Fender Custom Shop Time Machine '56 Stratocaster

Start a custom shop with 56 single-ply plate, 3 position switch, the tone knobs for the neck and middle pickups and a maple neck painted 50 years, that is fairly round and thick, 21 boxes.
3 50's single microphone of course, with the pads of the middle shift.
Vibrato and mechanical quality, as well as finishing general, what the custom shop!

UTILIZATION

It should be thick enough to handle, but otherwise, there are the qualities of the strata already described thousands of times, balance, weight, etc ... access to acute Perhaps one of the best guitars ever made.
The only downside is the handle varnished maple that hangs a little when it is new (NOS on the finish I have chosen, but not the relics), but after a while everything works out of use.

SOUNDS

Then there is the strong point of this guitar, and I may run out of superlatives to transcribe what happens when the branch. Great sound, with three positions that sound perfectly, it's ecstasy! The three microphones can tackle almost any style, and you can even place the selector in balance to play on the intermediate positions (but I will build a 5-position is more convenient). Connected to a lamp combo Fender Vibrolux or twin style amp is a real massacre. I could compare before you buy with American strats (57 edition, deluxe) or other custom shop (Jeff Beck signature, california beach), and when we go to it, it takes a real slap! The sound is clear and warm, a little round, typed 50 years, and some prefer 60 or 65 models, but it's really a guitar with your great great sound, to try!

OVERALL OPINION

I can not fault it. The sound is so beautiful! I could try musicman us (Luke, Silhouette, Petrucci), the PRS, and Gibson before making my choice, and none of them appealed to me like this, except for a custom shop master builder Stratocaster reissue 54, which has a dream of his, but that costs a fortune!
This is a great guitar of high quality which fully justifies the nearly 3200 euros it is worth, and that makes me happy every time she ends up in my hands. Thank you sir Bôcoup to have invented the Fender Stratocaster!