MORE ABOUT 1963 RELIC® STRATOCASTER®
The Fender Custom Shop 1963 Relic® Stratocaster® takes you back to a pivotal period in the instrument’s history, when surf music was riding high and the Strat underwent some notable design mods. Its deep-contoured alder body comes in Three-Color Sunburst, Black, Candy Apple Red and Olympic White lacquer Relic finishes. Sparkling tone comes from three hand-wound ’60s Stratocaster single-coil pickups (reverse wound/reverse polarity middle pickup) with modern five-way switching.
Other premium features include a quartersawn maple neck with a comfortable ’60s “oval C” profile and small headstock, 9.5″-radius “round-laminated” rosewood fingerboard with 21 narrow jumbo frets, three-ply mint green pickguard, vintage white control knobs, American Vintage bridge, and American Vintage tuning machines. Includes brown textured vinyl hard-shell case with red interior.
SPECS
General
| Model Name: | 1963 Relic® Stratocaster®, Rosewood Fingerboard, 3-Color Sunburst |
| Model Number: | 1556200800 |
| Series: | Time Machine |
| Color: | 3 Color Sunburst |
Body
| Body Material: | Alder |
| Body Finish: | Nitrocellulose Lacquer |
| Body Shape: | Stratocaster® |
Neck
| Neck Material: | Quartersawn Maple |
| Neck Finish: | Nitrocellulose Lacquer |
| Neck Shape: | Mid ’60s Oval “C” |
| Scale Length: | 25.5″ (648 mm) |
| Fingerboard: | Round-Laminated Rosewood |
| Fingerboard: | Round-Laminated Rosewood |
| Fingerboard Radius: | 9.5″ (241 mm) |
| Number of Frets: | 21 |
| Fret Size: | Narrow Jumbo |
| String Nut: | Micarta |
| Nut Width: | 1.650″ (42 mm) |
| Position Inlays: | White Dot |
Electronics
| Bridge Pickup: | Custom Shop ’60s Hand-Wound Single-Coil Strat |
| Middle Pickup: | Custom Shop ’60s Hand-Wound Reverse Wound/Reverse Polarity Single-Coil Strat |
| Neck Pickup: | Custom Shop ’60s Hand-Wound Single-Coil Strat |
| Controls: | Master Volume, 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 |
Hardware
| Bridge: | 6-Saddle American Vintage Synchronized Tremolo |
| Hardware Finish: | Nickel/Chrome |
| Tuning Machines: | Vintage-Style |
| Pickguard: | 3-Ply Mint Green |
Miscellaneous
| Included Accessories: | Case, Cable, Strap, CruzTools® Tool Kit, Certificate of Authenticity |