Fender Custom Shop Limited Edition 1964 L-Series Stratocaster Heavy Relic Electric Guitar - Aged Sherwood Green Metallic

Serial Number: L11632

Weight: 7.6 lbs

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.

Other premium features include a three-ply mint green pickguard, Custom Shop vintage synchronized tremolo bridge, vintage-style tuners, wing string tree with tall metal spacer, deluxe hardshell case, strap and certificate of authenticity.

Serial Number: L11632

Weight: 7.6 lbs

Specs

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