Fender Custom Shop '59 Strat Heavy Relic Sonic Blue Guitar

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Fender Custom Shop '59 Strat Heavy Relic Stratocaster Sonic Blue Guitar

This Fender Custom Shop '59 Strat Heavy Relic Stratocaster Sonic Blue Guitar has been given a Heavy Relic finish treatment and features a lightweight alder body (7.4 lbs) with a thin nitrocellulose finish and 3-ply black/white/black pickguard. 1959 was a transition year for the Fender Strat as the slab rosewood fretboards were introduced.  Up until mid-1959 Strats featured the 8 hole 1-Ply Parchment pickguard but towards the end of 1959 the 3-Ply Pickguards were introduced. This Fender Custom Shop '59 Relic Strat celebrates that late 1959 Strat with a 3-Ply Mint Pickguard. The guitar neck features a AAA dark Indian rosewood fingerboard with an early '60s "C" neck shape and a 9.5"-radius fingerboard with 6105 frets. Three Custom Shop Fat '60s pickups with a RWRP Middle Pickup, five-way switch, vintage hardware, and a bone nut give this beauty authentic looks and feel.

This Fender Strat guitar includes brown tolex hardshell case (with a gold crushed velvet interior), strap, polishing cloth, and Certificate of Authenticity. Fender Relic Stratocaster guitar is super worn-in, like your favorite pair of jeans. This special Fender Custom Shop treatment replicates the natural wear and tear an electric guitar gets from years of heavy use€”nicks, scratches, worn finish, rusty hardware and aged plastic parts. Fender's Time Machine series of instruments pay homage to specific years of some of our classic guitar designs.

All are built to exacting specifications of their respective vintages, including body contours and radii, neck shape, fingerboard radius, pickups and electronics. Original materials, tooling and production techniques are employed wherever possible to maintain the integrity of these Fender electric guitars. This is part of the Fender Custom Shop Time Machine Series. It is the real deal. Almost like it came right out of Mr. Peabody's Wayback Machine.

Highlights
This Fender Custom Shop Strat boasts a lightweight alder body with a lacquer relic finish. The tinted 2-piece quartersawn maple neck is wrapped with a tinted polyurethane finish and sports an early 60's "C" shape. The 3-ply Mint Pickguard and 5-way pickup switch with three single-coil pickups.

Heavy Relic Treatment - What's the deal???
As a member of the Fender Custom Shop Time Machine Series, this Tele is treated with the Heavy Relic treatment. This means the instrument is finished to resemble an instrument that has enjoyed a long life of heavy use. This includes significant wear and tear to the finish, dings & nicks to the body, neck, and headstock, and aged hardware. The end result is an instrument that looks like it's been around for a while and plays like a broken-in instrument.  After playing one of the Heavy Relic Time Machine Strats there is no other way to go.  Just like your favorite old pair of jeans it just feels right.

Classic feel and tone with the '59 Heavy Relic Strat!