NAMM 2014: Fender Custom Shop introduces Custom Collection

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