A 1961 Slab Board Stratocaster…

1961 Fender Stratocaster.

This 12 3/4-inch-wide guitar weighs just 7.60 lbs. and has a nut width of 1 5/8 inches and a scale length of 25 1/2 inches. Solid alder body, contoured on back and lower bass bout, and professionally refinished many years ago most probably by Jay Black in the super rare Fender custom color, 'Sea Foam Green' over 'fullerplast'. One-piece maple neck with a rosewood 'slab' fret-board and a medium-to-thin profile, 21 frets, and clay dot position markers. Small headstock with decal with Fender "spaghetti" logo in gold with black trim. Individual single-line Kluson Deluxe tuners with oval metal buttons. Single "butterfly" string tree with 'small' metal spacer. Four-bolt neck plate with the serial number ("58054") between the top two screws. Three white ABS plastic covered black-bottom single-coil pickups with staggered polepieces and wonderfully balanced outputs of 6.06k, 5.88k, and 5.95k. Three-layer celluloid "green" (white/black/white) pickguard with eleven screws and aluminum shield. Six-pivot bridge/vibrato unit with through-body stringing. The neck has a pencil mark of "1-61". The potentiometers are all stamped "304 6104" (Stackpole, January 1961). The frets look to be original and do show some very light wear - BUT we believe that the neck has been so expertly re-fretted with the correct .08 gauge fret-wire, that it is impossible to tell… The original 'minty' pickguard has a small crack on the bass side of the neck pickup screw and one corner has broken away from the white ABS plastic tremolo back-plate. Because of the re-fin we can only give this guitar an excellent plus (9.00) rating - it shows, plays and sounds much stronger… Complete with the original white ABS plastic tipped tremolo arm. Original Fender light brown tolex hardshell case with brown leather ends and orange plush lining (9.00).