Fender Custom Shop values

imalrightjack

I have a few guitars for sale and, while now reaching GAS overkill (it’s drawing to a close...), I’ve been offered a 2013 ‘63 Relic CS Strat with certificate, case, hand-wound pickups, etc. but I’m clueless on value (I’ll be selling it).

Any of you kind souls advise?

Edit: this is it - and it's absolutely amazing to play.  So much so that, despite listing it, I am teetering on keeping it.  It's the only single coil guitar I own, as it stands, and I've fallen in love with how it feels and plays.

hairmetal

Circa £2k

AlexO

Unless it's a colour/spec someone really wants, you will probally find £18-1900 more the price you will get for it.

imalrightjack

AlexO said:

Unless it's a colour/spec someone really wants, you will probally find £18-1900 more the price you will get for it.

Lake Placid Blue. Pretty nice.

SRich

Don't 'Heavy Relic' Strats polarise the demand somewhat?......I'm amazed how long they stick around (here at least).

If I had the two grand to flutter around, it's a Journeyman relic or the equiv of a VOS finish......but I could be atypical of the market I fear.

Love the rest of the vibe and specs of the Customshop guitars.  

imalrightjack

Sorry, it’s actually a Relic.

SRich

@imalrightjack  ;YMMV...........just not 'ma thang'........LBP with Rosewood neck looks a peach though.

imalrightjack

@SRich This is rosewood. Looks pretty nice. 

thebreeze

Min £2000 if you're in no particular rush, possibly a little more if you're lucky and depending on where you sell it.  Used CS prices have been edging up because it costs about £3,500 for a new one these days.  I find it's only here where people still expect to pay £1,800   

musteatbrain

If you put it up for 1800 I’d expect it to be sold very quickly.

I sold a relic tele for 2k a while back, I had about 4 or 5 offers at about 1700-1800 over 2 weeks

Fishboy7

I think the prices of used stuff at Coda/Peach etc is a pretty good benchmark. 

vincechu89

Fishboy7 said:

I think the prices of used stuff at Coda/Peach etc is a pretty good benchmark. 

I’d agree but a private sale price is typically 10% or so less as stores will offer returns, setups and service etc and not all private sellers will.

imalrightjack

Given the Coda/Peach prices, I think this is a fair starting point for negotiation!

https://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/159176/fs-fender-custom-shop-relic-63-stratocaster-in-lake-placid-blue?new=1

Whitecat

vincechu89 said:

Fishboy7 said:

I think the prices of used stuff at Coda/Peach etc is a pretty good benchmark. 

I’d agree but a private sale price is typically 10% or so less as stores will offer returns, setups and service etc and not all private sellers will.

Plus shops have to charge VAT on their markup...

imalrightjack

Do you only get 60's style oval C necks on CS Strats?  I thought my love affair with Strats was over but this is swinging me right back into wanting one.  Preferably not a relic though!

Whitecat

imalrightjack said:

Do you only get 60's style oval C necks on CS Strats?  I thought my love affair with Strats was over but this is swinging me right back into wanting one.  Preferably not a relic though!

It's pretty common (often gets used on 60-62 and 64 models), but I suppose that's because it's popular. You can get anything you want if it's your order, otherwise the neck shape is usually dictated by the year it's simulating, which on Strats goes from big (mid 50s, e.g. 10/56 or 57 Soft V) to thin-is (59, 63 - I've seen 63s with both the 60's oval and its own proprietary '63 carve which I believe is thinner), to medium ("mid-60s") back to bigger again once you get to 1965...

thebreeze

The colour over colour (lpd over 3tsb) ought to mean you can ask a bit more for it too.  Probably more desirable but more expensive in the first place as more work goes into a finish like that.

imalrightjack

thebreeze said:

The colour over colour (lpd over 3tsb) ought to mean you can ask a bit more for it too.  Probably more desirable but more expensive in the first place as more work goes into a finish like that.

In that case, the £2k listed fee is a steal.  But still tempted to keep it!

Blaendulais

I ended up buying @i_b_tulloch  's Tone Machine Strat @2k I considered it a bloody good deal.  I think he did the fretboard a generous favour selling his other strats and a tele for less

TINMAN82

Whitecat said:

imalrightjack said:

Do you only get 60's style oval C necks on CS Strats?  I thought my love affair with Strats was over but this is swinging me right back into wanting one.  Preferably not a relic though!

It's pretty common (often gets used on 60-62 and 64 models), but I suppose that's because it's popular. You can get anything you want if it's your order, otherwise the neck shape is usually dictated by the year it's simulating, which on Strats goes from big (mid 50s, e.g. 10/56 or 57 Soft V) to thin-is (59, 63 - I've seen 63s with both the 60's oval and its own proprietary '63 carve which I believe is thinner), to medium ("mid-60s") back to bigger again once you get to 1965...

My ‘61 has a 65 C neck (as spec’d by Coda) and it’s perfect.

ICBM

imalrightjack said:

Edit: this is it - and it's absolutely amazing to play.  So much so that, despite listing it, I am teetering on keeping it.  It's the only single coil guitar I own, as it stands, and I've fallen in love with how it feels and plays.

Keep it. There's no other sensible option.

Personally I'm not a fan of the colour-over-sunburst thing at all, I think it looks horrible, but I could probably live with it if I'd acquired it by accident and loved the guitar.