- Style: Pre-CBS Body (worm route) for Fender Stratocaster
- Wood: Two-piece Swamp Ash (American) or Two-piece Alder (Japanese).
- Finish: Three Tone Sunburst Nitrocellulose (worn)
- Routing: 3 Single Coil
- Weight: approx. 4lbs (1.8kg)
As with the earlier Two Tone Sunburst Fender Stratocasters, sunburst finishes are easily the best-recognised of Fender's guitar finishes (in addition, perhaps, to the Butterscotch Blonde Telecaster), and was one of only a handful of Fender's in-house paint options during the 1950s and 1960s, whilst most other colours came directly from the automotive industry.
Having replaced Two Tone Sunburst during 1958, Three Tone Sunburst had the additional third 'reddish' tone between the dark outer edges and yellow central area of the body and is one of the only colour options which Fender have offered consistently throughout the entire lifetime of the Stratocaster model line.
Two instantly-recognisable famous three-tone sunburst Fender Stratocasters are Stevie Ray Vaughan's "Number One" (also known as "First Wife") and Rory Gallagher's Stratocaster - both originating from the early 1960s and both very heavily worn. We can offer our three-tone sunburst bodies reliced to either of these specifications, just ask.
We are happy to offer this iconic body in its truest vintage-accurate form: hand-painted nitrocellulose sunburst, 1960s-correct shape and contours, including the all-important worm route and worn and aged to your liking. We can offer this body in either two-piece alder (as would be vintage-accurate), or in swamp ash which looks stunning beneath sunburst finishes.
