A dream guitar - the Pelham Blue Strat!
The body, neck plate, and case are original to the guitar, a Fender Original 60's American Stratocaster 2018-2022 RI. Everything else has been upgraded. Check this out!
MJT Aged Finishes (Carthage, MO) Nitro Refin to Pelham Blue with Body and Neck Relic - Original body cavity markings preserved. Original OHSC with case candy.
Kluson tuners - aged by MJT
Botique - Sliders ’69 “Grey Bottoms” - As real as it gets... A precise recreation of the Strat pups used by Hendrix at Woodstock.
Musikraft / Fender Strat® Roasted AAAA Birdseye neck - Dark Indian Rosewood - Stainless Frets - vintage spec w/ modern compound fret radius (see below for detail)
Callaham Vintage Style Cold Rolled Steel Bridge
Smokey B's - Blender pot set up w/ CTS pots and premium tone cap. 5-way Switchcraft selector switch.
Fender "soft touch" aged knobs.
"Pure Vintage" Tremolo Springs
"Pure Tone" multi-contact 1/4" output jack
3-ply aged pick guard
Strat® Neck Custom Build Specs
- Guitar Neck Build:Qty: 1
- Construction Type:2 Piece Constructed
- Orientation:Right for Right Handed Players
- Scale Length:25.5" Standard Fender
- Number of Frets:22
- Nut Width:1.650" (41.9mm)
- Nut Slot Style:1/8" Nut Slot (Standard Fender)
- Heel Width and Type:2-3/16" (55.55mm) Rounded Strat
- Truss Rod Type:Single Acting w/ Vintage Nut adjust @ Heel
- Shaft Wood:Birdseye Grade 4A Premium
- Fingerboard Wood:Indian Rosewood Dark
- Fingerboard Style:Slab (Standard Fender)
- Fingerboard Radius:Compound 9-1/2" to 12"
- Fingerboard Edge Style:Heavy Rolled Fingerboard Edges
- Tuner Hole Size:11/32" (Standard Kluson)
- Top Inlay Type:1/4" Dots (White)
- Side Markers:White 2mm
- Side Dot Location:50/50 Split (Finger Board Wood and Shaftwood)
- 12th Dot Spacing:Wide (Vintage Style Pre 1964)
- Fret Size and Type:7105 Stainless (Medium)
- Back Profile Shape and Size:V-C 81 95
- Neck Roasting Option:Apply Roasting Service (Maple Woods Only))
- Binding:NONE
- Tuner Install:NONE
- Nut Installation:NONE
- Finish:Thin Lacquer Sealer (Very Thin Coating)
- Fingerboard Finish:Oil on Rosewood Boards
- Neck Mounting Holes:Drill Neck Mounting Holes Standard Fender Pattern
Sliders Pickup Specs:
’69 “Grey Bottoms”
The 69′s are an accurate re-creation of the late 60′s CBS Fender® pickups.
I use original spec Strat® “grey bottom” Forban bobbins and the correct dark burgundy color, 42g P/E wire for these ’69 “Woodstock” re-creation sets, that’s code for a Hendrix set!
As you may know the real late 60’s strat sets are quite sort after, the big deal on these is the low inductance, and DC resistance, the 69’s have some of the lowest output readings of all the vintage strats.
High resistance/inductance and poor quality wire kills off your top end treble response first. I scatterwind these with the correct, thin coat “single build” PE wire. The finished coil build is thinner in diameter and lower in “weight” to ensure the trebles are maintained, so on a good ‘69 you get the “glass-tone” highs and still have solid mids and the thumping bass.
“Bakelite” style pickup covers, 6/32 UNC screws with amber rubber spacers.
At the end of the day all my pickups are totally vintage correct and as such, everything I make could have come from “back in the day”.
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Listed in good condition due to modifications. Otherwise, in relic mint condition.