2008 Fender Custom Shop ’60s Stratocaster Time Machine NOS — Aged Olympic White-Fatboy Nitrate plate and extra loaded pickguard!

A really interesting Custom Shop Strat with a great bit of flexibility built into it.

This is a Fender Custom Shop ’60s Time Machine Series Stratocaster, finished in Aged Olympic White with a Nitrocellulose lacquer finish. Originally supplied in an HSS configuration, it came from the Custom Shop loaded with a Seymour Duncan SH-4 humbucker and a pair of Texas Special single coils, with the switching handled by Fender’s S-1 system.

The clever bit is that you get both pickup configurations with the guitar.

Alongside the original four-ply tortoiseshell HSS guard, the guitar comes with the now-discontinued “Fatboy” nitrate vintage-style pickguard, loaded with a set of Fender Custom Shop Fat ’50s single coils. So you can run it as the original HSS setup for something a little more modern and versatile, or swap to the Fat ’50s-loaded guard for a more traditional, fat ’60s Strat sound.

It’s a genuinely useful combination and makes this a particularly versatile Custom Shop Strat.

The guitar has an Alder body, Nitro finish and an oval ’60s-style neck with a beautiful AAA Rosewood fingerboard. Specs are:

42mm top nut
9.5" fingerboard radius
’60s oval neck profile
AAA Rosewood fingerboard
Alder body
Nitrocellulose lacquer finish
Approx. 8.10 lb

Condition-wise, this is a used guitar and has some signs of use, along with light lacquer checking that you'd expect from a played Nitro-finished instrument. Nothing excessive — it's been used but certainly not abused. The frets are good and the guitar has an excellent setup.

There are also a few very fine hairline cracks around the neck pocket. These are fairly common on Nitro-finished Custom Shop Fenders and, importantly, are not structural.

It comes with the original Fender brown Tolex case, along with the original paperwork and case accessories.

A great Custom Shop Strat with a particularly useful trick up its sleeve — two very different pickup configurations in one guitar, and both included.

Please study the photos carefully as they form part of the description.

Fender Custom Shop Stratocaster 60's NOS Olympic White 2008 "Fatboy"Upgrade!