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https://i.imgur.com/y3BjZPk.jpg£1550. £1350.
I recently acquired this gorgeous Stratocaster in a trade. It truly is a great guitar and ticks all the boxes of what most people, myself included, would desire in a top level Strat. I am selling because I predominantly play acoustic these days and on the odd occasion I pick up an electric I have an old Jap Tele and a Cabronita which are my comfort zone electric guitars and I now realise I don’t need any other guitars ( Heresy ! Burn that man!)
In particular:
The compound radius, narrow jumbo frets, and mid 60’s profile neck make it a joy to play along it’s entire length.
The bone nut, 2-Point Synchronized Tremolo with Vintage-Style Stamped Steel Saddles and the vintage style locking machine heads ensure that it stays in perfect tune even with Jeff Beck style use of the tremolo, which is currently set up as floating.
The American vintage pick ups combined with the discrete S1 switching mean that every type of vintage and modern style strat sounds are all there and sweet as a nut.
It is an ideal weight – Just under 7.5 pounds, has a gorgeous Olympic white nitrocellulose finish and is in tip top as new condition.It also comes with case candy as a new one. This is a 2015 made model bought in 2016 from Guitar Village in Farnham. I don't have a case for it.
Originally it came with a tortoiseshell pickguard but this has been changed for a 3 ply mint green replacement which in my opinion looks much better.
It is difficult to show the colour properly in the photos. Although it is described as Olympic White it has a blonde tinge to it ( probably from the nitro aging I guess?). These were available for a short run between 2013 and 2015 I believe and have a solid reputation.
Fender introduces revamped Vintage Hot Rod series. Fender Vintage Hot Rod ’60s Stratocaster premium features include an alder body; maple neck with mid-’60s “C”-shaped profile, vintage-style heel-end truss rod adjustment, and satin back finish; and a compound-radius (7.25”-12”) rosewood fingerboard with 21 6105 frets, oversize white pearloid dot inlays and a bone nut. Singing tone comes from American Vintage single-coil ’59 Stratocaster (neck), ’65 gray-bottom Stratocaster (middle) and single-coil ’56 Stratocaster (bridge) pickups.
Fender’s Vintage Hot Rod ’60s Stratocaster gives you the best Strat tone, style and performance of both eras — authentically vintage-style design touches straight from the 1960s and hot-rodded modern mods ideal for today’s players.
· Series: Vintage Hot Rod
· Body Material: Alder
· Body Finish: Gloss Nitrocellulose Lacquer
· Body Shape: Stratocaster®
· Neck Material: Maple
· Neck Shape: Mid ’60s “C”
· Scale Length: 25.5″(64.8 cm)
· Fingerboard: Rosewood
· Number of Frets: 21
· Fret Size: Narrow Jumbo
· String Nut: Bone
· Nut Width: 1.650″(42 mm)
· Position Inlays: Oversized White Pearloid Dots
· Bridge Pickup: American Vintage ’56 Single-Coil Strat
· Middle Pickup: American Vintage ’65 Grey Bottom Single-Coil Strat
· Neck Pickup: American Vintage ’59 Single-Coil Strat
· Controls: Master Volume (with S-1™ Switch), Tone 1. (Neck/Middle Pickups), Tone 2. (Bridge Pickup)
· Pickup Switching: 5-Position Blade: Position 1. Bridge Pickup, Position 2. Bridge and Middle Pickup, Position 3. Middle Pickup, Position 4. Middle and Neck Pickup, Position 5. Neck Pickup
· Pickup Configuration: SSS
· Special Electronics: S-1™ Switch Adds Bridge Pickup Into Positions 3, 4 and 5
· Bridge: 2-Point Synchronized Tremolo with Vintage-Style Stamped Steel Saddles
· Hardware Finish: Nickel/Chrome
· Tuning Machines: Vintage-Style Locking
· Control Knobs: Aged White Plastic
· Colors: Olympic White, 3-Tone Sunburst
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Comments
[looks down the back of sofa, beofre checking the kids' piggy banks]
Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder
My trading feedback - I'm a good egg
I have had quite a number of enquires regarding sending this Strat.
I do not have the original case and regardless I wouldn’t trust it to a courier company.
The only time I have used a courier company for decent music equipment they damaged it and despite supposedly insuring it properly when it came down to it the small print excluded it. .....In the words of Ian Hunter “Once bitten, Twice shy.”
I live in a beautiful part of the country - Just outside a village in The Surrey Hills and I’m always up for a chat and numerous coffees.
Worth the trip for such a great guitar.
Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder
My trading feedback - I'm a good egg
Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder
My trading feedback - I'm a good egg