In careful planning with our friends at the Fender Custom Shop we are pleased to offer the 1959 Thunder Road Stratocaster Journeyman Relic! This model has been in planning for well over a year and we are thrilled with the results.

Each Thunder Road 1959 Stratocaster features a light-weight chambered roasted alder body, hand-wound pickups that are slightly overwound to our specs, closet classic hardware, Custom Shop Exclusive RSD bridge, roasted rift sawn maple neck and a compound 9.5-12" fingerboard radius. We love these guitars and think you will too! If you are after a light-weight resonant Strat that has the look and vibe of a vintage guitar with some modern specs this is the model for you!

Freshly inspected and set up in-house by our esteemed Guitar Tech. See below for more details and specifications.

FROM FENDER CUSTOM SHOP:

A Fender Custom Shop instrument is extraordinary. You know it when you play one—it’s definitely more than the sum of its parts. It’s filled with intangible, electrifying elements that add a new dimension to your playing experience. It’s as if the instrument itself is imbued with history, alive with the spirit of the place where it was built and the devotion of those who crafted it.

ABOUT HALF-BLENDER CONTROLS:

A 1/2 blend control, aka half blender, is a wiring modification on Stratocaster guitars that replaces the bridge tone knob with a potentiometer to mix in the neck pickup selectively.  It activates only in switch positions 1 (bridge alone) and 2 (bridge + middle), blending the neck pickup for Telecaster-like tones or all-three-pickup sounds without affecting positions 3-5.

SPECIFICATIONS:

Vintage-Style Tuners

1.65” Bone Nut

1959 D Profile Rift-Sawn Roasted Maple Neck with 25.5” Scale Length and Unfinished Back

Neck Thickness .80" at First Fret and .98" at Twelfth Fret

AAA Rosewood Flat Lam Slab Fingerboard with Vintage Clay Dot Inlays and 9.5" to 12" Compound Radius

21 Narrow Tall (6105) Frets

3 Custom Shop 5% Over-Wound TRG '59 Stratocaster Pickups with RWRP Middle Pickup

Stratocaster Half-Blender Control on Bridge Tone Knob

RSD Stratocaster Bridge

Roasted Alder Chambered Body in Aged Olympic White Thin Nitro Finish

Weight 6 lb 6 oz

Blonde Tolex Custom Shop Hard Shell Case with Peach Interior

Serial Number R146158