Vintage ’64 Strat Magic With Real Road-Worn Soul
If you love that glassy mid 60s Strat thing but do not want to gamble on a fragile vintage original, this Limited Edition 1964 L-Series Stratocaster hits the bullseye. It feels and sounds like a well loved stage veteran, but with Custom Shop precision and zero drama.
Heavy Relic Alder Body With L-Series Attitude
The 2 piece select alder body is classic mid 60s Strat, and you can hear it in the way notes bloom and sustain. The Aged Olympic White nitro lacquer is beaten up in all the right ways, so it looks and feels like it has lived a few lifetimes on the road, but without any of the structural headaches.
Fender’s Heavy Relic treatment is the full story: serious wear, exposed wood, and hardware that looks like it has seen every dive bar on the map. Real talk, it makes you play differently. You stop babying it and just dig in, which is exactly where the good stuff lives.
Rift Sawn Maple Neck That Plays Itself
The rift sawn maple neck with a 1963 Strat C profile hits that sweet spot between slim and chunky. There is enough meat to hang onto for big bends and vibrato, but it never feels clubby or fatiguing on long sets.
The 7.25 to 9.5 inch vintage compound radius is genius. Down low it feels like an old school Strat for chords and rhythm, then it gradually flattens out as you move up the board so bends stay buttery and clean with no choking. The 3A rosewood round lam fingerboard, Jescar medium vintage frets, and clay dots pull you right into that early 60s vibe, but the playability is straight up modern boutique.
Hand Wound ’64 Pickups With Tone-Saver Circuit
Tonally this thing lives in that perfect glassy, airy 60s Strat zone. The Custom Shop hand wound ’64 bridge and RWRP middle pickups give you all the chime and cut you want, with tight lows that never get flubby. Flip to the neck Fat ’64 and it turns into this fat, vocal lead machine with just enough compression to feel forgiving.
The 5 way blade switch gives you all the classic positions, with that addictive quack in 2 and 4 thanks to the reverse wound middle pickup. Vintage Modified #2 wiring and the Tone-Saver treble bleed let you ride the volume without losing top end, so you can go from edge of breakup to glassy clean just by rolling back your pinky.
Hardware That Stays Out Of Your Way
The Custom Shop vintage synchronized tremolo feels smooth and responsive, with the upgraded 60s arm giving you a familiar, solid feel under the hand. Paired with vintage style tuners and a proper bone nut, tuning stability is rock solid if you set it up right and do your part.
Mint green 3 ply guard, vintage white plastics, nickel chrome hardware and that wing style string tree nail the look. It is the kind of guitar that looks right at home on a dark stage under hot lights, and the more you sweat on it, the better it looks.
A Proper 70th Anniversary Strat You Will Actually Play
Built in the Stratocaster’s 70th anniversary year, this Limited Edition L-Series is not some case queen commemorative. It is a battle ready workhorse designed to be played hard for decades. At around 8 pounds it feels solid and reassuring on a strap without weighing you down.
You also get the full Custom Shop experience: deluxe hardshell case, strap, certificate of authenticity, and all the case candy. And like all our high end pieces, this exact guitar has been inspected, dialed in, and photographed here in our Evansville shop. What you see is what shows up at your door.
Questions about this guitar or how it compares to other Strats in the shop? Call (888) 794-8482 and talk to a real player on our team. No scripts, no pressure, just honest gear talk.
