Fender Custom Limited Edition 1964 Stratocaster Journeyman Relic - FAFRD

Fresh from the acclaimed Fender Custom Shop, the Limited-edition '64 Stratocaster Journeyman Relic re-creates one of Fender’s most popular and collectible models of the 1960s. The Stratocaster was gaining ground as the centerpiece of Fender’s lineup and an iconic guitar that even non-musicians would immediately recognize.

This guitar captures the '64 Strat down to the last detail with its 2-piece alder body, "C" profile neck, vintage hardware, and round-lam rosewood fingerboard that improved upon old-school “slab” fingerboards.

Powering the Limited-edition '64 Stratocaster Journeyman Relic’s tone are three hand-wound Texas Special Strat pickups, a Gino Guitars favorite over-wound for hot output with great mid-range snarl, crystal-clear highs, and focused bass. This particularly Strat features Fender’s Closet Classic Relic nitrocellulose finish.

The Classic Closet finish gives this limited edition a well-preserved feel with small signs of natural age as if it were recently discovered in a closet, untouched since 1964.

A trio of onboard Texas Special Strat pickups provide searing tone. These pickups look and sound period correct with over-wound construction for higher output that made the Strat a mainstay of early electric blues in the US. The middle Texas Special is reverse wound, a period-accurate innovation that helped eliminate hum for clearer, crisper tone.

Texas Specials deliver razor-sharp midrange that’s great for staying heard even in loud, busy mixes, but without sacrificing clear balanced highs and lows. Plus, these pickups were built with period-correct cloth wire and fiber bobbin, proof of Fender's immaculate attention to detail.