In 2024—the 70th anniversary year of the Stratocaster®—the Fender Custom Shop introduces a model that captures the look and tone of a Strat® from an especially distinctive and sought-after era: the Limited Edition 1964 L-Series Stratocaster®. Its two-piece select alder body wears a Heavy Relic® lacquer finish that beautifully imparts the look and feel of a mid-’60s Strat® that has endured decades of heavy wear and tear, in Three-Color Sunburst, Aged Daphne Blue, Aged Olympic White and Aged Sage Metallic Green.
Its rift-sawn maple neck is fashioned with a comfortably easy-playing 1963-style “C”-shaped profile, topped by a round-lam rosewood fingerboard with a compound radius (7.25” to 9.5”) 21 medium vintage (47095) frets and a bone nut. Classic Strat® tone of that period comes from three Custom Shop hand-wound ’64 Stratocaster® pickups (reverse-wound/reverse-polarity middle pickup for hum cancellation in switch positions 2 and 4) that deliver clear highs, well-balanced mids and tight lows, routed through five way switching and Vintage Modified #2 wiring with the Tone-Saver bleed circuit, which eliminates tone loss when volume is turned down.
Weight: 7lbs 12 oz
Neck
HEADSTOCK
Stratocaster®
NECK MATERIAL
Rift Sawn Maple
NECK FINISH
Nitrocellulose Lacquer
NECK SHAPE
1963 Strat® “C”
FINGERBOARD RADIUS
7.25″ to 9.5″ Vintage Compound Radius (184 mm to 241 mm)
FINGERBOARD MATERIAL
3A Rosewood
POSITION INLAYS
Vintage Clay Dot
NUMBER OF FRETS
21
TRUSS ROD
Early ’60s
STRING NUT
Bone
NUT WIDTH
1.625″ (41.3 mm)
NUT MATERIAL
Bone
Body
BODY
2-Piece Select Alder
BODY FINISH
Nitrocellulose Lacquer
BODY SHAPE
Stratocaster®
BODY MATERIAL
2-Piece Select Alder
Hardware
BRIDGE
Custom Shop Vintage Synchronized Tremolo
PICKGUARD
3-Ply Mint Green
CONTROL KNOBS
Vintage White Plastic
SWITCH TIP
Vintage White
HARDWARE FINISH
Nickel/Chrome
TUNING MACHINES
Vintage-Style with Fender® Logo
STRING TREES
American Vintage ’59-’64
STRINGS
Nickel Plated Steel (.010-.046 Gauges)
TREMOLO ARM
Vintage Upgraded ’60s
NECK PLATE
4-Bolt Vintage-Style
Electronics
BRIDGE PICKUP
Custom Shop Hand-Wound ’64 Single-Coil Strat®
MIDDLE PICKUP
Custom Shop Hand-Wound RWRP ’64 Single-Coil Strat®
NECK PICKUP
Custom Shop Hand-Wound Fat ’64 Single Coil Strat®
PICKUP CONFIGURATION
SSS
CONTROLS
Master Volume with Tone-Saver Treble-Bleed Circuit, Tone 1. (Neck/Middle Pickups), Tone 2. (Bridge 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
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