Fender USA Deluxe Strat SSS/Seymour Duncan £800

SIME1963

Fender USA Deluxe Strat SSS/Seymour Duncan 

INCLUDES FENDER HARD CASE

Will consider + cash Telecaster trades 

I am sadly letting go of my American Deluxe strat. This is the SSS version, and I have swapped out the original fender N3 bridge for a Seymour Duncan Hot stack which sounds much nicer. This is discontinued sadly, as fender rebranded them as the American Elite strat, and upped the price to about £1400. This one still has the roller nut, an absolute god send for tuning stability which for some reason the new 'Elite' strats do not, and has a comfier neck heel joint for those hard to reach places! 
To top this off, the guitar has been set up by the incredible Mark Presling, who has looked after Hank Marvin, Mark Knoffler, Pete Townshend's guitars. The list goes on. 
The guitar is used and the case has scuffs, but the guitar itself is in great condition bar a bit of 'buckle rash'. Grab yourself a bargain! 
Full description below. 
HARD CASE INCLUDED 
This model benefits from a compound radius fingerboard, a treble-side heel contour for easier upper-fret access, an LSR roller nut, S1 switching options, a 'Passing Lane' switch, noiseless N3 stacked 'single coils' and Schaller strap locks as standard. 
Compound or conical radius fingerboards are nothing new, of course - violin makers have been doing it for centuries - but for many guitarists it's still rather more novel. 
In practice, the 241mm (9.5-inch) to 356mm (14-inch) 'board here means that chordal work feels comfortable at the lower end, but there's no choking when you bend up at the top, and indeed a lower action is possible overall. If you haven't tried a guitar with a compound radius fretboard, you really should. 
"The Passing Lane switch kicks the door down and brings more than enough ammo for hot-rod lead merchants" 
The push-push Passing Lane switch situated between the instrument's tone controls is similar to the John Suhr 'blower switch' or the 'straight out' function on the 2015 Les Paul Standard in that it routes the bridge pickup signal to the output jack, bypassing the pickup selector, volume and tone circuitry - although it's much easier to engage on the fly here than pulling up the bridge pickup's tone pot on an LP. What you get is an instant jump in volume and bite - but more on that later. 
The neck and middle pickups are Fender's noiseless N3 units, which appeared on the American Deluxe Stratocaster in 2010 (reviewed in issue 335), while the bridge is a Seymour Duncan Hot Stack 
Specifications 
Series: Deluxe 
Body Material: Alder 
Body Finish: Gloss Polyurethane 
Neck: Maple, Modern "C" Shape 
Satin Urethane Finish on Back, Gloss Urethane Finish on Front (Maple) 
Fingerboard: Maple , 9.5" (241 mm) Radius 
Frets: 22, Medium Jumbo 
Position Inlays: Black Dot on Maple and Pearloid Dot on Rosewood 
Scale Length: 25.5" (648 mm) 
Nut (Material/Width): LSR Roller, 1.685" (42.8 mm) 
Hardware: Nickel/Chrome 
Bridge: 2-Point Deluxe Synchronized Tremolo with Pop-In Arm 
Tuning Machines: Deluxe Fender locking 
Pickups: Seymour Duncan Hot Stack (Bridge), Noiseless™ N3 Single-Coil Strat (Middle and Neck) 
Pickup Switching: 5-Position Blade: Position 1. Bridge Pickup, Position 2. Bridge 
and Middle Pickup, Position 3. Middle Pickup, Position 4. Middle 
and Neck Pickup, Position 5. Neck Pickup 
Controls: Master Volume (with S-1™ switch), Tone 1. (Neck Pickup), Tone 2. (Middle and Bridge Pickups) 
Control Knobs: Aged White Plastic 
Pickguard: 3-Ply Parchment 
Case/Gig Bag: ABS Molded
May consider plus cash Telecaster trades

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