{"product_id":"2012-fender-american-vintage-65-stratocaster-dakota-red-w-hangtags-case","title":"2012 Fender American Vintage '65 Stratocaster Dakota Red w\/ Hangtags, Case","description":"Up for sale, a 2012 Fender American Vintage '65 Stratocaster in 100% original condition and in perfect working order, complete with its black tolex G\u0026amp;G hardshell case and a few hangtags. Offered for a few sparingly short years at the end of the original American Vintage run and now discontinued, the '65 American Vintage models are exquisitely well-made instruments, very faithful to their vintage forbearers. This particular Strat features a \"Flash Coat\" nitro lacquer Dakota Red finish, a rebranding of the Thin Skin concept in that the finish is simply pure, thin nitro without a poly sealer coat, ensuring optimal acoustic resonance.This Strat can chime, sparkle, and quack with the best, delivering an array of classic Fender tones, loaded with Fender's Pure Vintage '65 gray bobbin single coils. The '65 pickups feature staggered alnico V poles and wax potting, offering a clear, smooth range of tonalities with an extremely articulate, shimmering response and a broad tonal palette. Whether it's the biting twang of the bridge position, the extra warmth and girth that comes from the neck single coil (ideal for lead work), or the thinned-out quack on the \"in-between\" positions on the five-way switch, this Strat is extremely lively and distinct in every pickup position. This alder-bodied Strat weighs 7lbs 12oz, professionally setup here at Mike \u0026amp; Mike's Guitar Bar with 10-46 strings, low action, and accurate intonation.The maple neck has what Fender describes as a \"Mid-60s C\" profile carve, quite slender in terms of overall depth at the nut and quickly gaining more substance and heft as you travel up the fingerboard, with generous shoulder in the higher registers. The profile measures .815\" deep at the 1st fret and .970\" at the 12th. The thick Indian rosewood fretboard has a vintage-spec 7 1\/4\" radius, and the original slender frets retain their full factory height showing light wear beneath the plain strings on frets 1-11. The guitar plays easily up the 25 1\/2\" scale with a straight neck and responsive, optimally adjusted truss rod. The nut measures 1.650\" in width. On the headstock, the Fender Stratocaster \"transitional\" waterslide decal is present, and the Kluson-style single line Fender tuners turn smoothly and hold pitch as they should. The neck heel and pocket feature a number of factory stamps including a date stamp from July of 2012 (the ordering of the information on this stamp is the opposite of a '60s Fender).The electronics include the original trio of Pure Vintage '65 gray bobbin Fender pickups with staggered alnico pole pieces and cloth-covered leads, wired to original CTS pots which date to the 12th week of 2012. The chrome hardware is positively gleaming, including the four-bolt neck plate with V-prefix serial number, and the plastic parts are also notably clean including the vintage-spec wide bevel white pickguard. The vibrato is currently setup with three springs, actuating easily for quick warbles and broader expressive gestures. The Dakota Red nitro lacquer finish includes various dings on the back and body perimeter from honest use, some scuffs just south of the neck plate, and additional finish scratches on the body as a whole. Wear on the top is more restrained, yet there are still various marks mostly behind the bridge. The neck retains its smooth nitro gloss with just a few small, shallow marks central to the carve on the profile length.The original black tolex hardshell case is included, along with a few of the original hangtags and the \"ashtray\" bridge cover.","brand":"Fender","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42462362796288,"sku":"V1201353","price":2249.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/4437\/4714\/products\/medium_0e47c9c3-1b48-4f8a-a7c8-8c09cb9b77b0.jpg?v=1751497223","url":"https:\/\/mmguitarbar.com\/products\/2012-fender-american-vintage-65-stratocaster-dakota-red-w-hangtags-case","provider":"Mike \u0026 Mike's Guitar Bar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}