Fender Custom Shop introduces 2014 Custom Collection
NAMM 2014: The Fender Custom Shop presents a collection of exquisitely crafted instruments for 2014, all created with the finest materials available for the player who demands a high-end boutique instrument carrying the Fender legacy. The most distinctive features of each individual model are listed on the following pages.
1964 Closet Classic Jazzmaster
- Select alder body in Sonic Blue finish with a matching headstock
- Nitrocellulose lacquer finish
- Maple neck with an early ‘60s oval “C” shape
- Round-lam rosewood fingerboard with 21 vintage-style frets
- Custom Vintage Jazzmaster pickups (bridge and neck) with vintage Jazzmasterwiring
- American Vintage adjustable six-saddle bridge with floating tremolo and tremolo lock button
2014 Custom Deluxe Stratocaster
- Alder body with AAA quilt maple top in Purple Trans, Candy Red Trans, and Cobalt Blue Trans finishes
- AAA birdseye maple neck with a 10/56 large “V” shape
- Rosewood or one-piece maple fingerboard with 22 medium jumbo frets
- Custom Shop Fat ’60s single-coil Stratpickups (bridge and neck); reverse-wound/reverse polarity Fat ‘60s single-coil Strat pickups (middle) with five-way pickup switch and modern Stratocaster wiring
- Nickel/chrome hardware with pearl button tuners
- Two-point synchronized tremolo with block saddles
2014 Custom Deluxe Telecaster
- Alder body with AAA quilt maple top in Purple Trans, Candy Red Trans, and Cobalt Blue Trans finishes
- AAA Birdseye Maple neck with a NoCaster“U” Shape
- Rosewood or Maple fingerboard with 22 medium jumbo frets
- Texas Special™ single-coil Telepickups (bridge), Custom Shop Twisted Tele single-coil pickups (neck) with three-way switch and custom Telecaster wiring
- Nickel/chrome hardware with pearl button tuners
- Six-saddle Custom Shop chrome-plated steel Tele bridge plate with plated solid brass saddles
1964 Closet Classic Stratocaster
- Select alder body in Three-Color Sunburst finish
- Nitrocellulose lacquer finish
- Maple neck with early-’60s “C” shape
- Round-lam rosewood fingerboard with 21 vintage-style frets
- Hand-wound single-coil Stratocaster pickups (bridge, middle, neck) with Vintage Stratocaster wiring
- Vintage-style synchronized tremolo bridge
2014 Proto Stratocaster
- Select lightweight ash body with cutaway heel in Faded Three-Color Sunburst, Black, and Arctic White finishes
- AAA Birdseye Maple neck with early ‘60s oval “C” shape
- Round-lam rosewood or one-piece maple fingerboard with 22 medium-jumbo frets
- Custom hand-wound Fat ‘60s Strat (bridge), Texas Special™ single-coil Strat (middle and neck) pickups with five-way switch and custom Stratocaster wiring
- Master volume and master tone controls
- Two-point synchronized tremolo with block saddles
2014 Proto Telecaster
- Select lightweight ash body with cutaway heel in Arctic White, Black, and Faded Three-Color Sunburst finishes
- AAA birdseye maple neck with a 10/56 large “V” shape
- Round-lam rosewood or one-piece maple fingerboard with 22 medium jumbo frets
- Josephina Red Hot pickups (bridge and neck) with three-way switch and Modern Telecaster wiring
- Nickel/chrome hardware with research special design Telecaster bridge
- Master volume and Greasebuckettone circuit controls
2014 Proto Precision Bass
- Select alder body with in heavy relic Three-Color Sunburst with nitrocellulose lacquer finish
- Quartersawn maple neck with a “C” shape
- Round-lam rosewood fingerboard with 20 vintage frets
- Vintage split single-coil Precision Bass pickups with Vintage Precision Bass wiring
- “L Series” neck plate
- Nickel/chrome hardware with four-saddle Vintage Precision Bass bridge
- Volume and tone controls
1964 Heavy Relic Precision Bass
- Select alder body with in heavy relic Three-Color Sunburst with nitrocellulose lacquer finish
- Quartersawn maple neck with a “C” shape
- Round-lam rosewood fingerboard with 20 vintage frets
- Vintage split single-coil Precision Bass pickups with Vintage Precision Bass wiring
- “L Series” neck plate
- Nickel/chrome hardware with four-saddle Vintage Precision Bass bridge
- Volume and tone controls
2014 '56 Heavy Relic Stratocaster
- Alder body in Black finish with Heavy Relic lacquer
- One-piece maple neck with a 10/56 “V” shape
- One-piece maple fingerboard with 21 6105 frets
- Master-designed pickups with reverse-wound/reverse polarity middle pickup with five-way switch and Modern Stratocaster wiring
“I sent this to Strandberg to get the wiring done and when they sent it back they included this”: Plini shows us his modded signature Strandberg Boden – but what’s that hiding in the tremolo springs?
“These things work for me and I am finding out a lot of other guitar players like ‘em too”: Paul Reed Smith loved his Charcoal Phoenix so much that PRS has released this rare bird in strictly limited numbers
“I sent this to Strandberg to get the wiring done and when they sent it back they included this”: Plini shows us his modded signature Strandberg Boden – but what’s that hiding in the tremolo springs?
“These things work for me and I am finding out a lot of other guitar players like ‘em too”: Paul Reed Smith loved his Charcoal Phoenix so much that PRS has released this rare bird in strictly limited numbers
