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Fender Custom Shop '60s Imperial Arc Stratocaster Maple Fingerboard HSS Masterbuilt by Dale Wilson

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Fender Custom Shop '60s Imperial Arc Stratocaster Maple Fingerboard HSS Masterbuilt by Dale Wilson
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The limited-edition Fender Custom Shop Dealer Select Imperial Arc Stratocaster HSS is a 3-year Master-Built dream realized. Conceived in a Corona, CA. Mexican restaurant and illustrated on a napkin, the Imperial Arc Strat HSS was envisioned to be an exquisite old guitar to the touch, but with magical electronic powers to generate otherworldly sound...  Click To Read More About This Product

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Gear returned in mint condition. If you're looking for a virtually new instrument in possibly less-than-perfect packaging, this is a great value.
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Gear returned in great condition, with only minor signs of use, such as slight scuffs or pick marks. It looks and plays like new and may be considered an equivalent to display units found in retail stores.
  • Includes 45-Day, No-Hassle Returns
  • Includes full manufacturer's warranty
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Overview

The limited-edition Fender Custom Shop Dealer Select Imperial Arc Stratocaster HSS is a 3-year Master-Built dream realized. Conceived in a Corona, CA. Mexican restaurant and illustrated on a napkin, the Imperial Arc Strat HSS was envisioned to be an exquisite old guitar to the touch, but with magical electronic powers to generate otherworldly sounds.

The journey begins with a 1960 quartersawn oval C-shaped maple neck with a 9.5” radius maple fingerboard and 6105 frets. The alder body boasts a color-over-color finish – only two of each combination have been produced. Both neck and body are sprayed with nitrocellulose lacquer and relic’d.

The Seymour Duncan custom Wide Range Zebra humbucker and neck and middle single-coils were created just for the Imperial Arc Series. The first tone control is a push/push pot that splits the humbucker. A Fender S-1 volume control switch enables a 12dB variable boost that is controlled by the 2nd tone control – dial in the boost you want. The boost is true bypass; the guitar is passive when the boost is switched off. The resulting tone is sweet, throaty - electrifying. Includes hardshell case.


DALE WILSON
Dale Wilson arrived at Fender in 2003, joined the Custom Shop in 2005 and became a Master Builder in 2011. Building guitars has been a driving passion for the California native since childhood.

“Ever since I can remember, I’ve always loved guitars,” he said. “I didn’t dream of being a rock star; I dreamed of building the ultimate guitar. I was equally enthralled with the guitars just as much as I was with the players.”

Wilson comes from a long line of expert woodworkers, and the requisite Custom Shop zeal for outstanding craftsmanship has long been part of his DNA. He did repair work and mods in a small guitar shop right out of high school in the late 1980s; subsequently moving on to stints at Dobro and Rickenbacker before arriving at Fender, where he worked on Guild, Gretsch and Benedetto guitars before beginning his apprenticeship with various Custom Shop Master Builders.

He enjoys calling upon his extensive and varied experience as a craftsman to create unique guitars such as the Resophonic Thinline Telecaster. Wilson also built five beautiful custom guitars for the January 2011 NAMM Show while still an apprentice, but was asked to signed the back of the headstocks and subsequently promoted to Fender Custom Shop Master Builder.

Features

Body 
 Body shape: Double cutaway 
 Body type: Solid body 
 Body material: Solid wood 
 Top wood: Not applicable
 Body wood: Select Alder
 Body finish: Relic Nitrocellulose
 Orientation: Right handed 
Neck 
 Neck shape: C mid '60s oval 
 Neck wood: Quartersawn Maple
 Joint: Bolt-on 
 Scale length: 25.5 in. 
 Truss rod: Standard 
 Neck finish: Nitrocellulose
Fretboard 
 Material: Maple
 Radius: 9.5 in. 
 Fret size: Narrow jumbo 
 Number of frets: 21 
 Inlays: Dot 
 Nut width: 1.656 in. (42 mm) 
Pickups 
 Configuration: HSS 
 Neck: Custom single-coil 
 Middle: Custom single-coil 
 Bridge: Custom humbucking 
 Brand: Seymour Duncan 
 Active or passive pickups: Passive 
 Series or parallel: Series 
 Piezo: No 
 Active EQ: No 
 Special electronics: S-1 switching Push/push tone control
Controls 
 Control layout: Master volume, tone 1, tone 2 
 Pickup switch: 5-way 
 Coil tap or split: Coil split 
 Kill switch: No 
Hardware 
 Bridge type: Tremolo/Vibrato 
 Bridge design: 6-saddle vintage-style syncronized tremolo 
 Tailpiece: Not applicable 
 Tuning machines: 6-in-line American vintage 
 Color: Chrome 
Other 
 Number of strings: 6-string 
 Special features: Single-wing string trees, "Original Contour Body" decal, heavily distressed hardware and body, color-over-color body finish
 Case: Hardshell case 
 Accessories: Certificate of authenticity, strap
 Country of origin: United States
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