Sold: Fender Custom Shop 'Custom Classic' Stratocaster, Daphne Blue, £1450

JerkMoans

Kinda in two minds about this one, but there's something on here causing me an itch I gotta scratch, and one in, one out, yeah?

2008 Fender Custom Shop 'Custom Classic' Strat, in this gorgeous Daphne Blue finish.  

I will mention at the start that I do not have a COA.  It wasn't with it when I got it, indeed I don't think I knew the things existed in 2015.  Certainly didn't matter to me then.  ***edit - according to @hyperben below, this model would never have had a COA in the first place!***.  ***second edit some difference of opinion about this via PM, where another correspondent isn't so sure, but anyway this doesn't have one.***. ***third edit: @hyperben has retracted initial assertion, so it seems it would probably have had one of the dratted bits of paper when it spewed from Fender's corporate maw***


Anyway, FWIW I bought it from The North American Guitar here in that London, back when they were based out in Fulham or thereabouts.  IIRC the story was it had been traded in against one of their ritzy high end models.  I   have emails....  One from a charming fellow at Fender Customer Relations when I enquired about the serial number and specs (they match...) and some between me and TNAG arranging to go and pick it up.  So let's see whether all those 'missing COA's don't matter none to me' threads have grown anyone a pair of cojones.

As you can see, it's a beauty.  Virtually immaculate: just one small bump on the lower bit of the headstock.  Gorgeous figured maple soft-V neck.  The Strattiest of Strat toanz from the pickups.  Comes in the hard case pictured.  And I do have the wang bar somewhere.

Why am I selling?  Simply because I'm a fickle sod.  Been playing my Gibsons more, and as I said I'm hankering after something else, and need the coin.

£1500 now £1450 collected or delivered a reasonable radius around London.  I don't have a shipping crate at the moment but maybe we can discuss shipping if absolutely necessary.  

No trades, thanks: this is being chopped out for something very specific.

Specs:

Model Name: Custom Classic Stratocaster® “V” Neck 

Model Number: 015-6200-(Color#) and 015-6202-(Color#)

Series: Custom Classic Series

Body: Select Alder on: (804) Daphne Blue,

Neck: Lightly Figured Maple, Soft “V” Shape,(Polished Satin Urethane Finish)

Fingerboard: Maple (p/n 015-6202), 9.5” Radius (241mm)

No. of Frets: 22 Medium Jumbo Frets

Scale Length: 25.5” (648 mm)

Width @ Nut: 1.6875” (43 mm)

Hardware: Chrome

Machine Heads: Fender®/Schaller® Deluxe Staggered Cast/Sealed Tuning Machines

Bridge: New Deluxe 2-Point Synchronized Tremolo with Polished Solid Stainless Steel Saddles and Block

Pickguard: 3-Ply Parchment

Pickups: 2 Modern Classic Single-Coil Pickups (Neck, Middle),

1 Hot Classic Single-Coil Pickup (Bridge), with Custom Steel Inductance Plate.

All have modern magnet stagger.

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,

Tone 1. (Neck Pickup),

Tone 2. No-Load Tone Control (Middle and Bridge Pickups)

Colors: (804) Daphne Blue,(Urethane Finish)

Strings: Fender Super 3250R, Nickel Plated Steel, (.010 to .046), p/n 073-3250-006

Other Features: Aged White Plastic Parts

Source: U.S. Fender Custom Shop

Accessories: Deluxe Black Hardshell Case (Black Interior)

Pictures!

DrCornelius

Hubba hubba , fantastic price with or without the COA

bazxkr

I have the bing cherry version of this...Great guitar, great colour, plays real well.  GLWTS 

hyperben

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JerkMoans

hyperben said:

FYI there won’t be a COA for that model. The special edition lines they do (the ones with a Fender CS engraved neck plate with a CZ type serial number) don’t have COAs, but the specs can still be obtained from Fender customer care in the form of a bullet pointed spec sheet.

You are a wonder! Thanks for the explanation: wiz duly awarded!

***post edited: read below for exciting further COA debate***

Ben1984

Are you sure these don't come with the COA ? Just looked some up on reverb 2007 custom classic on there comes with the coa I might be wrong however ...

