2018 Fender Custom Shop Artisan Tamo Ash Stratocaster 2 Tone Chocolate
Description
If the Fender Custom Shop has built a more beautiful Stratocaster than this beauty, I’ve never seen it. Offered is this magnificent Artisan Series Tamo Ash Stratocaster built in 2018 and in near mint condition.
This guitar’s body has a roasted ash core with the top and back made of very rare and highly figured Tamo ash. The neck is made from a single piece of a nicely figured roasted maple with a “63 C” shape carve with depth measurements of .81” at the first fret increasing to .98” at the twelfth fret. It has an African blackwood fingerboard which looks like ebony with vintage style clay dot inlays, a 9.5” to 12” compound radius, 6105 (narrow jumbo) frets and a 1.650” bone nut. The electronics include three ‘60/’63 Custom Shop hand-wound pickups (including a RWRP middle pickup) with a master volume and dual tone controls. It has Fender’s Vintage Modified #2 wiring for even more sonic variety by connecting the middle pickup to the first tone control and it has Fender’s Tone-saver treble bleed circuitry on the master control knob to ensure that the tone remains consistent regardless of the instrument’s volume. The pickguard and backplate are gold anodized aluminum. It has a gold-finished 6-saddle tremolo bridge and vintage-style tuning machines. This is an NOS instrument with no factory aging. The body is finished in two-tone chocolate sunburst nitrocellulose lacquer over urethane and the neck is finished in nitrocellulose lacquer over a medium roasted tint. The guitar has a total weight of just 7.4 pounds.
As great as these specs and the guitar’s cosmetics are, this guitar plays and sounds even better. It plays smooth as silk and the voice has that classic quack that Strats are known and loved for.
This guitar has no flaws of any significance and could likely be mistaken for new. It comes in its original hardshell case, also in near mint condition, along with the certificate of authenticity, the build sheet and all the original accessories.
You can no longer buy one of these Tamo ash models new but they were one of the Custom Shop’s most expensive models when they sold for $4,750 back in 2017-2018. New and somewhat comparable Artisan models now go for nearly $6K. Get this near mint 2018 example for quite a bit less. Easily one of the nicest Custom Shop Strats on the used market right now. Click the ‘Buy Now’ button and make this beauty yours today
This guitar’s body has a roasted ash core with the top and back made of very rare and highly figured Tamo ash. The neck is made from a single piece of a nicely figured roasted maple with a “63 C” shape carve with depth measurements of .81” at the first fret increasing to .98” at the twelfth fret. It has an African blackwood fingerboard which looks like ebony with vintage style clay dot inlays, a 9.5” to 12” compound radius, 6105 (narrow jumbo) frets and a 1.650” bone nut. The electronics include three ‘60/’63 Custom Shop hand-wound pickups (including a RWRP middle pickup) with a master volume and dual tone controls. It has Fender’s Vintage Modified #2 wiring for even more sonic variety by connecting the middle pickup to the first tone control and it has Fender’s Tone-saver treble bleed circuitry on the master control knob to ensure that the tone remains consistent regardless of the instrument’s volume. The pickguard and backplate are gold anodized aluminum. It has a gold-finished 6-saddle tremolo bridge and vintage-style tuning machines. This is an NOS instrument with no factory aging. The body is finished in two-tone chocolate sunburst nitrocellulose lacquer over urethane and the neck is finished in nitrocellulose lacquer over a medium roasted tint. The guitar has a total weight of just 7.4 pounds.
As great as these specs and the guitar’s cosmetics are, this guitar plays and sounds even better. It plays smooth as silk and the voice has that classic quack that Strats are known and loved for.
This guitar has no flaws of any significance and could likely be mistaken for new. It comes in its original hardshell case, also in near mint condition, along with the certificate of authenticity, the build sheet and all the original accessories.
You can no longer buy one of these Tamo ash models new but they were one of the Custom Shop’s most expensive models when they sold for $4,750 back in 2017-2018. New and somewhat comparable Artisan models now go for nearly $6K. Get this near mint 2018 example for quite a bit less. Easily one of the nicest Custom Shop Strats on the used market right now. Click the ‘Buy Now’ button and make this beauty yours today