Fender SO-CAL Speed Shop Stratocaster
Summary: In 1946, the same year Fender began building musical instrument, Alex Xydias opened the SO-Cal Speed Shop. The hot rods that bore the distinctive SO-Cal red and white racing stripes and the SO-Cal logo, were the first to go over 200 mph. In 1951, the SO-Cal Streamliner set an American land speed record of 210 mph. Inspired by the Fender Customs Shop’s Master Built one-off, this SO-Cal Speed Shop guitar is the ultimate hot rod guitar. Featuring a Basswood body and a Maple neck with a custom red, white, and black SO-Cal Speed Shop paint job. It also has one hot Alnico humbucking pickup, a single volume control, hard-tail bridge, and a super-fast neck.
Body: Basswood finished in a gloss SO-Cal paint job.
Neck: Maple with a painted Rosewood fingerboard, 25.5” scale length, 1.625” nut width, 22 jumbo frets, modern “C” shape.
Pickups/Hardware: One Alnico humbucker, single volume control, string through the body style bridge, four bolt Fender neck plate, closed gear tuning keys.
Cosmetics: This guitar has some scuffs that go down to the wood on the headstock (See Photos Please). The body has light surface scratches throughout. The back of the neck is clean, and the frets are in great shape. There is one small chip in the finish on the fretboard after the 22nd fret. Overall, this guitar is good shape and plays very well.
Playability: Our in-house guitar tech has inspected, setup, and restrung this guitar with a new set of 10’s. The neck is straight, the truss rod is fully functional, and the action has been setup low and comfortable. The frets are in great shape with no major grooves or divots from use and it plays beautifully up and down the fretboard with no dead spots or choking out.
Weight: 7.835 lbs.
Case: This guitar ships without a case but we will professionally package it and it will be fully insured.
Body: Basswood finished in a gloss SO-Cal paint job.
Neck: Maple with a painted Rosewood fingerboard, 25.5” scale length, 1.625” nut width, 22 jumbo frets, modern “C” shape.
Pickups/Hardware: One Alnico humbucker, single volume control, string through the body style bridge, four bolt Fender neck plate, closed gear tuning keys.
Cosmetics: This guitar has some scuffs that go down to the wood on the headstock (See Photos Please). The body has light surface scratches throughout. The back of the neck is clean, and the frets are in great shape. There is one small chip in the finish on the fretboard after the 22nd fret. Overall, this guitar is good shape and plays very well.
Playability: Our in-house guitar tech has inspected, setup, and restrung this guitar with a new set of 10’s. The neck is straight, the truss rod is fully functional, and the action has been setup low and comfortable. The frets are in great shape with no major grooves or divots from use and it plays beautifully up and down the fretboard with no dead spots or choking out.
Weight: 7.835 lbs.
Case: This guitar ships without a case but we will professionally package it and it will be fully insured.
