Fender “The Strat” Walnut

Model# 10-0960 (Walnut)

BODY

Wood: American Black Walnut

Lacquer: High Gloss Polyurethane

Shape: Standard Stratocaster

Pickguard: 3-Ply Black

Pickup Routing: SSS

Serial: Headstock Front Decal: CC+5-Digits

NECK

Wood: American Black Walnut + Maple Skunk Stripe

Fretboard: Raw Black Walnut (Very few in Ebony)

Fret Markers: White (RW) / Black Dots (Maple)

Neck Finish: Polyurethane

Neck Profile: 50s “U”, Medium D or C-Shape (Selectable on purchase)

Neck Depht .Various (Dependable on neck profile)

Headstock: Standard Small (Matching paint)

Nut Width: 1.650” (41.9 mm +/-) Varies

Nut Material: Bone

Scale: 25.5"

Radius: 12”

#Frets: 21

Fretwire: 6230 Vintage Frets

Trussrod: Heel Adjust

MicroTilt: No

HARDWARE (22-Carat Plated Gold)

Bridge: 6-Screw Die-Cast High-Mass Gold-plated  Brass Tremolo

• Mount Spacing: 2-7/32 (56.4mm)

• String Spacing: 2–7/32 (56.4mm)

Saddle: Gold-plated Brass Die-Cast block style

Block: Solid Brass

Trem Arm: 10-32 All gold arm and Tip

Tuners: Schaller Deluxe Tuners (Gold Plated or Chrome )

String Tree: 2 x Butterfly (Plastic Spacer)

Knobs: All Gold Plated “F” Knobs

Neckplate: 4-Bolt Gold Plated “F”-Stamped

Strap Buttons: Standard Gold Plated

ELECTRONICS

Switch: 5-Way CRL / Gold Plated Tip

Wiring: Standard Selection (N/M/B) + Rotary Modes

Pots: 2 Pots / 1 Rotary

• 1 x CTS 250k Master Volume
• 1x CTS 250k Tone 
• 1x Two-way Rotary on tone 2

Pickup Config: SSS

Neck Pickup: X-1 Pickups Single Coils

Middle Pickup:  X-1 Pickups Single Coils

Bridge Pickup:  X-1 Pickups Single Coils

ACCESSORIES & INFO

CASE: Classic Tweed Hard Case

INFO:

“The Strat” was Fenders attempt to boost sales with a deluxe style Stratocaster. A new tremolo in massive die cast brass fully gold plated, and a rotary loaded wiring for 9 different sounds. All hardware had 22 carat gold plating and a matching painted headstock on most colors.

Gone were the large headstock and 3-screw necks as a reclaim to pre-cbs style build. This was manufactered at a time where CBS was struggling with poor sales.

Much against CBS cost-cutting tacticts that had degraded the Stratocasters quality over time, The company went all in with this model making “The Strat” a very expensive guitar to manufacture. They discontinued it after only 3 years because of high production costs.