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: | R147084 |
| Product Color: | Super Aged Fiesta Red |
| Relic/Aging Level: | Time Capsule |
| Case Type: | Hardshell Case Included |
| Factory Setup: | E Standard (E-A-D-G-B-E) |
Body
| Body Shape: | Stratocaster |
| Body Material: | 2-Piece Ash (Sort for Light) |
| Body Finish: | Flash Coat Lacquer |
Neck
| Neck Material: | 1-Piece Rift Sawn Maple |
| Neck Finish: | Flash Coat Lacquer |
| Neck Tint/Color: | Medium Tint |
| Neck Shape: | '57-Style Soft "V" .850 - .990 |
| Fingerboard Material: | 1-Piece Rift Sawn Maple |
| Nut Material: | Bone |
| Nut Width: | 1.65" |
| Fingerboard Radius: | 9.5" |
| Scale Length: | 25.5" |
| Number of Frets: | 21 Frets |
| Neck Joint: | 4 Bolt |
| Fingerboard Inlay: | Micarta Black .250 |
| Inlay Shape: | Dots |
| Side Marker Inlay: | Micarta Black 3/32" |
| Headstock Inlay/Decal: | '54-60 Stratocaster w/Original Contour Body |
Electronics
| Bridge Pickup: | Custom Shop Hand-Wound "Chicago Special" Stratocaster |
| Middle Pickup: | Custom Shop Hand-Wound "Chicago Special" Stratocaster RWRP |
| Neck Pickup: | Custom Shop Hand-Wound "Chicago Special" Stratocaster |
| Controls and Switching: | Fat '50s Stratocaster 1/2 Blender |
Hardware
| Hardware Color: | Nickel/Chrome |
| Bridge: | American Vintage Stratocaster |
| Tuning Machines: | Vintage w/Fender Logo |
| String Tree: | American Vintage '56-58 |
| Fret Wire: | Medium Vintage / 47095 |
| Saddle: | Metal |
| Pickguard: | 1-Ply Parchment |
| Knobs: | Vintage White |