1961 Fender® Stratocaster®

$19,500.00

  • Year: 1961
  • Manufacturer: Fender®
  • Model: Stratocaster®
  • Case: Original Hard
  • Color: Sea Foam Green (Refin)
  • Condition: Excellent
  • Description: This 12 3/4-inch-wide guitar weighs just 7.60 lbs. and has a nut width of 1 5/8 inches and a scale length of 25 1/2 inches. Solid alder body, contoured on back and lower bass bout, and professionally refinished many years ago most probably by Jay Black in the super rare Fender® custom color, 'Sea Foam Green' over 'fullerplast'. One-piece maple neck with a rosewood 'slab' fret-board and a medium-to-thin profile, 21 frets, and clay dot position markers. Small headstock with decal with Fender® "spaghetti" logo in gold with black trim. Individual single-line Kluson Deluxe tuners with oval metal buttons. Single "butterfly" string tree with 'small' metal spacer. Four-bolt neck plate with the serial number ("58054") between the top two screws. Three white ABS plastic covered black-bottom single-coil pickups with staggered polepieces and wonderfully balanced outputs of 6.06k, 5.88k, and 5.95k. Three-layer celluloid "green" (white/black/white) pickguard with eleven screws and aluminum shield. Six-pivot bridge/vibrato unit with through-body stringing. The neck has a pencil mark of "1-61". The potentiometers are all stamped "304 6104" (Stackpole, January 1961). Complete with the original white ABS plastic tipped tremolo arm. Original Fender® light brown tolex hardshell case with brown leather ends and orange plush lining (8.50). (01023)