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 - bridge to neck - 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: | R127778 |
| Product Color: | Sherwood Green |
| Relic/Aging Level: | Journeyman Relic |
| Case Type: | Hardshell Case Included |
| Factory Setup: | .010-.046, E Standard (E-A-D-G-B-E) |
Body
| Body Shape: | Stratocaster |
| Body Material: | Alder |
| Body Finish: | Nitrocellulose Lacquer |
Neck
| Neck Material: | Rosewood |
| Neck Finish: | Nitrocellulose Lacquer |
| Neck Shape: | 60s Oval C |
| Fingerboard Material: | None (1-Piece Indian Rosewood Neck) |
| Nut Material: | Bone |
| Nut Width: | 1.65" (42mm) |
| Fingerboard Radius: | 9.5" (241mm) |
| Scale Length: | 25.5" (647.7mm) |
| Number of Frets: | 21 Frets |
| Neck Joint: | 4-Bolt |
| Fingerboard Inlay: | Micarta Black Dots |
| Inlay Shape: | Dots |
| Side Marker Inlay: | Black Micarta |
| Headstock Inlay/Decal: | 56 - 60 Strat |
Electronics
| Bridge Pickup: | Fender Hand-Wound Chicago Special |
| Middle Pickup: | Fender Hand-Wound Chicago Special RWRP |
| Neck Pickup: | Fender Hand-Wound Chicago Special |
| Controls and Switching: | Volume, 2 Tone, 5-Way Switch |
| Electronics Notes: | Strat 1/2 Blender Wiring |
Hardware
| Hardware Color: | Nickel/Chrome |
| Bridge: | American Vintage Strat |
| Tuning Machines: | Vintage with Fender Logo |
| Fret Wire: | Sanko 6105 |
| Pickguard: | 3-Ply Parchment |