Fender Custom Shop Limited Edition NAMM '62 Stratocaster Heavy Relic Electric Guitar, Surf Green

For the time-honored tradition of the NAMM Show, we have this Fender Custom Shop Limited Edition NAMM '62 Stratocaster Heavy Relic in a seasalty Aged Surf Green. This limited run model, crafted specifically for the NAMM Show in Anaheim, California, comes together with some striking, worn-in, retro-minded qualities to capture a fully 3D vision of a vintage Fender.

The Fender Custom Shop '62 Stratocaster kicks off its whole deal with a two-piece alder body, sorted for weight. Selected for its light weight when being built, this alder body is easily carried and highly resonant. On top of being such a great sonic engine, this guitar's alder body works as an exceptional canvas to splash an aged Thin Skin lacquer finish across. Utilizing Fender's Thin Skin lacquer for a more barebones look and feel in addition to the Custom Shop's Heavy Relic finish wear treatment, this Strat exhibits a good number of spots where the alder grain is exposed, making for a truly three-dimensional experience.

From here, we move on to a 5/4 quartersawn maple neck in a 60 Style Oval "C" profile. A very popular pick among Custom Shops, the Oval "C" slips seamlessly in hand for a feel that is definitively vintage but allows for some modernity in its thickness. The neck measures .790" at the first fret and fills out to .930" at the twelfth. For its fingerboard, this NAMM Strat uses nine millimeter AAA rosewood. Rich and comfortable, this cut of rosewood is lined with twenty-one 6105 Narrow Tall frets. Another popular pick for Custom pieces, 6105 fret wire drops in for a thinner and higher feel, resulting in greater articulation. Micarta White facedots and sidedots punctuate the rosewood as inlays.

This Fender Custom Shop '62 Strat loads in a robust set of electronics to sing its song. In each of the guitar's three pickup positions, we have a hand-wound 60/63 Strat single-coil. These pickups, wound to authentically capture a '60s Stratocaster tone, are then harnessed through a Vintage Modified Strat #2 wiring with 250k 10% taper split pots. These pickups play with a thoroughly vintage Strat sound and are fitted with Vintage White pickup covers for an additional aged outlook.

With this Strat, we're met with a number of fine hardware specifications. A Fender American Vintage Strat synchronized tremolo bridge drops in for seamless vibrato bends. Alongside this bridge, Vintage-Style tuning machines and a bone nut match up at the headstock for seamless stringing. This limited edition Strat travels with an included Fender Custom Shop Strat/Tele Brown hardshell case.

It's never too early to get excited about the NAMM Show. Might as well start preppin' with this limited edition Custom Shop!