Features Alder body with bolt on maple mid '60s "C" shape neck Rosewood fingerboard, 21 frets, dot inlays, 25.5" scale American Vintage Synchronized Tremolo bridge, "Fender Deluxe" vintage style tuners Three New American Vintage '65 Grey Bottom Strat single coil pickups Hardshell case included Description Product Description The American Vintage series introduces an all-new lineup of original-era model year guitars that bring Fender history and heritage to authentic and exciting new life. With key features and pivotal design elements spanning the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s, new American Vintage series instruments delve deep into Fenders rootsexpertly preserving an innovative U.S. guitar-making legacy and vividly demonstrating like never before that Fender not only knows where its going, but also remembers where it came from.The American Vintage Series has long presented some of Fenders best selling guitars (their early-80s introduction, in fact, was one of the first signs that Fender was back as the CBS era ended). Today, Fender has boldly cleared the slate to make way for a fresh American Vintage series with new features, new specs and the most meticulous level of vintage accuracy yet. Rather than just replacing the previous models with different ones, Fender completely and comprehensively re-imagined the entire vintage-reissue conceptrestoring original tooling dies, voicing new pickups, reformulating vintage colors and morebased on actual vintage guitars they tracked down to make sure they had it right. Fender did the work, and it shows, because theres pure tonal magic in each new American Vintage instrument.The 1965 Stratocaster saw the return to a thick C-shaped maple neck, this time with a round-laminated dark rosewood fingerboard and larger pearl dot inlays. It was also the first year for enamel-covered pickup wire. Thats what players will find on the American Vintage 65 Stratocaster, along with other authentic features including a three-ply white pickguard with 11 holes, lightweight alder body, aged plastic knobs and vintage-accurate pickups, bridge saddles, tuner spacing and more. Includes an updated deluxe vintage black hardshell case, vintage '65 Strat strap, cable, and cloth; vintage 3-position switch, '60s Strat information kit, bridge cover, owne