Fender Stratocaster Time Machine – 69 STRATOCASTER NOS Electric Guitar Review :: Fender Electric Guitar Reviews
replica of the ’69 Stratocaster.
A guitar collector’s dream! Imagine going to a yard sale and discovering a vintage guitar that’s been stashed in a closet—it’s worn a bit and yellowed with age, and the finish is slightly checked with hairline cracks typical of instruments that have been exposed to years of humidity and temperature variations.
Its large headstock and round-lam fingerboard took us from Woodstock into a new era. Other features of the 69 Fender STRATOCASTER NOS electric guitar include late ’60s-style large headstock, and t3 custom wound ’69 single coil pickups (built to original ’69 specs), solid lightweight alder body, one-piece U-shaped maple neck, vintage F machine heads, 21-frets, one volume and 2 tone controls, 5-way pickup selector switch, 25.5″ scale. This Fender strat features the New Old Stock (NOS) treatment—built as if bought new in its respective model year and just found today.
| Features + Technical Specs | |
|---|---|
| Model Number | 015-1700-(Color#) and 015-1702-(Color#) |
| Series | Time Machine Series |
| Colors | “Thinskin” Finish: (800) 3-Color Sunburst, (805) Olympic White, (806) Black, (Nitrocellulose Lacquer Finish) |
| Body | Select Alder |
| Neck | Maple, “U” Shape, (Polyurethane Finish) |
| Fingerboard | Round Laminated Rosewood p/n 015-1700, or Round Laminated Maple p/n 015-1702, 7.25” Radius (184 mm) |
| No. of Frets | 21 Vintage Style Frets |
| Pickups | 3 Custom ‘69 Single-Coil Strat Pickups |
| Controls | Master Volume, Tone 1. (Neck Pickup), Tone 2. (Middle Pickup) |
| Pickup Switching | 3-Position Blade: Position 1. Bridge Pickup Position 2. Middle Pickup Position 3. Neck Pickup |
| Bridge | American Vintage Synchronized Tremolo |
| Machine Heads | Fender/Schaller Vintage “F” Style Tuning Machines |
| Hardware | Nickel/Chrome |
| Pickguard | 3-Ply White |
| Scale Length | 25.5” (648 mm) |
| Width at Nut | 1.650” (42 mm) |
| Unique Features | “U” Shape Maple Neck, Large ‘60s Style Headstock, Built as if bought new in its respective year and brought forward in time. |
| Strings | Fender Super 250R, Nickel Plated Steel, Gauges: (.010, .013, .017, .026, .036, .046), p/n 073-0250-006 |
| Accessories | Deluxe Black Hardshell Case (Orange Interior), Strap, Cable |
| These musical instruments offer includes Case | Deluxe Black Hardshell Case |
| Introduced | 1/1999 |
