Like a Well-loved Original 1959 Strat
Here's a Strat that plays like an original from 1959: the Fender Custom Shop Limited '59 Special Strat Journeyman Relic solidbody electric guitar. The lightweight alder body is joined with a Heavy Relic tinted AAA flame maple neck, with a 1959 "C" profile for vintage-correct feel. Hand-wound Poblano pickups deliver punchy tone with ample output. Guitarists at Sweetwater dig the Greasebucket tone circuit, which maintains clarity and definition when you roll your tone knob back. For a Strat with premium components and the feel of a well-maintained vintage guitar, get your hands on the Fender Custom Shop Limited '59 Special Strat Journeyman Relic.
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Ancho Poblano pickups pack a punch
Thanks to hand-wound Ancho Poblano pickups, the Limited '59 Special Strat has a more aggressive sound than the vintage originals ever did. These Custom Shop designs are specially engineered to offer you spicy expressive tones that get progressively hotter from neck to bridge pickup. The middle and neck pickups are tweaked across the strings to enhance your solo work, while the flat-pole bridge pickup is fashioned for punch, making your guitar work your amp hard. And Fender has curbed these spicy pickups' microphonics and preserved their open-yet-focused tone by potting them in their own secret Custom Shop sauce.
Journeyman Relic body and hardware for a well-loved look and feel
Fender offers different levels of relicing, from very mild to extremely road-worn. One of the newer relic levels is the Journeyman found on the body and hardware of this Limited '59 Special Strat. The nitro-lacquer finish gives you a look and feel that's used but not abused. Imagine a loved guitar that's been well taken care of but also definitely been played. It's totally broken in, but it holds up like a brand-new electric guitar.
Heavy Relic neck feels amazingly "right"
While the Limited '59 Special Strat's body and hardware receive the Journeyman Relic treatment, it's equipped with a AAA flame maple neck that has received the Heavy Relic process. We've heard from many players that they prefer the playing feel of Fender's Heavy Relic guitars, but prefer the overall look and feel of the Journeyman Relic models' bodies and hardware. The Limited '59 Special Strat gives you the best of both: a body and hardware that don't look like they've survived an explosion, and a neck that feels like it's been broken in over several world tours.
Limited '59 Special Strat Journeyman Relic Solidbody Electric Guitar Features:
- Custom Shop Stratocaster with Journeyman Relic body/hardware and Heavy Relic neck
- Ancho Poblano pickups balance well and pack a punch
- American Vintage synchronized tremolo (with "PAT-PEND" saddles) offers era correct expression
- 1959 C-shaped neck is a comfortable handful
- Nitrocellulose lacquer finish
- 6100 fret wire
- AAA flame maple neck with Heavy Relic tinted finish
- Greasebucket tone circuit maintains highs for better definition and less "mud"
