Fender LTD Custom Shop Poblano Stratocaster Super Heavy Relic Aged Black
Product information "Fender LTD Custom Shop Poblano Stratocaster Super Heavy Relic Aged Black"
As early as 1950 Fender began developing a new guitar that would later be called the Stratocaster. After consulting with several well-known guitarists, including Western swing musician Bill Carson and entertainer Rex Galleon, for whom Leo Fender wanted to build the perfect guitar, the design for the Stratocaster took shape. It was to have three pickups, a more comfortable, ergonomically shaped body and an entirely new feature: the vibrato.
In 1954 the Fender Stratocaster finally hit the market. The instrument looked like no guitar before it: the body appeared curvier and more flowing than that of the Telecaster to increase playing comfort, the new headstock slightly resembled the old Bigsby headstocks, the output jack was elegantly recessed into the side of the body instead of on the top, and the Strat was equipped with three single-coil pickups. The Fender Custom Shop has made it its mission to study the high-quality vintage Stratocasters of that era and recreate them down to the smallest detail. Here we have a very special Custom Shop one-off inspired by a Stratocaster from the early 50s:
The Fender LTD Custom Shop Poblano Stratocaster Super Heavy Relic Aged Black is a classic ST-style electric guitar with a two-piece alder body. Alder was used on the original Stratocaster guitars and provides the basis for the perfect vintage tone. The body wood has been hand-selected to ensure particularly light weight and thereby improve playing comfort. The aged maple neck with maple fretboard is shaped in a '51 Nocaster U profile in the style of the early 50s and features a 9.5" fretboard radius, which offers the ideal compromise between vintage feel and modern comfort. The guitar is fitted with a classic S-S-S pickup configuration of three Fender Custom Shop handwound Ancho Poblano single-coils. Other features include Fender Vintage Style machine heads, Aged White control knobs, a Fender Vintage Synchronized Tremolo and a single-ply black pickguard.
This model is finished in classic black. The thin nitrocellulose lacquer finish allows the wood to resonate particularly well and ages attractively. The most extreme of Fender's Relic levels, Super Heavy Relic, evokes the spirit of the most time-tested and worn Fender instruments in history. If you want a guitar that looks like it hasn’t left your side since the beginnings of rock ’n’ roll, this is the right finish for you.
The Fender LTD Custom Shop Poblano Stratocaster Super Heavy Relic Aged Black is delivered with a certificate of authenticity in a luxurious original Fender Custom Shop case with tweed covering and wine-red interior lining, so you can transport your new dream guitar safely and protect it from external influences.
- Aging: Super Heavy Relic
- Body Material: Alder 2-piece Select
- Body Shape: ST-Style
- Body finish: High Gloss
- Bridge / Tremolo: Fender Vintage Synchronised Tremolo
- Bridge Pickup: Fender Custom Shop Handwound Poblano
- Color/ Finish: Aged Black
- Colour: Black
- Controls: 1x volume, 2x tone
- Country of Origin: USA
- Custom shop: yes
- Factory Stringing: Fender Nickel Plated Steel
- Finish: Nitrocellulose Lacquer
- Fretboard: Maple
- Fretboard Inlays: Black Dots
- Fretboard radius: 9,5"
- Fret material: Nickel silver
- Frets: 21
- Hardware: Nickel
- Includes: Custom Koffer, Custom Gurt, Certificate
- Middle Pickup: Fender Custom Shop Poblano RPRW Mid
- Neck: Maple Quatersawn Flamed 2A
- Neck Pickup: Fender Custom Shop Handwound Ancho Poblano Single-Coil Strat
- Neck Profile: 51er Nocaster "U"
- Neck construction: Bolt on neck
- Neck finish: Satin
- Nut material: Bone
- Pickguard: Black 1-Ply
- Pickup Configuration: S-S-S (3x Single Coil)
- Pickup Cover: Aged White
- Pickup Selector Switch: 5-way switch
- Pickup type: passive
- Pot Caps: Aged White
- Scale: 25" (635 - 659 mm)
- Scale Length: 25,5" (648 mm)
- Serial number: CZ581059
- Signature Model: no
- Special Features: Limited special model
- Strings: 6 string
- Strings thickness ex factory: .010 - .046
- Technology: Solid Body
- Translation: 1:14
- Tuning Machines: Fender Vintage-Style
- Weight: 3,50 kg
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!
