Fender Custom Limited '62/'63 Stratocaster Journeyman Relic - AFR

The Fender Custom Shop Limited Edition ’62/’63 Stratocaster Journeyman Relic takes you back to a time of change. Social upheaval and the British invasion were in full swing, and the Strat was in the thick of it.

For the world’s first 3-pickup, vibrato-equipped comfort-contoured solidbody electric guitar, the thick maple necks of the ’50s had morphed into a comfortable, rounded C-shaped profile, and were now capped with a round-laminate rosewood fingerboard.

Fender’s world-class Custom Shop luthiers painstakingly handcrafted the Limited Edition ’62/’63 Stratocaster Journeyman Relic complete with vintage-spec details such as a 2-piece select alder body, a gently relic’d nitrocellulose lacquer finish and 3-ply pickguard, vintage-style bridge and tuners, and a rift-sawn tinted maple neck. .

In the electronics department, the Limited Edition ’62/’63 Strat features three hand-wound ’60/’63 Strat Custom Shop hand-wound pickups and modern wiring that deliver the classic spank and sparkle that drove countless iconic recordings.