- Style: Pre-CBS Body (worm route) for Fender Stratocaster
- Wood: Two-piece Swamp Ash (American) or Two-piece Alder (Japanese).
- Finish: Lake Placid Blue with Silver Undercoat Nitrocellulose (aged)
- Routing: 3 Single Coil
- Weight: approx. 4lbs (1.8kg)
Originally a Cadillac DuPont paint, Lake Placid Blue joined Candy Apple Red as two of the most popular and successful Fender custom colours of the late 1950s and 1960s. As with Candy Apple Red, the colour soon evolved beyond its automotive paint roots with Leo's experimentation and was eventually applied in the same three-step nitrocellulose finishing process:
- metallic base coat (silver was used with some known examples of gold being used after 1965);
- translucent blue clear coats;
- clear coat.
This allowed the metallic particles of the finish to appear more vivid beneath the colour coat rather than being mixed in with, and obscured by it. More modern applications have returned to this pre-mixed metallic paint formula so metallic undercoats are strictly a vintage and rare appointment on any guitar.
We are pleased to be able to offer a very accurate incarnation of these original 1960s bodies with genuine nitrocellulose and finished in the exact same three-step fashion as the originals were, then reliced to reveal the metallic finish beneath again in the usual wear areas. Available in either two-piece alder or swamp ash these bodies are contoured and shaped precisely for the vintage and include the all-important worm route.
