Fender Custom Shop Michael Landau Signature 1968 Stratocaster - Bleached 3-Color Sunburst

World-renowned session ace Michael Landau has played on hundreds of albums since the early 1980s, with artists as varied as Joni Mitchell, Seal, Michael Jackson, James Taylor, B.B. King, Pink Floyd and Miles Davis, to name only a few. He has also fronted several bands, including the Raging Honkies, Burning Water and, more recently, Renegade Creation with Robben Ford. With his own group, he continues to raise the bar in electric jazz, instrumental and rock guitar.

The Fender Custom Shop Artist Collection Michael Landau Signature 1968 Relic Stratocaster is based on Landau's 1968 Stratocaster, with a hand-selected lightweight alder body, special "custom oval" neck profile, custom hand-wound pickups and wiring, and a worn Black and Bleached Three-color Sunburst nitrocellulose lacquer finishes. Other features include a round-laminated dark rosewood fingerboard with a 7.25" radius and 6105 frets, period-correct large headstock, five-way pickup switching, and custom vintage-style tremolo bridge. The guitar comes with a case, strap and Fender Custom Shop certificate of authenticity.

Features
Select lightweight alder body; Black or 3-Color Sunburst Relic® finish
Three Custom Shop Fat '50s single-coil Strat® pickups
Custom "C"-shaped maple neck; 7.25" round-lam rosewood fingerboard with 21 narrow jumbo frets
Five-position blade pickup switch
Replicates wear pattern of Landau's original guitar
Includes deluxe hardshell case, strap and Certificate of Authenticity