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Fender Custom Shop 1963 Esquire Bigsby Deluxe Closet Classic Black

Fender Custom Shop 1963 Esquire Bigsby Deluxe Closet Classic Black

Regular price $ 88,774.00
Regular price Sale price $ 88,774.00

Serial Number: CZ587232

Weight: 8lbs 6oz

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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.

Deluxe Closet Classic
Deluxe Closet Classic is a house favorite here at CME. It shows its age like a fine wine, built for those who want to more clearly feel the life of the instrument, but without all those forced dings and dents. Maintaining many of the subtleties of a traditional Closet Classic such as less brilliance to the finish, slight discoloration of plastics, and mild oxidation of metal parts, this aging package adds notably more extensive and lush finish checking that you will see and feel throughout. (*Note. Our photographs sometimes do not capture finish checking as well as we’d like, so please get in touch with us for an in-hand description and additional photographs.)

Specs

General

Series: Fender Custom Shop
Country of Manufacture: Made in the USA
Serial Number: CZ587232
Product Color: Black
Relic/Aging Level: Deluxe Closet Classic
Case Type: Hardshell Case Included
Factory Setup: E Standard (E-A-D-G-B-E)

Body

Body Shape: Esquire
Body Material: 2-Piece Select Alder Body
Body Finish: DLX Closet Classic Lacquer Finish

Neck

Neck Material: Rift Sawn Maple Neck with '60s Oval "C" Back-Shape
Neck Shape: '60s Oval "C" Back-Shape
Fingerboard Material: 3A Rosewood Fingerboard
Nut Material: Bone
Nut Width: 1.625"
Fingerboard Radius: Compound 7.25-9.5" (184.1-241mm)
Scale Length: 25.5" (647.7mm)
Number of Frets: 21 Frets
Neck Joint: 4 Bolt

Electronics

Bridge Pickup: Custom Shop Hand-Wound Loaded '51 Nocaster
Controls and Switching: '59 Esquire Wiring

Hardware

Hardware Color: Nickel/Chrome
Bridge: RSD Jaguar/Jazzmaster Bridge
Tailpiece: Bigsby® Vibrato Tailpiece
Tuning Machines: Vintage-Style Tuning Machines with Fender Logo
String Tree: American Vintage '59-'64 String Tree
Fret Wire: 21 Jescar Medium Vintage (47095) Frets
Saddle: Brass RSD Saddles
Pickguard: 3-Ply Mint Green Pickguard
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SKU: 9235700030-CZ587232

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.

Deluxe Closet Classic
Deluxe Closet Classic is a house favorite here at CME. It shows its age like a fine wine, built for those who want to more clearly feel the life of the instrument, but without all those forced dings and dents. Maintaining many of the subtleties of a traditional Closet Classic such as less brilliance to the finish, slight discoloration of plastics, and mild oxidation of metal parts, this aging package adds notably more extensive and lush finish checking that you will see and feel throughout. (*Note. Our photographs sometimes do not capture finish checking as well as we’d like, so please get in touch with us for an in-hand description and additional photographs.)

Specs

General

Series: Fender Custom Shop
Country of Manufacture: Made in the USA
Serial Number: CZ587232
Product Color: Black
Relic/Aging Level: Deluxe Closet Classic
Case Type: Hardshell Case Included
Factory Setup: E Standard (E-A-D-G-B-E)

Body

Body Shape: Esquire
Body Material: 2-Piece Select Alder Body
Body Finish: DLX Closet Classic Lacquer Finish

Neck

Neck Material: Rift Sawn Maple Neck with '60s Oval "C" Back-Shape
Neck Shape: '60s Oval "C" Back-Shape
Fingerboard Material: 3A Rosewood Fingerboard
Nut Material: Bone
Nut Width: 1.625"
Fingerboard Radius: Compound 7.25-9.5" (184.1-241mm)
Scale Length: 25.5" (647.7mm)
Number of Frets: 21 Frets
Neck Joint: 4 Bolt

Electronics

Bridge Pickup: Custom Shop Hand-Wound Loaded '51 Nocaster
Controls and Switching: '59 Esquire Wiring

Hardware

Hardware Color: Nickel/Chrome
Bridge: RSD Jaguar/Jazzmaster Bridge
Tailpiece: Bigsby® Vibrato Tailpiece
Tuning Machines: Vintage-Style Tuning Machines with Fender Logo
String Tree: American Vintage '59-'64 String Tree
Fret Wire: 21 Jescar Medium Vintage (47095) Frets
Saddle: Brass RSD Saddles
Pickguard: 3-Ply Mint Green Pickguard