New Strat day! Custom Shop Heavy Relic 1967

[Robert]

I love this. It a used Custom Shop from L&M in Edmonton. My first Fender CS.

I also snagged a Super on Kijiji.

Our new dog is learning that these things make serious noise... she is not liking it. Yet. But she will.

The guitar sounds fantastic!

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[helliott]

Very lovely. Always wondered about getting a CS guitar. Are they appreciably different or better in specific ways, or just better in general? Love the relicing and the Super too

[Robert]

It depends. Hit and miss. Many of the custom shop fenders I’ve tried over the years have been so-so, nice but nothing special. This one, however, felt amazing and sounds like it too. I think it LOOKS like it as well... I immediately fell in love with it and it sounds like a vintage guitar - very old school.


It’s not easy to play as my Suhr. It makes me work a bit more and I don’t mind that. I play different on this guitar, I think. Make each note count.

[helliott]

That's the way I feel about my strats. Love em but they want me to dig the notes out, as opposed to some other guitars that are a bit friendlier. Anyway a very nice addition. Enjoy and maybe post a clip sometime.

[duhvoodooman]

VERY nice, RR!! Love 'em both!

[Jipes]

Whoah a great buy Robert it looks gorgeous even if I'm not a big fan of heavy reliced guitars. Are the pickups towards 60's pickups ?

[Zip]

Nice guitar, nice amph - but we need more dog pictures please :)

[tjcurtin1]

Must be some kind of 70's reissue judging by the headstock? How does the SR compare to your other amps - I think this is your first Fender amp? Glad that you and the doggie are getting along!

[marnold]

Relicing isn't my thing, but I totally get why people like it on the neck anyway. Was it reliced from the custom shop or by its previous owner?

OT: For some reason the new posts thing hasn't been working for me. I just noticed I missed a bunch of threads!

[tjcurtin1]

Must be some kind of 70's reissue judging by the headstock? How does the SR compare to your other amps - I think this is your first Fender amp? Glad that you and the doggie are getting along!

Actually, right after posting that, I saw a number of 60's strats with the big headstock - I thought it was always described as a 70's style...

[Robert]

Jipes, "hand wound 1969 neck pickup, hand wound reverse-wound/reverse-polarity 1965 middle pickup and hand wound Fat '60s bridge pickup, with five-way switching and Vintage Modified wiring for modern versatility. "

Ted, it's a 1967 style Stratocaster and they had such headstocks then, I reckon? I am not really sure though.

It was factory relic'd.

I made a little demo... coming soon.

[tjcurtin1]

I made a little demo... coming soon.

I was just going to ask!

Interesting - I thought that 'vintage modified' was a Squier thing... but now that I think of it, my SuperChamp xd is also labelled 'vintage modified'...