Fender Custom Shop Spalted Maple Artisan Stratocaster (Natural) Overview
The Spalted Maple Artisan Stratocaster features an alder body with a dramatically figured spalted maple top and a lacquer finish, paired with a one-piece medium-roast AAA birdseye maple neck with a 10/’56 "V" profile, 6105 frets and 9.5" fingerboard radius.
Other highly distinctive features include three hand-wound Fat ’50s pickups (reverse-wound/reverse-polarity middle pickup), five-way switching and Vintage Modified wiring with Tone-Saver treble bleed circuit, gold anodized pickguard and gold hardware, Custom Shop certificate of authenticity and black case.
- Body: Alder with Figured Spalted Maple Top
- Body Finish: Lacquer
- Neck: One-Piece Medium-Roast AAA Birdseye Maple
- Neck Shape: 10/56 Large "V"
- Scale Length: 25.5" (648 mm)
- Fingerboard Radius: 9.5" (241 mm)
- Number of Frets: 21
- Fret Size: Narrow Jumbo
- String Nut: Bone
- Nut Width: 1.650" (42 mm)
- Neck Plate: 4-Bolt Custom
- Neck Finish: Nitrocellulose Lacquer
- Fingerboard: Maple
- Position Inlays: Black Dot
- Bridge Pickup: Custom Shop Hand-Wound Fat '50s Single-Coil Strat
- Middle Pickup: Custom Shop Hand-Wound Fat '50s Reverse-Wound/Reverse-Poliarity Single-Coil Strat
- Neck Pickup: Custom Shop Hand-Wound Fat '50s 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
- Bridge: 6-Saddle Vintage-Style Synchronized Tremolo
- Tuning Machines: Vintage-Style
- Orientation: Right-Hand
- Pickguard: 1-Ply Gold Anodized
- Control Knobs: White Plastic
- Strings: NPS, .010-.046 Gauges
- Included Accessories: Deluxe Hardshell Case, Strap, Certificate of Authenticity
