custom 2003 Fender American Stratocaster Sienna Sunburst w Callaham bridge, Seymour Duncan JB, and TX specials
9 Days
352
5
$1,100.00
Description
Condition
Payment Types Accepted
ZelleThis is my hot Strat with all USA Fender parts or better. This started out as a 2003 American Fat Stratocaster, with a Maple Neck, a 2-piece Sienna Sunburst body (gorgeous), and Texas Special pickups. Swapped Pearly Gates humbucker with a hotter JB pickup (don’t have original pickup) for some extra oomph and to better match the hot Texas Specials (the hottest single coil Fender makes). Changed to black color scheme. Callaham bridge upgrade. Carling switches for 1. adding neck pickup and 2. coil-splitting the humbucker. No load tone pot on bridge. 0.1 uF cap to tame the highs. Minor chip in the neck which doesn’t affect playability at all but is a bummer. This guitar is a tone machine that is wickedly versatile: it can go from country to metal and excels everywhere in the spectrum. Can this thing do Jazz too? Yes! Coil-splitting the bridge makes it brighter and clearer while retaining the balls of the JB. The Texas Specials combine nicely with the humbucker, and adding the neck pickup to the bridge (or bridge + middle) provides Tele-like tones and gives you even more options. Adding the neck pickup to the bridge on a strat is also referred to as the Gilmour mod. The middling, meh bridge was changed to a Callaham American Standard upgrade. It has the same string spacing and offset saddle style but with better saddles and a much improved (and heavier) tremolo block. This is a huge tonal upgrade and seriously increases the sustain of this guitar. (The original trem block is a thin little turd of some metal.) The trem springs are vintage spec (a bit slinkier). The body is in excellent shape with no major flaws, but there is a dang chip on the neck, on the 9th fret above the low-E string. It doesn’t affect fretting the string and doesn’t ever touch the string or your fingers. Not sure how it happened but it happened recently. Set up for low action with no buzzing with great playability. Comes with a non-Fender hardshell case. I can swap it for a nice Fender gigbag if you prefer. I have a few super fancy TSA cases as well… Price is firm. No trades (unless it’s a Godfather offer). I can take all forms of payment EXCEPT Venmo, cash preferred.
I'm selling this Strat and others because I have too many, I'm not chasing any final tone, and I'm all about learning and trying new things. I only have killer gear, and there's more out there. So rest assured I'm not selling anything because it's a lemon. The only guitars I'm absolutely keeping are sentimental in nature (first Strat, college guitar, Dad's guitars, etc).
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custom 2003 Fender American Stratocaster Sienna Sunburst w Callaham bridge, Seymour Duncan JB, and TX specials
9 Days
352
5
$1,100.00
Description
Condition
Payment Types Accepted
ZelleThis is my hot Strat with all USA Fender parts or better. This started out as a 2003 American Fat Stratocaster, with a Maple Neck, a 2-piece Sienna Sunburst body (gorgeous), and Texas Special pickups. Swapped Pearly Gates humbucker with a hotter JB pickup (don’t have original pickup) for some extra oomph and to better match the hot Texas Specials (the hottest single coil Fender makes). Changed to black color scheme. Callaham bridge upgrade. Carling switches for 1. adding neck pickup and 2. coil-splitting the humbucker. No load tone pot on bridge. 0.1 uF cap to tame the highs. Minor chip in the neck which doesn’t affect playability at all but is a bummer. This guitar is a tone machine that is wickedly versatile: it can go from country to metal and excels everywhere in the spectrum. Can this thing do Jazz too? Yes! Coil-splitting the bridge makes it brighter and clearer while retaining the balls of the JB. The Texas Specials combine nicely with the humbucker, and adding the neck pickup to the bridge (or bridge + middle) provides Tele-like tones and gives you even more options. Adding the neck pickup to the bridge on a strat is also referred to as the Gilmour mod. The middling, meh bridge was changed to a Callaham American Standard upgrade. It has the same string spacing and offset saddle style but with better saddles and a much improved (and heavier) tremolo block. This is a huge tonal upgrade and seriously increases the sustain of this guitar. (The original trem block is a thin little turd of some metal.) The trem springs are vintage spec (a bit slinkier). The body is in excellent shape with no major flaws, but there is a dang chip on the neck, on the 9th fret above the low-E string. It doesn’t affect fretting the string and doesn’t ever touch the string or your fingers. Not sure how it happened but it happened recently. Set up for low action with no buzzing with great playability. Comes with a non-Fender hardshell case. I can swap it for a nice Fender gigbag if you prefer. I have a few super fancy TSA cases as well… Price is firm. No trades (unless it’s a Godfather offer). I can take all forms of payment EXCEPT Venmo, cash preferred.
I'm selling this Strat and others because I have too many, I'm not chasing any final tone, and I'm all about learning and trying new things. I only have killer gear, and there's more out there. So rest assured I'm not selling anything because it's a lemon. The only guitars I'm absolutely keeping are sentimental in nature (first Strat, college guitar, Dad's guitars, etc).
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