Vintage 1965 Fender Stratocaster • Wildwood Guitars

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, tho