Fender Custom Shop Limited Edition '60 Stratocaster Relic Electric Guitar, Vintage White

When it comes to authentically retro guitars, there's few places you could find something better than this Fender Custom Shop Limited Edition '60 Stratocaster Relic in a luscious Vintage White. This limited release Fender Custom Shop Strat features a vast lineup of top-shelf specifications, eccentric electronics, and vividly vintage aesthetics. Pitch-perfect in just about every way, this limited Stratocaster has style to spare.

The Fender Custom Shop has a reputation for incredible, vintage-inspired, custom guitars. This particular limited edition Strat model is of no exception. Everything here kicks off with a two-piece alder body, sorted for weight. In Fender Custom Shop construction, being "sorted for weight" refers to a process where a Custom Shop builder will choose a body among a lot for it having the lightest weight. This then makes for a body that contributes to an overall lighter weight and feel, easily carried across a stage or balanced over the knee. What's more, this sorted alder works great as a canvas to wrap a Fender Custom Shop Relic finish treatment around with some grain exposed underneath.

From here, a 5/4 quartersawn maple neck extends out in a '60s Style Oval "C" profile. One of the Custom Shop's most popular profiles known for its slim feel and speediness, this profile facilitates fast moves from lower to higher registers – measuring from .790" at the first fret to .930" at the twelfth. This neck is matched up with a dark-tinted nine millimeter AAA rosewood fingerboard lined with twenty-one 6105 Narrow Tall frets. Again, one of Fender Custom Shop's most popular picks, Narrow Tall fret wire offers up better articulation through a taller height and thinner width. This rosewood is lined with Micarta White facedots and measures with a more modern 9.5" radius.

Those looking for a proverbial "classic" Strat experience need look no further than this Custom Shop. Onboard, three hand-wound '60-'63 Strat single-coil pickups land with all the shimmer, sparkle, and snap that made the model an icon. The middle position's pickup features reverse-wound, reverse-polarity design that adds that subtle bit of variation. These pickups are shaped through the Custom Shop's Vintage Modified Strat #2 wiring with a built-in Tone Saver treble bleed and 250K 10% split taper potentiometers.

This limited edition Custom Shop Strat is topped off with a number of hardware specifications. At the base of the scale, a Fender American Vintage Stratocaster bridge lands for easy vibrato bends while a bone nut and Vintage-Style tuning machines keeps stringing and intonation steady. A couple extra elements make this Strat pop with a Fender Custom Shop limited edition neck plate and headstock decal, a matching Vintage White headstock cap, and an included Fender Custom Shop Strat/Tele Brown hardshell case.

It's never too early (or too late) to go retro. Don't believe us? Take it from the Fender Custom Shop and this limited Strat.