Fender Custom Shop LTD '55 "Bone Tone" Stratocaster, Relic- Aged HLE Gold (2022)

Metronome Music inspects and test all used gear before listing and again before shipping. Photographs are of the product that will ship and accurately represent condition and appearance. Please feel free to reach out to us with any special requests or questions. We are always happy to help:) Mint Condition. This guitar has been unboxed to be photographed and displayed but has never been sold.   '55 Bone Tone Stratocaster The Limited Edition ’55 Bone Tone Strat harkens back to an archetypal year for the Strat, with modified vintage-style features, gold hardware and added custom appointments. The two-piece ash body wears a relic lacquer finish, while the tinted one-piece 2A flame maple neck has a comfortable ’54 Strat “soft V” profile, vintage compound-radius fingerboard (7.25”-9.5”) and 21 narrow tall frets. Master designed hand-wound Bone Tone pickups provide plenty of headroom with fewer turns of heavy formvar wire, beveled alnico 2 magnets and ’54 pickup covers. The five-way switch is connected to “½ blender” wiring, which lets the neck pickup be blended in positions 1 and 2. Other features include an eight-hole gold anodized pickguard, Custom Shop vintage-style synchronized tremolo, vintage-style tuning machines, bone nut, and a vintage-style disc string tree with metal spacer. Includes deluxe hardshell case, strap and certificate of authenticity.     SERIAL #: CZ541303        WEIGHT: 7lbs 12oz BODY: 2pc Select Ash BODY FINISH: Nitrocellulose Lacquer, Relic BODY SHAPE: Stratocaster BODY COLOR: Aged HLE Gold NECK MATERIAL: AA Flamed Maple NECK FINISH: Nitrocellulose Lacquer, Relic NB NECK SHAPE: 54 Strat Soft "V" NECK SPECS: 1st (.900")  12th (.985") FINGERBOARD RADIUS: 7.25" - 9.5" Compound FINGERBOARD: Lacquered Maple, Relic 1st -7th frets FRET SIZE: Narrow Tall (6105) SCALE LENGTH: 25.5" POSITION INLAYS: Micarta Black Dot NUMBER OF FRETS: 21 STRING NUT: Bone NUT WIDTH: 1.650"  BRIDGE PICKUP: Custom Shop Hand-Wound, Master Designed Bone Tone MIDDLE PICKUP: Custom Shop Hand-Wound, Master Designed Bone Tone NECK PICKUP: Custom Shop Hand-Wound, Master Designed Bone Tone CONTROLS: Fat 50s Strat Wiring, 1/2 Blender 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 BRIDGE: Custom Shop Vintage Synchronized Tremolo, Gold Relic PICKGUARD: 8HL Anodized Gold, Relic CONTROL KNOBS: Vintage Eggshell, Relic SWITCH TIP: Vintage Eggshell, Relic HARDWARE FINISH: Nickel/Chrome, CC TUNING MACHINES: Vintage Style, Gold Relic STRINGS: Nickel Plated Steel (.010-.046 Gauges)   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. This is Fender Custom Shop.   Limited Edition Series Each Custom Shop Limited Edition instrument is only available for a short time, which makes it eminently collectible and adds to its investment value. Crafted with many features reserved only for certain artists and master built instruments, they are just what the name says they are: highly anticipated limited-edition models that go very quickly.