The Artisan Koa Thinline Stratocaster® is an enticing and elegant guitar with everything you'd expect in playability and tone from the Fender Custom Shop. Stunning in look, sound and feel, it has a hollow roasted-ash body with an "F" hole and 4A figured koa top, which makes for an unusually alluring aesthetic and distinctive tone. The 3A birdseye maple neck is sculpted with a comfortable 1960 "oval-C" profile, topped by a beautiful Macassar ebony fingerboard with a compound radius (9.5"-12") and 21 narrow tall frets.
The 11-hole single-ply brown shell pickguard holds three hand-wound Fat '60s pickups, with five-way switching and Strat 1/2 Blender wiring, which lets the player blend in the neck pickup in switch positions 1 and 2 for extra tonal options. Other features include Custom Shop vintage synchronized tremolo, vintage-style tuning machines with brown shell buttons, bone nut, and "wing" string tree with metal spacer. Includes deluxe hardshell case, strap and certificate of authenticity.
Body: Roasted Ash
Body Finish: Nitrocellulose Lacquer
Body Shape: Stratocaster®
Body Top: 4A Figured Koa
Body Back: Roasted Ash
Body Material: Roasted A
Neck Material: 3A Roasted Birdseye Maple
Neck Finish: Tinted Nitrocellulose Lacquer
Neck Shape: '60s Oval "C"
Fingerboard Radius: 9.5" to 12" Compound Radius
Fingerboard Material: Round-Lam Ebony
Position Inlays: Mother of Pearl Dot
Number of Frets: 21
String Nut: Bone
Nut Width: 1.650" (42 mm)
Nut Material: Bone
Bridge: Custom Shop Vintage Synchronized Tremolo
Pickguard: 1-Ply Tortoiseshell
Pickup Covers: Vintage White
Control Knobs: Vintage White
Switch Tip: Vintage White
Hardware Finish: Chrome
Tuning Machines: Vintage Style with Tortoise Shell Buttons
String Trees: Single-Wing with Tall Metal Spacer
Strings: Nickel Plated Steel (.010-.046 Gauges)
Neck Plate: 4-Bolt with Custom Shop "V" Logo, Serialized
Bridge Pickup: Custom Shop Hand-Wound Fat '60s Single-Coil Strat®
Middle Pickup: Custom Shop Hand-Wound RWRP Fat '60s Single-Coil Strat®
Neck Pickup: Custom Shop Hand-Wound Fat '60s Single-Coil Strat®
Pickup Configuration: SSS
Controls: Master Volume, Master Tone, Blend
Switching: 5-Position Blade: Position 1. Bridge with Neck Blend, Position 2. Bridge and Middle with Neck Blend, Position 3. Middle, Position 4. Neck and Middle, Position 5. Neck