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Fat, vintage tone produced by a trio of custom wound 50s pickups. I typically look at what the guitar is based on in this case, a 1962 stratocaster, the value of the additionsimprovements pickups, hardware, finish, etc. The dream factory features hundreds of fullcolour photos of incredibly rare, collectible, and limited edition handcrafted guitars. Shop fender custom shop and more at the original home of tone maken music. Fender custom shop bass guitars electrics from fender. Fender custom shop by tom wheeler hardbound with box guitar reference hal leonard publishing this third in a series of hardcover books joins the awardwinning titles the stratocaster chronicles and the soul of tone by authorhistorian tom wheeler.
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