Fender Custom Shop Sonic Blue NOS '60 Stratocaster
Upgraded with 'Jason Lollar' Pickups and a Callaham Bridge Assembly
 

2015 Fender Custom Shop 1960 Stratocaster NOS.

Custom Color 'Sonic Blue' offset asymmetrical double cutaway solid body. This 'slab-board' "1960" Stratocaster was built by the Fender Custom Shop in April 2015. The guitar weighs just 7.80 lbs. and has a contoured solid alder body. Maple neck with a nut width of just under 1 11/16 inches and a typical medium-to-thin "1960" profile. Rosewood fretboard, with 21 medium-thin frets and inlaid white composite dot position and side dot markers. Headstock with 1954-60 style 'Spaghetti' logo with "Fender" in gold with black trim, "Stratocaster" in black and "With Synchronized Tremolo" in black beneath. Single "butterfly" string tree with metal spacer. Individual Fender [Kluson] Deluxe tuners with oval metal buttons. On the back of the headstock there is a black 'Custom Shop' decal. Four-bolt neck-plate with serial number "R 80177" stamped between the top two screws. Three-layer 'green' over black plastic pickguard with eleven screws. Three Jason Lollar 'Special 2015' Vintage Neck, Middle and Bridge, black-bottom Stratocaster pickups with outputs of 6.95k, 7.08k, and 7.29k. Three controls (one volume, two tone) plus five-way pickup selector switch. Stratocaster white plastic knobs with ribbed sides and gold lettering. The potentiometers are stamped "CTS 013446 1348". Callaham Model S combined bridge/tailpiece with six saddles and through-body stringing. The underside of the neck is stamped in blind "Relic" and is stamped in black "Dec 02 2014" & "Yamano" with "11428490-7" in pencil & "50562" written in black ink; the neck pocket is stamped in blind "Relic" and has the same markings as the neck dated "Ene-13". The neck cavity is stamped in blind "60 NOS", and the middle pickup cavity is stamped in blind "11428490-7". The body is also stamped in blind (under the pickguard) "Relic". The control cavity has "50562 / Sonic Blue" written in white marker. The three 'black-bottom' pickups, each with "Lollar 2015 Special Neck [&] Middle [&] Bridge stamped on the underside in white. This guitar is in mint as new (9.50) condition. Complete with the original bridge cover, tremolo arm, Fender Custom Shop Certificate of Authenticity signed by Tom Montgomery  (dated "01/05/15") and all the original case candy including black leather strap, guitar cord, polishing cloth and instruction manual, etc. Housed in the original Fender 'G & G tan hardshell case with orange plush lining and brown leather ends (9.50).

This guitar was purchased new in December of 2015. The owner had the pickups 'upgraded' by replacing them with three Jason Lollar 'Special 2015' Neck, Middle and Bridge, black-bottom Stratocaster pickup. He also had the bridge/tremolo 'upgraded' with a Callaham Model S Bridge assembly. Original pickups and tremolo/bridge assembly etc. included in case pocket.