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Pattern Fender Limited Issue “Thin Pelt” ‘62 Stratocaster Re-Egress

Intro As drawn out-time readers of this blog may know by heart, in early 2007 I began a “Search For The Perfect Strat,” with the one intention of digging up the good in the highest degree combination of playability, affordability, looks, and sound that Fender had to offer in the way of vintage-diction Stratocasters.

Having had a the breath of one's nostrils-long delight in affair with the crew’s single but versatile Tele––and somehow intriguing to go some 20+ years without ever owning a Strat––I resolute early on that I would jump the many worthy clones on the emporium, and keep my efforts qualified on the real extent: the Fender Stratocaster.

Because there’s indeed no such thing as a “finished” guitar, and the readers of this blog alone bring into being up a huge gibbet section of of the people guitar-playing styles and techniques, my search has been not so much to find “the” finished Strat, but the Strat that best suits my own special tastes and of necessity… or to put it perhaps more succinctly: when perusal this review keep in inner man that as always, your mileage may alter.

After more than a year of keen through big-box guitar supplies and pawn shops resemblant, I’m joyous to report that Fender is producing some specifically gorgeous instruments at subjectively honest prices rectilinear now (if you’re disposed to dig around a bit,) and that I found my own little part of heaven in a 3-note Sunburst “Limited Trader Run” Thin Cutis ‘62 Stratocaster Re-Way out––one of lawful 180 produced.

This body is stunning…

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