New for 2024, the Fender Custom Shop introduces the 1959 Stratocaster® Journeyman Relic®. The 2-piece select alder body wears a Journeyman Relic® lacquer finish in Super Faded Aged Shell Pink for the authentically worn-in look and feel of a family heirloom instrument that's been handed down through the years.

Classic appointments from the end of the decade are featured up and down the guitar: quartersawn maple neck with '59-style "D" back-shape and flat-laminated rosewood fingerboard bring out the best in tone and playability. Armed with a trio of Custom Shop hand-wound Fat '50s Stratocaster® pickups, Vintage Modified #2 wiring and Tone-Save bleed circuitry, there's no shortage of sought-after golden-era tone.

Other premium features include a 9.5" radius, 21 narrow tall (6105) frets, 5-way switch, 3-ply mint-green pickguard, Custom Shop vintage synchronized tremolo, vintage-style tuning machines, bone nut, wing string tree with tall metal spacer, deluxe hardshell case, strap and certificate of authenticity.

General:

- Model Name: 1959 Stratocaster® Journeyman Relic®, 3A Rosewood Fingerboard, Super Faded Aged Shell Pink

- Series: Time Machine™

- Color: Super Faded Aged Shell Pink

Body:

- Body Shape: Stratocaster®

- Body Material: 2-Piece Select Alder

- Body Finish: Nitrocellulose Lacquer

Neck:

- Neck Material: Quartersawn Maple

- Neck Shape: 1959 "D"

- Scale Length: 25.5" (64.77 cm)

- Fingerboard Radius: 9.5" (241 mm)

- Number of Frets: 21

- Fret Size: Narrow Tall (6105)

- String Nut: Bone

- Nut Width: 1.650" (42 mm)

- Headstock: Stratocaster®

- Neck Plate: 4-Bolt with Custom Shop "V" Logo, Serialized

- Neck Finish: Nitrocellulose Lacquer

- Fingerboard: 3A Rosewood

- Position Inlays: Vintage Clay Dot

Electronics:

- Bridge Pickup: Custom Shop Hand-Wound Fat '50s Single-Coil Strat®

- Middle Pickup: Custom Shop Hand-Wound RWRP Fat '50s Single-Coil Strat®

- Neck Pickup: Custom Shop Hand-Wound Fat '50s Single-Coil Strat®

- Controls: Master Volume with Tone-Saver Treble-Bleed Circuit, Tone 1 (Neck/Middle Pickups), Tone 2 (Bridge Pickup)

- Pickup Switching: 5-Position Blade: Position 1 (Bridge Pickup), Position 2 (Bridge and Middle Pickup), Position 3 (Middle Pickup), Position 4 (Middle and Neck Pickup), Position 5 (Neck Pickup)

- Pickup Configuration: SSS

Hardware:

- Bridge: Custom Shop Vintage Synchronized Tremolo

- Tuning Machines: Vintage-Style with Fender® Logo

- Orientation: Right-Hand

- Hardware Finish: Nickel/Chrome

- Pickguard: 3-Ply Mint Green

- Control Knobs: Vintage White Plastic

- Switch Tips: Vintage White

Miscellaneous:

- Strings: Nickel-Plated Steel (0.010 - 0.046 Gauges)

- Included Accessories: Deluxe Hardshell Case, Strap and Certificate of Authenticity

* Features and Specifications Subject to Change Without Notice