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Fender Rarities Flame Koa Top Stratocaster with Tim Shaw pickups

Fender Rarities Flame Koa Top Stratocaster with Tim Shaw pickups  ·  Source: Fender

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The latest of Fender’s Rarities series has dropped – and this time we have the new Flame Koa Top Stratocaster. Sure, it looks a little over the top, but the interesting pickup configuration could get players drooling…

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Fender Rarities Flame Koa Top Stratocaster

The latest guitar in the Fender Rarities Series comes equipped with a Tim Shaw-designed humbucker in a Filter’Tron cover, which makes it stand out form the crowd. The rest of the Strat is a solid ash body with a premium piece of figured koa on top, a modern C-profile European maple neck with a 9.5-inch radius fingerboard, and 21 narrow-tall frets. It also has a a bone nut, a vintage style six-point synchronised tremolo and aged white plastic elements.

Fender Rarities Flame Koa Top Stratocaster

Fender Rarities Flame Koa Top Stratocaster · Source: Fender

Tim Shaw Pickups

For me, it is probably the pickup selection which is the most interesting thing about this particular model. The guitar comes with a single bridge humbucker with the Filter’Tron cover and two overwound, gold foil-covered Hot ’59 Strat single coils in the middle and neck positions. This could be a very sweet-sounding Strat indeed.

You can hear this new Fender Rarities Flame Koa Top Stratocaster model in action in the official Fender demo video below. Take a listen and tell us what you think in the comments below…

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RRP – USD 2499/ GBP 2,249/ EUR 2599 inc deluxe Fender hard case

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