Built to feel inherited and earned, this Fender Custom Shop ’56 Stratocaster Heavy Relic isn’t about the nostalgia of a beat-up original-era Strat. Rather, it captures the soul of a guitar that has seen more than it should, and gotten away with more than it would. Put together with a select ash body, quartersawn maple neck shaped to a 10/56 V profile, custom 9.5” fingerboard radius, and 21 Dunlop 6105 frets, it’s ready for you to lean in however you please. As for tone, it sings as though it has lived a thousand lives with its 3 Custom Fat '50s Strat Master Designed pickups with a reverse-wound/reverse-polarity middle: character in every note, undying in its sustain, as well as a growl and bite that responds to your every whim and fancy—begging you to give it all you can.
