Description Product Description The Fender Custom Shop 1957 Relic Stratocaster takes you straight back to the pivotal year when the instrument was largely perfected into the form known worldwide today. Its deep-contoured alder body sports a lacquer Relic finish and the sparkling tone comes from three hand-wound '50s Stratocaster single-coil pickups (reverse wound/reverse polarity middle pickup) with modern five-way switching. Other premium features include a quartersawn maple neck with a '57 "soft V" profile and small headstock, 9.5"-radius maple fingerboard with 21 6105 frets, single-ply parchment pickguard, vintage white control knobs, American Vintage bridge, and American Vintage tuning machines.