The Fender Custom Shop Limited Release Series '68 Heavy Relic Stratocaster guitar is yet another unbelievable Custom Shop creation that effortlessly evokes a historic era of rock music and a historic
chapter of Fender history.

It features a premium lightweight ash body with a three-ply, 11-hole parchment pickguard. The quarter-sawn ’68 U-shaped maple neck has a nitrocellulose lacquer finish and 9.5”-radius dark Indian rosewood fingerboard with 21 Dunlop® 6105 narrow jumbo frets, mother-of-pearl dot position inlays and a large ’60s headstock. Famous Fender tone is supplied by three custom ’69 single-coil Stratocaster pickups with gray bobbins and aged pickup covers (custom reverse wound/reverse polarity middle pickup) and five-position switching. The instrument has a thin-skin nitrocellulose lacquer finish in a variety of colors and has been given our Heavy Relic treatment—built from original tooling and showing the natural wear and tear of years of heavy use, with nicks, scratches, worn finish, rusty hardware and aged plastic parts.