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Key Features
The Fender Custom Shop 1957 Stratocaster relic, delivers unrivalled beauty and iconic tones, all of which results in a delightful guitar, offering a blast from the past. In 1957 rock and roll was in full swing, replacing the saxophone as the main lead instrument, and this custom shop is ready to take centre stage. Equipped with three custom shop hand-wound '57 pickups, this guitar possesses a tone which is articulate, powerful, and dynamically brilliant. Effortlessly playable a soft 'V' neck profile guarantees excellent comfort, and a maple fretboard ensures a silky-smooth surface to flurry across.
Product Ref: 174733
This Stratocaster comes equipped with an abundance of features to ensure peak performance and exceptional playability. A luscious maple neck in a soft “V” profile offers a comfortable grip on the guitar, whilst still giving you the freedom to jump to and from the extremes of the instruments range. The equally marvellous maple fretboard delivers an unblemished fretboard to glisten across without restraint, freeing you to flurry impressive virtuosic solos and jump from chord to chord.
Ash, favoured by a lot of players for its incredibly balanced tone, offers excellent dynamic sensitivity and a sound versatile in nature, making it the perfect choice to suit a wide variety of musical styles. Here fender have carefully selected two-piece ash elevating every exciting essence of the tonewood to the next echelon. Excellent sustain and resonance really allows your solos to glisten in their own sonic space, effortlessly cutting itself a place through the mix. Well-rounded in every frequency, the ash body ensure that every note you play has enough brightness and depth in every setting.
Fender’s tone is instantly recognisable, offering crystal, clear cleans with a noticeable natural twang and a dynamic sensitivity you just don’t get from other instruments. Equipped with three Custom Shop hand-wound 57 single-coil pickups the guitar perfectly captures that vintage rock and roll Stratocaster tone. Meticulously designed to perfection, these pickups capture every essence of the guitars natural tone, producing sounds which are articulate and well defined. You can always shape this tone to your own preference too. A five-position blade, combined with a master volume switch, and two tone controls ensure that every aspect of the sound can be sculpted to perfection.