Sometimes at Wildwood, you run across guitars that take your breath away, and I'm still trying to find mine after spending some time with this incredible 1965 Stratocaster. It may be several days before my ear drums come out of a tone-induced sugar coma! This Strat was probably a bright, scooped-sounding guitar when it came off the line in '65, but age has warmed it up considerably and given it spectacular midrange resonance, especially in the upper-midrange. So, it sounds big and broad across the board!
The neck pickup is thick, smooth, and dense like a piece of polished obsidian, and it does the half-ton cello Eric Johnson sound quite well! The middle pickup has a little spongier response, and it has a chunkier midrange to go with serrated, cutting highs. The bridge pickup's lows are quite tight, but they sound solid and dense like bedrock. The mids will punch a hole through the wall, and the highs are extraordinarily touch-sensitive.
What makes this guitar special, though, is how vocal it sounds! The alder tree they got the body from must have a predisposition towards upper-midrange, because it has lots of what the Wildwood team calls "push." Basically, a guitar has "push" if a certain frequency jumps out at you when you play harder. This Stratocaster has lots of "push" in the area of the midrange that the human voice usually sits in. So, it responds to your right hand in an extraordinarily human way!
That is the reason why this Strat hits you right in the heartstrings when you do a big bend or a tasty run. It sounds and feels like you're singing with your hands, and the pickup selector switch changes what type of voice you hear by changing what part of the midrange gets "pushed." The neck pickup is an angry crooner (think Percy Sledge's voice on "When a Man Loves a Woman" for reference), the middle pickup is a raspy tenor like Otis Redding, and the bridge pickup is a female gospel singer deserving of our utmost R-E-S-P-E-C-T.
This Stratocaster sings like no other, and we know that some lucky vintage guitar aficionado will be inspired by its voice for years to come.
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Amp: Vintage Vibrolux
Distortion: BB Preamp
Serial Number: L79441
Model Vintage 1965 Fender Stratocaster
Finish Color Candy Apple Red
Weight 8.09 lbs
Body Wood Alder
Neck Wood Maple
Neck Shape '60s Small "C" Shape
Neck Dimensions .780 1st - .950 12th
Fingerboard Brazilian Rosewood
Fingerboard Radius 7.25"
Scale Length 25.5"
Width at Nut 1.650"
Frets Original
Pickups Vintage Stock
Controls 1 Volume, 2 Tone, 3-Way Switch
Hardware Chrome
Bridge Vintage Stock
Pickguard Original 3-Ply Mint Green with a Hole Drilled in the Middle of the Five-Way
Case Original Black Hardshell Case, Missing Fender Logo