Fender Custom Shop LE 1954 Stratocaster DLX Closet Classic (Chocolate 3-Color Sunburst)

2024 marks the platinum anniversary of the Stratocaster—that’s seven decades of the world’s greatest electric guitar. To mark this auspicious milestone, the Backroom Custom Shop introduces the Limited Edition ’54 Stratocaster Deluxe Closet Classic with Gold Hardware. Its two-piece select ash body (with offset seam on the treble side) produces lively resonance with singing highs, sweet midrange, and tight lows, with sparkling gold hardware and wrapped in a gorgeous Deluxe Closet Classic lacquer finish in Chocolate 3-Color Sunburst.

Its one-piece quartersawn maple neck is fashioned with a special 70th anniversary Soft “V” profile based on an incredible Strat neck from July 1954, topped by a vintage compound-radius fingerboard (7.25” to 9.5”) with 21 Jescar medium vintage (47095) frets and a 1.625” bone nut. Three Custom Shop hand-wound ’54 Strat pickups deliver that classic Strat voice with clear, bell-like highs, routed through vintage '54 Strat wiring with wax paper cap and five-way switching.

All together it spotlights an ultra-rare set of period-correct Stratocaster appointments, with other premium features including a single-ply white pickguard, vintage-style hardtail bridge, vintage-style tuners, disc string tree, deluxe embroidered hardshell case, strap and certificate of authenticity.