SOLD - 1998 Fender Custom Shop Cunetto Mary Kaye Chrome Limited Arbiter 1950’s Relic Stratocaster

MikeS

1998 Fender Custom Shop Cunetto Mary Kaye Chrome 1950’s Relic Stratocaster

Very rare Vintage white, Mary Kaye ‘Chrome’ Vince Cunetto Stratocaster. A small extremely limited run of guitars by Fenders European distributer “Arbiter” in 1998.

As the neck plate indicates, this was part of the "Custom Shop Classic Collection" uniquely released for sale in Europe only. This guitar is number 25. The only addition being a professionally copper shielded pickup cavity.

The wood used for this limited run of Cunetto’s is simply jaw dropping. The Birdseye flamed Maple neck is a work of art. One piece Ash body, with translucent vintage white finish. Neck has a 9.5” radius, with 42mm nut width. Width at 12th fret is 51.86mm. Neck thickness at 1st fret is approx 0.850”, and at 12th fret is 0.999”. Neck is sublime and guitar plays effortlessly and is naturally resonant.

Guitar weighs a back friendly 7.90lbs.

Comes as pictured, In its original case with John Page signed C.O.A etc.

 

Only £2495

Now SOLD, thanks to buyer and to forum.

relic245

Stunning guitar, I had one from new many years ago.

That is a really great price too. Someone is going to get a lot of guitar for the money.

Panama_Jack666

@fendermadlewis for your personal collection

JoeMc

That neck! 

DrCornelius

Wow , the wood grain on that neck is gorgeous  (as is well he rest of it of course), beautiful Mike

sweepy

That is probably the only white Strat I’ve seen that made my wallet twitch, beautiful guitar  it won’t be around long 

jimmyguitar

What does OHPF mean? On hold pending funds I presume?

MikeS

@jimmyguitar ; yes, "On hold pending funds", means someones said "yes please, I'll take it", but hasn't paid yet.

It's now sold

maw4neu

What a beautiful guitar . . . ! ! Congratulations to the lucky new owner :-)

sweepy

Someone got a bargain and one hell of a Strat, nice one

fretfinder

Lovely guitar and good to see it back for sale on here again at a decent price. Congrats to seller and buyer. 

tone1

I watched it for a while, but It didn’t quite line up for me again this time unfortunately…hopefully a regular on here snagged it and we might cross paths at some point in the future..

bgmartinsbridge

Just been offered this and told its worth 5500.

The seller then said he bought it two months ago on reverb, from a member on here. 

Got to laugh. Now that's inflation. 

MikeS

Usual story though isnt it.

I sold it to @Luxxman in june '22

tone1

I watched it for a while….. https://reverb.com/item/64842757-fender-cunetto-page-custom-shop-stratocaster-1998?utm_source=rev-ios-app&utm_medium=ios-share&utm_campaign=listing&utm_content=64842757

Dontgiveupyourdayjob

I acquired a lovely Cunetto-era Custom Shop Strat a few months back. It's good to know that it's doubled in value in the last couple of months. Hurrah for inflation! 

Strat54

My friends lovely sunburst 60 Cunetto Strat made £2800 plus buyers prem at the last Gardiner & Houlgate auction. It went straight to FB market place for £3800 and is now with the same seller for £4200 on Reverb. I bought the guitar from Wildwood in the US about 20 yrs ago when the dollar was two to the pound. With duty and shipping it cost me £1100. Nice guitars but in reality no better than any used £2800 FCS relic today. Everyone is a chancer these days. The auction house isn't helping with its exorbitant fees either.

chris78

It’s never worth £5,500 but there’s a world of difference between a third party selling a guitar on a year later and someone immediately buying to flip, which happens on here sometimes