Fender • Custom Shop '68 LTD Stratocaster
Black Paisley Relic (2022)
Fender Custom Shop 68' Stratocaster Black Paisley
A reorder product of a model that was spot produced in 2018! Black Paisley 68 Strat with large head modern with synchro logo!
This one is based on a 1968 Stratocaster with a maple fingerboard neck!
It has just the right amount of relic feel, and the finish looks typical of the large head era, using polyurethane paint. There are very few models with black paisley pattern.
This one is based on a 1968 Stratocaster with a maple fingerboard neck!
It has just the right amount of relic feel, and the finish looks typical of the large head era, using polyurethane paint. There are very few models with black paisley pattern.
SPECIFICATIONS
Body
- Body Wood: 2PC Alder
- Body Style: 69 Strat
- Neck Mounting: 4-Bolt
- Bridge Holes: American Vintage Strat
- Body Finish: Lacquer
- Body Color: Black Paisley
Alder body carefully selected for Fender Custom Shop products by our wood selection specialist staff. The pickguard is a 3-ply parchment guard with 11 points and Black Paisley paper. Like the body, the neck material is carefully selected from maple wood that has been riftsawn. The radius of the round maple fingerboard is a slightly flat 9.5R, and the frets are medium-sized and narrow-tall. The body finish is a poly-based lacquer top coat, with irregular weather checks and damage such as dents here and there, but it has a texture that gives you a sense of the sturdiness typical of poly.
Neck
- Neck: Maple
- Neck Finish: Light Tint
- Fretboard Material: Maple
- Truss Rod: Late 60's
- Number of Frets: 21
- Head Style: Large
- Head Scoop: 60's
- Head Thickness: 0.590"
- Fret Wire: Medium Jumbo/6150
- Facedots: Micarta Black .250
- Dot Spacing: Narrow
- Fretboard Radius: 9.5" Radius
- Nut Width: 1.650"
- Butt Width: 2.200"
- Neck Shape: 63 Strat Style "C"
- Neck Spec 1st Fret: .810"
- Neck Spec 12th Fret: .970"
- Nut: Bone
- Side Dots: Micarta Black 3/32"
- Decal: 68-69 Strat
The neck finish uses tan urethane paint, and only the top of the head is lacquered. The lacquer finish on the top of the head is one tone darker. There is a detailed weather check that can be seen by holding it up to the light, and it reproduces the deterioration that allows you to tell the difference in paint just like vintage. Of course, the modern logo will be under the top coat.
The neck grip uses a grip measured from a vintage 1963 Strat. This grip is one size thicker than the 60sOvalC. It is characterized by getting thicker as you go from the low position to the high position.
Hardware
- Tuners: Schaller F Key
- Bridge: American Vintage Strat
- Output: Vintage Strat
- Neck Plate: V Logo
- Back Plate: Strat Parchment
- String Tree: American Vintage 65
- Trem Arm: Vintage Upgraded 60's
- Trem Arm Tip: American Vintage White
- Pickguard: 63-76 Strat
- Switch Tip: Vintage White
- Tone Knob: Strat SM FT Tone Vintage White
- Volume Knob: Strat SM FT Volume Vintage White
The hardware includes a synchronized tremolo with a PAT.PEND. engraved saddle, and the machine head is equipped with a vintage F-key peg.
The custom shop's live sound, which is superior to any Fender model with its bolt-on structure and clear live sound, has a different level of atmosphere and sound thickness when output from the amplifier. What's more, the resonance achieved by the relic finish is such that you can fully experience the vibration of the body neck just by playing one chord. Its overwhelming live sound is so comfortable that you can play it for hours without having to output it from an amplifier, and it has a quality that can only be experienced at a custom shop.
Electronics
- Controls: Strat Vintage MOD Wiring #2
- Selector Switch: 5-Way Switch
- Pots: 250K 10% Taper Split
- Neck Pickup: Hand Wiried 69 Strat
- Middle Pickup: Hand Wiried Strat Fat 50 Mid RWRP
- Bridge Pickup: Hand Wiried Strat Texas Special
The pickups that reproduce that wonderful sound are all hand-wound pickups. The impression is that the amplifier outputs a richer overtones and an acoustic atmosphere compared to normal mechanical winding. By installing a different model in each position, we have adopted a well-established set that has been calibrated for sound. The neck is equipped with a 69 single coil, Fat50s in the middle, and Texas Special in the bridge. The clean sound has thick wound strings and clear plain strings, and the drive sound has a rich midrange and is well-balanced and easy to handle.
Vintage Modified Strat #2.
The volume has a Bleed customization based on a high-pass capacitor that combines a ceramic capacitor and a resistor, and the tone uses Fender paper wax capacitors that match each position.
With Bleed Custom, it is possible to reduce the volume while maintaining the mid-high range even when the volume is turned down, and the sound can be used as a gain control such as a lead tone at full volume, a backing tone at around 70%, and a clean crunch at below 50%. It has specs that are useful for makeup.
Tone condensers achieve an overall tone balance by selecting appropriate capacitor values for each position of the neck, middle tone, and bridge tone, and the sound when the tone is cut is also attractive. It is characterized by a tone that remains in the midrange and is not too thin.
Miscellaneous
- Case: Hardshell
Manufacturer: Fender
Model: 9235000743
110624 | CZ561935 | 3996