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 |
| Hand Orientation: | Left-Handed |
| Serial Number: | R134495 |
| Product Color: | Aged Black |
| Relic/Aging Level: | Heavy Relic |
| Case Type: | Hardshell Case Included |
| Factory Setup: | E Standard (E-A-D-G-B-E) |
Body
| Body Material: | Alder |
Neck
| Neck Material: | Rosewood |
| Fingerboard Material: | None (1-Piece Indian Rosewood Neck) |
| Nut Material: | Bone |
| Nut Width: | 1.65" (42mm) |
| Fingerboard Radius: | 9.5" |
| Scale Length: | 25.5" (647.7mm) |
| Number of Frets: | 21 Frets |
| Neck Joint: | Bolt-On |
| Fingerboard Inlay: | Micarta White Dots |
| Inlay Shape: | Dots |
Electronics
| Bridge Pickup: | Fender Hand-Wound Chicago Special |
| Middle Pickup: | Fender Hand-Wound Chicago Special |
| Neck Pickup: | Fender Hand-Wound Chicago Special |
| Controls and Switching: | Master Volume, 2 Tone, 5-Position Blade |
| Electronics Notes: | Fat 50s Strat Half Blender |
Hardware
| Hardware Color: | Gold |
| Bridge: | American Vintage Strat Bridge |
| Tuning Machines: | Vintage with Fender Logo |