frettedamericana | 5 years ago
Our first full length Video featuring the very talented guitarist from Kill Devil Hill, Mark Zavon. We are so pleased to have him and here he is showing off the 1958 Fender Stratocaster!!
This near mint, December 1958 Stratocaster weighs just 7.70 lbs. Solid alder body, contoured on back and lower bass bout, and finished in three-tone Sunburst. One-piece fretted maple neck with a nut width of just over 1 5/8 inches, a scale length of 25 1/2 inches, and a very fast thin-to-medium profile. Maple fretboard with 21 original medium frets and black dot position markers. Small headstock with decal with Fender "spaghetti" logo in gold with black trim, "STRATOCASTER" in black beside it, "WITH SYNCHRONIZED TREMOLO" in black below it, and small decal with "ORIGINAL Contour Body" at the ball end of the headstock. Individual single-line Kluson Deluxe tuners with oval metal buttons (stamped inside: "D-169400/Patent No"). Single butterfly string tree. Four-bolt neck plate with serial number between the top two screws. Three white plastic-covered black-bottom single-coil pickups with staggered polepieces and nice, balanced outputs of 5.35k, 5.85k, and 5.87k. Single-layer white plastic pickguard with eight screws. Three controls (one volume, two tone) plus three-way selector switch, all on pickguard. White plastic knobs with gold lettering. Fender "Synchronized Tremolo" combined bridge/tailpiece (six-pivot bridge/vibrato unit with through-body stringing). The neck has a pencil mark of "12-58," the neck pickup cavity has the name "Carrie" in pencil, and the middle pickup cavity has a pencil mark of "12/58." The potentiometers are all stamped "304 839" (Stackpole September 1958). This guitar is in near mint (9.25) condition with just a few very small and insignificant surface marks/dings mainly on the sides of the body. The original frets show some playing wear but have plenty of life left. The fretboard shpws very minor playing wear on the first three frets only. Otherwise, this sixty-year-old guitar is one of the best looking and playing "Fifties" Strats that we have ever owned. Complete with the original tremolo arm and bridge cover, original Fender hang-tag with matching serial number, original black leather guitar strap, an original set of Fender Mastersound Super-Smooth strings and two original 1957/58 Fender Fine Electric Instruments catalogs. Housed in its original Fender "Tweed" case with brown leather ends and orange plush lining (9.00). We have substituted the original rubber pickup washers for a set of later springs - this improves the pickups the height-adjustment - the original rubber washers are included in the case. We have also set the guitar up with three out of the five tremolo springs - the remaining two springs are also included in the case.
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