1956 Fender Stratocaster

1956 FENDER STRATOCASTER - Purchased from a customer.

This vintage beauty has been modified to such an extent, its vintage market value renders it practically worthless. An amazing guitar, nonetheless. Truss rod adjustments; Checking, adjustments, and lubrication of nut slots; Adjustments, cleaning, and lubrication of the bridge; Adjustments of the tremolo system; Checking and adjustments of bridge saddles; Bridge and saddle heights set to very low; Setting intonation; Pickup height adjustments; Checking and tightening of all screws; Conditioning of fretboard; Appropriate cleaning of instrument; Installation of new strings.

Repairs included replacing messy home-made wiring; Replacing broken middle pickup tone pot; Replacing missing tremolo arm.

Modifications included swapping old strap locks with new Dunlop standard strap buttons.

Specifications
Made: Made in U.S.A
Hardware: Chrome.
Tuning Machines: Fender USA machine heads.
Neck: Pre-CBS Maple with Rosewood skunk stripe.
Fingerboard: Scalloped 21 fret Maple with black dot inlays.
Neck Construction: Bolt-on.
Pickups: Original neck single coil, DiMarzio middle single coil, and Seymour Duncan 59 bridge humbucker pickups.
Electronics: 1 volume and 2 tone controls. 5-way pickup selector switch.
Features:

• Ash body.
• Non-original Fender gig bag.
• Floyd Rose under licensed tremolo.
• Unusually smaller neck.
• 9.5'' fretboard radius.
• Extremely worn Nitrocellulose Surf Green finish.
  
• Very mysterious instrument! Lots of abnormalities!
• Extremely heavy!
• Very unique sound! A vintage wonder!