Fender Custom Shop Time Machine '57 Stratocaster Heavy Relic Review

Fender Custom Shop Time Machine '57 Stratocaster Heavy Relic has been rated by 1 musician.

Win this guitar - only 4 items available on
or
Find this guitar on

Click stars to rate:

Overall Rating 4.9

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5

Features 4.9

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5

Quality 2.43

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5

Reliability / Value 4.85

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5

What's your experience with Fender Custom Shop Time Machine '57 Stratocaster Heavy Relic?

I have it I had it I played it I want it

Fender Custom Shop Time Machine '57 Stratocaster Heavy Relic Specs

• close
  • Body Shape: Strat®  
    Find quickly:
    All Electric Guitars with Body Shape: Strat® (273 items)
    Fender Custom Shop Electric Guitars with Body Shape: Strat® (51 items)
    
  • Number of Strings: 6  
    Find quickly:
    All Electric Guitars with Number of Strings: 6 (3231 items)
    Fender Custom Shop Electric Guitars with Number of Strings: 6 (99 items)
    
  • Body Type: Solid Body  
    Find quickly:
    All Electric Guitars with Body Type: Solid Body (2952 items)
    Fender Custom Shop Electric Guitars with Body Type: Solid Body (100 items)
    
  • Scale Length: 25-1/2"  
    Find quickly:
    All Electric Guitars with Scale Length: 25-1/2" (1560 items)
    Fender Custom Shop Electric Guitars with Scale Length: 25-1/2" (79 items)
    
  • Body Construction: Double cutaway  
    Find quickly:
    All Electric Guitars with Body Construction: Double cutaway (1329 items)
    Fender Custom Shop Electric Guitars with Body Construction: Double cutaway (30 items)
    
  • Body Wood: Alder  
    Find quickly:
    All Electric Guitars with Body Wood: Alder (546 items)
    Fender Custom Shop Electric Guitars with Body Wood: Alder (54 items)
    
  • Finish: Nitrocellulose  
    Find quickly:
    All Electric Guitars with Finish: Nitrocellulose (199 items)
    Fender Custom Shop Electric Guitars with Finish: Nitrocellulose (47 items)
    
  • Pickguard: Yes  
    Find quickly:
    All Electric Guitars with Pickguard (1348 items)
    Fender Custom Shop Electric Guitars with Pickguard (98 items)
    
  • Neck Shape: V-shaped neck  
    Find quickly:
    All Electric Guitars with Neck Shape: V-shaped neck (128 items)
    Fender Custom Shop Electric Guitars with Neck Shape: V-shaped neck (12 items)
    
  • Neck Joint: Bolt-on  
    Find quickly:
    All Electric Guitars with Neck Joint: Bolt-on (1470 items)
    Fender Custom Shop Electric Guitars with Neck Joint: Bolt-on (95 items)
    
  • Neck Wood: Maple  
    Find quickly:
    All Electric Guitars with Neck Wood: Maple (2089 items)
    Fender Custom Shop Electric Guitars with Neck Wood: Maple (100 items)
    
  • Fingerboard Radius: 7.25"  
    Find quickly:
    All Electric Guitars with Fingerboard Radius: 7.25" (49 items)
    Fender Custom Shop Electric Guitars with Fingerboard Radius: 7.25" (13 items)
    
  • Fingerboard Material: Maple  
    Find quickly:
    All Electric Guitars with Fingerboard Material: Maple (376 items)
    Fender Custom Shop Electric Guitars with Fingerboard Material: Maple (62 items)
    
  • Fingerboard Inlays: Black Dot  
    Find quickly:
    All Electric Guitars with Fingerboard Inlays: Black Dot (284 items)
    Fender Custom Shop Electric Guitars with Fingerboard Inlays: Black Dot (61 items)
    
  • Number of Frets: 21  
    Find quickly:
    All Electric Guitars with Number of Frets: 21 (301 items)
    Fender Custom Shop Electric Guitars with Number of Frets: 21 (82 items)
    
  • Nut Width: 1.65"  
    Find quickly:
    All Electric Guitars with Nut Width: 1.65" (446 items)
    Fender Custom Shop Electric Guitars with Nut Width: 1.65" (40 items)
    
