In my previous post I mentioned Matt Schofield's SVL Sixty-One Strat -- a travel and tour replacement for his beloved and valuable '61 Fender Stratocaster.
Matt has chosen playability and function over merely recreating a purely vintage replica. These are the specs of his SVL Sixty-One, as Matt tells it on his 2007 forum post:
- One piece alder body, just under 4lbs
- Yellowed Olympic White, thin nitro finish
- Brazilian rosewood fingerboard on a flame maple neck, similar in contour to his '61 but slightly thicker at the first few frets
- Back of the neck is sealed but has no finish, for a bare wood feel
- Heavily rolled fingerboard edges
- Jumbo 6100 frets
- Slightly flatter compound fingerboard radius -- 9 1/2" to 12" at the end of the fingerboard
- Hardware is vintage style -- Kluson tuners and a Callaham bridge and steel trem block but with graphite Stringsaver saddles
- Pickups are scatter-wound Amalfitano SP's
(Pic Source and Matt's full forum post are here: MattSchofield.com Forum)
