DISC Fender Classic '50s Stratocaster Nitrocellulose, 2-T Sunburst

Full Description

The Classic Series

The classic series looks at what made guitars of certain decades great and adds a few modern turns to a classic formula. This reissue is being produced in Mexico and is certainly the best series of instruments to come out of the Mexican factory.

Vintage size, classic feel

A large ‘’soft V’’ shape is what a neck should feel like to many people. A 7.25’’ radius neck is period correct. A classic 42mm nut width means that your fingers are not going to become cramped at the top of the fretboard when you are trying to do a classic ‘D’ shape and cramping your fingers. Ostensibly mixing a ‘50s style size with a modern fretboard feel.

Moving away from the vintage style frets to a medium jumbo means notes won’t be choking because of string bends and overall, makes a guitar much easier to fret, and less frustrating to play.

Modern Amendments

The classic series reissues went to great lengths to make a brilliant instrument without limiting themselves on having everything period correct.

Vintage style tuners offer piece of mind and accurate tuning whilst still looking the part. Two-point synchronised bridge is another modern upgrade, with less friction points, tuning stability is greatly improved through tremolo use. Getting chords to sound sea-sick is easy but if it is just a bit of colour you are wanting then that is very easily achievable given how responsive the tremolo is.

Five-way pick up switch – updated from the 3-position blade, keeps you from jamming god knows what into the three-way selector switch to achieve what has now become part of the Stratocasters signature sound.

Classic Features

A one-piece maple neck is acoustically more resonant, and period correct with many people believing it gives a richer more rounded tone.

A nitro lacquer over an alder body – it looks and feels every bit classic. Coming out of Mexico, this is the first guitar from there using a nitrocellulose finish, a vintage touch normally only reserved for the American Vintage and Custom Shop models. It was something that has been requested for so many years and Fender have actually done something about it.

Specifications

Body

• Model Name: Classic Series '50s Stratocaster®
• Model Number: 0140061703
• Series: Classic
• Body Material: Alder
• Body Finish: Gloss Nitrocellulose Lacquer
• Body Colour: 2-Color Sunburst

Neck

• Neck Material:
• Neck Shape: ‘’ Soft V’’ Shape
• Neck Finish: Gloss Nitrocellulose Lacquer
• Scale Length: 25.5’’ (648mm)
• Fingerboard Radius: 7.25" (184.1 mm)
• Fingerboard: Maple
• Number of Frets: 21
• Fret Size: Vintage Style
• Nut: Synthetic Bone
• Nut Width: 1.650’’ (42mm)
• Position Inlays: Black Dots

Hardware & Electronics

• Bridge Pickup: Vintage-Style Single-Coil Strat®
• Middle Pickup: Vintage-Style Single-Coil Strat®
• Neck Pickup: Vintage-Style Single-Coil Strat®
• Controls: 5-Position Blade
• Pickup Switching: SSS
• Hardware:
• Bridge: 6-Saddle Vintage-Style Synchronized Tremolo
• Tuning Machines: Vintage-Style
• Control Knobs: Aged White Plastic
• Strings: 0.10 – 0.46
• Pickguard: 1-ply White