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Ok, call me crazy, but this is easily my favourite Fender colour. Although I am glad that Fender have reissued this colour, I don't know if they really captured the true hideousness of a true mocha finish, that looks like Nans carpet, a brown shagpile carpet, the colour on a 1970s fence, even the interior of a Kingswood with obligatory sheepskin covers.
There is really only one decade that this colour could have come out in, and that is the wild and wooly 1970s.
Mostly original parts on this one, save for the pickguard and the bridge pickup which were removed from a 'donor '79 Stratocaster. The most significant change is to the neck, which has had a new slab style fingerboard put on the original neck. It's a very good job, the inlays are a touch bigger than the stock ones would have been, but aside from that (and the fact that it is a slab style board) you'd be hard pressed to know any different. Under the guard is the obligatory humbucker rout..and if you think 'why the hell did they do that back back then ?' just you try pushing a non master volume amp into overdrive with a low output single coil then get back to me.
For a mid 70s Strat it weighs in at a very 'Goldilocks and the 3 Bears', 4 kilograms (not too heavy, not too light, it's just right) Has also, of course, had a 5 way switch installed in the place of the 3 way. Some call it necessary, I call it sacriligious, hahahaha.
Yep, there are many things that you can purchase for the price of this guitar...but you need to ask yourself, 'are any of the other things I can buy as cool as this Stratocaster?'....
The answer is no.
Comes with the original case, bridge cover, but unfortunately NOT a copy of the Moosewood or the Anarchist Cookbook.
Made in the USA in the midst of fuel crisis, the end of the Vietnam War, and the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa.
#558761.