frettedamericana | 2 decades ago
This one owner fifty-one year old Strat belonged to a member of Elvis's group in the 1964 movie Viva Las Vegas. This "dream" guitar weighs 7.90 lbs. and has a nice, fat nut width of 1 11/16 inches and a scale length of 25 1/2 inches. Solid alder body, contoured on back and lower bass bout and finished in two-tone Sunburst (black to yellow). One-piece fretted maple neck with a wonderfully huge "transition" late '56/early '57 soft "V" profile. Maple fretboard, almost unplayed with 21 frets, and black dot position markers. Three white 'bakelite'-covered black-bottom single-coil pickups with staggered polepieces and nicely balanced outputs of 5.58k, 5.59k and 5.40k. This fifty-one year-old guitar is totally original and is most certainly one of the cleanest "Fifty-Seven" Tremolo Stratocasters that we have ever seen, let alone owned! Housed in its original Fender "Tweed" case with brown leather ends and red plush lining (8.75).
