Fender Custom Shop Dealer Select Stratocaster HST Journeyman Electric Guitar Aged Lake Placid Blue

The Fender Custom Shop Dealer Select Journeyman HST Stratocaster is that singular guitar that instantly adds a new level of depth to anyone's collection. Completely designed by Guitar Center, the HST is made for the most serious of Fender fans.

At first glance, it's a Strat meets Tele Custom, with a Seymour Duncan hand-wound humbucker and dual Custom Shop single coils. But with an instrument like this, it's all about the details��the roasted maple neck, compound radius AAA rosewood fretboard and lightly aged Journeyman finish. Available exclusively at Guitar Center, the HST Strat sets a new standard for premium features with vintage sounds.

Fender Custom Shop Dealer Select Journeyman HST Stratocaster Main Features

• Alder body
• Roasted maple neck with '60 C-profile, AAA rosewood fretboard with compound  radius
• Seymour Duncan SH-55 humbucker (neck), Fat '50s Strat (middle), Fat '51  Nocaster (bridge), 5-way switch
• American Vintage tremolo bridge/tailpiece, vintage locking tuners

A Body Built for Tone and Visual Appeal

We chose alder for the body, a balanced tonewood that makes a perfect sonic base for pickups. It has a Journeyman relic finish��the shine of a closet classic, with the lacquer checking that only age (and the Fender Custom Shop) imparts.

A Neck Spec'd With Special Woods

There is something intoxicating about roasted maple, and Fender uses it to full effect with this neck. It has a '60s oval C shape, based specifically on a 1963 Strat. The AAA rosewood fretboard has a compound radius��7.25 to 9.25. It has a rounder, chunkier, feel for lower fret chording; moving up the neck, the fretboard flattens for better bending, faster picking and more tuneful arpeggios.

Balanced Set of Hand-Wound Pickups

It's easy to drop three different pickups into a guitar and call it a day, but we spent extra time with Fender to come up with a truly balanced set. Seth Lover designed the neck humbucker in the original '72 Tele Custom. Here, it's a Seymour Duncan SH-55, built to Lover's precise specification for a true P.A.F. sound��lively with a warm midrange and a smooth, buttery treble.
A Fat '50s Stratocaster single coil occupies the middle position. It has the vintage tone of the earliest Strat pickup, but is reverse-wound with reverse polarity for modern, noiseless operation. The bridge Fat '51 Nocaster offers true Tele twang and a tight low end, with the biting treble tones of Bakersfield.

Time-Tested Hardware

The Journeyman HST is equipped with an American Vintage tremolo bridge/tailpiece and Vintage locking tuners. Fender got it right the first time��why mess with success



The Fender Custom Shop Dealer Select Journeyman HST Stratocaster comes with a certificate of authenticity and a hardshell case.