JerkMoans

Ben1984 said:

Are you sure these don't come with the COA ? Just looked some up on reverb 2007 custom classic on there comes with the coa I might be wrong however ...

See my second edit on the original posting: I'm sure @hyperben is trying to be helpful.  I honestly don't know either way, but anyway this doesn't have one now in 2020, and hasn't since I bought it in 2015.  

Maybe the Reverb ones are panic fakes  

DrCornelius

JerkMoans said:

Ben1984 said:

Are you sure these don't come with the COA ? Just looked some up on reverb 2007 custom classic on there comes with the coa I might be wrong however ...

See my second edit on the original posting: I'm sure @hyperben is trying to be helpful.  I honestly don't know either way, but anyway this doesn't have one now in 2020, and hasn't since I bought it in 2015.  

Maybe the Reverb ones are panic fakes  

No way on earth have you owned a guitar since 2015 unless -

- you forgot you had it

or

- it can mix martinis

JerkMoans

DrCornelius said:

JerkMoans said:

Ben1984 said:

Are you sure these don't come with the COA ? Just looked some up on reverb 2007 custom classic on there comes with the coa I might be wrong however ...

See my second edit on the original posting: I'm sure @hyperben is trying to be helpful.  I honestly don't know either way, but anyway this doesn't have one now in 2020, and hasn't since I bought it in 2015.  

Maybe the Reverb ones are panic fakes  

No way on earth have you owned a guitar since 2015 unless -

- you forgot you had it

or

- it can mix martinis

How very dare you  

This was one of a very select band of 'Keepers'.  Until I got the hots for @MikeS 's Johnson.

Ben1984

JerkMoans said:

Ben1984 said:

Are you sure these don't come with the COA ? Just looked some up on reverb 2007 custom classic on there comes with the coa I might be wrong however ...

See my second edit on the original posting: I'm sure @hyperben is trying to be helpful.  I honestly don't know either way, but anyway this doesn't have one now in 2020, and hasn't since I bought it in 2015.  

Maybe the Reverb ones are panic fakes  


Oops didn't see that second edit nice strat regardless glwts .

JerkMoans

Right.  Now we have got that all cleared up , anyone fancy what I believe is the cheapest Custom Shop Strat currently on sale in the UK?

hyperben

Sorry I’m talking rubbish - confused myself. It’s the floor travellers you don’t get on the special editions.

Ben_McCarthy

Well there’s been loads of free bumps, so that’s something 

Jtaylor

Pm’d

JerkMoans

In response to a couple of questions I've had about the all important weight factor:

JerkMoans

Withdrawn, as the thing I wanted to buy with the proceeds is no longer available.

Seems COAs more an issue than I’d anticipated  

Dan_Halen

Stunning guitar fella and I’d of bit your hand off at that price if I was after a strat. You’re better keeping it than letting it go for less.

JerkMoans

Dan_Halen said:

Stunning guitar fella and I’d of bit your hand off at that price if I was after a strat. You’re better keeping it than letting it go for less.

Many thanks. And, precisely what I’m going to do, now my casual object of lust has left my fickle vision.

Gau

Wonderful instrument, you've done right keeping it.
For what it's worth: guitar surely came out with a certificate. Having it or not, only affects the guitar price. However, Fender Custom Shop support is very supportive and if things are still the same today, they can reissue you a new COA through an approved dealer. 
Get in touch with them at consumerrelations@fender.com  or directly with the Custom Shop, may be this is still an option.

Again, very nice guitar.

JerkMoans

Gau said:

Wonderful instrument, you've done right keeping it.
For what it's worth: guitar surely came out with a certificate. Having it or not, only affects the guitar price. However, Fender Custom Shop support is very supportive and if things are still the same today, they can reissue you a new COA through an approved dealer. 
Get in touch with them at consumerrelations@fender.com  or directly with the Custom Shop, may be this is still an option.

Again, very nice guitar.

Thanks for the kind words, buddy.  And apols for what I'm about to do...

JerkMoans

Right.  Back up.  Because GAS.