In careful planning with our friends at the Fender Custom Shop we are pleased to offer the 1956 Thunder Road Stratocaster Journeyman Relic! This model has been in planning for well over a year and we are thrilled with the results.

Each Thunder Road 1956 Stratocaster features a light-weight chambered roasted alder body, hand-wound pickups that are slightly overwound to our specs, closet classic hardware, Custom Shop Exclusive RSD bridge, roasted flamed maple neck and a compound 9.5-12" fingerboard radius. We love these guitars and think you will too! If you are after a light-weight resonant Strat that has the look and vibe of a vintage guitar with some modern specs this is the model for you!

Freshly inspected and set up in-house by our esteemed Guitar Tech.  See below for more details and specifications.

FROM FENDER CUSTOM SHOP:

A Fender Custom Shop instrument is extraordinary. You know it when you play one—it’s definitely more than the sum of its parts. It’s filled with intangible, electrifying elements that add a new dimension to your playing experience. It’s as if the instrument itself is imbued with history, alive with the spirit of the place where it was built and the devotion of those who crafted it.

The Custom Shop is home to Fender’s most skilled and talented builders. It’s a bustling, noisy and creatively volcanic place that re-earns its nickname—the Dream Factory—every day. Custom Shop builders are completely dedicated to their art—part craftsman, part artist, part music fan and, more often than not, part mad scientist. They’re the best at what they do, and they pour all of their passion, hard-earned knowledge and skill into every instrument they build. It’s no ordinary place, and the creations that come from it are no ordinary instruments.

SPECIFICATIONS:

Closet Classic Chrome/Nickel Hardware

Vintage-Style Tuners

1.65” Bone Nut

10/56 V Profile Roasted AAA Flame Maple Neck with 25.5” Scale Length

Neck Thickness .88" at First Fret and .98" at Twelfth Fret

Roasted AAA Flame Maple Fingerboard with Black Dot Inlays and 9.5" to 12" Compound Radius

21 Narrow Tall (6105) Frets

Custom Shop 5% Overwound '56 TRG Pickups

RSD Stratocaster Bridge

Roasted Alder Chambered Body in Candy Tangerine Thin Nitro Finish

Weight 6 lb 11 oz

Blonde Tolex Hard Shell Case with Peach Interior

Serial Number R146297