Relic Lacquer Finish, Black, Heavy Relic
Gold Hardware
2-Piece Select Alder Body
Rift Sawn Maple Neck with '60s Oval "C" Back-Shape
Round-Laminated 3A Rosewood Fingerboard
9.5" (241 mm) Radius; 21 Narrow Tall (6105) Frets
Custom Shop Hand-Wound Josefina Troposphere Single-Coil Strat Pickups (with RWRP Middle)
Vintage Modified Strat #1 Wiring
5-Way Switch
3-Ply Mint Green Pickguard
6-Saddle Vintage-Style Synchronized Tremolo with Bent Steel Saddles
Vintage-Style with Fender Logo Tuning Machines
Bone Nut
American Vintage '59-'64 String Tree; Deluxe Hardshell Case
Strap
Certificate of Authenticity
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.
