Fender Custom Shop Masterbuilt Carlos Lopez 1959 Stratocaster Sonic Blue Heavy Relic

Custom Shop Masterbuilt Carlos Lopez 1959 Stratocaster Faded Sonic Blue Heavy Relic

Burning-hot, Roasted and Ready to Rock! The Fender Custom Shop Heavy Relic Roasted Slab-Board Beast Rises! Behold the 1959 Faded Sonic Blue FCS Killer Masterbuilt Strat by Carlos Lopez! Take hold of the supple roasted AAA flame-maple neck. Embrace the roasted alder body. Go wild with Josefina-handwound Fat ‘50s single-coil firepower! Buck the hum with reverse-wound-reverse-polarity action in the middle position you know and love. Burn up the blues-rock landscape with intrepid AAA dark rosewood board/soft v-carve Inspiration, masterbuilt Carlos Lopez-style!

Masterbuilder Carlos Lopez became an Apprentice Master Builder under Todd Krause in 2017, assisting with guitars for Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Robbie Robertson, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Robin Trower and others. He has also helped craft an array of distinctive Fender creations, including a stunning ’69 Tele Relic in Green Tinted Ice Blue Metallic and, alongside Custom Shop Master Builder Scott Buehl, a transparent acrylic Stratocaster played by Grammy-winning artist Gabriella “H.E.R.” Wilson at the 2019 Grammy awards ceremony.

“I’ve learned from the best of the best, and I can’t put into words how special it is to be a part of such an iconic brand with some of the finest builders in the world,” Lopez says. “It truly is an honor.”