Description
Lovies Guitars is Excited to offer up this 1998 Fender American Vintage ’62 Stratocaster Electric Guitar with a Great Sherwood Green Finish! This Fender USA ’62 Strat Reissue turns its back on many technological ‘advancements’ and recaptures the more organic aura of an early ‘sixties instrument. Much of the modern plastic in the electrical setup is eliminated in favor of old materials. The wiring is insulated with cloth, and the pickups use the old vulcanized fibre construction. This traditional style of pickup composition sees the coil sitting directly against the alnico pole-pieces rather than against a plastic divider, and it also allows the coil to be hot-wax-solidified for more reliable performance at high volume.
The finish, meanwhile, is built up with old-style cellulose lacquer (as opposed to polyester or polyeurethane) on both body and neck. Not only does this produce what’s widely accepted as a more visually attractive (less ‘plasticky’) finish, it’s also a more natural coating for the wood. This original type of finish ages more attractively, and the consensus is that it also allows the wood to mature more quickly, helping to improve the guitar’s tone as the years pass. The woods used are in keeping with those on a 1962 Strat. Alder for the body, maple for the neck, and the much-lauded thick rosewood slab for the fingerboard.
It should be kept in mind that these Fender USA Vintage Reissues were and still are very accurate replicas of the original instruments. Elements like the traditional lacquer finish, the cloth wiring and the wax-potted, fibre-construction pickups did not stretch to the majority of Fender’s Japanese replicas. Great Shape with some hardware tarnish, pick-guard wear, micro marks and indents here and there and some light finish ripples, easy 8.7/10. ALL Original. NO Breaks, Cracks or Repairs! Includes an Original Hard-Shell Case!
WEIGHS in at: 7.90 lbs
.838” at the 1st fret
.915” at the 12th fret
Radius: 7.25”
Serial: V112288
SKU: 4313
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All guitars are GUARANTEED to arrive in described condition for full refund will be issued. All guitars are fully insured and we will deal with it.
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