• Model: Fender Custom Shop 1960 Stratocaster Relic
• Finish: Magenta Sparkle
• Finish Type / Ageing: Relic lacquer
• Body: Alder
• Neck: Quartersawn maple, medium tint nitro
• Neck Profile: '60 Oval C
• Scale Length: 25.5"
• Fingerboard: Dark rosewood, flat lam
• Fingerboard Radius: 9.5"
• Frets: Narrow tall (6105)
• Nut: Bone
• Nut Width: 1.650"
• Pickup Configuration: SSS
• Pickups: Hand wound 60/63 Strat single coils, reverse wound reverse polarity middle
• Controls: Master volume, tone 1, tone 2
• Switching: 5 way blade
• Bridge: Custom Shop vintage synchronised tremolo
• Tuners: Vintage style
• Pickguard: 3 ply mint green
• Hardware: Nickel / chrome
• Country: USA
• Year: 2026

Magenta Sparkle is not a colour you see on a Custom Shop Strat very often, and that is the appeal. Underneath the sparkle it is a properly traditional '60 Strat: maple neck, flat lam dark rosewood board and a mint green guard, so the silhouette stays completely vintage even though the finish turns heads.

The relic ageing is what makes the colour work. A brand new sparkle finish can look a bit toy like, but with the edges worn and the lacquer softened it reads like a guitar that was ordered in a wild custom colour and then played hard for years.

This is the straight early 60s Custom Shop recipe with no blender or extra switching to think about. The '60 Oval C neck is comfortable and familiar, the 9.5" radius and 6105 frets make bends easy, and the hand wound 60/63 set with a reverse wound reverse polarity middle gives you glassy neck tones, plenty of quack in the in between positions and a bright, cutting bridge.

For collectors it is the unusual colour on a usable '60 neck Strat that makes it stand out, and for players it is simply a great sounding Custom Shop Relic that will not look like everybody else's on stage.

Mint / as new. US overseas import, never played. All of the wear you see is factory Relic ageing applied by the Fender Custom Shop, and there is no additional wear beyond it.

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