Fender LTD Custom Shop 67 Stratocaster JRN HSS Faded Aged Blue Ice Metallic #CZ567066
Product information "Fender LTD Custom Shop 67 Stratocaster JRN HSS Faded Aged Blue Ice Metallic #CZ567066"
After CBS took over in 1965 the Stratocaster underwent several modifications. In 1966 the headstock was enlarged to bring the Stratocaster's appearance more in line with the Jaguar and Jazzmaster. Although the new look took some getting used to, the larger headstock also seemed to counteract the wood-warping issues that occurred with the old design. The design remained unchanged into the 1980s, when the company returned to the smaller headstock. Guitars from this period are rarely copied in the Custom Shop, making this model, based on a 1967 instrument, a true rarity:
The Fender LTD Custom Shop 67 Stratocaster JRN HSS Faded Aged Blue Ice Metallic is a classic ST-style electric guitar with a two-piece alder body. Alder has been used on original Stratocasters since the late 1950s and provides the foundation for the perfect vintage tone. The body wood was hand-selected to ensure an especially light weight and thus improve playing comfort. The aged maple neck with rosewood fretboard is shaped in a '65-style back-shape profile in the spirit of the 1960s and features a 9.5” fretboard radius, offering the perfect compromise between vintage feel and modern comfort and making fretting easier for your left hand. The guitar is fitted with a modern H-S-S pickup configuration consisting of two Fender Custom Shop hand-wound Fat ’64 Strat single coils and a Fender Shawbucker humbucker at the bridge. Other features include Fender vintage-style tuners, white control knobs, a Fender 6-saddle American Vintage Synchronized Tremolo bridge and a tortoise pickguard.
This model is finished in a striking Ice Blue Metallic. The thin nitrocellulose lacquer finish allows the wood to resonate exceptionally well and gives the finish a nicer ageing process. It's all about the look and feel of a guitar that has been loved and played. If you play your instrument often, it's a simple truth that your guitar will eventually show signs of wear. Even players who treat their guitars very carefully can suffer a fall from a stand, someone else's hands or even a mysteriously appearing ding. Each of these marks gives the guitar character. And that's what you get with the Fender Custom Shop Journeyman Relic level: a well-cared-for instrument that has been played and loved.
The Fender LTD Custom Shop 67 Stratocaster JRN HSS Faded Aged Blue Ice Metallic is delivered with a certificate of authenticity in a luxurious original Fender Custom Shop case with brown Tolex and blue interior, allowing you to transport your new dream guitar safely and protect it from external influences.
- Aging: Journeyman Relic
- Body Material: Alder 2-piece Select
- Body Shape: ST-Style
- Body finish: High Gloss
- Bridge / Tremolo: Fender Vintage Synchronised Tremolo
- Bridge Pickup: Fender Shawbucker Bridge
- Color/ Finish: Aged Blue Ice Metallic
- Colour: Blue
- Controls: 1x volume, 2x tone
- Country of Origin: USA
- Custom shop: yes
- Factory Stringing: Fender Nickel Plated Steel
- Finish: Nitrocellulose
- Fretboard: Round Lam Rosewood
- Fretboard Inlays: Mother of Pearl Dot
- Fretboard radius: 9,5"
- Fret material: Nickel silver
- Frets: 21
- Fret size: Jumbo
- Hardware: Nickel
- Includes: Case & certificate
- Middle Pickup: Fender Custom Shop Hand-Wound Fat ’64 Strat®
- Neck: Maple, quartersawn
- Neck Pickup: Fender Custom Shop Hand-Wound Fat ’64 Strat®
- Neck Profile: '65 Style "C" Back-Shape
- Neck construction: Bolt on neck
- Neck finish: High Gloss
- Nut Width: 1.650" (42 mm)
- Nut material: Bone
- Pickguard: Tortoise
- Pickup Configuration: H-S-S (1x Humbucker, 2x Single Coil)
- Pickup Cover: Aged White (Neck, Middle), Zebra (Bridge)
- Pickup Selector Switch: 5-way switch
- Pickup type: passive
- Pot Caps: Aged White Soft Touch Knobs
- Scale: 25" (635 - 659 mm)
- Scale Length: 25,5" (648 mm)
- Serial number: CZ567066
- Signature Model: no
- Special Features: Limited Edition
- Strings: 6 string
- Strings thickness ex factory: .010 - .046
- Technology: Solid Body
- Translation: 1:14
- Tuning Machines: Fender Vintage Style Tuner
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!
