Hello - you are looking at my Fender Custom Shop USA 1956 (2009) relic strat - serial number R 50002.It features a highly resonant nitro two tone sunburst alder body (which is absolutely alive! - this is not a dead, lifeless guitar!) - very `brownie`! (clapton).Body has stunning `checking` in the nitro finish (see the 3rd pic).- there are no issues with fretlife or neck ! (9.5 radius fretboard - neck is a lovely chunkyish soft v - just wonderful!)Features Fender custom shop fat 50s pups (neck/middle  - plse see the next paragraph) and is currently fitted with a period correct 3 way selector switch- i am including a fender 5 way should you wish to make it more contemporary.Guitar is all original except the bridge pup which is currently a superb seymour duncan SSL - 5 This is a alnico custom staggered hotter output pup that is used on the fender custom shop dave gilmour signature strat.(Lots of great demos online of this pup - bell like gilmour tones - great for blues and rock!)I have included some info I found online at the bottom of my listing.I am including the original  fender custom shop fat 50's bridge pup should you wish to swap back.Comes with original case (superb condition!) and candy (including cert ,trem arm,ashtray cover for bridge, rear trem cover, etc)Postage includes insurance - uk mainland £35 - europe , southern ireland £80Thks for looking and any questions 07907 572535 (not interested in trades or swaps)PaulUnfortunately, players who wanted to keep the pure single coil nature of their guitar but who needed extra output had some problems. There wasn’t a viable solution for them. They could go with humbuckers or lower output single coils, but hotter single coils? Forget it.Until David Gilmour bursted into the scene! He asked Seymour Duncan to make him some hotter single coils, and those eventually became the . Offered to the public in the early 80s, these pickups offered players a hot single coil. With its stronger magnets and more powerful winding, this pickup filled the need for many players. The SSL-5 is a hot yet true single coil. The SSL-5 was quickly adopted by many players, professional and casual alike.Seymour Duncan’s Evan Skopp told us the following about the design stages of the SSL5:When the so-called SSL-1C, which was a one-off designed for Mr. Gilmour, eventually went into production, it became the SSL-5 Custom. The SSL-5 you buy today is essentially the same pickup as the SSL-1C that Phil Taylor ordered from Seymour and which went into the Black Strat.For Fender’s DG Black Strat reissue and as a tribute to this bit of guitar history, we stamp “SSL-1C” into the bottom flatwork of the SSL-5s that are installed in the bridge position of that guitar. You can get just one pickup if you want to beef up, for example, the bridge pickup, or get a hot single coil to keep up with a hot bridge humbucker. It is also possible to get a complete calibrated set, though, with the middle pickup reverse wound with a reverse polarity, to cancel out any additional hum you might experience.  To enhance the versatility of this set even further, you can get this set with a coiltap as an option. This will reduce the output by almost half and will yield a clearer, cleaner tone with a bit more spank and sparkle.With enough power to drive non-master volume amps but not so much that your tone becomes an unbalanced, wooly mess, the Seymour Duncan SSL-5 Custom offers an incredibly versatile platform for many styles.