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NAMM 2014: Fender Custom Shop introduces Custom Collection

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By Joe Bosso published 4 January 2014

2014 Custom Deluxe Stratocaster, 1964 Closet Classic Jazzmaster and more

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Fender Custom Shop introduces 2014 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
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2014 Custom Deluxe Stratocaster

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
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2014 Custom Deluxe Telecaster

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
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1964 Closet Classic Stratocaster

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
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2014 Proto Stratocaster

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
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2014 Proto Telecaster

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
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2014 Proto Precision Bass

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
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1964 Heavy Relic Precision Bass

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
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2014 '56 Heavy Relic Stratocaster

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
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Joe Bosso
Joe Bosso

Joe is a freelance journalist who has, over the past few decades, interviewed hundreds of guitarists for Guitar World, Guitar Player, MusicRadar and Classic Rock. He is also a former editor of Guitar World, contributing writer for Guitar Aficionado and VP of A&R for Island Records. He’s an enthusiastic guitarist, but he’s nowhere near the likes of the people he interviews. Surprisingly, his skills are more suited to the drums. If you need a drummer for your Beatles tribute band, look him up.

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