Inside and out, the '60 Stratocaster Relic guitar is a detailed recreation of its Kennedy-era ancestor.
It features an alder body, '60s C-shaped maple neck, and for the first time in its history: a smaller truss rod and slab laminated rosewood fingerboard with clay dot markers. The pickup design is faithful to the original right down to the materials and winding, producing a characteristically smooth and glassy tone. Under the hood, we've even replicated the finish undercoating and the crude pickup-wiring routing in the body.
This guitar has been given our "Relic" treatment built to show years of natural wear and tear; with nicks, scratches, worn finish, rusty hardware and aged plastic parts. -- fender.com
- Serial number: R18053
- Series: Time Machine™ Series
- Model number: 015-0900-(805)
- Body: Select alder (date: October 26, 2001)
- Finish: Olympic White, Relic
- Neck: Bird's-eye maple neck by master builder John Cruz
- Bolivian rosewood (pao ferro) fingerboard, 7.25" Radius (184mm), 21 Vintage Style Frets
- Mint Green 3-ply pickguard
- American Vintage Synchronized Tremolo
- Sheptone handwound Strat pickups - 6,58k bridge / 5,85k middle / 5,90k neck (measured before installing)
- Suhr BPSSC (Backplate Silent Single Coil) system
- 5-way pickup switch
- Controls: Master Volume, Tone (neck), Tone (bridge)
- Fender/Gotoh® Vintage Style Tuning Machines
- Aged hardware
- Schaller straplocks
- Case: Deluxe Brown Hardshell Case, Gold interior
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