Fender Custom Shop Masterbuilt Dale Wilson 1958 Stratocaster Lake Placid Blue over 3-Tone Heavy Relic

Fender Custom Shop Masterbuilt Dale Wilson 1958 Stratocaster Lake Placid Blue over 3-Tone Heavy Relic

Heavy Relic Swamp Club! The Lake Placid Blue over 3-Tone Sunburst MBDW Stratocaster packs the ‘51 U-neck-carve wallop (.950-1.000 depth at the 1st and 12th frets) like your favorite big-neck NoCaster, while turning up the heat with the scorching heat of handwound Poblano single pickups by Josefina, over-wound and ready to overheat the blues-rock skillet, Alnico 3- and Alnico-5 style.

The heavily-tinted Lake Placid Blue vibe adds mystery to the mix and the exquisite buckle-rash back into the yellow-gold part of the sunburst makes this jumbo-fretwire-big-neck rock machine an instant 6.8-lb Dale Wilson Heavy Relic Classic. Eat The World!

About the builder:

DALE WILSON

Dale Wilson arrived at Fender in 2003, joined the Custom Shop in 2005 and became a Master Builder in 2011. Building guitars has been a driving passion for the California native since childhood. “Ever since I can remember, I’ve always loved guitars,” he said. “I didn’t dream of being a rock star; I dreamed of building the ultimate guitar. I was equally enthralled with the guitars just as much as I was with the players.”

Woodworking runs in the Wilson family, and the requisite Custom Shop zeal for outstanding craftsmanship has long been part of Dale’s DNA. He did repair work and mods in a small guitar shop right out of high school in the late 1980s; subsequently moving on to stints at Dobro and Rickenbacker before arriving at Fender, where he worked on Guild, Gretsch and Benedetto guitars before beginning his apprenticeship with various Custom Shop Master Builders.

He enjoys calling upon his extensive and varied experience as a craftsman to create highly distinctive guitars such as the Resophonic Thinline Telecaster®. Wilson also built five beautiful custom guitars for the January 2011 NAMM Show while still an apprentice and was asked to sign the back of the headstocks, garnering him his Master Builder status.