1957 Fender Stratocaster - Sunburst

Serial number -22243

This 1957 Fender Stratocaster displays the features common to that year, including: a one-piece “V” profile maple neck with spaghetti logo on the headstock, single line Kluson Deluxe tuners (between 1954 and 1956, the cover had no “Kluson Deluxe” stamp), a comfort contoured alder body in standard two-tone sunburst finish, a single ply eight screw white pickguard, and a three-position pickup selector switch. One master volume located closest to the player’s hand controls all the pickups, while separate tone controls are assigned to the neck and middle pickups. The bridge pickup has no tone control, allowing for full “take off” sound.  The neck plate is stamped with a dash in front of the five-digit serial number (only seen in 1957 and very early 1958).