  • String Nut: Bone  
    Find quickly:
    All Electric Guitars with String Nut: Bone (156 items)
    Fender Custom Shop Electric Guitars with String Nut: Bone (36 items)
    
  • Tuners: Fender  
    Find quickly:
    All Electric Guitars with Tuners: Fender (224 items)
    Fender Custom Shop Electric Guitars with Tuners: Fender (82 items)
    
  • Bridge: Tremolo  
    Find quickly:
    All Electric Guitars with Bridge: Tremolo (530 items)
    Fender Custom Shop Electric Guitars with Bridge: Tremolo (49 items)
    
  • Hardware: Nickel/Chrome  
    Find quickly:
    All Electric Guitars with Hardware: Nickel/Chrome (60 items)
    Fender Custom Shop Electric Guitars with Hardware: Nickel/Chrome (33 items)
    
  • Fret Size: Vintage  
    Find quickly:
    All Electric Guitars with Fret Size: Vintage (84 items)
    Fender Custom Shop Electric Guitars with Fret Size: Vintage (23 items)
    
  • Number of Pickups: 3  
    Find quickly:
    All Electric Guitars with Number of Pickups: 3 (603 items)
    Fender Custom Shop Electric Guitars with Number of Pickups: 3 (52 items)
    
  • Pickup Switch Type: 5-Position Blade  
    Find quickly:
    All Electric Guitars with Pickup Switch Type: 5-Position Blade (578 items)
    Fender Custom Shop Electric Guitars with Pickup Switch Type: 5-Position Blade (51 items)
    
  • Bridge Pickup Type: Single Coil  
    Find quickly:
    All Electric Guitars with Bridge Pickup Type: Single Coil (568 items)
    Fender Custom Shop Electric Guitars with Bridge Pickup Type: Single Coil (94 items)
    
  • Middle Pickup Type: Single Coil  
    Find quickly:
    All Electric Guitars with Middle Pickup Type: Single Coil (531 items)
    Fender Custom Shop Electric Guitars with Middle Pickup Type: Single Coil (50 items)
    
  • Neck Pickup Type: Single Coil  
    Find quickly:
    All Electric Guitars with Neck Pickup Type: Single Coil (742 items)
    Fender Custom Shop Electric Guitars with Neck Pickup Type: Single Coil (86 items)
    
  • Controls: Volume  
    Find quickly:
    All Electric Guitars with Controls: Volume (3370 items)
    Fender Custom Shop Electric Guitars with Controls: Volume (100 items)
    
  • Controls: Tone  
    Find quickly:
    All Electric Guitars with Controls: Tone (3184 items)
    Fender Custom Shop Electric Guitars with Controls: Tone (99 items)
    
• Custom Features close
  • Pickups: 3 American Vintage Strat Single-Coil Pickups with aged white covers

Following review text is verbal representation of numerical rating information:

Time Machine '57 Stratocaster Heavy Relic is definitely a must have guitar! Fender Custom Shop made another great fine-tuned and thought-out instrument. If you have doubts, find a way to try Time Machine '57 Stratocaster Heavy Relic and you'll be pleasantly surprised at how gorgeous this instrument really is. Fender Custom Shop did a remarkably well job here.

Remarkable features in Fender Custom Shop's Time Machine '57 Stratocaster Heavy Relic is something you should be aware of when trying to find the right instrument, because this one just might be the one that is right for you. Fender Custom Shop are known for making excellent instruments, but they have really outdone themselves with Time Machine '57 Stratocaster Heavy Relic feature-wise. With little to be left to the imagination, most musicians feel that this instrument deserves highest grades.

Time Machine '57 Stratocaster Heavy Relic looks great, and the reason for that is the extraordinary finish and top quality production process that Fender Custom Shop has set up. This guitar is fit for professional guitar players. The action is great out of the box, and can be easily adjusted to whatever you prefer. This guitar is comfortable to play and it can be inspiring to play it.

Have no doubts that Fender Custom Shop's Time Machine '57 Stratocaster Heavy Relic will serve you well in studio as well as on stage. Take good care of it, and Time Machine '57 Stratocaster Heavy Relic will endure traveling, temperature changes; nothing can harm its beautiful looks or functionality. Fender Custom Shop is a company that makes reliable and durable instruments, and Time Machine '57 Stratocaster Heavy Relic is another one that has just those characteristics Fender Custom Shop's guitars are known to have.