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Fender Custom Shop 1960 Stratocaster NOS
Guitar description
This lovely guitar came to us from a professional guitar teacher who had used it as one of his teaching instruments for a number of years. He's based Berkshire and offers professional guitar tuition, he was the original owner (bought it new from Dawsons music in Reading) and had undertaken some minor customisations to the guitar. We have put it back to stock spec. Being a 2003 model this one features the vintage radius fret board and frets and has that classic vintage Strat feel to it. A very comfy strat to play and it sounds beautiful. This one remains in fine condition, well looked after by a pro guitar player. Tons of fret life left and it plays like a dream now we've set it up perfectly. There is some genuine wear and wall hanger staining on the neck and we've had to replace the saddles and scratch plate (to put it back after the customisations). A genuine and honest used guitar that's hugely playable and looks and sounds fantastic. Priced lower than a 100% stock one, a great price for a Custom Shop Strat and a wonderful instrument.
Guitar specification
| Country of manufacture | USA |
|---|---|
| Fret board radius | 7 |
| Body | Select Alder |
| Candy | Some present inc Cert |
| Case | Original case |
| Frets | Vintage Style Frets |
| Neck | Maple / Rosewood |
| Neck shape | 60s c |
| Number of frets | 21 |
| Pickups | 60s Single-Coil Strat® Pickups |
| Neck depth @ 12th fret | 24.2mm |
| Neck width @ 12th fret | 51.96mm |
| String action (low E, 12th fret) | 1.4mm |
| String action (high E, 12th fret) | 1.4mm |
| Nut slot depth | 20.64mm |
| Nut width | 42.09mm |
Guitar condition
Very good, has been used by a pro guitar teacher. Nut replaced with carbon graphite, a few marks and hanger stain on neck near headstock, frets very good, tons of life left. We replaced scratch plate with a Fender CS mint green one as previous owner had installed a switch on the original white one. We also replaced the carbon graphite saddles he'd installed with new Fender Custom Shop Pat Pend saddles. Water slide logo slightly marked and very minor damage to it.
What did we do?
- Action setup and string-height adjustment
- Cleaned
- Fret dress and polish
- Fret level
- New strings
- Strip-down authenticity check
- Tremolo balance setup
- Truss-rod adjustment
- New strings — D'Addario EXL120-10P 9-42
Original build sheet
The original Shopify file is preserved at its exported address.
Open build sheet ↗Gallery uses 6 preserved photographs selected in backup filename order from the 39-image backup.
