The Stratocaster That Really Wanted to be a Telecaster…

2000 Fender Stratocaster (Hartail) Fred Stuart.

This specially built lightweight guitar weighs just 6.80 lbs. and has a nice, fat nut width of 1 11/16 inches and a scale length of 25 1/2 inches. One-piece solid ash contoured body finished in two-tone Sunburst. One-piece fretted maple neck with small headstock and a huge 1954/55 profile. Maple fretboard with 21 frets, and black dot position markers. The arrangement of the pickups are what makes this guitar so unique. In the neck position is an "Alnico 3" single-coil pickup hand-wound to the specification of a 1954/55 Stratocaster. In the bridge position is an "Alnico 3" single-coil pickup hand-wound to the specification of a 1953 Telecaster. The middle pickup is a non-functioning "dummy". Three controls (one volume, one tone and one 'dummy') plus four-way pickup selector switch. Fender six-pivot bridge unit with through-body stringing. Housed in its original G & L green 'aligator' case with white leather ends and black plush lining (9.25). This is a Stratocaster that can really sound like an early fifties Telecaster…