Description
The Artisan series from the Fender Custom Shop truly lives up to it’s name. These instruments are functioning works of art. This guitar is a Thinline Stratocaster, a freshly implemented design that is making a surge this year with the release of the Eric Johnson Thinline Strat. Well this guitar is on a completely other level. With it’s solid figured Koa Top teamed up with a Roasted 4A Okoume Back, this instrument rings like a bell. I find Okoume to be most similar to Mahogany in terms of tone.
The neck is made from a 3A piece of figured Birdseye Maple then roasted to a Medium tint giving it a rich look. The dark look of the neck is complimented further by the African Blackwood fingerboard, an expensive and rare tone wood appreciated for it’s look and tonal properties. The fingerboard is carved to a compound radius of 9.5” - 12” making it highly playable in all positions, and then topped with 6105 frets. The pickups are a set of 63 Handwound from Josephina. These pickups are warm and rich sounding but with a musical top end, chimey and sweet. It’s not the quackiest Strat, however it is huge sounding! The guitar weighs in at a manageable 7 lbs 8 oz. Okoume tends to be denser and heavier than ash or alder so it’s perfect for a semi hollow design.
The Music Gallery has been a Fender Custom Shop dealer since their formation in 1987. We keep a bevy of about 50 Fender Custom Shop instrument in inventory at all times. Whether you're looking for Stratocasters, Telecasters, Precision Basses or Jazz Basses we are able to help you design or find whatever the special instrument you're looking for may be!
Features
- Fender Custom Shop
- Artisan Thinline Stratocaster
- Semi Hollow Body Design
- Hawaiian Koa Top
- Roasted 4A Okoume Body
- Single F-Hole
- New Old Stock Finish
- 3A Birdseye Medium Roasted Maple Neck
- Flat Lam African Blackwood Fingerboard
- Compound 9.5" to 14” radius
- 6105 Frets
- 63 Strat C Shaped Neck Profile
- Vintage Clay Dots
- Handwound 60/63 Pickups
- 8 Hole Anodized Pickguard
- Master Volume
- 2 x Tone Control
- 5 Way Switch
- Weighs 7 lbs 12 oz
- Certificate of Authenticity
- Weighs 7lbs 8oz
- Original Hardshell Case