Description
Some guitars need decades to earn their character. This one skips the wait. Fender’s Road Worn ’50s Stratocaster starts with an alder body wearing a nitrocellulose lacquer finish in Black, then puts it through distressing on the body, neck, and hardware so it looks and plays like a well-loved original from the era it’s modeled after.
- Alder body with nitrocellulose lacquer finish (Black)
- 1-piece maple neck, Soft V shape, urethane finish
- Maple fingerboard, 7.25″ radius, 21 narrow jumbo ‘6105’ frets
- Three Tex-Mex single-coil pickups with staggered Alnico pole pieces and parchment covers
- 5-position blade switching for all the classic Strat pickup combinations
- Master volume, two tone controls (neck; middle/middle-bridge combo)
- Vintage-style synchronized tremolo bridge
- Fender/Ping vintage-style tuners, chrome hardware
- 1-ply white 8-hole pickguard
- 25.5″ scale length, 1.650″ nut width
- Synthetic bone nut, aged knobs and switch tip for period-correct styling
- Strung with Fender ST250R nickel-plated steel strings (.010-.046)
- Includes deluxe gig bag
The 7.25″ fingerboard radius and Soft V neck profile bring back that rounded, fills-your-palm feel players associate with ’50s-era Stratocasters, while the Tex-Mex pickups add a touch more output and edge than a strictly vintage-correct set. The relic’d finish and aged hardware aren’t just cosmetic flourishes; they mean the guitar arrives with the smoothed-out, broken-in playability that usually takes years of gigging to develop. If you want an instrument that already looks like it has stories to tell, this is a solid place to start telling your own.
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