frettedamericana | 2 decades ago
http://www.frettedamericana.com/fender_stratocaster_1954-d-1035-0.html This first year Stratocaster weighs 8.50 lbs. and has a nut width of just under 1 5/8 inches and a scale length of 25 1/2 inches. Single-piece solid ash body, contoured on back and lower bass bout, and finished in two-tone Sunburst (yellow to black). One-piece fretted maple neck with a huge profile, 21 frets, and black dot position markers. Small headstock with decal with Fender "spaghetti" logo in gold with black trim. Three white Bakelite-covered black-bottom single-coil pickups with staggered polepieces and wonderfully balanced outputs of 6.23k, 5.35k, and 6.95k. Single-layer white Bakelite pickguard with eight screws. The neck has a pencil mark of "TG[Tadeo Gomez]-7-54." The neck cavity has a pencil mark of "#2 / 5/54". The control cavity has a piece of original tape with "Mary / 5-29-54" written in pencil. This guitar is in exceptionally fine (9.00) condition. Housed in its original Fender brown form-fit "poodle" case with red plush shag lining (9.25).
