Fender Custom Shop Master Built Custom Sandblasted Stratocaster Heavy Relic Electric Guitar – 3-Color Sunburst

Paul Waller is a Southern California native with woodworking and luthiery in his blood. He built his first guitar at age 14 in his high school woodshop, joined a cabinet shop right out of high school and, after a stint at a small Southern California guitar maker, enrolled at the acclaimed Roberto-Venn School of Luthiery in Phoenix, from which he graduated in spring of 2000.

Waller joined Fender in 2003. He spent two years working closely with master arch-top craftsman Bob Benedetto, and became steeped in the many facets of building techniques from all the Custom Shop’s Master Builders. After an extensive seven-year apprenticeship, Waller became a Master Builder in 2010.

His Fender Custom Shop work includes bass guitars for U2’s Adam Clayton, a custom Thinline Telecaster for U2 vocalist Bono, Telecaster guitars for the Rolling Stones’ Keith Richards and co-work on a Stratocaster for fellow Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood, Stratocaster guitars for Buddy Guy, the Nile Rodgers “Hitmaker” Stratocaster, and a custom double-neck Jazzmaster for Queens Of The Stone Age guitarist Troy Van Leeuwen.

Other features include:

• Heavy Relic® Lacquer Finish
• Sandblasted 2-Piece Select Alder Body
• Flat Sawn Maple Neck with ’60 Style Oval “C” Back-Shape
• Flat-Lam Rosewood Fingerboard
• 9.5″ Radius
• 21 Medium Jumbo (6150) Frets
• Josefina Hand-Wound Texas Special™ (Bridge) and Fat ’50s (Neck/Middle) Pickups
• Vintage Modified #2 Wiring with Tone-Saver Bleed
• 5-Way Switch
• 3-Ply Tortoise Pickguard
• American Vintage Synchronized Tremolo
• Vintage-Style Tuning Machines
• Bone Nut
• Wing String Tree with Tall Metal Spacer
• Deluxe Hardshell Case; Strap; Certificate of Authenticity.