Fender Musical Instruments and Fender Custom Shop recently announced its limited-edition Fender X Lexus LC Stratocaster Guitar. This custom-built piece is a collaboration between the Fender Custom Shop and luxury car manufacturer Lexus. The LC Stratocaster guitar boasts an omnidirectional structural blue finish that produces a spectral light from metallic blue to deep midnight blue, inspired by the Morpho butterfly. Fender says that the paint on this custom Stratocaster is the same as the Lexus LC 500 coupe and convertible Inspiration Series. Additionally, the neck is a 3A flame maple, finished with high-gloss urethane. Its fingerboard is deep-blue polished Richlite. And this Stratocaster has a flatter 12-inch radius and 22 medium-jumbo stainless steel frets; plus, white Luminlay fingerboard inlays that glow vivid blue in the dark.
What’s more, Fender Custom Shop matched the Lexus sound system configuration. They created machined brushed aluminum knobs for the Fender x Lexus LC Stratocaster Guitar, to match the car’s Mark Levinson stereo knobs, also reducing the quantity from three knobs to two: the master volume and master tone. Black button head machine screws create a clean automotive appearance on the pickguard. The pickups are Fender’s latest version of their Noiseless Single Coils. Finally, Fender’s Custom Shop finished the instrument with a case wrapped in carbon fiber textured vinyl, with the Lexus logo embroidered inside the lid.
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