This Fender Custom Shop 59  Stratocaster Relic in Faded Aged Faded Aged Chocolate 3-Color Sunburst sports the Custom Shop's Heavy Relic finish package, evoking the idea of a stunning, decades old instrument that's been someone's cherished, but well used, main guitar for a long career. This guitar is built as a recreation of the 1957 Stratocaster, and it does fantastically.

Features like the '60 Style Oval "C" neck profile, vintage style tuning machines and American Vintage synchronised tremolo, really impart that sense of playing a truly decades old guitar, while the Hand-Wound Texas Special™ Strat® Pickups deliver bags of raucous tone that's perfect for blues and rock & roll. Just the kind of magic you only find at the Fender Custom Shop.

Electronics — This guitar is fitted with a set of Hand-Wound Texas Special Strat Pickups. These pickups are overwound for increased output, giving you great midrange bite, chiming highs and tight lows, and letting you really hit that amp hard for some powerful overdrive sounds. These pickups clean up tremendously too, and paired with the Tone Saver Bleed circuit on the volume pot which ensures no loss of high end when you roll off the volume, this guitar is built for any style you can think of.

Heavy Relic Finish — This guitar's Heavy Relic Aged finish completely evokes the idea of an instrument that's been well played but well taken care of over the decades. Taken out regularly for some serious sessions and gigs,  and put back in its case at the end of the night. The result is the gorgeous light eggshell-cracking to the finish, the wear and tear around the forearm bevel and that unmistakable fingerboard patina that's the sign of a real workhorse.