Fender Custom Shop Limited Edition Mike McCready '60 Strat 1 of 60 Made PRE ORDER

 

There will be 60 of these available worldwide all Master Built by Vincent Van Trigt. The expectation is that these guitars will begin to ship in Q3 of 2021 and into 2022.

Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready has earned his place among the giants of rock ‘n’ roll guitar. Best known for playing a ’59 Strat®, his searing leads are steeped in blues and classic rock reminiscent of Jimi Hendrix, Pete

Townshend and Keith Richards, and his peerless work on hits, including “Yellow Ledbetter”, “Even Flow”, “Nothing As It Seems” and countless others, helped pave the way for Pearl Jam’s 2017 induction into the

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. McCready’s guitar work in Seattle supergroups Temple of the Dog and Mad Season also featured instantly recognizable Strat riffs, such as those heard on “Hunger Strike” and “River of

Deceit”.

Inspired by Stevie Ray Vaughan, McCready set out early on to acquire his own ’59 Strat, and, serendipitously, with his first ever vintage guitar purchase, he found “the one” that has been his primary Fender

instrument ever since. Now some 28 years later, McCready’s iconic Strat can be heard featured on tracks “Superblood Wolfmoon” and “Dance Of The Clairvoyants” from Pearl Jam’s most recent studio LP,

Gigaton.

In this first-time collaboration between Fender and McCready, the Fender Custom Shop is honored to re-create this incredible instrument in exact detail, and in doing so a long held secret about the guitar’s

lineage was forced to be revealed to its owner: the Strat was actually constructed in 1960, not 1959 as had long been believed.

For this limited 60-piece Masterbuilt run, the Custom Shop’s Vincent Van Trigt carefully disassembled the guitar in order to note and measure every detail, curve and scratch - and there are plenty of scratches,

thanks to McCready’s exuberant style! The recreation features an ultimate Relic® lacquer finish on a two-piece select alder body; a flat-sawn flame maple neck with a 1960 “oval C” profile; and a flat-lam rosewood

fingerboard with 21 vintage frets. Custom Josefina hand-wound pickups matched to the originals are connected to a five-way switch and vintage wiring, including a “treble bleed” tone capacitor. Other features

include a three-ply vinyl pickguard, vintage-style synchronized tremolo with Callaham bridge block, vintage-style tuning machines, bone nut, and wing string tree with metal spacer. Includes deluxe hardshell

case, strap, polishing cloth, McCready case candy kit and certificate of authenticity.

 

SPECIFICATIONS

LIMITED EDITION MIKE MCCREADY 1960 STRATOCASTER®

LIMITED EDITION Featured: 9215005514

Confidential dealer-only pricing information. Prices and specifications subject to change without notice. © 2020 FMIC. All rights reserved.

Body

2-Piece Select Alder

Color

Faded 3-Color Sunburst

Finish

Nitrocellulose Lacquer

Neck

Flame Maple with a 1960 Oval “C” Back-Shape and 9.5” (241 mm) Radius

Fingerboard

AAA Rosewood

Frets

21, Medium Vintage

Hardware

Nickel/Chrome

Bridge

6-Saddle Vintage-Style Synchronized Tremolo with Callaham Bridge Block

Pickups

Custom Shop Hand-Wound Mike McCready Strat® (Bridge, Middle and Neck)

Wiring

Vintage

Controls

Master Volume, Tone 1. (Neck Pickup), Tone 2. (Middle Pickup)

Included

Includes deluxe hardshell case, strap, Mike McCready case candy kit and certificate of authenticity