by heavy relic treatment with playing marks all over the top and back of the two piece alder body. The maple neck carries a 65 Strat "C" profile with the finish stripped from the back so it feels dark, dirty and instantly broken in, topped with a darker round laminated rosewood fingerboard, a 9.5" radius and medium jumbo frets. What makes this one special is the pickup set: three Seymour Duncan SLS-1 Lipstick Tube single coils in a green black green nitrate pickguard, a clear nod to "Charley", the white Strat style guitar that Charley Wirz built for Stevie Ray Vaughan in Dallas in late 1983 and that Stevie reached for on "Life Without You". Lipstick tube pickups sound nothing like a standard Strat set: chimey, glassy and open with a wiry bite and a scooped, slightly hollow midrange that cleans up beautifully and snarls when you push it. Combined with the small headstock, the vintage 3 pat number decal and the relic chrome and nickel hardware, this Fender Custom Shop Stratocaster looks and feels like a guitar that has been out on the road for four decades.
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- Weight
- 3.59 kg
- Color and finish
- Aged (yellowed) Olympic White, nitrocellulose lacquer, Heavy Relic, lots of playing marks on top and back of body
- Body
- 65 Strat style body, 2 piece Alder, SSS pickup routing
- Neck
- Maple neck, nitro lacquer with finish removed from the back of the neck, 65 Strat "C" shape, .820 inch / 20.8 mm at the 1st fret and .974 inch / 24.7 mm at the 12th fret, round laminated darker rosewood fingerboard, 21 medium jumbo frets, 9.5" radius, small headstock, head thickness 14.6 mm, Nut width 1.650 inch / 41.9 mm, Butt width 2.200 inch / 55.9 mm, standard blank nut, early 60s truss rod, white Micarta face dots 6.4 mm with narrow spacing and a narrow dot at the 12th fret, white Micarta side dots, vintage tuning keys with Fender logo relic, 4 bolt mounting, 63 Strat 3 pat number decal
- Pickups
- Seymour Duncan SLS-1 Lipstick Tube neck, Seymour Duncan SLS-1 Lipstick Tube middle, Seymour Duncan SLS-1 Lipstick Tube bridge
- Controls
- CRL 5 way lever switch, 250k pots 10 percent taper split, 1 volume and 2 tone controls
- Hardware
- Chrome and nickel hardware, American Vintage Strat bridge relic, vintage upgraded 60s tremolo arm relic with white relic tip, vintage Strat output jack relic, R series vintage neck plate relic, relic Strat back plate
- Pickguard
- Green Black Green nitrate pickguard
- Plastics
- White relic switch tip, white relic small skirted volume and tone knobs
- Case
- Fender Custom Shop Strat / Tele brown case
- Year
- 2008
