This is a beautiful Strat … lightly reliced with the gold finish beautifully checked. A stunner. Note that the camera lighting over-emphasizes the checking, so I included a natural light shot on the bench, and the shot of the front and back together are a more typical view. You see the checking at certain angles.
The Fender Custom Shop Limited Edition Closet Classic HLE Gold Stratocaster combines modern playability with stunning vintage style. Originally a custom Strat® created in the ‘50s for Homer Haynes, this golden gem of a guitar was re-released in 1987 as the first limited-edition Custom Shop model.
Three single-coil hand-wound Custom Shop ’57 Stratocaster pickups—including a RWRP middle pickup—provide authentic vintage-style tone, with all the pristine highs, punchy mids and robust lows that made the Strat a legend. Vintage Modified Strat #2 wiring adds even more sonic variety, connecting the middle pickup to the first tone control and adding our Tone-Saver treble-bleed circuit to the master volume control, ensuring your tone remains unchanged when reducing the instrument’s volume.
Other features include a two-piece ash body,’57 “Soft V”-shaped neck profile, 9.5”-radius maple fingerboard, six-saddle American Vintage synchronized tremolo bridge, gold hardware, 21 6105 frets, gold anodized pickguard, bone nut and LTD edition decal. Includes deluxe hardshell case, strap and Certificate of Authenticity.
Condition: New (light relic); Body: Alder; Neck: flamed maple, 57 soft V carve , 9.5 radius; Nut: 1.650; Color: HLE gold; Pickups: Custom Shop handwound 57s; Scale: 25.5; Orientation: Lefthanded (of course).
