Fender Custom Shop 1957 Stratocaster Relic RSPK #R150377
Product information "Fender Custom Shop 1957 Stratocaster Relic RSPK #R150377"
The Fender 1957 Stratocaster Heavy Relic Red Sparkle looks as if it had been thrashed on dimly lit stages every night for the last 70 years. Ash body, bolt-on quartersawn maple neck in the 1957 Soft "V" profile, historically correct hardware and a set of Fender Custom Shop Hand-Wound 57 Strat Pickups - the whole thing in a beautifully roadworn Heavy Relic finish - you can’t get more vintage Strat than this!
- Aging: Heavy Relic
- Body Material: Ash 2-piece, Select
- Body Shape: ST-Style
- Body finish: Nitrocellulose Lacquer
- Bridge / Tremolo: Fender 6-Saddle Vintage-Style Synchronized Tremolo with Bent Steel Saddles
- Bridge Pickup: Fender Custom Shop Handwound '57 Strat
- Color/ Finish: Red Sparkle
- Colour: Red
- Controls: 1x volume, 2x tone
- Country of Origin: USA
- Custom shop: yes
- Factory Stringing: Fender USA 250R Nickel Plated Steel
- Finish: Nitrocellulose Lacquer
- Fretboard: Quartersawn Maple
- Fretboard Inlays: Black Micarta Dots
- Fretboard radius: 9,5"
- Fret material: Nickel silver
- Frets: 21
- Fret size: Narrow Tall
- Hardware: Aged Nickel/Chrome
- Includes: Hardcase
- Middle Pickup: Fender Custom Shop Handwound '57 Strat
- Neck: Maple, Quartersawn
- Neck Pickup: Fender Custom Shop Handwound '57 Strat
- Neck Profile: 1957 Soft "V"
- Neck construction: Bolt on neck
- Neck finish: Nitrocellulose Lacquer
- Nut Width: 1.650" (42 mm)
- Nut material: Bone
- Pickguard: 1-Ply Parchment
- Pickup Configuration: S-S-S (3x Single Coil)
- Pickup Cover: Vintage White
- Pickup Selector Switch: 5-way switch
- Pickup type: passive
- Pot Caps: Skirted Knob Parchment
- Scale: 25" (635 - 659 mm)
- Scale Length: 25,5" (648 mm)
- Strings: 6 string
- Strings thickness ex factory: .010 - .046
- Technology: Solid Body
- Translation: 1:14
- Tuning Machines: Fender Vintage-Style
To make a Fender instrument available to everyone, they are offered in different price ranges. The subsidiary Squier sells affordable, Far East-made models built to original specifications with Fender know-how in the background. An affordable, "real" Fender can be found in the series made in Mexico. The classic original Fender instruments, such as the American Pro series, are made in the USA. For lovers of hand-built instruments and guitars with vintage flair there is the Fender Custom Shop, where you can even have a guitar built completely to your own specifications.
But Fender is not only known and appreciated for its instruments, it is also famous for various amplifiers such as the Deluxe Reverb, the Princeton, the Champion, the Blues Junior and the Fender Rumble bass amp range. Fender now also offers a wide range of guitar accessories like strings, picks, cables, straps, cases, tuners and care products, as well as spare parts and pickups, plus accessories and merchandising. You can of course find all of this at the music shop you trust – session in Frankfurt and Walldorf!