Description
Description
The benchmark of craftsmanship, the Fender Custom Shop is the apex of what Fender has to offer. Each instrument is hand-crafted by Fender Master Builders from only the finest, premium-grade components. The Custom Shop, known also as “The Dream Factory,” produces extremely limited runs of period-correct touchstones from the Fender catalog, as well as special one-offs featuring experimental, ground-up design and appointments. Custom hand-wound and treated pickups, exotic tonewoods, hand-aged hardware, special relicing techniques–only the best of the best goes into what leaves the Fender Custom Shop. Fender’s finest expression of quality and art, supreme in all ways.
"Chicago Special" Strat® pickups:
- Calibrated set - for balanced output
- Each pickup as custom AlNiCo 5 magnet stagger for optimum output balance string-to-string 42 gauge enamel wire for round highs
- Potted in shellac for open wide range frequency response
Specs
Specs
General
| Series: | Fender Custom Shop |
| Country of Manufacture: | Made in the USA |
| Serial Number: | R134815 |
| Product Color: | Super Aged Silverburst Sparkle |
| Relic/Aging Level: | Deluxe Closet Classic |
| Case Type: | Hardshell Case Included |
| Factory Setup: | E Standard (E-A-D-G-B-E) |
Body
| Body Shape: | Stratocaster |
| Body Material: | Ash |
Neck
| Neck Material: | Rift Sawn Maple |
| Neck Tint/Color: | Medium Tint |
| Neck Shape: | 57 Style Soft "V" |
| Fingerboard Material: | Maple |
| Nut Material: | Bone |
| Nut Width: | 1.65" |
| Fingerboard Radius: | 9.5" |
| Scale Length: | 25.5" |
| Number of Frets: | 21 Frets |
| Neck Joint: | Bolt-On |
| Fingerboard Inlay: | Micarta Black Dots |
| Inlay Shape: | Dots |
| Side Marker Inlay: | Micarta Black 3/32" |
Electronics
| Bridge Pickup: | Hand-Wound Stratocaster Chicago Special Bridge |
| Middle Pickup: | Hand-Wound Stratocaster Chicago Special Middle RWRP |
| Neck Pickup: | Hand-Wound Stratocaster Chicago Special Neck |
| Controls and Switching: | Fat 50 Strat 1/2 Blender |
Hardware
| Hardware Color: | Nickel |
| Bridge: | American Vintage Stratocaster |
| Tuning Machines: | Vintage with Fender Logo |
| Fret Wire: | Medium Vintage |
| Saddle: | Metal |
| Pickguard: | Black Anodized Aluminum |