At the dawn of the 1960s, the Stratocaster stood poised for a wild new decade full of exciting and innovative new music. Music history beckoned as never before. Sounds would be wrung from the Stratocaster in the '60s that it's designers and it's players of the previous decade couldn't possibly have dreamed of. The Custom Shop honored that turn-of-the-decade instrument with this 1960 Relic Stratocaster in 2011. Features include a hand selected premium quality alder body, C-shaped maple neck, rosewood fretboard with 9,5" radius, 6105 frets, 1960 handwound Stratocaster pickups with 5-way switch, 3-ply mint pickguard and vintage hardware. The instrument still travels in the original hardshell which includes the certificate of authenticity.