Fender Custom Shop Dealer Select Wildwood 10 Relic-Ready 1955 Stratocaster - Faded 2-Tone Sunburst

Let's get relic-ready to rumble
Over the years, Wildwood Guitars has sold thousands of relic’d Fender guitars. The incredible response that we’ve gotten from our Wildwood Tens is proof that most of the guitar-playing world loves instruments that marry modern convenience with vintage look, feel, and sound. We’ve also learned that there are plenty of pickers out there that like the distressed vintage look, but feel a little strange about playing a guitar that they didn’t relic themselves through everyday use. For these guitarists, each ding and scratch is a punctuation mark in the story of their instrument, and they want to be in charge of what happens in the tale of their axe. Obviously, this is easier said than done. If you want to make an NOS finish look vintage through good ‘ol fashioned playwear, you usually have to play it for so long that it actually becomes vintage in the process. You could put your guitar in a trash bag of burned leaves and relic it yourself like one of my coworkers, but your house will smell horrible the moment you bring it inside. Frankly, few people have enough resources, energy, or training to make it look as good as the Fender Custom Shop’s builders can. So, these players have been in a pickle until now. How do you make a new guitar look vintage without having to wait thirty years or resort to crazy schemes involving bags of burning leaves? Well, we at Wildwood Guitars are proud to introduce our answer: a new line of Wildwood Tens that we have dubbed “relic-readies.” These Custom Shop creations are just like the heavy-relic guitars that have been a shop staple for years—same wood, same electronics, same hardware, and same outstanding build quality—except we snatch them away from Fender before they have a chance to actually do the relic job. The result is a guitar that accumulates wear-and-tear at an exponentially higher rate than normal. So, it’ll look like guitar that’s been gigged for thirty years after just a couple birthdays. Finally, YOU can be the one to make your guitar look vintage! After playing and ogling the first batch of these guitars, we feel confident that this line is easily one of the coolest collaborations in the history of our friendship with Fender’s Custom Shop! At Wildwood, we’ve been doing our best to tell our guitars’ stories as faithfully as we can for thirty-four years. Now, we are excited to step aside and give the reins to our exceptional customers. What sort of interesting tales will you carve into these finishes? We can’t wait to find out with you!
Tonal Evaluation
This crazy-light (only 6.7 pounds!) Stratocaster is as versatile as it is easy on your back muscles! Overall, this serial has great bell-like chime and clarity on the top-end and and warm, round bass response. The neck pickup has deep lows, warm low-mid thump, and sweet highs. The middle pickup has tighter lows and sharper highs, and the bridge pickup is bright and jangly (it can also do some great nasty blues tones when you dig in). It was so responsive that I found myself playing mostly with my fingers, and I found myself switching pickups often because I wanted to use every one of the vast array of colors and timbres available on the five-way switch. Because its pickups have so many different sounds and because it feels so good to play this Strat with your fingers, it'd be a great choice for any Jeff Beck fan--the neck pickup especially is a dead ringer for his sound--but it would also be an inspiring tool for anyone that wants a ridiculously light Strat with a ton of different tones on tap.





Specifications:



Brand
Fender Custom Shop






Model
Dealer Select Wildwood "10" '55 Stratocaster


Finish Color
Faded 2-Tone Sunburst


Aging
Relic-Ready


Finish Type
Nitrocellulose Lacquer


Weight
6.70 lbs.


Body Wood
Ash


Neck Wood
Quartersawn Maple


Neck Shape
1954 Soft "V"


Neck Dimensions
.910 1st - .990 12th


Fingerboard
Maple


Fingerboard Radius
Exclusive Wildwood Custom "10" Radius


Inlays
Dot


Scale Length
25.5"


Width at Nut
1.650"


Nut Material
Bone


Frets
6105


Pickups
3 Hand-wound Master Design John Cruz Single-coil


Controls
1 Volume, 2 Tone, 5-Way Switch


Hardware
Nickel


Bridge
Vintage Tremolo


Tuners
Vintage Style with Nickel Buttons


Pickguard
Single-Ply Parchment


Case
Limited Edition Hardshell Case with Embroidered Custom Shop Logo


COA
Yes





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