A Breathtaking Hardtail Strat This Fender Custom Shop '56 Hardtail Stratocaster is an exquisite solidbody electric guitar with an attention-grabbing Relic finish and luminous Closet Classic hardware. This '56 Hardtail Strat is built upon a balanced-sounding, 2-piece select alder body. Its rift-sawn maple neck and 21-fret, compound-radius fingerboard fit you like a glove. You also get three Custom Shop hand-wound '59 Strat single-coils with RWRP middle pickups and 5-way switching. A sturdy hardtail bridge and vintage-style tuners round out this '56 Stratocaster's hardware. You also get an eye-grabbing 3-ply pickguard and a lovingly broken-in nitrocellulose finish. This limited-edition '56 Hardtail Strat is the next best thing to owning a well-taken-care-of vintage electric guitar that's been enthusiastically played and gigged for decades. From the first note — and beyond — it will call to you like an old friend.Tones straight out of time Fender's Custom Shop luthiers never fail to do