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Fender Custom Shop '68 Strat Relic LTD

Here we have in stock ready to ship today a Brand new, Fender USA Custom Shop 68 Strat Limited Edition Extreme Relic in classic 3 Tone Sunburst complete with Fender Custom Shop hard case and accessories. 

This guitar is a pukka A1 new example, not a chinese copy, grey import or dodgy back door sale. So ? I say that because although we are official FENDER EUROPEAN AWARD WINNING main dealers I can't vouch for other internet dealers or ones you see on ebay.

Please see the Fender USA Custom Shop website for full specs and screw sizes etc but here's a precis of what's special:

According to Fender:
It features a premium lightweight ash body with a three-ply, 11-hole parchment pickguard. The quarter-sawn ’68 U-shaped maple neck has a nitrocellulose lacquer finish and 9.5”-radius dark Indian rosewood fingerboard with 21 Dunlop® 6105 narrow jumbo frets, mother-of-pearl dot position inlays and a large ’60s headstock. Famous Fender tone is supplied by three custom ’69 single-coil Stratocaster pickups with gray bobbins and aged pickup covers (custom reverse wound/reverse polarity middle pickup) and five-position switching. The instrument has a thin-skin nitrocellulose lacquer finish in a variety of colors and has been given our Heavy Relic treatment—built from original tooling and showing the natural wear and tear of years of heavy use, with nicks, scratches, worn finish, rusty hardware and aged plastic parts.

Other features include aged knobs and barrel switch tip, nickel/chrome hardware, Fender®/Schaller® vintage “F”-style tuning machines and an American Vintage synchronized tremolo bridge. Accessories include a deluxe limited edition black hard-shell case with a black interior, strap, cable, “ashtray” bridge cover and limited edition certificate.

The Shop:
Guitar Mania (Est'd 1994) As a reputable Fender USA Custom Shop SHOWCASE dealer (we were awarded Fender European TOP DEALER Award two years running - 2005 and 2006, and we're in the running for 2007 awards coming soon in May 2008 !!!) we take pride in our guitars and rest assured that your guitar will be supplied:

• Inspected - for dents and scratches and to check it's the right colour / model etc
• Tuned - we stretch the strings for greater tuning stability
• Set up - we adjust the action (and intonation where possible) for great playability
• Tested - we'll give it a quick play to make sure we like it (tough job huh ?)
• Boxed - we'll wrap your guitar up safe and sound to arrive in A1 condition.
• Warranty - as official dealers you get a full bona fide Fender UK warranty.